To The Late Night Double Feature Picture Show or Double Standard Complete Shit Show

Is this Dystopia? I got cancelled because boys still don't like when girls speak up.

At the age of 10 I was probably way too young to watch the 1974’s cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show but it was one of my favourite movie musicals and I memorized by heart how to sing the ‘Time Warp.’ Colombia’s solo was the main reason I learned how to sing high notes - sort of. Even then, I understood the intent of the flick: to defy social norms, play with gender expression, celebrate freedom, encourage self expression, and to promote acceptance and inclusivity. (And don’t take the parts of the film seriously where cannibalism is promoted, cheating and murder.)  I was head over heels about this concept later in life, as a teen and in my early twenties. It made sense: live your best life, the way you want to live it, passionately, and authentically. Music was everything to me, and I loved the idea of alternate personas for further self expression, which included lots of gaudy dress-up and allowing myself to be weird. I wrote about this a bit in my latest article See You In Hell: Why Make Meaningful Art When You Can Just Be a Talking Head?

This movie was way ahead of its time. Richard O'Brien, who wrote the play, must have been a clairvoyant; it is all so spot on. Frank N. Furter, a transvestite and doctor, is not too far off from the now butchers, I mean doctors, of 2024. He creates his human boy-toy-robot, whatever it's called, ‘Rocky’, and asks everyone around for their opinions and approvals. He later disguises himself as their significant others, Brad and Janet, in a deceitful seduction attempt. Maybe he's trying to prove that you can't tell the difference between a male and a female or something. Lots of other shenanigans happen like Brad enjoying the bisexual interaction and Janet seeking attention from Rocky, while all the eccentric individuals from the castle gather at a table to dine on Meatloaf, literally. Frank N. Furter gets bored and freezes everyone, transforming them into statues, making it obvious that these people were his little social experiments. He dresses them in lingerie and gets them to do a cabaret dance on stage in front of nobody. The main hosts of the castle, Riff Raff and Magenta, are suddenly aliens and kill Frank N. Furter, a few others, and let the remaining victims go.

Here’s my take on the film and how I now perceive it: the aliens, Riff Raff and Magenta are the government manipulating everyone and causing complete chaos and confusion amongst the people. They allow doctors to butcher and construct a desired basic manly human while forcing the other men to be hyper feminine so that the people can be physically and mentally weaker. This would eventually make them unable to fight back. The goal is a dystopian future, and this will be easier to achieve now. After all, if you recall in the actual movie, Riff Raff and Magenta are the creeps watching the people in the castle having sexual encounters like; Big Brother would. The ‘Time Warp’ lyrics “I see ALL!” are starting to make more sense!

“...So you can't see me
No, not at all
In another dimension
With voyeuristic intention
Well secluded, I see all”

Honestly, some things are meant to just be fun and not to be taken too seriously. I still to this day love The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Maybe as a society though, we did take this movie way too seriously and these concepts left us with the product of a Dylan Mulvaney: a wimpy skinny biological man who is transitioning into a woman counting their days of girlhood and they are famous for it. How they interpret being a woman is very questionable to me, and a complete mockery of women if I can be completely honest. And we are forced to bow down and believe they are real women too. They will flay tampons around on the internet and get sponsored for it, make cliche music about what it's like to be a woman, and get hired by Nike to model women’s sports bras and pose with Lady Gaga for international Women's day. It’s not Dylan Mulvaney per say the problem, we should just let them do whatever. It's being forced to believe they are a real woman when they are simply not. It's complete buffoonery and insulting. Women in sports are suffering from this, being forced to compete against biological men because they are self-claimed women and getting unfairly defeated, because they are competing against a dude. It happens in other aspects of society and culture like music and the arts where roles that were predominantly distributed to women are now given back to men, excuse me, “trans woman”. Finally, what disturbs me the most is that a man who calls themself a woman can be completely naked in a women's locker room in front of minors and this is tolerated. It's repulsive. If anyone thinks any of this is okay they are absolutely lying to themselves because at the end of the day, common sense wins. Women are fed up and standing up for themselves as they should be. After years of women experiencing actual oppression, the biggest misogynistic move our society can make is to let men interfere in women's affairs and conquer.

