A Staten Island woman buying pot from a local deli got into a misunderstanding with the cashier — who ended up macing her, dragging her outside by her hair, kicking her in the head and mistakenly calling her trans.
How? Not in the ethical sense, people are bastards, but in the physical sense. The picture makes it look like she has, um, corn-rows is what I think it is called? So how could they drag her by it?
Those are cornrows, and hers are long. Other pictures in the linked article show just how long.
This is the consequence of the hatred that transphobes, garden variety conservatives and TERFs alike, have stoked. And the narrative that the media has gleefully ran with.
Being visibly trans or gender-non-conforming nowadays is genuinely scary in a way I think a lot of people don’t fully understand. And of course when femininity is being policed, women of colour tend to suffer too, even if they are cisgender.
I feel we need to change that little children’s rhyme to be a bit more accurate
“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can lead to pogroms” or something like that
I’ve always been partial to “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can really hurt me”.
When you’re so anti-trans you loop around and become anti-cis.
I think these people might just be anti-women.
Racism, Misogyny and transphobia have always come from a similar place and build off of each other. They share the same narratives and the same desire for ostracization and oppression. Bigots will always ally with other bigots, as this hatred is not rational and only someone with similarly irrational hate could support you. Dig enough in bigoted communities and you are certain to find all different kinds of hatred.
That’s why TERF communities are infested with homophobia, misogyny, racism, antisemitism and Islamophobia. Over time the concentration of white supremacy and nazism has grown exponentially in terf communities. Nazis share many of the same goals and many of the same conspiracies that terfs do. And prominent terfs like Kelly Jay Keen openly ally with Christian white nationalists around the world.
I’d argue that the TERF perspective is fundamentally anti-male rather than (or maybe in addition to) misogynistic.
The specific position TERFs hold that makes them TERFs is that you cannot become a woman if you weren’t born one and that women should be granted certain special protections and spaces of their own, kept free from men.
That’s why TERFs ALWAYS frame trans issues in the form of men dressing up as women to infiltrate women’s spaces and women’s services. They could give a shit about trans men, it’s all trans women because trans women are the ones using things that in their eyes should be the sole provenance of “real” women.
Why the fuck is everyone focusing on suing the deli owner and not on the piece of shit who attacked her?
Because the owner is still responsible for the actions of their employees while on the clock, they are liable for damages caused by their employees. Criminal charges would be taken against the actual employee, but civil suits will go after whatever responsible party has the most money.
But the employee is the obvious danger here, not the business. Fuck the money. That scumfuck was able to beat an innocent woman down in broad daylight with the blessing of the NYPD. They refused to meaningfully investigate or do anything about the guy and no one here is even talking about him. What’s going to stop him from stalking her, or raping her, or killing her?
Does no one around here think at all?
How is she going to use settlement money when she’s dead?
Why wouldn’t the police be able to just get a warrant and subpoena records then?
The reason why is because they just don’t care, and they don’t care because they’re a bunch of fucking tyrants that need to be roasted slowly on a rotisserie. With pineapples. And barbecue sauce.
So who’s gonna protect that poor woman?
This is what transphobia has to offer. Transphobia and TERFS are inherently misogynistic because they start to attack every single woman that doesn’t fit into the worldview of a few people.
Yeah, transohibia, anti gay, racism, anti immigrant, anti religion - intolerance is ugly, evil and the worst of humanity
Agree, agree, agree, agree, WHAT? Bro religion is the support beam holding up most of these bigotries in a big way.
Yeah, there are reasons to be anti-religion and even potentially anti-immigrant, those issues have actual logically and morally consistent reasons. Whereas racism and the others are entirely emotional and based on nothing. Religion is belief literally founded on nothing.
Hmm Yeah ok I probably should have used more words there :o) I’m an atheist. I don’t like what religion does to people, in general. What I meant to say - but clearly didn’t express well - is that hating people for their religion is bullshit (also, their lack of religion). The general point was that hating people for their group membership is just evil.
So we’re segmenting the trans community by binary gender now? What the hell
Can we not post paywalled links?
