Given his history of killing women
[This story is a couple of years old but what the hell, a second thrashing is well deserved.]
The Times reporting does eventually hint at how appallingly reckless and women-hating the “Marceline” Harvey story is.
It is unclear where [Susan Leyden’s] path first crossed Ms. Harvey’s, but at the time Ms. Harvey posted about Ms. Leyden,
shewas seekingherown placement in city shelters. Immediately afterher2019 release,shesought housing in the Bronx. [In other words Harvey was seeking placement in city shelters.]
Ms. Harvey “presented as a mild spoken, very tall Black man,” said Anne Brennan, the nurse practitioner who ran the intake. “I said, ‘Well, why are you in the women’s shelter?’”Ms. Brennan said she told Ms. Harvey that placing
herin a women’s shelter seemed like a bad idea, givenherhistory of killing women. Despite her objections, Ms. Brennan said her supervisors allowed Ms. Harvey entry.“Apparently his feelings and identity were far more important than all the other women that were terrified of him,” she said.
And apparently the NY Times can’t find the nerve to call him “him” even in a story of this kind, even when it sows confusion about who is doing what to whom. It’s despicable. The choice to pamper him at the expense of clarity about her is despicable.
Julia Savel, a spokeswoman for the city’s Department of Social Services, said rules were followed.
“Our policy — in accordance with the law — is to place individuals in shelters based on their reported gender identity,” she said.
Well that’s a bad, evil, dangerous to women policy. To hell with that policy, and the law.
“Being homeless or transgender does not make you inherently violent and are not connected to the crime that was committed.”
No shit, stupid, but the fact that he had murdered a woman does hint that he might do it again.
Also, being a man does make you inherently stronger than women and more potentially aggressive toward women.
The reporting of this story is outrageous.
Yeah, the fact of calling himself a woman is tangential to the crime he committed (I ‘love’ the way the crime ‘was committed’, as if no one specific committed it, it just sort of happened).
The crime was committed by his body and his body is male. The spokeswoman needs to turn it around; calling himself a transwoman does not make him less likely to be violent, especially since he has already been convicted of violent crimes against women.
The language is evasive at EVERY SINGLE OPPORTUNITY. It’s really quite stunning to watch.
Being a transwoman, in virtue of being a subset of male, inherently makes one of the class of people capable of certain categories of violence against women. It is not unreasonable to say that any male is infinitely more likely than a female to commit violence that supervenes on maleness.
In general: it’s impressive how even without being able tell “her” from “him”, they still manage to suborn “her” to “him”.
I’m surprised they let Ms. Brennan refer to him as “him” without some sort of “correction”.
she told Ms. Harvey that placing her in a women’s shelter seemed like a bad idea, given her history of killing women
Jebus Fing Christ. That deserves The Understatement of the Year Award.
It all does.