Cats!

The biggest problem is that we have institutionalized and accepted rape in our prisons. We suck.

Then in that same respect all these trans identified men who are worried that men in prisons who threaten to rape them might you know, rape them, need to just calm down. When a someone with a penis threatens rape they might be the victim. The person with a penis threatening to rape may have felt you were so prejudiced…

What complete and utter bullshit. A penis isn’t just a body part. Men have been using them as weapons against us for thousands of fucking years. Women have every right to feel unsafe and uncomfortable around them, especially in a setting like jail or prison.

Ah, please being a woman doesn’t mean I don’t know that women can be bigots with the best of them. Plenty of women who have always been and will always be women rape and sexually assault other women in jail, and that was going on long before transgender women were housed with cis women, so why aren’t these fine women…

It’s easy to dismiss these women as ‘in a tizzy’ when we’re on the outside and are able to vote for the people making these ‘progressive’ decisions that we hope ultimately won’t affect us, if we’re unlikely to land in prison.

That’s the thing, they always just say “trans women” now, but that covers an awful lot of ground. If you’re post-op and have gone full girl, then by all means, come share my theoretical jail cell, but if you’re physically male, I don’t care what you identify as, women (including the post-op trans women) should not be…

I understand that, but we’re not in prison with no control over our cellmates.

So trans identified men need to be housed seperately due to threat of rape... but these same trans identified men are a-okay gold star awesome for threatening to rape others?

Despite what this writer would like us to think, this regulation does a good job of balancing the interests of natal women and trans women. It’s not saying that biological sex is the ONLY criteria, it’s saying that it’s the initial determinant. It goes on to say that having determined by sex, the authorities must then…

I don’t see a problem with this.....what I have a problem with is them not doing the bare minimum and keeping them in an alternative housing unit. How Hard is it to understand that? gay and trans people are an easy target for sociopaths to fuck with.

From the Ft Worth Star-Telegram:
“The Plaintiffs have been forced to share intimate facilities with men, who allege they are women,” the Feb. 15 complaint states. “These men openly express their sexual desire for the women inmates, at times, in the showers, and bathrooms, while women are naked or partially clothed.

“The…

I can see both sides here and while I sympathise for transwomen in this situation, it is being caused by the behaviour of natal men being violent and aggressive towards them, yet the solution is that vulnerable natal women are expected to shut up and move over despite feeling uncomfortable sharing facilities with…

Any normal civilian kills a 15 year old child and society and the justice system pulls out all the stops and throws the book at the offender - but when a police officer, who’s trained, armed, armored, is supposed to know better, riding along with another police officer, straight up maims and kills a kid, it’s just…

That scene made my skin crawl right off of my body — and I realize that this is a result of my “not technically a medievalist but play one in the classroom” perspective but what really got me is the Julian of Norwich quote (“All will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of thing will be well”). Julian is such…

The point of depicting her “cheating” guilt was that she shouldn’t feel guilty at all. Happy couples can’t be broken up. Annie was Luke’s first love. They were young and, as June said, people grow apart.

Well, the fact is, she’s not responsible for any of this. She’s not responsible for Omar’s death or for Luke cheating, or for Rita getting slapped,for the other Handmaids refusing to kill Janine with her. She may have persuaded them to do those things, but none of this is actually her fault. She never killed anyone,…

“Or is the Gilead army trying to invade Canada?”

I can’t be the only one who found June’s choices incredibly frustrating. I mean, maybe she’s never done anything illegal before, but you don’t poke your head out the window when you’re hiding from someone; you don’t yell loudly at the guy trying to smuggle you out of somewhere; you don’t smile at random people and…

You’re right, of course. Happy and powerful women=fantasy fluff for chicks. Tortured and degraded women=prestige drama.