A woman laughed
Willz is now reporting people to the police for laughing.
The cells are going to fill to the brim before you can say “knife.”
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Willz is now reporting people to the police for laughing.
The cells are going to fill to the brim before you can say “knife.”
But is laughter speech? What about a good raspberry? Rude gestures? Lapses of posture in the presence of our trans overlords? If laughter is made actionable, then knowing smiles and eyerolls cannot be far behind.
“trans overlords”
A comment by S.M. Stirling in a discussion about some people expecting deference from others…
Eg., there was a criminal case in the 1670’s about a Quaker who refused to remove his hat for the local squire (saying he only did that for God) and addressed him as “thou”, which was the familiar form then.
The squire (who was on horseback) knocked his hat off with his riding-whip; when the Quaker tried to protect his face, the squire booted him -in- the face with his stirrup several times and then flogged him unconscious.
The Quaker tried to bring a lawsuit; he ended up in jail, and only barely avoided being transported to the colonies.
(He did leave for Pennsylvania a bit later, being understandably a bit disenchanted with England).
To be fair to Willz, everybody knows that the cruelest thing a woman can do to a man is laugh at him.
Saying women will not be arrested for stating biological facts does not equal saying trans are fair game. I suspect the police would act instantly if Rowling threatened a transwoman with a knife or gun, guillotined them, or burned them at the stake. Of course, all of those would be crimes without the hate crime law.