Self later explained himself in a post on X, formerly Twitter, saying that “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female,”
............and she identifies as female, not an attack helicopter, you dimwit.
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Keating is based as hell to call him out like that. Also lol @ the quick “Thank you madame speaker” response From McBride
Yeah, the issue with the targeted person calling it out is that it just allows the attacker to pull the classic DARVO tactic and play the victim. If you fight back, it allows them to paint you in a bad light and use you as an example against everyone like you.
That’s why it’s so important to have allies. It’s the ally’s job to get angry and confrontational when the victimized person can’t. When the victim needs to maintain decorum, the ally should be flipping tables and getting in the victimizer’s face about it. Because Keating is an old white guy; His identity can’t be used to further victimize trans people like McBride’s would have been.
This is a perfect example of how the situation should play out. Bully tries to throw insults. The insulted person remains calm, but their ally gets in the bully’s face and makes a scene. The bully quickly retreats when they realize that they may need to actually back up their words, and the original victim is able to say that they did nothing wrong.
This is well articulated. This dynamic is something I think of a lot, because as a cis woman, I often have a disproportionate level of social power in scenarios similar to this
Do you? As a loud mouth myself typically they just make me out to be hysterical.
I still do it.
Yeah, that's often the result (and like you, I also find this to be worthwhile nonetheless), but it depends on the context. Sometimes it plays out like this though (image below) and the trolling potential is glorious
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Wow, Delaware really has a jewel of a representative. Continuing with a flippant response to such an insult, afterwards declaring she's here to make life of her constituents better and refusing to rise to the bait of that mysoginistic POS? I wish there were more politicians like her.
It's so exhausting to see a legislator acting as if an executive order applies to them.
Dumb fuck, you don't work in the executive branch. It doesn't apply to you.
THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR 👏 👏 👏
Fucking legend!
Wow. Limewire? Somehow the Early 2000s returned...
Was the first thing I found that let me upload a video for a few days w/o making an account
yeah....I ain't downloading shit from limewire. that file could be anything from CSAM to bestiality to a shitty Metallica cover.
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The best way to handle these bigots is to keep calling them by female pronouns forever. If you are a decent person, and let people live their lives as they see fit, then youre fine. But if you insist on enthusiastically and viciously applying your bigotry to others, then you just bought a lifetime of misgendering of your own.
Its long past time that these traitors learned that their hatred is a two edged sword.
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