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Spotted on the Victoria line of the London Underground
(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/45793064
Depicted is a disgruntled looking middle aged brunette haired woman with a thought bubble showing an ambiguously gendered torso wearing jean shorts next to a toilet. Text as follows:
"Are you having fanatical thoughts about other people's crotches? Has hating a minority group become your entire personality? Do you obsess over other people's toilet use? If so, you could be a danger to others - it's time to seek help. Contact our team: \youneedhelp@leavetranspeoplealone.com"
Via Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/s/mR0CzaUl6u
Steel sharpens steel is largely manosphere nonsense. Add the virtue signalling call out and you're halfway to a silence-the-folks-I-ostensibly-agree-with-via-criticism-of-their-tactics bingo.
If it were true that folks don't respond to pithy statements and emotionally driven discourse, politics would look like a bunch of Al Gores with competing powerpoints. It sure as hell does not.
Is this sign going to change the mind of a bigot? No. Might it signal to them that many folks are tired of hearing their bullshit? Yes, especially for the less virulent among them. Might it make a trans person riding the train in a society that increasingly feels like it's closing in to deny their very existence feel better and less alone? Abso-fucking-lutely.