Hilarity break.
It’s hilarious because every single element of it screams “FANTASY.” I keep saying the whole trans Doctrine is based on fantasy, and this is a classic of the genre.
One, an actual woman in a store parking lot looked at a man’s fake tits and decided to comment on them? No.
Two, the woman was jealous of his fake tits? No.
Three, our hero “turned to her”? But he was already facing her, or how could she have looked at his “latest configuration” of fake tits? So no.
Four, he looked her up and down? That’s a classic of the kind of self-flattering stage business narcissists include in their stories about themselves. No.
Then smiled at the man and said the thing? Since none of the preceding really happened, No.
Then put his hand on the man and got away with it? No.
Then she started crying? What, because she didn’t know about menopause? Because she’d been hoping to keep menstruating forever? No.
Beware of people who think their fantasies are real, or try to make other people think their fantasies are real. Beware of purported “political” or “social justice” movements that are based on fantasy. Beware of bullshit.
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16 responses to “Leaking sawdust from every pore”
Yes, this literally makes zero sense, and I actually don’t get the ‘joke’–the response is a non sequituur. And also yes, it seems a lot of the stories these men tell involve women confronting/challenging/taunting them–I won’t say it never happens, but I think women in general have way more sense and self-preservation than to attempt to provoke a large, likely mentally unstable and aggressive man. Reminds me a little of the stories about hippies ‘spitting on soldiers’–how likely is that really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spitting_Image
The woman making a nasty comment? Plausible to me. It’s a big, strange world, and there’s no shortage of assholes who feel the need and the right to comment nastily on someone else’s appearance or whatever.
The “comeback”? Actually the most believable part of the story precisely because it is such a mediocre comeback. Usually in fake stories, the “hero” is given a note-perfect speech straight out of Screenwriting 101.
The husband staring? Well, maybe, but not in an appreciative way as the story implies. If you’re so bad at “passing” that this woman felt confident calling you out, then the husband isn’t going to be interested unless he has a fetish.
But the “breaks down in tears”? Nope. That’s where this story passes into the same territory as “and then the Marine slapped the chalk out of the atheist Professor’s hand, said ‘God sent me in his place,’ and punched him out, and then a bald eagle flew in and seized the professor’s hairpiece, and he cried and cried and begged Jesus to forgive him…..”
Also, I thought that trans women lived in constant fear of being assaulted by TERFs? Yet this trans woman is escalating a verbal confrontation with the alleged TERF, and initiating physical contact with husband-of-TERF?
Well, yes, maybe, about the more plausible bits, but given how implausible the rest of it is, and the vanity of the whole thing…
Still, you’re probably right.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, taken as a whole it’s preposterous. The joint probability of (plausible) * (very plausible) * (dubious) * (no fucking way) still equals “no fucking way.” My bottom line is the same as yours.
I don’t know about the mediocre comeback. I suspect the writer of the Tweet thought it was a note-perfect speech. This is the exact sort of thing most of the misogynistic assholes I know think is clever, and will totally devastate women. Menopause? Oh, no! It’s a crack about the woman’s age, and for some reason, men think every woman is hung up about her age (maybe because so many men are hung up about women’s ages).
Oh yeah, I agree that most likely, the writer *thought* this was a devastating comeback, and just isn’t that clever. I just mean that it was plausible in that it wasn’t “too good to have been spontaneous” as is often the case in fake stories, so the line itself doesn’t make the story more or less plausible.
I’m a live and let live kinda guy, and I never had anything against trans people before, I mean whatever melts your cheese. Now I’m starting to feel prejudiced against them as a group, and I really can’t blame some latent transphobia on my part, I never had a problem with them until all this nasty “activism” happened. Seems to me they are creating more problems than they are solving. Oh well, I will try and stay open minded, but it ain’t easy, especially when they are attacking women. Grr.
Things That Never Happened For $400, Alex.
Or, if that woman was crying at TIM flounced off, those were tears of laughter.
Trans-fantasist forgot the bit where everybody else in the parking lot burst into spontaneous applause. That’s the most important part of these ‘happened-only-in-my-head’ tales.
So…zero flirtatiously? Because I think that’s the maximum amount of flirting you can get by tugging on a sleeve.
Yeah, unlikely much of that happened.
Some transwomen express jealousy for not menstruating, getting pregnant, giving birth, lactating. Some even have “hysterical” periods. (Ironic use of the sexist term “hysterical”???)
So I find it odd that the “heroine” of this story is celebrating that they’ll never experience this other womanly right-of-passage.
Of course, if the woman in the story were me, I’d reply “Menopause, ducky? You’ve been in it your entire life.” and the tears would be tears of laughter.
It does seem rather Mary Sue/Marty Stu like, I must admit.
Also, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone flirt by tugging on a sleeve before. Unless “sleeve” is a euphemism for foreskin?
In which case “flirting” would also have to be a euphemism,,,
Isn’t #IAmLabelFree jst another label?
I think it’s meant ironically.