Also weird that the article title says 'for trans' instead of 'for being transgender'
Just your daily reminder that even if you're a piece of shit terf that hates trans woman, that your bigotry hurts cis women too.
You can't be a terf and call yourself a feminist. Terfs hate all women with their actions.
Regardless, when Adams went back to the grocery and called for police from there, it took officers four hours to show up, she said.
NYPD budget: 10 billion dollars
Hey, candy crush isn't going to play itself! Our boys in blue are doing their part in keeping the American economy afloat.
Maybe they’re too busy trying to find Osama in their intelligence unit
Maybe they could invest some of that in call forwarding, but what do I know I only work at a small school with < 200 students that somehow has that technology
There's also the extremely fucked up racist dimension to this where people tend to assume cis black women are trans
Also known as the Michelle Obama is actually a dude jokes
Considering how widespread and obsessed people where with it, yeah.
Hexbearians are less irony-poisoned than the posters you're used to encountering.
I dare you to explain why this is "post-ironic cringe reaction pics"
she's not served by you coming in and being an annoying dickhead either. let's agree never to interact again, alright lil buddy?
Brown said cops dropped the ball by failing to release the video to the media, as they often do when it is trying to identify and locate a suspect, and by conducting just one cursory phone interview with the victim.
They probably hired him onto the force.
The anti-trans hysteria is terrifying.
I've noticed people that are anti-trans are obsessed about it, it's like they think about it constantly, no wonder these fascist pigs act out like this with increasing frequency.
Staten Island
Why is it always Staten Island? Does the lack of subway access make them fash?
They actually do have a metro rail line, but, overall unironically yes. Large parts of it are just a white NYC suburb that can only be reasonably accessed by car, so it's reactionary for the same reasons somewhere like Long Island is reactionary
Staten Island Railway uses subway rolling stock, but the frequency (every 30 minutes or so) isn't very good and it's isolated from the rest of the network. In this way it's not really a subway line.
I should have known you would be well informed as our resident public transportation enjoyer
They legalized weed and then didn't issue any legal licenses to sell it, so a massive grey market sprang up basically overnight
Also quite a few of the sketchier sort of bodega sold weed even when it was illegal
Also quite a few of the sketchier sort of bodega sold weed even when it was illegal
I remember being with a friend when I was in Brooklyn, and getting an eighth with our sandwiches and drinks.
(article quote spoilered for transphobia)
"He said I was trying to get him fired and that he was going to call the cops," she recounted. "I said, ‘Call the cops! I just want my money back.’ Then I heard him call me a transvestite. I’m like, ‘Transvestite? I’m a whole female. I have lady parts.'"
i dunno what to think of the victims of transphobic violence not only not being trans, but also being actively transphobic themselves - it's an extremely weird situation out there
"I don't like that you're kicking my head in because you think I'm trans but I'll defend to death your right to do it!"
Transvestites are crossdressers, not transpeople. How about not accusing a hate crime victim of being transphobic.
I do believe that it is wrong to hate crime someone because of perceived trans status and I side with victims of transphobic violence unconditionally. I'm a little sad that I have to clarify that as a trans person and can't just be given the benefit of the doubt there but if making it explicit helps the discussion and increases people's comfort levels then I'm happy to.
I'm also operating on the assumption that someone who is willing to beat up a woman because of perceived trans status is not concerned with the legitimate differences between being transgender and being transvestite and the active reappropriation of the latter, and instead just wanted to use the one that sounded like more of a slur. I'm open to being checked if that was an unreasonable assumption.
I am in fact a transperson too. I just find it distasteful to immediately harp on someone who was a victim of a hatecrime just because they used the wrong words in good faith.
I don't think anyone is doing that though. She has a couple ignorant transphobic brainworms but as far as I'm aware she isn't on hexbear and no one is harping on her.
i don't know anything about this source but it's kind of bitterly amusing that this article has a bunch of pictures of her from different angles, like they know full well that many hogs in their audience are going to want to analyze her appearance and decide for themselves if she "looks trans"
Another case-study in why cis-gender people should have solidarity with trans-people, if only out of self-preservation. The transphobes are fucking crazy.
yea but also let's be honest it's because she was Black
nobody'd ever lay a finger on a mannish white TERF
They really felt the need to front the fact that she was buying weed and was bi as if those were the most important pieces of information. It smacks of "so long as you aren't queer or buying the devil's lettuce this won't happen to you"
How about "Woman shopping at NYC deli wearing pride watch" just off the top of my head.
Sure but it's also Staten Island
Nuke that first and then we can move onto
I know more information about trains than any other user here
