A stupid Kiwi Museum stupidly warns pregnant females away from stupidly superstitious Maori museum exhibit.

New Zealand’s national museum has warned pregnant or menstruating women to stay away from some of its exhibits or risk an encounter with angry Maori spirits.

Oh noes! Another stupid insecure male pretend-warrior tribe who is afraid of females?
Why the fuck don’t they just grow up, and realise that far from females being a threat to their puerile concept of masculinity, they are the wellspring of life, and reasonableness?

Yes, that was rhetorical. I know why. Testosterone combined with male hierarchy imposed by virtue of violence bestowed by larger musculature is the proximate rationale.

Fear of femininity is difficult for me to grasp.

The Te Papa Museum in Wellington confirmed it had invited regional museum staff on a behind-the-scenes tour of its collections on the condition that women who were pregnant or menstruating did not attend.

I wonder if this museum is publicly funded?

The museum’s Maori adviser, Michelle Hippolite, said the condition was because some of the Maori artefacts had been used in wars and were believed to contain sprits that could harm pregnant or menstruating women visiting the exhibit.

Michelle Hypocrite, more like it.

There is NO SUCH THING as “spirits”, unless that of one Johnny Walker.

Feminist blogger Deborah Russel said a taxpayer-funded museum should not force visitors to follow religious or cultural beliefs they may not share.
“I don’t understand why a secular institution, funded by public money in a secular state, is imposing religious and cultural values on people,” she told the New Zealand Herald newspaper.
“It’s fair enough for people to engage in their own cultural practices where those practices don’t harm others, but the state shouldn’t be imposing those practices on other people.”

Hear hear, Deborah!

This is an international disgrace.