Empathy and Kyriarchy

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Empathy and Kyriarchy
Questioning Transphobia
Written by Lisa Harney
August 27th, 2010 at 3:05 pm


http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=2860


When you read about trans women being murdered by cis men, people immediately rush to construct a narrative where the trans woman obviously must have deceived the murderer and slept with him, and it's completely understandable that a cis man would be so angered by discovering that he just had sex with a trans woman that he'd completely lose his mind and violently murder her – not just kill her, but do everything he can to obliterate her, to erase this imagined taint upon his manhood.