There may well be misogynist gay men but they are not likely to sexually assault women at the same rate as straight men.
I don’t think I’ve seen many clearer instances of absolute misogyny (as in not even recognising women as fully human) as a cause of sexual violence than in the case of Karen, aka Mark, Jones. It’s absolutely chilling.
Convicted killer Jones - a biologically male person who is sexually attracted to other biologically male people - used a woman, literally used her as if she were just a thing, as a tool to get what he* wanted - to get sent back to prison, in order to have “gender reassignment” surgery.
*This person was still known as Mark Jones at the time of this offence.
In 2003, aged 21, she was sentenced to life imprisonment after admitting to the attempted rape of a female shop assistant in the north of Manchester.
She forced a lemon into the woman's mouth, punched her in the face and held her by the hair in a back room of Transformations, a shop in Prestwich for men who wish to buy and wear female clothing and accessories.
The attempted rape was so terrifying the woman told the police she thought she was going to die and the attack only ended when Jones failed to become aroused.
[Jones] said the attack was as a cry for help so that she could go back to prison and have the sex change operation she had needed all her life.
That poor woman. How awful to have such a dreadful association with such a commonplace thing as a lemon. How would it be to be triggered by something you could come across so easily? How have his actions curtailed her life? She was on his side, FFS. Working in a shop selling “women’s” clothes to male people who wanted to wear them. But she wasn’t even a human being to him. None of her thoughts, feelings, wishes mattered to him. Only what he wanted.
This person on their release from prison for the second time was feted as an activist and invited to the House of Lords. This person who has left one person dead, and another deeply traumatised, gets fawned over and is listened to by people at the highest level. This person is probably one of those advocating that other women sexually assaulted by biologically male trans people should have to refer to their assaillants as “she”. I hope his victim was at least spared that act of cruelty.
Jones used this woman like an inanimate object. And it worked. Jones got want Jones wanted. Nobody has said no to Jones.
Well I’m saying fucking no to Jones. Nobody’s listening to me because I’m just a boring old cunty type of woman, with my boring old adult human female life, marked and constrained as it is by the boring, predictable discrimination and abuse I’ve suffered as a direct result of being born with a cunt, and the ongoing impact that’s had on me; nobody’s listening to me because male privilege means male people, however they identify, don’t have to listen to me.
But I’m still saying no. No to Jones in any women only space. No to the idea that Jones actually is any type of woman. No to all males in all women only spaces. No to the idea that any males are actually a type of woman.
The likes of jj can ignore me all they like and they probably will, because male privilege. But let the record show that there are those of us saying no. No, a hateful man who stuffed a lemon inside a woman’s mouth, who punched her in the face and put her in genuine fear for her life, and would certainly have followed through and completed his rape of her had he been physically able to - no, that man is not now a woman and has no place being in the company of women. And not giving women the choice about that is pure misogyny.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5440153/Trans-convict-invited-speak-House-Lords.html