I am not here to shame the trans community and to dive into all of the current atrocities going on here in this topic of gender. In fact, it's insane to me that I am even writing this article because I have many friends and fans who are part of the LGBT community and they have stood by my side in agreement that things have gotten way too far and it seems that society is working towards erasing women and its despicable. But here it goes I suppose. On April 7, 2023, I pretty much got cancelled in my local Toronto music scene. This is how it all started. A few days prior, I saw on Twitter that Nike was supporting Dylan Mulveney, a male, sponsoring them for wearing women's undergarments (a sports bra). I said the following:

“Men are better at being women, it's official. I support all walks of life and as a person and an artist, my music is open to everyone no matter what but things are going too far imo. Society is broken. Everyone can do what they want and be who they want it's no question. But that is a biological man representing women.” This was the quoted retweet:

To me, this was just pure honesty and common sense. I cannot tell you exactly why this video of Dylan Mulveny frolicking wearing a sports bra provoked me so much but it just did. Something about it felt really evil and sinister. At the time, I dove deeper and saw the tampon flaying footage too and I had had enough. Something in me just needed to retaliate. For as long as I could remember, I have been treated differently being a woman and whether it was getting by at school, in music, or dealing with male employers at jobs, I’ve experienced a lot of injustice, unfairness and I have come a long way. There was no way in hell I was going to support this nonsense of men pretending to be women and now stealing our roles and opportunities. Men and women are scientifically, biologically, and physically different and the idea that it can all be fluid and not matter sucks. It takes away the beauty of what a woman is, it takes away the true beauty of femininity and fertility and our importance in this cycle that we call life.

The backlash I received on this Twitter post made absolutely no sense. I mentioned that, “I've never in my life seen a Women act the way this person is portraying to be a woman. It's a mockery and corporations are exploiting people in this way for $. You do not have to follow me. My opinions aren't gross because they aren't in perfect alignment with yours. This is against true feminism” and “This is promoting lies, abuse of power, and narcissism.” 

Narcissism refers to a personality trait characterized by a grandiose sense of self-importance, a constant need for admiration, and a lack of empathy for others. Nothing I said in the Tweets were incorrect. Dylan Mulvaney absolutely shows narcissistic behaviour along with all others who follow his footsteps. Not just because of this one Nike related post, but Dylan’s entire brand. (I do not need to explain why, you can Google it if you are unaware of what this influencer actually does). Knowing you are a man, without breasts of course because men do not have these body parts, and clout chasing by wearing women's undergarments for attention and being a provocateur displays needy and attention seeking behaviour. If this was not for attention and money, the individual would act this way alone in private. They would not feel the need to flaunt their weird fetishes or feel the need to interfere with women and their roles in society. People like Dylan Mulvaney have a grandiose sense of self-importance because they believe that their trans-woman identity is more significant and more important than a real biological woman. They feel more oppressed than biological women so much so that they interfere with women's roles as I mentioned earlier; such as competing against women in sports and winning, modelling for women's undergarments, being sponsored by tampons, and something new to add - but there’s weird things going on in the trans community where they are trying to convince the public that men can provide breast milk for infants. Its lunacy. Men are exploiting women and profiting off of it. If this isn't misogyny, I don’t know what else to call it.

Shockingly, when women defend themselves in the comments section of these types of threads and topics, trans women go along and have the audacity to say, “Dylan will be more woman than you'll ever be!” Isn't this the patriarchy, lol? A man is better at being a woman than a woman is being a woman…W.T.F. So during my Twitter rampage I said something funny: “Was just telling @Krosstoutmusic I should get a strap on and promote condoms for my non existent di**”. I mean at this point, why not? Maybe I can get a Durex sponsorship and makes lots of money to support my music career.

