LGB NewsI have a very bad feeling about this event and its consequences for the Drop the TQ cause

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[–]jim_steak 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I see what you guys mean about this getting attacked, but honestly I think that might be a good thing. If trans people and gay people are publicly fighting and holding protests against each other, it'll make people rethink the idea that the LGBTQ+ community is a monolith. Even if the average gay person will look at this and blame the gay organizers for being exclusionary, I think it's possible some gay people will look at this and wonder why gay people aren't allowed to have our own spaces.

Ultimately, I think if we're going to break from the TQ+ portion of the community and the broader social justice coalition there's going to be a lot of messy infighting no matter what, and the optics of trans people angrily protesting a gay only event are better for us than they are for them.

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

If the footage was six 6'4" AGPs attacking 5' lesbians, then yes, there could be some value in it, although I definitely don't want any lesbians being attacked. The problem is that the media is very much in the hands of straight men who have some bizarre affinity and empathy for monster trans women, so we can't trust them to spin the narrative the way we'd like.

[–]PatsyStoneMaverique 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If you want to subvert media control, online is the way to do it.

It's nice that they're doing this, but several of the people associated with this event are elderly and I think as a political strategy street marches aren't viable right now. It's outdated as a tactic.

This can be useful in other ways- mostly networking.

The only sympathetic press they'll get if they get harassed is from right wing media in the U.S.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Street demonstrations now:

-Thousands of people peacefully marching in the streets-

Media Corporations instead all continuously broadcast a 15 second clip of a scuffle between 2 drunks outside a nearby bar where one gets a bloody nose. The cops arrives afterward but by then the two had already shaken hands and went home.

Headlines are "Extremist DEATH March Immediately Turns Violent - Law enforcement intervene but say that they were helpless against the maelstrom of political radicals as BLOOD is Shed"