Check with Dev first
Watch what you say in public. Actually, to be safe, watch what you say, period.
A performer says he was ‘shocked’ to hear an alleged transphobic conversation at the hotel hosting Manchester Pride’s media accreditation suite.
Dev Mistry was staying at the Malmaison Hotel in the city centre on Friday (August 25) for Pride weekend, where he was performing burlesque. The 30-year-old says he was having a coffee while wearing headphones in the hotel lobby when he overheard the alleged conversation.
“I picked something up and I took my headphones out to confirm that I could understand what I heard over the music,” Dev told the Manchester Evening News.
As one does. It’s a public duty to monitor other people’s conversations.
“It was [a staff member] talking to others about trans people. It was not necessarily malicious but it was that ‘men are men’ and ‘women are women’ and there’s no in between.”
Well we can’t have that. People saying that women are women! In public! Would you believe it?!
“It felt like a one sided conversation with the others. It was in the coffee shop, that’s shocking.”
In the coffee shop is shocking? I don’t quite follow.
Dev says he complained to a receptionist, and the individual who allegedly made the comments spoke to him. Dev went on: “[They] said I misheard the conversation and apologised for any offence.”
But don’t you worry, Dev wasn’t letting it go that easily. Not Dev!
“They said it was about everything changing and they/them. It felt like an apology to get out of jail scot-free.
“It made me uncomfortable having that conversation. Even if I got it out of context then it should not be in public.”
Since then, Dev says he contacted the hotel’s head office. They said the hotel has ‘launched an HR investigation’ and ‘agreed they needed more formal training around LGBTQ+ issues.’
What a disgusting little morality play.
(emp. mine)
But you weren’t having the conversation, you were eavesdropping on a private conversation, albeit in a public space.
As my late gran used to say; if you listen to other people’s conversations you’ll never hear any good about yourself, so keep your nose out when it’s none of your business.
Imagine having a problem with a self-referential definition of the sort ‘A is A and B is B’
Nobody asked you to join that conversation.
Yes, but it wafted over him like second-hand smoke, polluting his mind and causing him discomfort through the Inherent Violence of its shameless Wrongthink. Heaven forbid anyone witnessing him not responding to these horrible ideas, letting them go unanswered and unchallenged! He had to respond; it was his duty as a Good Ally and Kind Person, to initiate a process that would result in disciplinary action and mandatory
re-educationDEI training for these blackguards.So now we get to answer to a million little Hitlers who think they have the right to monitor, police, and punish any questioning, criticism or ridicule of gender ideology. Oh yes, ride to their rescue: brandish the pitchforks, light the torches. Such marginalized; very helplessness.
I don’t know why I keep feeling shocked by this sort of thing.
They really feel entitled to police people’s words. Of course it’s an attempt to control our thoughts, which they’d police if they could.
And this goes on out in the open and many people aren’t shocked by it.
It’s also a way to police their own thoughts. If you turn someone else in for heresy, you become less suspect yourself; you’re one of the Good Guys. How many hetero male trans “allies” wouldn’t dream of ever dating a TiM because they know they’re not women, yet are happy to punish women for refusing to accept TiMs into their spaces? I doubt that Daniel Radcliff or Rupert Grint would admit TiMs into their own dating pools, but are there on the trans bandwagon claiming that TWAW. Any doubts or misgivings they may harbour are overlooked because they are mouthing the right things, but the onus of making any effort or sacrifice is placed entirely on women. Nice bit of lucky asymmetry there.