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San Francisco Library, promoting VAW in the name of 'trans culture'.

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LaSqrrl · 26/04/2018 10:43

Read the introduction to the 'exhibit' here:
sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1032262901

'Trans culture' seems to consist of - axes painted up in the trans flag colours. As well as baseball bats painted in other colours, presumably to 'include' all the genderqueers etc. It includes a (symbolic?) blood-soaked T-shirt with the slogan "I punch TERFs". Not to forget a plaque on the wall with "Die Cis Scum".

Which side of this 'debate' promotes violence against the other, continually? Which side of this 'debate' continually calls for injury and death towards the other? Which side continually claims to be 'the victim' (in classic DARVO style)?

I seriously cannot understand why some people are blinded to what is happening, how one side of this conducts itself, and calls for the death/injury of those who disagree with them. And no, not just a 'small element' of 'activists' - this is now enshrined in an exhibition at a public library! It has been officially sanctioned that this behaviour is legitimate and beyond reproach.

San Francisco Library, promoting VAW in the name of 'trans culture'.
San Francisco Library, promoting VAW in the name of 'trans culture'.
San Francisco Library, promoting VAW in the name of 'trans culture'.
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rosylea · 14/05/2018 10:31

Sickening! Why on earth would a library promote this? It's as if people are being brainwashed.

AngryAttackKittens · 13/05/2018 12:23

The only place they can really go from here is asking women to "donate" female specific body parts, which some handmaidens have already preemptively volunteered for.

If we could get everyone to admit that this a cult that would be great.

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LaSqrrl · 13/05/2018 12:05

Gosh, what you said Joan.
'Not All Trans Are Pervs' but all of this is accepted under the trans 'umbrella'..

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LaSqrrl · 13/05/2018 12:04

It is disturbing Grasp.
I kind of liked this tweet reply, possibly a dude (oh how come they can say this stuff and told not to DIAF transphobe? Answers on a postcard, please)
Shane Murray: Where mental illness and misogyny meet in a hideous collision with performance art at the intersection between narcissism and stupidity.

But it really is far creepier than that though. We know it.
It is almost like autogynephilia, but taken to that 'next level'.
So not in a good way.

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AngryAttackKittens · 13/05/2018 11:59

He's not handsome, or famous, or anything that would explain it really, unless you count internet infamous. Again I keep coming back to wondering why some people find narcissism compelling.

JoanSummers · 13/05/2018 11:56

I keep wondering if they know they're enabling his fetish, or they don't know. If they do, are they okay with it or do they feel compelled to feed it by their peers in the gbtqa+ community?

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 13/05/2018 11:50

Takes being a handmaid to a new level.

AngryAttackKittens · 13/05/2018 11:42

I am really struggling to wrap my head around the logic of the women who're giving this dude their blood to indulge his fetish with.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 13/05/2018 11:34

Eurgh.

JoanSummers · 13/05/2018 11:32

That is grim, along the same lines as the "tampons in my butt" and "stealing used sanitary towels" fetishes - 'Not All Trans Are Pervs' but all of this is accepted under the trans 'umbrella'..

So much so kind female youtubers are conned by males with fetishes who describe themselves as trans into making videos on how to create fake menstrual blood they can wear in their pants.

Seriously.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 13/05/2018 11:19

Just reviving this as a member of the artists' group behind the exhibition, the Degenderettes, has done something I find extremely disturbing. This tweet explains it and has images attached. I should warn you they're grim. The artist is collecting blood from women (not clear if it's menstrual blood or ordinary blood) and is using it to simulate freebleeding and then photographing himself doing it. WTF?

Ereshkigal · 01/05/2018 07:40

But frankly, there is far more evidence that 'trans misogyny' is the misogyny directed at females by trans. Even though it is supposed to not mean that. The situation is pure reversal actually. DARVO

Agree. Everything is a reversal.

Wanderabout · 01/05/2018 07:19

Due to concerns raised by library patrons, we have altered the exhibit to remove a piece of artwork that could be interpreted to promote violence, which is incompatible with our exhibitions policy."

The rest of the exhibition also promotes violence. Why aren't they altering that?

Why are they deleting Facebook comments pointing that out?

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LaSqrrl · 01/05/2018 06:17

'Transmisogyny' is a term that has been around for quite a while. It's like regular misogyny, but so-much-worse because males suffer from it. 11th rule of misogyny: whatever women suffer from, it is worse when it happens to men.

The bottom line though, is IF they pass (as in get mistaken for a female), then what they actually experience is bog-standard boring old misogyny. IF they don't pass, it is homophobia - which does not sit right with most of them, being heterosexual males (they are used to being on the other side of that equation).

But frankly, there is far more evidence that 'trans misogyny' is the misogyny directed at females by trans. Even though it is supposed to not mean that. The situation is pure reversal actually. DARVO

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Ereshkigal · 30/04/2018 21:03

It's a handy way of dismissing actual misogynistic violence against women and girls as the same as women's opinions about their rights and beliefs that you can't change sex.

Thanksforthatamazingpost · 30/04/2018 20:58

I feel a thread about an alternative warning notice coming on......

Ereshkigal · 30/04/2018 20:58

Isn't it.

Thanksforthatamazingpost · 30/04/2018 20:57

Fuck that’s depressing.

Ereshkigal · 30/04/2018 20:38

But yes you are right on both counts, Thanks.

Ereshkigal · 30/04/2018 20:37

Transmisogyny means misogyny by trans activists right?

It should do.

Thanksforthatamazingpost · 30/04/2018 20:10

so (unless I am wrong) it means that the term misogny has now been appropriated to mean, not violence against women, but "violence" by women (i.e. non-violence) against trans women.

Thanksforthatamazingpost · 30/04/2018 20:08

changeypants,

it means misogyny against trans women I believe

[waits for confirmation]

TerfAndSerf · 30/04/2018 19:36

Signed

changeypants · 30/04/2018 19:24

Transmisogyny means misogyny by trans activists right?

Thanksforthatamazingpost · 30/04/2018 18:23

2100 signatures.

That warning notice is quite something isn't it?

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