Well, lucky you. You certainly do live in a bubble.
I live in a US state that has nearly double the population of all of Scotland. If I live in a bubble, you live in a much smaller one. Had that occurred to you?
Stories from all over the world, particularly Canada, Australia and New Zealand, are absolute cookie-cutter replicas of the Brighton situation.
Yes, which is why I've been asking about these other bubbles. They are not the larger experience, much like your tweetys are not representative of transpeople.
The rape crisis centre in Vancouver that was set up as a women-only service that was vandalised, covered in offensive graffiti and had a dead rat nailed to the door. Sall Grover in Australia being financially ruined by an aggressive trans-identifying man because she wouldn't let him join the women-only online social media group she founded. (The judge found in favour of the trans-identifying man, just as the Brighton police de-arrested this charmer as soon as he claimed to be mounting a "protest".)
I could go on and on. But I and others have provided multiple examples already, and you ignore them, or find some way to dismiss them and excuse the trans bullies because they're the "little guys" being goaded unbearably by these selfish women. You've been shown pictures and videos of their violent, abusive protests against women merely trying to speak about this. I've described my own personal experiences of the mobs that turn up in Edinburgh and Glasgow, banging pots and pans, screaming obscenities and jostling up close to women meeting to discuss the issue.
Yes, when you focus on a hostile protest, you will see the worst of the worst behaviors. We can do that with any politically charged issue, and declare the behavior we see as representative of day to day interactions. It's not really illuminating, and you know it.
People have lost their jobs and their livelihoods because the trans lobby has targeted them with complaints to their employees and agents that they've said or done something "transphobic". One author of children's books is now driving a lorry because of this. People have been thrown out of university courses. Often the "transphobia" consists of voicing concern that putting children on puberty blockers might not be the best thing for their long-term health.
And every time anyone tries to explain any of this to you, you reinterpret it as the oppressed "little guy" striking back against the bully women, who deserve all they get for not lying down and letting the trans juggernaut roll right over them. You immediately condemned "Sisters Salon" for what amounted only to clear statements of their position, as providing a female-only space which does not include men, and decided on that basis that attacking them was justified.
That's a lie. I wish you wouldn't lie so much. Not only did I never say it was justified, I said specifically that it was not.
I don't know how your little corner of town has escaped what's happening all over the world.
I've told you repeatedly. What's that you were saying about not listening? My massive little bubble doesn't treat transpeople like freaks and post hateful, lying tweetys about them nonstop.
I note you didn't have anything to say about that frozen tomato juice post you put up from 2003 (unsourced and unidentified). Have you considered the logistics of what was claimed? I don't even think it would work. I think being unable to expel gas or defecate would render anyone trying to do so violently ill, and that large chunks of suddenly discharging tomato paste would fill the user's pants so quickly that they would never do so more than one trial. But I suppose it hadn't occurred to you that it was pretty obviously a tranny bashing bull ◊◊◊◊ post being recirculated and regurgitated for decades, did it?
But I do know that tackling the sort of people we're dealing with by assuming they're the oppressed "little guy" and giving them all they want will not end well for women or children.
ETA: and the very idea that this hasn't been explained to you multiple times, by me and by others, or that we "blew you off" when you asked about it, is ludicrous. I had the impression that you were simply scrolling past my longer, more considered posts and only homing in on side remarks you could paint as bigotry or hatred. It seems I was right. But even so, the amount of ignored evidence is pretty astonishing.
Amazing, the level of denial and lying you take things to. Here is my asking you YET AGAIN, just a few days ago, and your inevitable non-response:
Just noticed this, and I've asked you about it before. How often is this a problem? Are there multiple men at once? Are they harrassing anybody? Has it noticably increased recently? Does it tend to be in certain areas (theater, clubs), or all over? Not looking for actual numbers, just your experience, because what you describe is not consistent with what I'm seeing.
Does it matter? Men who go into women's designated spaces, knowing that they are not permitted to be there, are already transgressing our boundaries. The acceptable number is none.
Seriously, olive branch extended. I'm trying to get a handle on our relative perspectives.
What problem did they pose before? What did they do? Do you mean it increased in visibility or actual danger?
The last, of course, you ignored yet again, as you did over and over and over.
ETA: you do make a fair point about missing some of your posts, though. Like a lot of posters, I have 'new posts on a subscibed thread' turned off on alerts, because it was making too long an alert list. Sometimes, especially when a thread is moving fast, I will miss posts, long or not. If you could wrap your head around the intellectual challenge of addressing a post (I know, you find it difficult), not as many would be missed. So if you did actually answer me at some point in the past, I apologize for missing it. If it was addressed, doubly so, but I doubt there were many if any of those.
, this activist was doing generic activist ◊◊◊◊. It was not "another juicy cherry" example of them cross dressing violent pervs.
