Scarlet Blake trial - the thing that never happens....

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https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24129077.oxford-murder-accused-not-accepted-transgender/

There was a thread a couple of weeks about this case that got deleted. Obviously it's an ongoing trial but it's as we suspected with the defendent.

JFC. Metro jump the shark and reveal their seething woman-hatred.

It was the Metro who labelled KJK a "disrespectful woman" re: her This Morning appearance with IW, iirc.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3378698-Disrespectful-Woman-Posie-P-on-This-Morning

To imply that she wanted him to be described as transgender suggests that she thinks that is more relevant than his sex, which is the opposite of the point she was making.

That page no longer exists.

Usefully, someone screenshot it.

https://x.com/millihill/status/1762398882904875148?s=20

😮😮😮

Well well well. Charming.

Interesting.

So, was it that a social media bod followed the usual line, JKR is Satan, yay transgender, then someone further up in the organisation saw which way the wind was blowing and deleted the whole thing?

Or did the social media bods just not like the ratio and deleted the whole thing because they were losing?

I thought we were all supposed to be respectful? Is that only to people who agree with us? Or only to people with special identities?

Where’s the PP who was telling us all to be respectful to the murderer gone when hes’s needed?

Re: deleted Metro tweet, Is it that some people just aren’t aware of the staggeringly different sizes and profiles of male and female prison populations?

Can they genuinely not understand why it’s a problem to deliberately obscure patterns of male and female offending?

I also think there is a reason why the TVP, who had to deal with the consequences of the crime, are not affirming any of Blake’s fantasies in their report. But the press reaction was to just jump right in (and never question why they weren’t also describing Blake as a cat).

Not to women. Only to men, or whatever men are calling themselves today.

That tweet was purely an exercise in hating of JKR, as a feature of general misogyny. Not really much else to it, imo. They cannot miss a chance to put the boot in when a woman dares to speak up.

Well yes, I suppose ‘sadly opened her mouth’ says it all.

I think there have been changes in attitude with the public, and within the police, courts and prison services, but not within the press. So we are seeing a press who are widely out of step and are reporting in a way that seems bonkers.

The number of tweets and articles that have to be deleted or rewritten should be a wake up call to them.

How nice of the Metro to jump in and scold a woman for “sadly opening her mouth”. Good on them for leaping to the defence of a cold-blooded murderer and cat killer whose lady identity must be affirmed and respected at all costs. JKR is such a baddie isn’t she? What a bunch of misogynistic virtue-signalling wet wipes.

@SinnerBoy

Yes, I said that it was factually incorrect. Who gets to send them?

If you are able to see notes, unless everyone on X can (which happens when they've been voted as accurate by lots of people with different views), you can rate them so must have registered for the community notes programme. To write them yourself takes a bit more time, have you registered quite recently?

That is a well written statement from the Thames Valley Police

'Throughout this investigation and trial, Blake has shown to be a character that lacks empathy and has lived life in fantasy, devoid of reality, with a complete lack of any remorse or compassion.'

When you read the court evidence this is someone who is unmoored, unhinged from everyday things, who has connected with what sounds like other equally disturbed individuals into this unreality. The recent Brianna Ghey murder is another example of what can happen when individuals retreat into a fantasy world (but its been seen many times before eg Parker-Hulme case).

Did Blake start off like this as an individual at 12? unlikely but the online milieu he seems to be in reminds me of the Aimee/Ashton Challenor situation, with a certain type of niche sexual content being shared between equally disturbed individuals, with individuals being so soaked in this that their values and sense of acceptability drifts very far from social norms. It makes me very doubtful that validation of the fantasy of being the opposite sex, reifying this unreality, and sense of disconnection is a good thing for the individual or society generally, and very very skeptical of the benefit of online 'supportive' communities that arise in these situations. Its also strange to think what a difference it made that he was in a situation where he could order anything at the click of a mouse to make these fantasies true eg cat trap, piano wire for homemade garotte - without engagement with other people.

I don't think that's true, unfortunately. The reason that the PA report of the trial, which all the newspapers relied on, described Blake as a woman and used the pronouns "she" and "her" was because that was how Blake was referred to in court, presumably by both the judge and the barristers. I expect the police documentation will also have referred to Blake as a woman.

Although everyone is getting het up, justifiably, about the Guardian, the real problem is much wider.

All of this.

There was even evidence given by Blake about his interaction with Jorge Carreño that Blake viewed it is similar to being in a video game, along the lines of "I spoke to someone as a quest, and then it was time for me to this way and I told him to go the other way".

It sounded like when a lie is based on a partial truth, but the "quest" was really to kill someone.

The faulty logic from TRAs really stands out (yet again).

We apparently shouldn't be discussing the person being a trans woman because that associates trans people with violence.

But if Scarlet had just been described as male without any reference to trans status then this story wouldn't be anything like as big as it is.

The only reason Scarlett's trans status is being discussed is because of the insistence on describing Scarlet as "a woman".

Make that make sense.

And though all the TRAs on social media are throwing their toys out of their prams over it, they can't expect for

a) this brutal sexually motivated murder/animal torture and killing described as being by a "woman" not attracting any scrutiny, excitement or speculation because it would be such an unusual crime, and

b) women angrily pointing out that he isn't actually a woman and this proves our points about male pattern violence and sharing spaces with these men.

They will be the architects of their own downfall, ultimately.

Fuck me! So officially this is our crimes!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/28/trans-cat-killer-scarlet-blake-crimes-will-recorded/

That might end up all being for the greater good, though.

At some point all this shit has to trigger the WTF response in the general public.

Wtf?! I thought that someone said on woman's hour it wouldn't be?