Kill them to kill part of yourself{blog}

[Hazumu]

Feministe

"Jacobs is just a particularly forthright example of how many of these "panic defenses" aren't really about panicking when you find out your date is trans. They're about the fear that someone else is going to find out you were with a ->-bleeped-<-. I think sometimes we're quick to assume that homophobia and transphobia always work in this straightforward "hate the queers, bash the ->-bleeped-<-s" kind of way — the sort of hate crime that Budd describes a few paragraphs later:"

[joannatsf]

Feministe

"Jacobs is just a particularly forthright example of how many of these "panic defenses" aren't really about panicking when you find out your date is trans. They're about the fear that someone else is going to find out you were with a ->-bleeped-<-. I think sometimes we're quick to assume that homophobia and transphobia always work in this straightforward "hate the queers, bash the ->-bleeped-<-s" kind of way — the sort of hate crime that Budd describes a few paragraphs later:"

The panic defense is not allowed in California.  The killers of Gwen Arujo were not allowed to use it.

[RebeccaFog]

anyone who tries to use the panic defense should have their teeth smashed out right in the court room.


I'm being generous here.