If you do music, especially in Canada, you have to be extremely woke-minded to succeed. This friendship ended quickly, but last year we were friends with two brothers who are local Toronto musicians known as The Animal Warfare Act. My boyfriend, known as Alt Rap Rock artist Krosst Out, put on an extremely successful sold out show at The Piston in Toronto on Feb 9, 2023. Along with a few other acts on the bill, The The Animal Warfare Act performed and myself for a few songs. We had scheduled another show all together until one day on April 7, 2023 we were being tagged and harassed on Instagram stories and DM’s regarding my tweets. Basically, The The Animal Warfare Act put out this virtue signalling statement (the main post is now deleted) saying that they are cancelling the upcoming show and encouraging people to DM them to find out why. An IG story was made too. “Anyone who would like further info is welcome to DM us. We are trying to keep our reason for leaving relatively private now to ward off harassment.” Obviously, this post was contradicting. They wanted to keep their reason for opting out of the concert private, but they encouraged people to message them to find out more. And well, people did. This band did not want to perform alongside us because my tweets were transphobic and they made sure to spread the word. Some people made IG stories tagging the venue, The Piston, declaring that Melotika and Krosst Out are transphobic. We had a conversation with the venue owners about it and cancelled all upcoming events for our security. I replied to the strangers story saying - I am not transphobic - and received the most entertaining response. This person compared me to Hitler:

I never said trans people should die or not exist. I basically said with all of my tweets in a nutshell that men are not woman. I also never talked about queer people, as per the audio recording. I also thought trans and queer people were different? I’m so confused. But I have to ‘fix up and stay away from spaces that care about queer people’, aka, the Canadian music industry. One of the bandmates from The Animal Warfare Act also threatened my music career in a final DM before I blocked them saying “Good luck with your music career after this one.” The intentions of these two brothers were very clear, they wanted to sabotage my music ‘career’ by going along with this narrative and spreading the word to the LGBTQ+ community and other musicians in Toronto that I am transphobic. After all, they kept screen shots of my tweets that circulated, the very same ones I shared in this article, and shared them as their evidence that I am a transphobe. Its a funny thing that my tweets sticking up and defending woman triggered these two boys so profoundly. The DM harassments and social media stalking from people in “the community” went on for months and months. It was extremely annoying to cancel tons of shows because of this, but we genuinely feared for our safety. We even changed our locks in our apartment because we had let these two brothers into our home as friends prior to this incident on several occasions. Other bands who were disappointed that we had to cancel shows out of greed for losing their gig sent my boyfriend voice messages saying “tell your woman to watch what she says.” These are the same type of people who claim to be inclusive.

This happened again unfortunately in the early fall. A Rock act called Blackout Orchestra that has been following us for some time, and was very much aware of everything that has been going on, approved to be on the bill for a new show. A few weeks before the show we see this on Instagram:

In a personal DM to my boyfriend, they said:

“…For context, I have some close friends that happen to be trans who I invited. They let me know they couldn't come and directed me to some tweets and a TikTok Melotika put out a while back... I'm sure she didn't say the things she did out of malice, but I believe the views she expressed are very misguided. Whatever her intent, the message she put across - comparing trans-ness to blackface, that trans women shouldn't be including in advertising for women, etc - says that she believes trans men/women aren't "real" men and women. I know first hand from my loved ones how damaging that is to them personally, and also how it contributes to the broader ideology of trans-exclusion that's allowing their human rights to be taken away across North America.

…these are views expressed publicly on the artist's main social media channels. I feel that by playing, I'd be tacitly endorsing these views, and that would be antithetical to the inclusion I hope to present as an artist, and to my ethics as a person…”

I truly feel bad that people believe all of this nonsense. Men are not woman. Though, what’s interesting is that these men who are offended by my existence never once confronted me, they contact my boyfriend, or, they just gossip, create clout out of me being transphobic, and virtue signal by being so brave to opt out of a concert that I am performing at. Its the unofficial Melotika boycott because I am such a threat. What did I understand after all of this drama in 2023? Boys don’t like when girls speak up! Hello misogyny.

I can’t wait for music to just be about music again. But this is what’s going on unfortunately. Witch hunts and misogyny. The double standard is so clear. We are in a sick and twisted society where men really want to be woman and we have to believe it too and all hell is breaking lose. Madness is definitely taking its toll and everyone is in an existential crisis, so blinded by the actual truth. I wonder if it is because we have it so good in 2024, we are so spoiled and have so many opportunities that we just create chaos and problems? Or, I wonder if its my theory about The Rocky horror Picture Show and the real meaning behind the flick. We are being manipulated and dumbed down, getting ready for our dystopian future. Unlucky for me, I am not buying into it which means I cannot pave may way easily in the music industry as a true female artist.

Its all a double standard shit show. If you can’t see it, I can’t help you.

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-M xo