SF Weekly dumps on transgender people, all of Tenderloin
02.12.13 - 1:20 pm | Marke B. |
http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2013/02/12/sf-weekly-dumps-transgender-people-all-tenderloinOh hey, isn't it funny to watch (possibly) transgender people get punched in the face and repost a video of it that calls them "->-bleeped-<-s" insultingly, without comment? What a barrel of laughs to compare transgender people to "pickpocketing a-----s and crooks who know a crime of opportunity better than they know anything else." Well hey, to SF Weekly online news director Erin Sherbert, it's "Just another day in the Tenderloin!"
In a post today on the Weekly's Snitch blog entitled "Crazy Tenderloin Fight Proves That Tenderloin Is Still Just the Tenderloin," Sherbert, who's actually called attention to inequality in the past, gives into her unfunny sterotyping and sensationalistic link-baiting impulses and posts a YouTube video recorded a week ago that shows three people fighting in the Tenderloin -- two of them possibly transgender (Sherbert offers no evidence of this) -- and many horrifying punches to the face. Just so we can LOL with privilege! Here's the full text of her post.
Transgender fist-fights, pickpocketing a------s, and crooks who know a crime of opportunity better than they know anything else. That's just another day in the Tenderloin.
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Crazy Tenderloin Fight Proves That the Tenderloin Is Still Just the Tenderloin
By Erin Sherbert Mon., Feb. 11 2013 at 4:30 PM
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2013/02/crazy_tenderloin_fight_proves.phpFor those of you blind optimists out there who were trying hard, really hard, to believe the Tenderloin is on the up-and-up, SF Citizen is here to knock some sense in you via YouTube. The hyper local blog posted this recent not-so-eye-opening video, titled "When ->-bleeped-<-s Attack! Tenderloin Craziness"
Watch:
