You couldn’t make it up but he could
The lies they do tell I must say.
“Marianne” is a bloke.
Look at that makeup. Might as well be burnt umber shoe polish.
Tip Jar
The lies they do tell I must say.
“Marianne” is a bloke.
Look at that makeup. Might as well be burnt umber shoe polish.
I must have missed something. What scandal?
I’m assuming that’s a he? Looks like a pretty standard 50-something white woman where I live (I’m guessing if I saw his height/heard his voice it’d be obvious but that mugshot doesn’t scream “man” to me).
Or is it the throat thing? (These days I look, but I must admit I usually don’t entirely know what an Adam’s apple looks like)
@Rob #1
Some trans person stalking Helen Joyce saw her reading Harry Potter slash fiction on a train. I’m hearing it was humiliation porn.
It was research for an article, but the TRAs are trying hard to make a Thing out of it. “See!? You criticize trans women for reading humiliation porn, but Helen Joyce reads it too! Tu quoque! SCANDAL!”
Women read and write most slash fics; even without it being a research thing the scandal would only be in the goblins’ heads.
Thanks Lady M, that is as trivial as I suspected it would be since I couldn’t find anything other than the tweet above.
The trans ACtiVist who alerted the universe to this scandal was sitting across the aisle and one seat back from Helen on the train and had to really strain his eyeballs to…er…see what was on her phone without permission. She was using a giant font!! he kept saying, as if that made it ok for him to spy on her. He of course waved away the fact that she was doing research on a subject she’s already written about.
Blood Knight @ 2 & 3 – Ya I didn’t clock him as male either but saw people say he is…and then I noticed the throat. And then I noticed the inch-thick makeup. Anyway he is a self-declared trans woman, details at Gender GP.
This person has a broad square jawline, typical of males. He has a visible lump on his throat, evidently his adam’s apple.
There are other characteristics in this face that are commoner in males: small eyes, deepset and quite close to the eyebrows, a broad nose, thin lips – but these can also be found in women’s faces; they are not clinchers.
I wouldn’t have noticed the jawline out of context, maybe because I have a fairly conspicuous chin myself. The adam’s apple though is another story – and the thick makeup is too.
It’s a real problem; five minutes ago I might’ve thought woman looks a bit masculine but I’d be chiding myself for that thought but now I scrutinize anyone that looks a bit androgynous (looking for TIFs too) to figure out whether or not they’re a gobbo. It’s definitely a few steps back from where I thought we were…
I’m guessing our finely honed skills for determining the sex of others are based on honest signallers; it might not work as well with someone employing active countermeasures in order to decieve. For most of our evolutionary history, surgical interventions were not an option. Oh course for some, all the countermeasures in the world wouldn’t hide the truth.
Ophelia @ #10
Photos on the web show that your chin projects in a curved shape. This is typical of women. The person in the photo has a wider, flatter chin: that is a mark of a male.
This. This is how the Genderists get people. In a world where there are masculine women and feminine men, it’s possible mistake someone’s sex. In a world where sex isn’t a trait people lie about, we then take the, “Oh, I’m actually a …” at face value, possibly apologize, adjust our detectors, and move on.
But the presence of bad actors (in both senses, really) breaks this, especially with more trans “visibility”. We become primed to read people as potentially trans, which narrows the range of normal femaleness and maleness. It’s all just another way in which Genderism undermines social progress.
Night Crow @ 13 – heh – quite. I was careful to omit the “square” from your “broad square jawline, typical of males” for that reason. I don’t identify as square-jawed.