Taking a sword to the toilets

AnotherAdultHumanFemale
Yes, I don't mean old school transexuals, who have quietly gone about their lives for years.

Not sure I believe that any longer.

There is no reason to take knives to Pride. Why would you need to take knives to Pride? It's a well policed, largely safe event*

*unless you're a lesbian holding a banner with a dictionary definition on it.

This is the first of these threads I have thought yes I would be nervous of that person. Purely because he is carrying a sword - although as a previous poster said it is not clear he had it in the ladies.

As a rule I am not scared of men, I never have been, I don't feel vulnerable in any way - I totally appreciate that I am not all women and I am very lucky to have been brought up by and live amongst good men.

I think that this is where a difficulty lies, I don't care if a transwoman or straight up man is in the ladies with me because I am not afraid, I don't feel vulnerable and don't think people will harm me. Therefore I dismiss a lot of what could be considered 'scaremongering' about transwoman in the ladies loo.

You have shown me one person I would be nervous of - I would be nervous of anybody carrying a weapon. I fail to see how that should make me afraid of all Transwomen.

Cyclepath approves. Who would have guessed?

The sword-bearer uses he/him and identifies as a bisexual woman.

HRTFT but thought from the profile that it was a transman? Am I wrong? Pronouns He/him? Why would someone who identifies as a male use the Ladies unless they're a biological woman.

Confused.

I think they were separate incidents.

Apparently there is a KF thread on this character, so I doubt they are the most stable individual in the world.

Their response to the commendation of their tweet was to say they couldn't understand it, and why the nasty people haven't picked on their trans sports tweets. I'm guessing they like to fence against women as a human right.

I think the toilet incident & the sword carrying picture may be separate but that is one scary individual.

@AncientLights

It's male privilege. Pure and true.

People socialised as men cannot comprehend that women are on high alert 99% of the time in public places.
My own thoughtful husband took a long while to get that my perspective on the world has a whole layer of self preservation that his rarely does, so no way will self-obsessed TRAs ever even consider it.

So to them, the reason you'd walk out = TERF, not your gut screaming 'this isn't right, get out!!'

Which, considering the opression and hate that TW face daily is surprising, you'd think there would be empathy there. But then again, as TW easily win the opression Olympics, it's easy to dismiss women's lived experiences as trivial in comparison to TW experiences.

Holy shit.

Those tweets Always shared are chilling.

This is the US, right? Let’s hope he doesn’t have guns as well.

@MargotsFlounceyBlouse it does appear that the scarimg woman incident was seperate to the toilet photos with the sword. Not sure if he had the sword on the womens or mens.

Still begs the question. Why the fuck did he have any sword in any toilet at all? And how is it ok, to put this behaviour on twitter, admit to it and go about your life.

Lets assume the sword was in the mens bathroom, Knowing lives his knives and often carried them, would you be happy with him in the mens toilets, with your son in there. Does it really matter which bathroom he had it in?

Firstly having a man at all in the bathroom is intimidating for women. A man in any bathroom with a sword is intimidating.

The fact that TW dont understand why women dont want to share a bathroom with them (with or without a sword) just shows the male privilege that they have. They arent women. They dont understand what it's like to grow up, being afraid of being on their own in a vulnerable space when a member of the opposite sex is there.

Besides which, they want to use the womens bathrooms, because they feel unsafe using a bathroom with people who have penises. So women have to share a bathroom, with people with penises. It makes no fucking sense and no TRA has ever been able to answer why, Trans people not wanting to share bathrooms with people with penises, is more important than women not wanting to do that.

This whole thing is making me feel shit.

And pride organisers need to step the fuck up. Things that are going on at pride is not acceptable. People showing off their knife collection they are taking or have taken. Allowing people to play out their fetish with children, chasing people with nets, allowing lesbians who dont go along with 'trans women are lesbians' to be shouted at and intimidated.

Pride is becoming a disgrace and there is going to be some massive incident that will ruin the whole thing. At which point some anti gay dickheads, will use it as proof all gay people are dangerous.

I dont get how pride dont understand they will end up doing more harm than good for the gay community, if they dont put a stop to thos sort of shit.

I came on this thread expecting it to be about a 'pork sword' in the toilets.

Blimey.

Has anyone reported him to the police?

Does any actual woman take pride in frightening people? It's concerning that this individual can't tell the difference between transphobia and weaponsphobia. If I'd seen that in the women's loos I'd have been out of there like an Olympic sprinter.

Are TRA's increasingly desperate to silence women or emboldened by lack of consequences? Either way the whole movement feels increasingly dangerous.

KettlePolly
See the first picture in the OP - sword in hand!

Bragging about taking your knife collection to pride, FFS the police should be having a word with this person before someone gets stabbed.

I think he may think he's being funny with the jammy knife.

Trouble is, women don't tend to find jokes about knives very funny.
Doubtless his foil wasn't actually dangerous because it had a knob on the end ... well, one on both ends.

I like his dress, it's nice he can wear it to work. He can as 'feminine' or gender nonconforming as he wants. Just stay the fuck out of space needed by women.

I don't think the sword pic is the same post as their toilet brag post. So I am not sure it's correct to say they took the sword into the toilet.

It's a horrible tweet regardless, and their inability to see why it is misogynist is telling.

Why on earth bring a knife collection to Pride?
Sorry I'm still shocked.

It's like, so you want to scare people, freak them out, you see that as an achievement, most people would properly condemn that, but you stick a dress on and suddenly you're a stunning and brave victim, people who respond to you normally are hysterical bigots who deserve to diaf, and anyone calling the frankly fucked up behaviour is blocked or banned on social media.

I fucking despair.

God almighty - someone who photographs knives like that - someone who puts jam (??) on a knife - well, they're suffering from dangerous fantasies, aren't they. Fantasising about using that weapon.

Combine that with being a male, with a massive chip on the shoulder about not being female, and seeing women (who will likely be afraid of them) as the enemy - well, I predict disastrous consequences. I'd wager almost any woman - confronted by the person in that photo - standing like that, with a weapon, in the women's loos, would be scared - and to this male, that fear is an offence to them, taken personally.

They've locked their twitter account now. Although I doubt that's because they think they've done anything wrong, or worrying to others.

This person is reminding of "TownTattle" who violently attacked Julie Bindel. These males tell us who they are all the time - males with violent fantasies against women who won't (can't!) validate their gender identity.

Taking a knife collection to Pride??
Wtaf is wrong with these people?

Pride is supposed to be family friendly. Not a space for heterosexual males to stab people

(I understand this person in a dress is attracted to females sexually, but who knows they could be bi I don't care that much actually, still shouldn't be bringing knives).

Hang on, the picture says he/him

So does he even think hes a woman or what?

Entitled bastard. I doubt even a man would hang around in a small place with a sword wielding person. But no let's make the women out to he the bad guys here

Or do they just enjoy frightening women?

Yes