This.
There is something grim about pretending that a gratuitously violent, sexually-motivated male murderer is a woman, when women have to bear so much of the brunt of male violence in society. That this is a male crime could not be more relevant here.https://t.co/oMzN46VM0l
— Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) February 23, 2024
Indeed there is.
The Beeb, unlike the Guardian, does eventually admit that the guy is trans, but only very late in the piece (and everyone knows that most of us don’t read all the way to the end). Admitting the murderer is a man after many paragraphs of “she offered him a bottle of vodka before she led him towards the river” and the like is as minimal … Read the rest