The great awakening: woke until you have to wake up?

What happens when fashionable ideologies impact things that matter to you

I know Lucy Zelic personally, having met her through football a few times. For quite some time she was the staple of SBS football coverage. As far as I know, she held the same kind of views more or less as Craig Foster does on certain issues. Whether she still does or not, I can’t say.

But if anything, Lucy Zelic has had an awakening. She has emerged as a forceful and eloquent voice of opposition to the subversion of women’s sports to the most recent, inane and destructive ideological fad: transgenderism. The admission of biological males to female competitions makes a mockery of sport at every level.

The fiasco of the Flying Bats has already made headlines beyond our shores. But Zelic speaking out on this points to the truth that many football people may not want to hear: holding fashionable views comes at a cost to what matters to you, in this case football. It’s easy to be Woke when it doesn’t impact what you care about, but then find that it starts to impact something that matters to you. The European Super League idea with its cross-border, tradition-destroying ethos would be another example. For good reason, we call it a luxury belief since the people holding these beliefs are not paying the price

Lucy Zelic is to be applauded here and deserves our support. She has chosen the brave path of weighing up the facts in the open, instead of falling in line with fashionable ideologues who have also come to hold sway over decision-makers in sport. It would be all too easy to virtue signal and embrace destructive ideological fads. For that, we must be grateful to Lucy Zelic that she has shown independence.