Red Mosquito

Strat wrote:What confounds me is the fact that transgenders have probably been using whatever bathroom for however fucking long and its never been a fucking issue. now that it is, people are getting assaulted outside of restrooms because of the mass hysteria.

B wrote:How about you ban behavior, not people?

McCrory is the face of HB 2, and HB 2 isn’t popular at all. The majority of voters—55 percent—disapprove of the new law, while only 36 percent like it. When your signature legislation is nineteen points underwater, you’re in trouble.

B wrote:Our governor's getting his ass kicked.

http://www.indyweek.com/news/archives/2 ... ory-waning

McCrory is the face of HB 2, and HB 2 isn’t popular at all. The majority of voters—55 percent—disapprove of the new law, while only 36 percent like it. When your signature legislation is nineteen points underwater, you’re in trouble.

Green Habit wrote:

B wrote:Our governor's getting his ass kicked.

http://www.indyweek.com/news/archives/2 ... ory-waning

McCrory is the face of HB 2, and HB 2 isn’t popular at all. The majority of voters—55 percent—disapprove of the new law, while only 36 percent like it. When your signature legislation is nineteen points underwater, you’re in trouble.

Sounds like initiative and referendum would be handy. Too bad most Southern states don't allow it.

Shadi Petosky wrote:This is terrible. This causes trans women to despair. This should have ended years ago. This is violence against our community. This causes harm.

Cis people refuse to stop this. Too few allies, especially in Hollywood will speak out.

We get it. You think trans women are men. (Yet we aren't asked to audition for The Hulk or Magic Mike) We get it, you don't know that thinking trans women are men leads to the violence and defamation against us.

We made traction with stopping this at Leto but Tambor came along and made it all ok again.

Each time we are told that this time is unique or special or will help us in some way.

I read this script. It is full of trans cliches and artifice. There are four "looks into the mirror" scenes, two scenes where the trans person gets beat up (trans torture porn), four scenes where the trans person is described as over-emotional, three scenes where the trans woman is violent, a penis tuck shot, the trans woman being desperately flirty. A suicidal-drug addict-sex worker saved by the kindness of a cis man, one scene where the trans women threatens to kill a hamster.

KILL A HAMSTER. Because we are sociopathic fuck holes to cis men and sociopathic appropriators to cis women.

This is the cis gaze. Produced, written by, directed by, and starring cis men -- showing their unique distaste for trans women as detached empathy.

Please boycott this garbage. Stop mining our lived experience and imitating our bodies with prosthetics and whispery brittle misogynistic portrayals of trans voices. Stop making movies about us without us.

This is heartbreaking. It has me, friends, a community distressed. They need to stop doing this to us. We don't have the power to stop them.

They are not optioning our books or hiring our talent or casting our bodies. They are making up their own versions and selling it as authentic.

Our careers feel at stake for speaking out against them. We sound angry to them. The sounds we make are not like victims pleading to give us space, to stop exploiting our lives. They hear the shrill and ignorable screams of violent hamster killers.

It puts the hamster lotion in hamster basket.

If they see us as humans they overlook us as a culture. They overlook our shared history. Our physical and psychiatric reality. How we live as a community.

Please boycott. Write to Mark Ruffalo and Matt Bomer and tell them to eat the loss on this film. No one needs to see it. It is not art but exploitation. No one needs Matt Bomer doing the press circuit as a man talking bout playing a transgender woman or trans rights.

Take the loss and go on with your careers that trans women don't have access too. Or, if they have any conscious -- rewrite and reshoot with actual trans involvement and make something beautiful.

Redemption wrote:I was at the Doc's office today. Both bathrooms had signs that said women/men.

Because, at the end of the day, if you care about where whoever takes a shit, that's your problem.

simple schoolboy wrote:

Redemption wrote:I was at the Doc's office today. Both bathrooms had signs that said women/men.

Because, at the end of the day, if you care about where whoever takes a shit, that's your problem.

Were these single occupancy restrooms? It seems that most folks dont much enjoy providing urine samples in shared restrooms, and that the medical industry has catered to these prudes.

B wrote:http://www.witn.com/content/news/COOPER--House-Bill-2-could-be-repealed-tomorrow-407448145.html

They're saying House Bill 2 is going to be repealed tomorrow, but I'll believe it when I see it.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

B wrote:http://www.witn.com/content/news/COOPER--House-Bill-2-could-be-repealed-tomorrow-407448145.html

They're saying House Bill 2 is going to be repealed tomorrow, but I'll believe it when I see it.

PEARL JAM PLEASE PLAY RALEIGH

Redemption wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:

Redemption wrote:I was at the Doc's office today. Both bathrooms had signs that said women/men.

Because, at the end of the day, if you care about where whoever takes a shit, that's your problem.

Were these single occupancy restrooms? It seems that most folks dont much enjoy providing urine samples in shared restrooms, and that the medical industry has catered to these prudes.

They were public, multiple stalls etc...