Literal literal violence
Please, tell us more about how terrified men are of women:
Two women say they were subjected to a homophobic attack and left covered in blood after refusing to kiss on a bus.
Melania Geymonat, 28, said the attack on her and her partner Chris happened on the top deck of a London night bus as they were travelling to Camden Town.
A group of young men began harassing them when they discovered the women were together, asking them to kiss while making sexual gestures.
Four male teenagers aged between 15 and 18 have been arrested.
They are being questioned on suspicion of robbery and aggravated grievous bodily harm.
How grievous? This grievous:
I wrote for The Telegraph about two women being violently punished for refusing to kiss for male strangers’ sexual pleasure. Includes context: @EstherMcVey1 and other MPs’ tacit endorsement of homophobia and Ann Widdecombe’s outright bigotry https://t.co/cyFtGx9RV1
— Sophie WilkINson (@sophwilkinson) June 7, 2019
Ms Geymonat said: “They surrounded us and started saying really aggressive stuff, things about sexual positions, lesbians and claiming we could kiss so they could watch us.
“To ease the situation I tried to make some jokes, like Chris wasn’t understanding because she didn’t speak English.
“She even acted as if she was sick… but they started throwing coins. The next thing I know Chris is in the middle of the bus and they are punching her.
“So I immediately went there by impulse and tried to pull her out of there and they started punching me. I was really bleeding.”
Yes but cis privilege.
I’ve got a really crappy news app on my phone, and this story came up as “gay couple attacked on bus”. Making it sound like the people being attacked were men. This is just exhausting.
Fake news, everyone knows the only women that aren’t safe are the male ones.
That’s just appalling. What is wrong with people?
Anger, hatred, spite, various kinds of phobia, contempt, boredom, sadism – lots of things.
And in this case, given the age of the boys involved, the proliferation and normalisation of porn.
Don’t forget alcohol.
Acolyte of Sagan,
The proliferation and normalisation of porn was my first thought too, particularly with Melania Geymonat’s description of the attackers “saying really aggressive stuff, things about sexual positions, lesbians and claiming we could kiss so they could watch us”.
To me, that doesn’t quite sound like they hate lesbians, it sounds like they expected these two women to “perform” for them, and got angry when the women refused. And where else would they have gotten that expectation from other than porn?