littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Ah twitter.
I wonder what the list of tweets slagging off transgender people would look like.
Transgender is it just me that is totally perplexed?
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I wonder what the list of tweets slagging off transgender people would look like.
Just getting it straight. It's "pinko" rather than "socialist". A term of abuse not a self chosen epithet.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
It's not slagging off. It's violent threats and fantasies of carrying them out. Can't you see the difference here? How many women are actually threatening trans people with violence like this?
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Some of the lower ones are slagging off, but ok, I wonder what the list of tweets of violent threats and fantasies against transgender people would look like.
As to how many women are threatening violence, I don't know. Twitter is full of idiots.
Emanating from where?
Blimey, Trashpony, who are those people? Surely not representative of anything other than shitwipes. Have to wonder what other variables are in the mix to engender such manic hatred. Surely this isn't any sort of transactivism though...just something altogether...I dunno, primitive - all sorts of weird developmental stuff...and of course, the internet anonymity.
Jonti
what the dormouse said
Wanting to organise as cis-women is not bigotry. Not in my book. Sorry. The trans-activists were well out of order trying to suppress that.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
And how many of those are from women? It's overwhelmingly men that physically attack trans people.
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
oh really? Thanks for letting me know that....
Hateful bigotry may look like fascism, but it isn't if it doesn't share the characteristics of wanting a fascist state. It's a ridiculous comparison.
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
and yet when trans women engage in exactly the same slagging off its sudden not alright. Double standards. Hypocrisy.
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
i don't have to wonder....
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Why do you think her comment was aimed at you?
With these kind of violent fantasies?
trashpony
Hag
That's my point really. Transactivism has become a vehicle for a some really horrible misogyny.
I dunno who they are. I think a lot of men who really, really hate women are climbing on the transactivism bandwagon because it gives them legitimacy. It's really frightening
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
Like the violent fantasies of TERFs? Probably not as prevelent. I rarely see it.
and, unless you can show where trans women have been carrying out mass attacks on TERFs then they are very much fantasies.
Are you trying to prove something here?
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
That's not really the question though. A bunch of vile tweets was collected over a period of time (about two years by the looks of it) using some kind of search technique to find tweets from trans women attacking terfs. What would a similar list look like from someone searching for hateful tweets about trans women from women over a period of two years? I don't know, but it wouldn't be pretty, and there would probably be a hundred times more tweets from men, but I'd be cherry-picking so I'd ignore those.
trashpony
Hag
So, with no evidence at all, you have a feeling that women probably tweet similar stuff. FFS. That's lame as fuck, even for you.
19force8
For the avoidance of faith
To get an idea of the kind of abuse trans people are subjected to in the UK you might try this:
http://www.galop.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/The-Hate-Crime-Report-2016.pdf
In the USA they are being murdered at the rate of more than two a month. 18 so far this year, last time I looked (August).
Trans people are overwhelmingly on the receiving end of abuse. Some of the comments on this thread are both ignorant and bigoted, and yet Urban has a fairly progressive reputation. I shudder to think what kind of crap is dished out elsewhere.
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Who has argued in this thread that transpeople aren't victims of hate crime?
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Cursory look at twitter brings up all kinds of tweets by women fantasising about killing men. I'm sure if I looked a bit harder I could find some about killing transgender folk. Twitter is full of hateful bile.
Your link to a bunch of violent tweets on its own proves nothing.
19force8
For the avoidance of faith
So, with no evidence at all, you have a feeling that men are using "transactivism" to spread misogyny. FFS. That's lame as fuck, even for you.
trashpony
Hag
A woman is murdered EVERY WEEK in the UK. It's been that way for years and years. And no one gives a shit. Suddenly, men who identify as women are being killed and it's a big deal. I agree, it's fucking awful, and something needs to be done about it. But women are still killed more often. And NO ONE CARES.
19force8
For the avoidance of faith
I didn't say they had
19force8
For the avoidance of faith
4 a week, 2 by partners actually. The point is that the level of murders of transpeople is far greater for their numbers in the population.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Your 'evidence' is a bunch of tweets collected by someone over a period of two years. They're vile tweets. Without context, they don't mean much.I'll wait for your evidence of violence TERFs then. I'm in no hurry
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
So what are posters here being 'ignorant' of?
trashpony
Hag
Killed by men. I rest my case. Women aren't a threat to transgender people.
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