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Social media ACLU continues to make a fool of itself, no doubt because it lets Chase Strangio set policy on trans issues.
Trans women are murdered by men, usually in a context of “sex work.” Men are not inspired by feminists to commit violence against women who identify as men; that’s not how any of this works. Male violence is not the fault of women.
Also…quite a few women have been murdered in the US this year too. What about them?
Also, nice job of amplifying the bullying of Rowling yet again.
Also, there’s no such thing as “transmisogyny.” Misogyny is hatred of women, end of story. Men don’t get to appropriate the term to describe attitudes to them. Jessica Klug doesn’t get to complain of “transracism” and Caitlyn Jenner doesn’t get to complain of “transmisogyny.”
It’s clear why they want to do it: it means they get to square the oppression. Multiply misogyny by hostility to men who wear dresses and boom you have a much bigger number than mere Karens get to have. Neener neener we are too so more oppressed than you.
Cool, but as has been pointed out numerous times, if trans people were being murdered at a rate exactly proportional to their fraction of the population, this would entail about 87 murders when worked out with the statistics from 2018 (the latest statistics available when I last examined this). 21 is not 87; it is not even a quarter of 87.
So, in addition to the points you already raised… there is no epidemic of trans murders. The ACLU are lying in support of trans politics.
Somebody has cleverly posted this:
https://twitter.com/PatDtstuff/status/1305617004624257024/photo/1
on this thread. It purports to be a list of “Top 7 Reasons JK Rowling is TRANSPHOBIC, but it shows actual quotes from her, highlighting her expressions of support and solidarity with trans people. So somebody looking for more ammo to use against JKR are going to see her actual words, perhaps for the first time.
Thank you, YNNB; I have saved that excellent graphic for when I have an opportunity to share it on Facebook.
Another entry for our trans cult dictionary, transmisogyny. How clever these boys are. :P
Really troubling to see the ACLU using the “speech I don’t like is an ATTACK” talking point. When the Nazis marched in Skokie, I’m sure many Jews (and LGBTQ, and people of color) “felt” attacked, but the ACLU (correctly) defended the Nazis’ right to free speech.
I realize that this tweet isn’t infringing on Rowling’s legal rights, but it’s an endorsement of the argument being used to try to do just that.
Yes, Screechy, but that was Nazis. This is women! White women! (At least, according to them). Karens! You can’t really expect Karens to get the same consideration as Nazis, can you? Or TERFs? So much more evil than Nazis! They are…feminazis! OMG!
Feminazis. That’s from Rush Limbaugh’s dictionary of misogyny.
Yep. And the trans activists haven’t pulled that out, because then it would be too obvious. Misogyny oozes from every syllable. They want to be less obvious, so they use TERF, cunt, bitch, Karen…like those are any less misogynist.
I wonder if any of the people who murdered a transwoman would not have murdered a transvestite in the exact same situation. Otherwise, gender identity theory is irrelevant.
Or an effeminate gay man. Or any gay man.
Bear in mind that there’s no reason to assume that any given trans murder victim is murdered because he is trans. Most of them are murdered for the same reasons other people are murdered. A few years ago I looked into the circumstances of the trans victims of 2016, as listed by the Human Rights Campaign. A few were victims of unknown killers with unknown motives; iirc the police suspected one or two of being hate crimes. Most were murdered by significant others (who knew they were trans), or victims of armed robberies gone bad, or the like. They were all poor, all but one was black, and most were doing prostitution (in itself incredibly dangerous, regardless of “identity”). In most cases there was little or no reason to assume transgender identity had anything to do with those murders, but the HRC, and the many trans activists who shared their grim little lists, encouraged that assumption.
I’m looking through the replies to that tweet, and there is a *lot* of pushback. Multiple hitting ‘epidemic’ claim which is very encouraging, but I think the most savage retort was “I’m old enough to remember when the ACLU defended writers.”
https://twitter.com/AtlantaLiberal/status/1305927434055741440
@Bruce #2
I liked that post.
I pasted it to yet another anti-feminist, misogynistic thread about JK Rowling on another bulletin board I participated on for, oh, about twelve years. It got more than a dozen likes. Then somebody actually read it and not only was it deleted, but so was my user account. I was banned for (literally) a thousand years.
It’s so odd that this is the one point on which so many otherwise nice people can be so absolutely shitty. How does one not notice when his behavior is so absurd?
Saying “women have rights” is utterly blasphemous in this day and age. It makes me think of a previous generation – including my now deceased mother – who fought so hard so that women would have rights.
Nobody talk “girldick” to me. Dicks are dicks. And people with dicks tend to, well, be dicks, when they are empowered to do so. TRA is the greatest opportunity in a generation for men to hate women.
In a way it’s the greatest ever, because the previous opportunities for men to hate women weren’t dressed up as “progressive.” Same old same old, yes; self-evident, yes; but progressive, no.
Ophelia #13, yes, it’s a way to hate women and simultaneously look cool to other women. I bet some of the wokebros put it on to get laid.
Lovely little subversive item. I almost passed over it when I first came across it, but on looking at it more closely I thought “hee hee, how many TAs are gonna share or like this without actually reading it?” Thanks for running the experiment IRL. Sorry about the ban though. A thousand years? That’s gotta hurt. How will you get through it? At least you can look forward to your reinstatement in 3020…
With the added bonus of being able to brand your opponents as far-right, Christian, cis-hetero, White-supremacists funded by shadowy, far-right, Christian, White-supremacist organizations, even when they are leftist, atheist, Black lesbians.