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Lux Aeterna
- Joined
- Feb 27, 2018
- Messages
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- Location
- Tauhalamme/Laquisimas
- Gender
- nonbinary
- Basic Beliefs
- Jedi Wayseeker
The number of trans people committing rape is irrelevant in any case. Emily isn't afraid of trans people as such, she's afraid of penises. This fear obviously originates in the actions of men, all or nearly all of them cis men. But she can't do anything about them, the patriarchy has proven utterly indifferent to the feminist critique. With trans women, though, she has a vulnerable population that has the real or imagined penis, but not the social protection, of a cis man. And she knows she can find allies in both parties who will agree to go after them. Clearing a locker room of the symbols of manhood, she is symbolically purifying and thus protecting her body against men. Charlie Kirk was on a very different wavelength, opposing trans rights not for the sake of protecting himself, but out of fear of a wrathful god who offers no mercy to the sinful except that won by rebirth in a new and purified body as per Christian tradition. He needed the locker rooms purged to stave off divine wrath at the mixing of opposites. In all cases, though, ritual violence as a form of symbolic purification and protection is an ancient human patrimony, and it is always leveled at the vulnerable. You'll never see Emily trying to expel, say, volleyball players from the locker room, even if you presented her with a 90 page booklet full of statistics proving that female volleyball players perform 90% of rapes. These kinds of symbolic purifications can only be leveled at those who are already vulnerable - like teenage girls.