Speaking as someone who has been mentally ill and lonely for most of my teenage and adult life, incels are not just mentally ill and lonely. Incels subscribe to a politics of sexual entitlement and resentment towards women specifically because they feel they have not received the patriarchal favors they believe they're entitled to, and why they hurt and kill women who don't provide it to them. It's literally just "mass shooters are just mentally ill" bullshit done to another violent group of people ignoring the role fascist ideology and gender and sexual politics plays in producing them.
Also their ideology has nothing to do with not getting laid like be fucking serious. If getting laid was enough to cure men of misogyny it would literally not exist. No amount of sex or intimacy would ever help one of these freaks because it will never match up with what they think they deserve.
The most jarring thing about reading quotes from republicans during the AIDS crisis is not how cruel and bigoted they were (which cannot be overstated), but how familiar they are. Calling to forcibly tattoo people with AIDS so they could be identified doesn't just sound like an extreme but dated position of the 1980s; powerful republicans are still saying comparable shit every day. Jesse Helms is running for president in the form of Ron DeSantis. When American liberals and moderates ask "what happened to the republicans," the answer is nothing. They have been just as brutal and genocidal for the past 40+ years, and anyone who says otherwise has been ignoring the pleas and struggles of persecuted groups.
Imagine watching Buffy for the first time, finishing Witch, the third episode, and then being told that the character of Amy Madison will go on to appear in all but one of the show’s seven seasons.
Imagine being told that was only true of a handful of other characters on the whole show (Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, Angel, a character called ‘Spike’ who you haven’t met yet and – maybe, sort of, depending on how you look at it – Joyce Summers).
You would probably assume, I think, that Amy would soon go on to join the main cast herself, or at least be as central to the show as somebody like Cordelia Chase or Buffy’s mother or anyone else not on the list above. You would probably assume Amy was somebody important, somebody who the show’s writers cared about, somebody who – at the very least – wouldn’t get a completely different and somewhat contradictory backstory and relationship to the rest of the group in every season she appeared in.
And you would probably be quite disappointed when you realized that literally none of that is true.
"She went to step up to compete for the grade four shot-put final, and right before she went to throw, a grandfather of a student said, 'Hey, this is supposed to be a girls' event, and why are you letting boys compete.' My daughter is cisgender, born female, uses she/her pronouns. She has a pixie haircut," said mom Heidi Star.
Star says the man then carried on to demand certification to prove that her daughter was born female.
"He stopped the entire event. He also pointed at another girl who also had short hair. He then piped in and said, 'Well, if she is not a boy, then she is obviously trans.'"
Star said the man's wife then started calling her "a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile."
Kari Starr, the girl's other mother, says Thursday's events have rocked their daughter's confidence.
"This has destroyed our beautiful daughter's confidence, and she was inconsolably crying during this whole event and continued once it was over and we were leaving. Not to mention, she was unable to concentrate on her track and field finals and the shot-put throw for which she had qualified," Kari said.
The parents posted a photo and identity of the man on local Facebook groups, but Castanet is not publishing that information because the man's identity has not been confirmed by the school district. ***
The headline though, "accused of being trans"? Accused of? They could have written "Girl, 9, victim of transphobic harassment at Kelowna track meet"??? Accused implies something wrong could have been done - in this case, being trans could be seen as A Bad Thing.
Also, it's notable that the guy attacked not just the girl who had a pixie cut, but the girl who has TWO moms. So, he was attacking the child of an openly non-straight couple.
But this only happens in the US, this isn't my Canada, some people claim.
It's been happening here. It's happening here. It will keep happening here until either our elected officials and LOL enforcement decide to fucking put their foot down and defend our constitutional rights to be protected from anti-trans harassment (I know the girl is cisgender, but she's a victim of transphobic hate), or until they let us fucking deal with those assholes ourselves. It's one or the other.
*** You know what? Here's the guy and his wife:
“Hot and bothered” in the sense that it is 90 degrees out and I am extremely annoyed
They are not as high-profile as the WGA, but I would like to bring everyone's attention to the imminent strike action by thousands of hotel workers in Los Angeles. They are set to go on strike tomorrow, July 1st, 2023.
More than 15,000 hotel workers are seeking higher pay, better benefits, and working conditions. This includes an across-the-board $5 an hour raise, as well as affordable healthcare and better pensions. They also are seeking a ban on the use of E-Verify, which is used to deny employment to undocumented workers and workers involved with the criminal justice system. You can follow what is happening at their Twitter.
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