A key difference of course with that last RT is that with this spa thing, there was no actual trans woman present to be miscast. Just a one-woman performance piece of their favorite fantasy scenario.
That said, that fantasy in particular and all their recent internal language
That said, that fantasy in particular and all their recent internal language
policing is built around a party line that trans women are not actually a real thing that exists, and any time anyone claims to see or be a trans woman, that's actually some serial rapist in a clever disguise or something. Which, yeah, fits the same ecological niche as claiming
in a damn police report that black teenagers are all secretly the Incredible Hulk and who knows how many bullets it'll take to stop them once they transform.
Wildly absurd claims no serious person is ever going to believe, but serious people aren't the audience. The audience is
Wildly absurd claims no serious person is ever going to believe, but serious people aren't the audience. The audience is
fellow fascists looking for any excuse to murder people, who can play dumb after the fact and claim they're just going off what they heard in this story that was in all the newspapers.
It's like if I were to say that fascists don't actually exist, but there ARE shapeshifting
It's like if I were to say that fascists don't actually exist, but there ARE shapeshifting
dragons who shout a bunch of bigoted garbage to clear their throats before belching out flames over crowds, so if you ever see a dragon powering up, it's imperative that you collapse their windpipe with a blunt object before they can finish. I don't believe it, you don't believe
it, but if we both committed to the bit hard enough, you could crush a whole lot of windpipes while explaining to everyone that you're just trying to keep the world safe from dragon fire.
Might not keep you out of prison, but but enough people would pretend along with you for a
Might not keep you out of prison, but but enough people would pretend along with you for a
sense of safety strong enough to start carrying that big metal pipe around with you everywhere.
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