Not Emmett Till
Updating to add: The article is from August 2016 so obviously the inspiration must be the other way around. H/t clamboy for noticing.
Yaniv has inspired imitators. Of course.
A transgender woman in Charlottetown has filed a complaint with the P.E.I. Human Rights Commission alleging she was refused service at a local salon because of her transgender status.
Kristen McKay says she went into Carrie’s Esthetic Salon in downtown Charlottetown on Tuesday afternoon to get her nails and makeup done and for makeup lessons.
Behold the transgender woman in question:
Krystalle Ramlakhan/CBC
McKay said a woman at the salon informed her that she didn’t do services for men, and when McKay replied that she’s not a man but a transgender woman, McKay was still refused service.
“I felt like I was a piece of garbage. I was worthless,” said McKay.
I don’t believe he felt anything of the kind. I think he felt happy about his chances for getting into the papers.
If you go to a supermarket and ask them to fix your car, you don’t get to complain of feeling worthless if they say they don’t provide that service.
In a written statement, salon owner Carrie MacFadyen said she would serve a transgender customer if she felt safe and secure in a room alone with them.
McKay said MacFadyen tried to give her an address for another salon to get her nails done, but McKay refused. She left, filed a complaint with P.E.I. Human Rights Commission and went to the media with her story.
Of course, because going to another salon wouldn’t be any fun, and wouldn’t give him the chance to play Civil Rights Hero Like John Lewis or Elizabeth Eckford.
“It is discrimination. I’m a human being. I have rights and people should know what people’s rights are and if you’re going to run a business you should know what rights are,” said McKay.
Nobody said he wasn’t a human being. He’s the one who should know what people’s rights are. This isn’t the Greensboro Woolworths lunch counter and he isn’t a black person denied a public service on racial grounds. He’s a stubbly white man who wants to make life unpleasant for women in the service industry.
Also, he’s been stalking the salon owner.
“It is unfortunate that the situation is being referred to as a transgender issue when the only issue is about my safety. I have absolutely no issues with transgender people and support their cause,” MacFadyen said in the statement.
It goes on to say that McKay is often standing or sitting on the street where MacFadyen parks her car and that — along with the fact that McKay then showed up at her work — made her uneasy.
Gee, I wonder why.
Gee, why would anyone looking at that person not know immediately they were a woman? And to suggest that he is a man is to ignore all the larger, more masculine looking women! /s
It’s hard to decide what’s worse: that these scams are so transparent or that they will probably work.
You’d think it would be the latter that’s worse, but I’m not sure it is.
This guy isn’t quite as bad as Yaniv. His win-win situation is ‘only’ that either he gets his gender affirmed by an unwilling woman or gets to go to the press to denounce her as transphobic and/or sue her to oblivion. Yaniv’s win-win is that he gets to have an unwilling woman handle his stinkables to his obvious sadistic and/or sexual gratification or go to the press to denounce her as transphobic and (no or) sue her to oblivion.
In both cases it is win-win for the trans women, lose-lose for the actual women just trying to make a living using their skills.
This is exactly how MRA and incel types imagine life is for actual women, I doubt that is a coincidence.
I remember this from some time ago — this guy was stalking this one woman and the story bears this out “goes on to say that McKay is often standing or sitting on the street where MacFadyen parks her car and that — along with the fact that McKay then showed up at her work — made her uneasy.” So this is a case of one man who has found a way to further stalk and punish a woman who was avoiding being alone with him because of his stalking creepiness.
People have negative responses to all sort of things every day, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the person blamed for that needs to change their behaviour. What this statement brings to mind most of all is a child throwing a tantrum at their parents telling to cut their silly crap out and just get on with your chore / eating your greens / whatever. It’s not an argument showing the other person did something wrong, it’s emotional blackmail to that end.
Frankly, Kristen McKay can shut the fuck up and be an adult about it. Being told that you’re male is a statement of highly obvious fact, and facts are not insults.
Very unclear. Was the demand for service an escalation of prior stalking? Or did the aggressive loitering come afterward?
Wow! He does feel like a woman!
That’s an experience I have had nearly daily in my interactions with men (and too many women). It is a natural part of the life of being a woman, though some women manage to shut off the emotional response that comes from being mansplained, talked down to, ignored, harassed, or told to make the coffee.
Best zinger of the week. Laughed out loud at that one.
Are you sure this person didn’t inspire Yaniv? The article is from three years ago, so perhaps it is McKay who broke the ice for these tales of, um, injustice. I have tried to find further information on the complaint, with no luck so far.
Ohhh it’s an oldy! Sorry, I missed that. No, not sure at all.