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[–] celeste@kbin.earth 10 points 1 day ago

Something to keep in mind is that when a transphobe talks about males, men, or trans identifying males, they mean trans women. He was saying you should punch a trans woman if she's in the bathroom. She's being violent by being there existing, so cis women should respond with violence. Bullshit.

Reminds me of how there was a trans woman working with a feminist music group and a gang of women harrassed her into leaving.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/24/sandy-stone-olivia-records-trans-rights-los-angeles/

Harassment and hate mail continued until the collective heard of the threats made by the Gorgons. Stone had received death threats in the past, but, she says, “this seemed to be a new order of threat”.

That fear was warranted. Gorgons turned up at a Seattle concert, and had weapons confiscated by security. In a 2014 interview, she described how she was “pants-wetting scared” at the event.

Ultimately, Stone decided to leave the collective. Olivia was in a precarious financial position and there were potentially ruinous threats of a boycott.

So because she existed in a woman's space (no actual member of the music collective disagreed with her being there) they harassed her, threatened her, and brought live weapons to an event she was at. Things haven't changed much with them, have they? Existing near them is a threat, and they don't give a shit how many women, trans and cis, they have to threaten to make trans women stop existing near them.

Did Lineham cross the free speech line into a call for violence? I don't know the law. But I know he's a shit who is making things worse for every woman while pretending he's protecting us.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago

Lmao well I certainly didn’t expect this turd getting arrested to show up in the feed today. But here we are! Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person. :)

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So many questions?.

What law was broken?

The cops went through his social media until they found something?

Do they do that to everyone or is this guy internet famous?

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 8 points 1 day ago
  • Probably something about incitement to violence considering that he directly says to punch trans women as a response to their presence in specific places
  • More likely someone reported it
  • He's real life famous, he wrote several very successful TV series prior to his bizarre career switch to being a dickhead on twitter
[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] blurb@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, but fuck you too.

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Checks modlogs. Spots transphobic behaviour 😬

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought he was a piece of shit, but the article says he was against trans men in women's spaces, and he insulted transphobes and misogynists. I'm missing something.

[–] stankmut@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

He wasn't talking about trans men, he was using a slur against trans women.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's the xitter posts were about?

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

I too would like to know but there's no way I'm opening a BBC article on one of my devices.