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Connecting The Dots's avatar

Well said.

I've always believed, that legislation would be different, if those who enacted it/voted for it, had to suffer the consequences of said legislation.

When you look down on the world, from your ivory tower, the ants look happy and things look like they are just fine.

We should have always ripped these ivory towers down, literally, brick by brick.

Of course, that's impossible now, so we're left with posts like yours, which are poignant, powerful and invaluable.

Lila Stone's avatar

Everyone needs to read this.

Jenny Poyer Ackerman's avatar

Yes, especially gender studies faculty. Who wouldn’t find it a compelling essay for class discussion?

Victoria G's avatar

You also meet more of them/have more of them try something when you are emotionally vulnerable or disabled/impaired/autistic. The number of autistic women preyed on in the BDSM scene for example is appalling. Predators are adept at sensing weaknesses and vulnerabilities akin to the way sharks smell blood.

Rose Still Runs's avatar

TOTALLY agreed, except that they are usually not homosexual! Most 'trans' identified men are attracted to women. They get off on not only the cross dressing but the invasion of women's privacy and boundaries.

Nonsense Depository's avatar

"Rapes are done for power!"

You could give me 100 studies to that effect, and I'll believe none of them. (okay, I'll only partially believe it, but I'll still feel its missing a vital point.)

Its intuitively obvious to any man, including myself, that rapes happen because rapists want sex.

Flying Horse Rider's avatar

Thank you for sharing this.

Your story shows the double hardships of being a female born to a poor single mother without a sane biological father around. Predatory men have admitted on tape that they explicitly target children of single mothers and leave children with their biological dads around alone.

The luxury beliefs of such transmaidens like Emma Watson of Harry Potter fame is out of this world. She, with her massive wealth and fame, will never have to experience the repercussions of her pro trans stance. It makes me wish another more intelligent and less brainwashable actress was chosen to play Hermoine so she would have stayed a nobody, because then she might understand that dudes pretending to be women aren't women.

Portugal The Woman's avatar

Probably one of the most real insightful reads I’ve read in a long time. Thank you for sharing.

Savoie.marie@gmail.com's avatar

This is a real eye opener. I grew up in a large family without much money, but far from poor, or poor poor you describe. The most vulnerable people are the children of the poor. They are the ones we must protect first.

Heather Chapman's avatar

Who do you mean by "we?" This is how we never get past the true problem of out-of-touch elites who will always be with us when we centralize power over the situation within huge bureaucratic institutions located in far-off seats of government, run by people far away from the places where the vulnerable actually live. Compassion and a willingness to take true responsibility for not treating others as a means to one's own selfish desires doesn't scale well. Read Nassim Taleb's Skin in the Game. Reality requires embracing some serious pragmatism. The barbarians do not speak your language, so stop assuming they'll listen.

Richard's avatar

Exactly right. It’s a great article.

The Group Think at the top of politics is such that even people like Angela Raynor, for whom an article like this should resonate, just end up joining the elite and holding luxury views.

Forest's avatar

Ringing with truth, Roisin.

Izzy Maywood's avatar

I don’t disagree about poverty being an enormous risk factor but what was with the random shot at trans women? Trans women can be poor and assaulted as well….

Lisa Simeone's avatar

What are "trans women"? You mean men who pretend they're women? Opposite-sex imposters?

Those are the only "trans women" I've ever heard of.

Reese's avatar

Oh, stifle it already! Can you TIMs really not last 5 minutes outside the center of attention?

"Why did the transwoman cross the road?"

"She caught wind of a conversation that wasn't about her."

For one brief, shining moment we don't give a crusted-cum-sock toss about you. Sit with it.

Phwooar Right 👉's avatar

Poorly dressed in my experience, when I say say poorly - I really mean distastefully. Why do these grown men decide to take on the look of an innocent primary school aged child?

Syd's avatar

This comes across as way too structural. The poor men are poor because of low impulse control and intelligence. They don't understand delayed consequences. These men would be drunks in a place with jobs, you can't educate your way out of it.

Rose Still Runs's avatar

many such cases

Dan Currie's avatar

"But the girls who make the rules now, they don’t see any reason why a couple of “bad apples” should prevent poor suffering homosexual men from being able to live their true authentic life in the body they deserve."

What the actual fuck?!

Some totally illogical homophobic / anti-trans bullshit here.

Róisín Michaux's avatar

Letting males into women’s spaces is dangerous for females, regardless of what they’re wearing (data suggests they are more dangerous in fact)

Dan Currie's avatar

You already said they were homosexual, so I'm quite confused as to why you think they would be a sexual danger to women. You seem unable to distinguish between homosexuality, trans people, cross dressers, and abusers? The tired old ‘trans women are undercover rapists’ trope is absurd… men don't need to ‘pretend to be women to sneak into women's spaces and commit rape’. That would be surplus effort in a culture that celebrates and refuses to conviction or punish rapists.

Róisín Michaux's avatar

All that and they’re still men.

Phwooar Right 👉's avatar

I read stats on the rates of convicted male child abusers who openly identify as gay - it was real eye opener.

It's not a narrative you will see in the MSM - the tend to conceal the truth.

MD308's avatar

Welp.. actually fact is all this evil gender ideology BS & Jewish faggotry is as useless as tits on a bull to anyone right & needs to be abolished. It does more harm than good & just ruins lives…🫩

Annie's avatar

So true ! I grew up poor and remained so. It traps you. Well said.

Josa Keyes's avatar

'It's a numbers game' - never a truer word.

Courtney Elisabeth's avatar

I wish more people spoke up about this! I've not encountered anything this horrific, but my wife and have lived 19 years in a dumpy house in a neighborhood that's been recently gentrified. There are new houses all around and our is one of the last old ones standing. Because of that, we lose all rights to privacy. People are always in their yard like they own it. When solicitors come around to sell junk to us, they always try to open our door before they knock. Luckily it's been locked every time we've been there to witness this. If we are in the yard, people take it upon themselves to walk on over to us and strike up a conversation. They walk around our house on all sides because, "they're interested in buying our house" even though it's not for sale. It's insane and I wouldn't even consider this harassment - the law certainly doesn't. We were respected neighbors before all the rich people moved in.

DahliaChi's avatar

Sounds like you need a fence

Courtney Elisabeth's avatar

I wish we could afford one but we are poor.

Flying Horse Rider's avatar

Fences won't do much if entitled invaders want to cross over.

Phwooar Right 👉's avatar

This seems completely out of context with the authors topic?

Courtney Elisabeth's avatar

Even if you don't meet a pervert, no one respects boundaries of poor people.