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Would You Like to Share a Prison Cell with This Person? **MNHQ edit, this post contains rather graphic material**

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CKDexterHaven · 22/08/2014 17:49

gendertrender.wordpress.com/2014/08/22/laverne-cox-launches-media-campaign-in-support-of-transwoman-synthia-china-blast-convicted-for-the-rape-murder-and-abuse-of-the-corpse-of-thirteen-year-old-ebony-nicole-williams/#comments

I particularly like the bit about giving birth to little baby serial killers. Is this the kind of campaign feminism should be getting behind?

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juliascurr · 22/08/2014 19:31

we are repeatedly told this has never happened, will never happen and only bigots could imagine such a thing

lildupin · 22/08/2014 19:27

I also don't like the author referring to the actor as male throughout. I really think people should be addressed according to what they prefer

Where does it refer to Cox as male? Cox is referred to by name throughout, as far as I can see.

And WRT the writer referring to the murderers/paedophiles as male, I think that once someone has chosen to murder a child, or download and enjoy videos of children being raped, it's permissible to stop tiptoeing around their preferred gender pronouns TBH.

FloraFox · 22/08/2014 19:22

Did I pick this up right? This killer was only out of prison for three months and during that time he raped and murdered a 13 year old girl? Now he wants to be transferred to a woman's prison and Laverne Cox thinks this is a good cause to be championed. Wow.

SevenZarkSeven · 22/08/2014 19:10

I think that article needs a warning for the link I found some of it quite disturbing.

I also don't like the author referring to the actor as male throughout. I really think people should be addressed according to what they prefer.

That aside.

What the actual fuck? I mean just, what on earth? Talk about blinkered. As pointed out in the piece, the extreme activists are totally going to shoot themselves in the foot with this sort of thing. If they want support they are not going to get it this way. Which from the perspective of people who disagree with them is great, I guess.

The idea as well that they are getting young trans people to write to convicted peadophiles in prison.... Mind-boggling.

It reminds me of all that stuff about the National Council for Civil Liberties in the 70s where people were so busy trying to be liberal they forgot that paedophilia was a bad thing - you know that stuff with PIE in the news.

lildupin · 22/08/2014 18:46

“I want my voice to be heard, I want my dreams to matter, I want people to know who I am because tomorrow is not promised,” reads Cox

Words fail me.

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CKDexterHaven · 22/08/2014 18:33

I can't help but think if there is such a thing as 'feeling like a woman' then it would involve understanding why women don't like the idea of being housed with a rapist and murderer.

Note how Synthia China Blast says 'If I was a real woman ...', acknowledging that performing a submissive, hybristophiliac, fetishised hyper-femininity isn't the same as being biologically female and experiencing life as such from birth.

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TheGirlFromIpanema · 22/08/2014 17:56

I thought not at first, but then I realised that anyone sharing a cell with a convicted child killer was likely to be a convicted child killer themselves...
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