That’s some very feeble reasoning. Men are the most likely to hurt anyone simply because men are stronger than women; that doesn’t mean less muscular men are women’s sisters. Men don’t become our sisters by getting beaten up by men. Having something in common with a set of people isn’t the same as that set of people morphing into a different set of people. There isn’t some werewolf or vampire moment when a man who has been hurt by a stronger man undergoes a Transformation and emerges as A Woman.
And it isn’t the same fight. It’s a radically different fight. Figuring out how to live as what you are is radically different from deciding you’re not what you are and are in fact the opposite.
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And what separates you is that the man who hurts you might be that trans woman.
What I have in common with a man is that the person most likely to hurt me is a man.
Statistically, men are significantly more likely than women to be murdered by men. Men are statistically more likely than women to be assaulted by men. Men who experience street harassment are overwhelmingly being harassed by men. Men who are raped are overwhelmingly likely to have been raped by men.
If Ash wants to create commonality based on who is hurting us, then “cis” men are going to belong under that umbrella every bit as much as transwomen.
Men are responsible for most of the violence in probably any nation. In other words, the person most likely to hurt anyone at all is a man. Therefore… all people are women.
TRA logic, jeez.
Maybe if we flood the zone they’ll get a new umbrella.
Am I missing something obvious here, because I’m reading Sarkar’s tweet and it’s written as though by a woman. Is Sarkar not a TiM?
AoS:
Nope, Ash Sarkar is, as I understand things, a woman.
Lumping misogyny with homophobia…now there’s an intersection!
While the confident impunity of violent men may involve their size, the actual threat is cultural/social/mental. I’ve no evidence that men under X’Y” are magically less likely to be violent.
latsot, I stand (well, sit) corrected if not entirely convinced.