After a transgender activist was made the face of Hershey’s new campaign to honor International Women’s Day, commentator Matt Walsh accused the individual in question of being a “vile, woman-hating extremist.”
The controversy began after the candy company launched Canada’s “Her for She” campaign in honor of International Women’s Day on March 8.
The ad features Fae Johnstone, a transgender activist who is described as a “2SLGBTQUIA+ Advocate” (whatever that means).
“We can create a world where everyone is able to live in public space as their honest and authentic selves,” says Johnstone in the ad.
Happy to boycott Hersheys
The American people are sick and tired of having woke lectures shoved down their throats
We want chocolate, not Leftist propaganda
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) March 2, 2023
Social media users responded by blasting Hershey’s for having a biological male front their International Women’s Day campaign.
Commentator Matt Walsh went further, stating, “Johnstone, along with being a male, is also a vile, woman-hating extremist. This is the sort of person that Hershey’s has chosen to represent women.”
In a Twitter thread, he documented how Johnstone “was posting with hashtags like “gayboy” and “proud slut” and writing apologies for his “cis privilege” and for taking up “space” as a “queer” male,” before identifying as a female.
A few years ago, Johnstone was posting with hashtags like “gayboy” and “proud slut” and writing apologies for his “cis privilege” and for taking up “space” as a “queer” male. pic.twitter.com/SEpM6nNigJ
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 3, 2023
Johnstone then began lecturing his “cis allies” on how they should approach gender identity politics.
Magically he now had the privilege of lecturing “cis allies,” even though he’d just recently been one himself pic.twitter.com/lPvVGBk2Wi
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 3, 2023
The activist also defended the infamous convicted transgender rapist Isla Bryson being sent to a female prison, while also calling for “militant” queers to rise up against their adversaries, demanding female critics be “vilified” and attacked until they are too afraid to “speak their views publicly.”
Hershey’s face of women also believes that his female critics should be “vilified” and attacked until they are too afraid to “speak their views publicly.” This is not new rhetoric from him. He was calling for “militant” queers to rise up against his political opponents in 2017. pic.twitter.com/P2EjOlzp3b
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 3, 2023
Walsh insisted that Hershey’s should disavow this “radical extremist” who, according to Walsh, is “working for mandatory trans indoctrination of children in school and arguing against parental rights.”
The only acceptable response from @Hersheys is to disavow this radical extremist, remove him from the campaign, and apologize to its customers.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 3, 2023
Predictably, Johnstone responded to the drama by labeling all his critics transphobic while disabling the ability to reply to his tweets.
https://twitter.com/FaeJohnstone/status/1631356822081658895
“I’m not going anywhere. I’m not shutting up. I will always stand up for women and girls, cis and trans,” said Johnstone, having failed to address any of the specific criticism leveled at him by Walsh.
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