Kye Simmons

11/09/2026

Anyone catch West World?

So my algorithm is pretty wild these days.

“A woman shaped thing.”

Sorry a what?

The Guardian published an article this week looking at the rapidly growing s*x doll industry and how AI is changing it.

We’re no longer talking about a lump of silicone in the shape of perfect v@gina.

These dolls can have customisable personalities, conversations, memory, s*xual responses and even faces created to resemble real women. And apparently, fake bruises are part of this world too.

That’s where this gets really uncomfortable for me.

We spend enormous amounts of time talking about violence against women. Consent. Respect. Teaching boys that women are human beings with boundaries, autonomy and the right to say no.

Then technology creates an increasingly realistic imitation of a woman who can never say no.

The doll obviously cannot experience violence. She isn’t human. But the person practising the behaviour is. And before someone screams, “Where’s the evidence?”, there isn’t enough research yet to say s*x dolls cause violence against women.

Fair.

But I’m more interested in what we’re normalising long before we can measure the consequences of it.

A female body you can buy, customise, bruise, degrade and have programmed to respond exactly how you want.

No rejection. No boundaries. No consent required.

Tell me I’m being dramatic, but I cannot see how we spend decades fighting the objectification of women and then shrug our shoulders at this. Women for years have been satisfied with a d***o yet men need a fully plastic woman..

I find it fu***ng disturbing.

When do to they launch the artificial wombs? (Sarcastic but not impossible)

11/09/2026

Well, talk about peaks and troughs… some common sense has been restored this Sunday evening.

Kirsty Coventry, the first woman to lead the IOC, has moved to protect the female category at the Olympic Games.

Fairness matters. Safety matters. Biological s*x matters. Except here’s the catch…

This protects the Olympics. It doesn’t protect women’s sport. Outside IOC governed competition, eligibility largely falls back to the international and national sporting bodies and their individual policies.

So depending on your sport, country and competition, a woman could still find herself competing against a male athlete at international, national or community level.

Elite Olympic women deserve fairness and safety. But surely the woman playing on Saturday afternoon deserves the same consideration?

So yes, a little of Sunday’s craziness has been mitigated. But gees there’s still a bloody long way to go. 😞

10/09/2026

Be a BEE 🐝🩷

10/09/2026

Australia has every reason to celebrate right now.

A huge congratulations to our new Miss Universe Australia, . 🇦🇺👑

On Wednesday evening, Caity captured the audience when asked whether biological males should compete in women’s sport. Her response was calm, compassionate and clear: “Human biology does not lie.”

A beautiful reminder that women can speak honestly about fairness without losing kindness. Australia has every reason to celebrate her.

10/09/2026

I can’t believe I have to state this..

But here is where we have arrived.

Yesterday I posted about a woman who went for a walk and was s*xually assaulted.
A walk.

Quite a few men chimed in to suggest I “look at the statistics.”

So here we go.
Yes, men are more likely to experience physical violence. In 2021–22, 6.1% of Australian men experienced physical violence, compared with 2.9% of women.
But s*xual violence is a whole other issue.

One in five, 1 in 5 Australian women has experienced s*xual violence since the age of 15. That is 2.2 million women.

Yet even while discussing a woman being s*xually assaulted, some men still cannot resist crying, “But what about men?”

This IS the problem.

I will support men to my back teeth. I am the mother of a son; I want his world to be safe. My partner works predominantly with men; I care deeply about his safety and theirs.
I genuinely want safety for everyone.

But entering a conversation about s*xual violence against women and immediately redirecting it towards men does not demonstrate care for male victims anymore than walking into a prostate cancer fundraiser and demanding they talk about breast cancer because women get cancer too.

Both matter greatly. One does not need to interrupt the other to prove it exists.

This page centres on women because that is the work I do. You are welcome in the conversation, but you are not entitled to hijack it. And that is a firm boundary I will hold.

Being statistically correct in the wrong conversation is not a contribution.

Sometimes the most supportive thing a man can do is listen, acknowledge what women are facing and resist making himself the centre of it. Sheesh can believe that needs to be stated.

That should not be this difficult.
Ps. It’s goes both ways before you jump into the comments and remind me of this.

10/09/2026

09/09/2026

What a woman!

Dolly was part of the soundtrack of my childhood, mostly because Dad loved her. Funny how music does that; you hear a voice decades later and suddenly you’re right back there.

So farewell, Dolly. 💗

May you never work another 9 to 5, may your Coat of Many Colors always sparkle, and may you ride off into the sunset like a Rhinestone cowboy searching for an Island in the Stream waiting somewhere beautiful.
And wherever Dad is, I reckon he’ll be pretty bloody pleased you’ve arrived.

What’s your favorite Dolly song?