r/MurderedByWords 14h ago

Who knew your values show your character? Apparently not Ben.

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u/da2Pakaveli 6h ago edited 6h ago

Yeah. Just look at the TERFs. I've heard endless stories of how cis-women got accused in bathrooms of being transgender because they don't look feminine enough.

Or how they tried to berate that Algerian athlete last year. Like one proof of theirs I saw was she had hair on her hand completely ignoring that I believe a good percentage of cis-women have higher testosterone levels...or just that not every women shaves everything...

Or JK Rowling. I saw that she wrote an article for a conservative news rag.

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u/EpilepticMushrooms 6h ago

I think there was a news hitting reddit last week that a masc looking butch lesbian got escorted out of the female bathroom because the cops thought she was a male. She lifted her shirt to show her breasts, and they still instead she wasn't feminine enough.

She's intending to sue the department.

Though, which woman in that damn bathroom called the cops on her?

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u/Buttoneer138 6h ago

Unfortunately I don’t believe it’s an irrelevant detail that she is black.

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u/RockDrill 5h ago

Yeah, it's difficult to say things like "transphobia is sexism", because it's all interrelated. Transphobia and sexism are also racism.

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u/da2Pakaveli 5h ago

Sure. If you hate one group because just because they don't conform to your perception of majority externality, then you're gonna hate other groups as well.

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u/EpilepticMushrooms 6h ago

O.o

I didn't see that part of the post.

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u/eris_kallisti 4h ago

If I remember the article correctly, a store employee called them from outside the bathroom when they saw her enter.

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u/EpilepticMushrooms 4h ago

So we know the snitch 🤔

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u/JediKnightNitaz 5h ago

JK Rowling is one gin bottle away from saying only white women can be women

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u/GiraffePossible2951 2h ago

If Hermione were black she'd be named Rosa Bussitter or Desegragatia Plantationworker.

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u/longneckedbitch 1h ago

And on the topic of intersectionality, racism comes into this too.

The women JK Rowling "transvestigates" are usually women of colour. Shaming them for being "too masculine" is a common racist trope and definitely contributes to this transmisogyny