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This is very telling.
No of course we wouldn’t piss on a trans person’s car, not even if the person were a man. We talk, we write, we wear T shirts with slogans on them. We don’t piss on cars or pour soup over people or fracture the skulls of elderly women. We’re profoundly irritated, but we’re otherwise normal. Team Give Me Whatever I Demand, not so much.
That needs to be on a T-shirt: Profoundly irritated, but otherwise normal.
Well put. Even if such behavior was generalized, “other people could do it too” is a stunningly poor excuse. It requires absolutely no thought or insight about the actual aggression that occured, and puts the blame on the other party for being the victim.
On the other hand, I’m not sure I agree that this constitutes “male behaviour.” I agree it’s more plausible that ectovehicular urination would be performed by a male, both for social and corporal reasons, but I think that categorizing the act as being specifically “male” (by opposition to “female”) feeds into dubious ideas of intrinsicness. This wouldn’t strike me as much if the act was more typical – rape, for instance, may very well be described as “male behaviour” – but I’m fairly sure that passing water on a car is something the vast, vast majority of humanity never does, regardless of sex.
Staniland likely just meant that the profanation was linked to male entitlement; I can certainly concur with that. But it ends up sounding like if it would be reproachable for a woman to act in this way because it’s a *male* way of acting, and so it’s improper for *women* to do it. I think I’m just reading too much into it.
What is ManchesterSalfordLGBTQ talking about or responding to? Did some trans identifying man pee all over a woman’s car because she knows he’s a man?
I was part of a thread discussing a short video, in which a trans woman vents and then physically expresses his objection to the workplace toilet policy (a single ‘gender neutral’ room rather than separate rooms for men and women)… by pissing on a the car of one of the workplace bosses. The defenders of the clip call it ‘defiance’ against the policy, but that flies in the face of the stated intent of the actual character in the actual clip: marking territory like a cat.
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Also notable is the reasoning for the trans woman’s objection to the policy:
[upon discovering the gender neutral toilets had replaced the women’s]: “Brilliant! What else are the going to take away from me? If I wanted to shit next to a man, I’d have kept my big transgender mouth shut.”
He gets to object to having combined facilities, but women don’t and for the most facile of reasons: he may be male, but he calls himself a woman. The solution to his discomfort is therefore simple, according to his own logic: declare that all men are temporarily to be considered women while in the toilets.
Also notice, take away from me. The narcissism is so blatant it feels like a physical slap.