Emotions had run high
They just never get the point.
The first tweet should begin “One of the protesters,” not “Thanks be” – autocorrect struck again.
“Emotions had run high”=it’s understandable and forgivable to call women “cunts.”
This is not an argument you ever see applied to the word “nigger” in internecine disputes among the left. No one on the left thinks that’s understandable and forgivable because of high emotions.
But when it’s women somehow that’s different. It’s just passion, it’s just excess zeal, it’s just emotions running high.
They don’t get it. They don’t ever fucking get it. The fact that when emotions are running high men start calling women “cunts” is the whole point. Yes of course it’s because the sign-maker was furious at the feminist women at the conference; that’s our point. Step one is calling us cunts, step two is beating us up. When men lose their tempers at women, violence becomes all too likely. It’s not mollifying to tell us that guy who called us cunts was just really pissed off. We already know that.
Creating a sign takes time and dedication. You have to be motivated to create it, gather the materials, think of the message and the wording, make sure that the wording fits the size of your sign, write it out, put it together, transport it to the site, and wield it (overcoming any embarrassment you might feel). It’s not something that’s done in a moment of passion, unlike, say, shouting at an adversary or even commenting on a blog post. There’s plenty of time to think about the message and rein in your emotions, if you’re so inclined.
Is this about one of the signs you showed on previous posts? I’m not on Twitter, so I don’t know what the thread is about, what sign.
Yes, it’s a weird excuse altogether, meant to mimize a threat of violence and an expression of hate. They seem a bit calm in the photo if you ask me. If they brought the sign in, they’ve had a chance to cool and rethink it. If they made it there, also they have had time to re-think it. I also wonder if they told “Rhymes with Orange” they didn’t want their photo taken, and I imagine she would have complied.
iknklast, it’s in regard to the sign “suck my dick you transphobic cunts” that was mentioned here earlier, yes.
Peru once had a president, Oscar R. Benavides, who is purported to be the source of the aphorism “For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”
This witticism has a great deal of explanatory power.
For those who are on Twitter, Orange’s thread goes into things in a little more detail than Helen’s does. Orange was the one who used the photo Helen later used.
A common excuse for violent, misogynistic language used against “terfs” is that trans people are fighting for their lives, and those defending them recognize it. If they can’t use the bathrooms that match their ‘gender identity,’ then they’ll probably be 1.) murdered going to the ‘wrong’ one; 2.) feel so worthless they’ll kill themselves or 3.) be living a life so inauthentic that they might as well not exist. That’s if they’re not murdered by terfs in more direct fashion, since gender critical feminists want them dead.
They’re not trying to persuade. They’re living out a comic book in their head, where they’re up against the wall and hurling hate at the robot monsters trying to rip their heads off. Young people aren’t making this up individually : they’re getting it in toxic echo chambers on line, from each other and from adults.
@7:
This isn’t surprising: If you’re so deluded that you think you’re the opposite sex, what’s stopping you from also thinking that this whole comic-book scenario is taking place. It’s all part of the delusion. And the “validation” that wokesters give them involves validating the whole fantasy: Yes, you’re a woman (or: man); yes, the whole world, especially gender-critical feminist women, are trying to kill you.
Boys will be boys.
/s