Literal Violence

I'd be careful about needling anyone who had a knife in their hand.

Rule of thumb: If coworkers know that someone is carrying a knife at work, said person won't work there any longer. So your point is pointless.

Yep juells the bitch was obviously asking for it.

SnuggyBuggy

People are only human and if someone looks and sounds like a man you will instinctively use a male pronoun.

TBH I wouldn't believe a word of the other employee's story. I think she was being a shit on purpose, and winding up her co-worker. Of course the knife incident was wrong, but personally I'd be careful about needling anyone who had a knife in their hand.

I can see that employee 'innocently' making remarks if one of her co-workers wore a bad wig, or dressed too young for their age, or did anything that could be a focus for subtle bullying.

I am forever grateful for my mother indoctrinating me as a child with "who's she? The cat's mother?"

Looks like I dodged a bullet (or knife), thanks mum.

I take from it that misgendering somebody (like deadnaming) trumps all protection and safeguarding of women (and children of course).

make that can always easily prove it

But yeah, I agree with SnuggyBuggy. Imagine we would pull knives every time someone calls us bitch or cunt or old hag or TERF (all slurs by nature, contrary to the pronouns he/him, btw). Hey, maybe that is why women are oppressed, because we haven't done that so far?

The take home message is clearly that a person who claims something amounts to literal violence can always easily prove by pulling a knife in response.

Or something like that.

I take away from this that if you misgender somebody, they may pick up a knife and threaten you. I don't think most trans people would do this, but obviously it could happen. And people around you will see their point of view to some extent, because they've had a hard life. So even if the thing you do to provoke the violence is accidental and actually no physical threat to the other person, if it causes them psychological distress, people will see their point of view and understand why they couldn't control their temper and use a more reasonable course of action to make their point. So be careful what you say and try not to upset them.

So pretty much how male violence is generally treated in our society. It surprises me that all the people who think they're breaking the mould and creating something new in society don't see how much of this is just old fashioned sexist behaviour.

I'm not sure why people would use pronouns in the presence of the person they are referring to. Surely that's a little rude.

Are we taking away if you call a man a man they will literally cut you up?

Someone I work with keeps misnaming me, calling me something slightly different to my actual personal name even though I've reminded her before. Guess I should just draw a knife on the bitch?

It's also interesting how women frequently face sexist insults and rarely resort to this.

Is this a threat thread?

She also said it's unfair that she felt unsafe in her workplace

"unsafe"?

Get a fucking grip.

I take away from this further confirmation that trans m to f think they are entitled to be physically threatening and violent to a woman who doesn’t do what they tell them to do.

People are only human and if someone looks and sounds like a man you will instinctively use a male pronoun.

Another thing might be if you have a grievance take it through the proper channels before you get to the point of picking a knife up and threatening a co worker.

The useful thing I take away is that you shouldn't threaten co-workers with a knife if they do something you don't like.

I am guessing though I was supposed to take away something else.