The ballad of the courteous cashier
People don’t believe me when I say Joyce Carol Oates is stupid. No, really: she is stupid. Dense. Thick as two short planks. She does not thinkk good.
Like so:
Yes she is that stupid. She doesn’t even get that “random men” and “transgender persons” can be one and the same. She doesn’t even get that “random men” can idennify as women and proceed to commit violent acts against girls and women.
I have bumped into trans persons who are cashiers…yes, I do notice. Trans women stick out wherever they go, because they are men, and look like men.
I might have run into some trans man cashiers and not known it, but that’s never the group we’re worrying about. And it certainly isn’t the group we’re worried might harm us and/or take away everything that we built.
Is Joyce being condescending unwittingly, or just not noticing?