r/facepalm Aug 12 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ US women’s rugby player takes a bad angle selfie and idiots assume she’s trans

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u/Flimsy-Discount2885 Aug 12 '24

Vulnerable target. It's easy to spot a racist, himophobe or a misogynist, but if you are a transphobic asshole, you can pretend you are worried about children or some other lie.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '24

Weaponizing children and religion is their go to

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u/SpicyPotato_15 Aug 12 '24

And using that religion to fuck children.

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u/Hollywoodsmokehogan 'MURICA Aug 12 '24

Been like that since like forever

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u/Saritiel Aug 12 '24

Yup. A tale as old as time. First it was that black women were a threat to other women and children so we have to keep them out of the bathrooms. Then it was lesbian women are a threat to women and children so we need to keep them out of bathrooms. Now its trans women are a threat to women and children so we need to keep them out of bathrooms.

Its the exact same insertminorityhere-phobic bullshit that bigots have been pedaling forever, they just swap the minority out when a few too many people start ostracizing them for the last one.

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u/GreyerGrey Aug 12 '24

Don't forget "fairness" in women's sports. Because Lia Thomas had an "unfair advantage" with her *checks the record* 5th place standing.

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u/hungrypotato19 Aug 13 '24

And smashing a record... for a single pool while coming nowhere near the national record.

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u/GreyerGrey Aug 13 '24

And TYING with the woman calling "unfair advantage." Which... fux Ms Gaines really.

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u/hungrypotato19 Aug 13 '24

And is now making millions of dollars peddling her transphobic bullshit for white supremacists to jerk off to.

Which, all the money doesn't even account for the fact that all these "news" stations fly her over on private jets, give her luxury hotel rooms, comp her meals at expensive restaurants, etc., etc., etc.

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u/abandonsminty Aug 12 '24

We're also easier to spread hate against because we're a relatively small population who most of them have never meaningfully interacted with