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The best way to handle these bigots is to keep calling them by female pronouns forever. If you are a decent person, and let people live their lives as they see fit, then youre fine. But if you insist on enthusiastically and viciously applying your bigotry to others, then you just bought a lifetime of misgendering of your own.
Its long past time that these traitors learned that their hatred is a two edged sword.
It's so exhausting to see a legislator acting as if an executive order applies to them.
Dumb fuck, you don't work in the executive branch. It doesn't apply to you.
Self later explained himself in a post on X, formerly Twitter, saying that “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female,”
............and she identifies as female, not an attack helicopter, you dimwit.
THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR 👏 👏 👏
Fucking legend!
Keating is based as hell to call him out like that. Also lol @ the quick “Thank you madame speaker” response From McBride
Yeah, the issue with the targeted person calling it out is that it just allows the attacker to pull the classic DARVO tactic and play the victim. If you fight back, it allows them to paint you in a bad light and use you as an example against everyone like you.
That’s why it’s so important to have allies. It’s the ally’s job to get angry and confrontational when the victimized person can’t. When the victim needs to maintain decorum, the ally should be flipping tables and getting in the victimizer’s face about it. Because Keating is an old white guy; His identity can’t be used to further victimize trans people like McBride’s would have been.
This is a perfect example of how the situation should play out. Bully tries to throw insults. The insulted person remains calm, but their ally gets in the bully’s face and makes a scene. The bully quickly retreats when they realize that they may need to actually back up their words, and the original victim is able to say that they did nothing wrong.
Great post.
This is well articulated. This dynamic is something I think of a lot, because as a cis woman, I often have a disproportionate level of social power in scenarios similar to this
Do you? As a loud mouth myself typically they just make me out to be hysterical.
I still do it.
Sure, they're going to frame it in a way that gives them the victim, but we don't have to accept it. Just laugh in their face, and misgender them right back. Nothing pisses off a trans bigot more than being called by the wrong gender.
Yeah, that's often the result (and like you, I also find this to be worthwhile nonetheless), but it depends on the context. Sometimes it plays out like this though (image below) and the trolling potential is glorious
"Self later explained himself in a post on X, formerly Twitter, saying that “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female,”"
But she is one of those two fucking sexes you piece of garbage.
He can't even use this because the very thing he's referencing (the Trump EO to define the two sexes) defines it by "at conception". At conception, every fetus begins as female before the other chromosome kicks in. Conclusion, Representative McBride is a woman. But so is he. Not that it matters.
Literally either way, that dumb fuck is wrong.
More accurately at conception everyone is sexless. No one has reproductive organs at conception.
Oh yes of course, but we can't use "genderless" with these people because they just disengage. It's slightly easier in my experience to just say we were all female first, which is why males have nipples.
Wow, Delaware really has a jewel of a representative. Continuing with a flippant response to such an insult, afterwards declaring she's here to make life of her constituents better and refusing to rise to the bait of that mysoginistic POS? I wish there were more politicians like her.
Keating replied, “You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way.” Self then adjourned the hearing.
Good for him, standing up for a colleage and due process, too.
If the government feels the need to recognize what's in our pants, the government needs reninded exactly where our boundaries lie.
What's in my pants is whatever the fuck I tell them is in my pants.
What’s in my pants is whatever the fuck I tell them is in my pants.
We have conceal and carry laws for this exact reason. /jk
”"I’m not here to fight about bathrooms. I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families," she said."
Fuck yeah. Rock on. I'm sorry she has to face this bullshit, but Delaware is lucky to have her.
I didnt know she was trans- To be totally honest im actually out of the loop on a lot of this, Visually, she looks EXACTLY like a woman (man I wish I could swap genders and pass-)
Dude she passes 100%, there's not anything to her appearance that looks masculine, and I say this as just someone looking at her first glance. I saw her for the first time and said "Thats deadass a woman, How do you misgender her she's literally a woman. Are they stupid?" then scrolled the comments and found out she's trans.
AND THEY STILL MISGENDERED HER??? Nah dude- fuck whoever did that, they're a prick fr.
(you're still a prick if you purposefully misgender someone but like- idk if the person looked exactly like man but prefers She/her, my dumbass is gonna be struggling regardless; I can barely remember to eat food during the day. But this scenario is like looking at Janet Mock and calling her a He. WTF??)
We can tell the difference between someone struggling to be polite and someone being malicious.
We know when we don't pass. We are hyper conscious of it. We are not going to jump on you for honest mistakes. We definitely do not want to make our gender your problem.
Personally, I don't care what you believe in your heart, or even what you say behind my back. If you are polite to my face, I'm cool. We can be cool. That's all I ask. If you are not, I will remove myself from the situation.
I cannot fathom the courage of Sarah McBride. She is incredible to endure this shit every day.
That's been my experience with my trans homies. As long as you try and get the pronouns right, little slips ain't a big deal. They usually seem shocked that a redneck like me would even make the effort. Which is real fucken sad cause I figure that means they deal with it maliciously, more often than not, from people that look and talk like me.
Mr. Rogers would have something to say about not treating people like they want to be treated. If Mr. Rogers would be disappointed in the way you treat others, you're fucking up and should feel bad.
I have a dumb tongue and really struggle with non-english names, it's the same thing, normal people don't care as long you make an effort.
ever since the boxer incident right wingers have been purposely misgendering non-transgendered people. one family members were misgendered because she was wearing shoes that are not for her "sex"(not girlie look shoes, like colorful pics)
“In response, McBride said, “Thank you, Madam Chair,” before beginning her remarks.“
Perfection.
In response, McBride said, “Thank you, Madam Chair,” before beginning her remarks. She was soon cut off by the subcommittee’s ranking member Rep. William Keating, D-Mass., who asked Self to repeat his introduction. He then called McBride “mister” again.
“Mr. Chairman, you are out of order,” Keating shot back. “Mr. Chairman, have you no decency? I mean, I’ve come to know you a little bit. But this is not decent.”
Though Self said it was time to continue the hearing, Keating replied, “You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way.” Self then adjourned the hearing.
Self later explained himself in a post on X, formerly Twitter, saying that “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female,” referring to President Donald Trump executive order in January.
McBride later wrote on X that “No matter how I'm treated by some colleagues, nothing diminishes my awe and gratitude at getting to represent Delaware in Congress.”
Fascists fashing in addition to being contemptible fuckwits.
Why are ANY Democrats on Xitter?!
DNC, get your idiot consultants gone already.
Happy to see McBride being supported, but where was that support for Al Green?
Ahhh yes. When good isn't good enough. Race ya to the bottom again.
I donated to Green after getting adds from reps not willing to fuck shit up.
Sigh, this party sometimes.
yeah....I ain't downloading shit from limewire. that file could be anything from CSAM to bestiality to a shitty Metallica cover.
Sorry, didn't know that. I was just looking for a video hosting site that requires no account. Happy for better suggestions on what to use next time
Wow. Limewire? Somehow the Early 2000s returned...
Was the first thing I found that let me upload a video for a few days w/o making an account