That guy has the world against him and he still stands up for a minority he isn’t part of. The world needs more people like him.
Well that cop’s remarks took me back a few decades
Yeah as much as I dislike the individual mentioned the news article has an overwhelming Texas flavour to it. I can almost bet the writer or officers statement to the writer lead to the “pair of lesbians” assumption.
Maybe it was the biological women having girlfriends part
Ight, nevermind. Fuck that guy.
Go ask the young daughter of the man he murdered or the person who’ll never see again because of him if they agree.
Oof. Didn’t know he was a murderer. Fuck that guy.
Except… wide swaths of feminism still hate him for what he/she is. Because instead of being just a man, he/she is now a man refusing to adhere to the imposed rules of what women expect a man to be. So he/she is hated by them twice as virulently.
It’s why the term TERF - trans-exclusionary radical feminism - exists. Scratch the thin veneer of most feminists hard enough, and this can be found underneath in some capacity.
I really hope he/she has a strong support network in their friends and family members. They are going to need it.
Texas prison system is barbaric.
Texas prison systemAmerican incarceration industrial complexFtfy
How can you be a man yet be a feminist?
I’m a man… and a feminist.
“A person who supports the equality of women with men.” Yup. So am I.
Okay maybe it’s because it’s late, but what is this four letter word for feminism?
“Four letter word” is a nice way of saying a curse word (think shit, fuck, etc). So by calling feminism a four letter word, the author is saying that the prison considers feminism a dirty word, basically.
So, America goes from censoring curse words, to censoring the words “curse word” now? Where does this end? You all talking in riddles like a Sphinx?
It’s an expression.
I was under the impression the literary device ‘four letter word’ typically referred to the word ‘love’
Sounds pretty shitty but I’ll save my sympathy for prisoners that didn’t rob and murder people
Which prisoners do you have sympathy for and why?
The nonviolent kind. People who made dumb mistakes breaking bullshit laws. It’s not something I pay much attention to so I don’t have a list to rattle off, but they certainly exist.
Why?
Because we have a callous justice system that exists to feed slave labor to capitalists. It’s not a system designed to rehabilitate or facilitate penance. It doesn’t exist to benefit society at large. People who get caught up in it without actually victimizing anyone deserve sympathy at the very least.
My “why?” is asking why you don’t have sympathy for those other than the ones you mentioned.
Maybe that’s what you meant but that’s sure not how it looks in context
The nonviolent kind. People who made dumb mistakes breaking bullshit laws. It’s not something I pay much attention to so I don’t have a list to rattle off, but they certainly exist.
Part of the problem with this stance is that the US has a knack for also locking up innocent people.
Take this, for instance, where they coerced a confession, locked up a Dad for 8 months, and the actual perp left a pair of shoes with his name written in them at the fucking scene:
That’s a valid point. I don’t take anything the police or courts say at face value, but does anyone dispute that Xandan is in prison for being a violent piece of shit?
