Note that I'm not necessarily opposed to her facing consequences for killing him -- my issue is with how gleefully NYPost is framing it as if she just attacked him out of the blue and shoehorning her into the "evil transgenders" stereotype
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That (and that history of mental illness) make me think they should've put her in a mental institution. The woman is not well. The attention from this isn't going to fix it either, that's for sure.
I mean, there's video of her getting beaten on by a couple of men either earlier this year, or last year. She said before the whole knife incident that she'd kill the guy if he laid hands on her, because no one is going to ever do that to her again. "Never again" is something I've heard from many other survivors. This woman has a responsibility not to be around others who might trigger her (especially while she possesses a knife) but I feel like that's the survivor mantra.
And I feel like she's not getting grace that I would get in her position.
Now I love sharing what my fiance thinks when stuff like this happens, and his opinion is, she shouldn't have escalated it, she was wholly wrong, 15 years is dumb. It's hilarious that we have very different reasoning and the same conclusion.
Who's gonna pay for her lifetime Doordash subscription? We live in a society, people need to go to the bodega.
No, I mean, as a person with PTSD, I know that I have triggers. Where possible, it's my responsibility to manage myself to try and minimize exposure to them.
We do live in a society. If people like myself want to continue to be around others, we owe it to the people around us to either be careful where we are and when, or to have a plan in place for when we're getting worked up, and those of us who become violent as a reaction to stimulus have to be extra vigilant.
It's not about it being fair. It's not fair, what was done to me, to make me like this. But other people can't be reasonably assumed to have the training and education necessary to know what they're seeing or dealing with. And there are consequences for the way we react, regardless of the why.
If what I suspect is true and the woman in this article was triggered by this man and it resulted in her violence, the consequences she's dealing with now may not be perfectly fair, but they're happening. If she had the capability and self-awareness to remove herself from the bodega, sure, it would've been inconvenient and unfair to her, but the consequences of knifing a guy and going to jail are way worse.
She gave him the training he needed. She said she'd kill him if he attacked her. He attacked her and she killed him. It sounds like she followed your advice about setting healthy boundaries. He knew exactly what to do and what not to do.
Yes, and now she's going to jail.
This is not a desirable outcome.
Yeah, they should have ruled out self defence, since she did everything right except cutting in line, and cutting in line isn't a crime