More than half of Seattle cinema staff walk off the job because a trans employee got offended over a scheduled Halloween showing of Hocus Pocus.

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 24 insightful - 7 fun24 insightful - 6 fun25 insightful - 7 fun -  (3 children)

The owners are a pair of woke cunts, but they made the mistake of expecting adults to behave as adults, forgetting that one of their employees had a massive dummy (pacifier, for you septics) they could throw out of the pram at any moment.

Actually, this demonstrates why any employer is mental for employing a trans person, it’s like asking for a sword of Damocles to be installed because life just isn’t hard enough. Every one has to tip toe around the unexploded transgender bomb for fear that saying the wrong thing (in this case, pointing out that maybe calling women “menstruators” isn’t a particularly respectful thing to do) will bring your business/job/school to its knees under a massive social media tantrum.

[–]notafed 14 insightful - 6 fun14 insightful - 5 fun15 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

Maybe this will red pill them.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hopefully. But let’s not get our hopes up.

[–]iamonlyoneman 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

preach it

[–][deleted] 19 insightful - 5 fun19 insightful - 4 fun20 insightful - 5 fun -  (4 children)

This little theater shows the classic film Hocus Pocus every Halloween season. The manager/owner had heard that the trans community might be upset with Bette Midler because of this tweet:

Women of the world! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don't call us "women" anymore; they call us "birthing people" or "menstruators", and even "people with vaginas"! Don't let them erase you!

While I don't agree with Ms. Midler's promiscuous usage of the exclamation point, I wholly agree with the sentiment expressed.

So this straight dude who owns the joint tried to be woke & asked the opinion of the transwoman who worked there to see if she objected to the showing of the film. That was his first mistake. He just have just put it on the October schedule and called it a day.

The troon objected to showing the film. He overrode her decision and suggested that maybe Midler should have used inclusive language like "womyn" instead of words like "uterus-haver" and "vagina-owner".

This poor man is still living the Seattle dream of 1992 by suggesting the word "womyn" and thinking this would calm this transwoman's tits. I wish it was still the 90s and we could all hold hands and go watch Sarah McLachlan at Lilith Fair and shit, but those days are long gone.

This poor dude brought in "sensitivity trainers" and tried everything he could to appease these woke brats. That was another mistake on his part. Never apologize to these woke bullies. No apology will ever be enough for them.

In normal times an employee would just quit if they didn't like their manager. But here, these brats called for the theater to be closed down. What?

This also happened to a lesbian bar that tried to open in July in Portland. Doc Marie's had been open for one fucking day, then the woke brats got upset over something and called for the bar to be turned over to the bar staff. Kids, that's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. That bar didn't reopen for an entire month while the nonsense was being sorted out. It's kinda crazy out there.

side note: the trans ex-employee has a tiktok. She is a completely normal and sane individual.

Put the lotion in the fucking basket!

[–]DirewolfGhost 10 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Its offensive to use the term "transwoman". The politically correct term is tranny or eunuch if they're castrated.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

go watch Sarah McLachlan at Lilith Fair

She's touring now. https://tour.sarahmclachlan.com/

[–]hfxB0oyADon't piss on my head & tell me it's raining. 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

She's still pretty hot.

[–]IMissPorn 18 insightful - 5 fun18 insightful - 4 fun19 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

That's what happens when you hire crazy people.

[–]jet199 13 insightful - 5 fun13 insightful - 4 fun14 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

It's not as if troons do any work as it is.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 14 insightful - 3 fun14 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

This is like the perfect opportunity to purge the useless woke employees and hire new ones that aren't woke.

[–]hfxB0oyADon't piss on my head & tell me it's raining. 10 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

The words "COMMUNITEA KOMBUCHA" in the window gave me the whole article before I started reading it. Just another self-inflicted shot to the foot by the business's owners.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

🤮

[–]Datachost 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Kind of seems like these people just wanted a holiday and were looking for any excuse to shirk their responsibilities.

[–]Totoro 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Zane emailed a response to Spitzer August 3, wherein she argued that her manager's thoughts on Midler’s tweet explicitly erased trans people and constituted an attack on her and on trans rights more broadly.

It comes down to this. If trans people are not 110% shoved into every topic ever, ever space ever... it's trans erasure. That is going to be their downfall

[–]Doodle00 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Are we shocked that they got upset? You so much as breathe wrong on a trans person you’re now branded for life as a bigoted monster. Why give them that power?

[–]MagicMike 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Once worked at a place where one of the other workers had a name that I couldn’t pronounce. She went crazy, wanted me fired, screaming at me. So just like with these crazed trannies, why would anyone hire these people?

[–]jet199 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You can beat Bette Midler in a bitch match.

[–]DorkfishieThe only one who isn't transphobic 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I have NO idea what any of this has to do with Hocus Pocus.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

One of the actresses publicly committed blasphemy against the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and is under a fatwa. All her movies are Haram.

Oh wait that's not right. Umm.

One of the actresses publicly insulted the sanctity of the holy eucharist and has been excommunicated by the holy see. All her works are satanist influences that must be burned to cleanse our lands and avert the wrath of God.

ah wait wrong again what was it.

Ah yes she defiled the blue bird of happiness by thought-criming the vulgar common name of the cunt-bleeders and for that she has been un-personed out of the council of the blue check, her movies sent to mini-true for memory holing until she can learn to love the bird at mini-luv.

Bird bird bird, bird is the word, don't you know about the bird well everyone is talking about the bird!

[–]Enemycupcake 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Apparently Bette Midler has been speaking out against calling women "menstruators" and other stuff like that, which has made her a public enemy in their book.

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    [–]iamonlyoneman 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    the world is not a better place when you jam your racism into everything

    [–]Dragonerne 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Prove me wrong

    [–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    You prove yourself wrong, jerky

    [–]Dragonerne 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    You can't prove me wrong because what I say is the truth. The best propaganda is the truth.

    [–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

    What’s this got to do with troons?

    [–]Dragonerne 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

    Bidens health minister is a troon.
    Jewish social media such as youtube, reddit, twitter, facebook etc. are all pushing this trans agenda

    Trans ideology was started by a jew. The nazis burned the LGBTQ books

    [–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    Okay. But aren’t there Jews who are against the troons?

    [–]Dragonerne 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    Yes. Jews play both sides. This is because if they do not, they leave open a power vacuum waiting to be filled by the goyim cattle (us). So instead they offer you "capitalists" and "communists", two sides of the same jewish kosher coin.

    It is not a coincidence that 50% of all of Joe Rogans political guests are jews lol.

    [–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Good point. However, when you consider how gullible most people are, it makes sense that Jews would take advantage of us. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 109 times, I cannot be saved. Most people are sheep, including most Jewish people. So of course we are easy to subvert.

    [–]Dragonerne 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    We are not easy to subvert and Whites will rise again.

    Jews are absolutely panicking and their entire house of cards are crumbling before our very eyes.

    [–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I hope you’re right.

    [–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Mm

    [–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Give these brats an inch, and they take a mile. At first. Next, they will demand everything else that is left and then some. Weimerica in action.

    [–]IkeConn 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Never hire a queer. The drama isn't worth it.