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Title: News Room bias
Post by: r.morgan on October 14, 2009, 08:41:58 PM
Post by: r.morgan on October 14, 2009, 08:41:58 PM
I don't know if this is the right place for this: I'm going to paraphrase this story.
I turned on the news (a rare thing for me anymore - i dislike propaganda and fear-mongering) and what's the first thing I see.
A Neo-Nazi blames his gender confusion for his murders and wants to be a woman. (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gjP--a6184iBgjvkclKMUz80PS-wD9BAEGG00)
Now that I've calmed down a bit and have forced myself to read the article... it turns out this is kinda old news.
Two things really got to me about this
1: He's a neo-nazi serial killer. If they haven't been using it before -the hyper-conservative-jerks will try to use this as proof of the "inherent evil" of TG's in general.
2: This is the one that hit me first. It wasn't so much what was said but how it was said. The way the news anchor said it sounded like the whole reason mentally unfit to stand trial was because he "claims" he wants to become a woman. As if it was a universal constant given that someone who wants to be a woman is - of course - insane.
I had to turn it off. I cried for at least ten minutes. Later I realized #1 and started all over again.
I flat out refuse to believe that he really wants to be a woman.
I've somewhat managed to calm down but this feeling is haunting me.
I want to be be a woman, so I'm insane.
I do not believe that ... but it's fresh in my mind and is just gnawing at me.
I realize I'm probably just overreacting but I needed to share...
I turned on the news (a rare thing for me anymore - i dislike propaganda and fear-mongering) and what's the first thing I see.
A Neo-Nazi blames his gender confusion for his murders and wants to be a woman. (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gjP--a6184iBgjvkclKMUz80PS-wD9BAEGG00)
Now that I've calmed down a bit and have forced myself to read the article... it turns out this is kinda old news.
Two things really got to me about this
1: He's a neo-nazi serial killer. If they haven't been using it before -the hyper-conservative-jerks will try to use this as proof of the "inherent evil" of TG's in general.
2: This is the one that hit me first. It wasn't so much what was said but how it was said. The way the news anchor said it sounded like the whole reason mentally unfit to stand trial was because he "claims" he wants to become a woman. As if it was a universal constant given that someone who wants to be a woman is - of course - insane.
I had to turn it off. I cried for at least ten minutes. Later I realized #1 and started all over again.
I flat out refuse to believe that he really wants to be a woman.
I've somewhat managed to calm down but this feeling is haunting me.
I want to be be a woman, so I'm insane.
I do not believe that ... but it's fresh in my mind and is just gnawing at me.
I realize I'm probably just overreacting but I needed to share...
Title: Re: News Room bias
Post by: gennee on October 14, 2009, 11:24:28 PM
Post by: gennee on October 14, 2009, 11:24:28 PM
Back in the middle ages the church tried its hardest to associate ->-bleeped-<- with witchcraft. So it isn't new and I'm sure that many other tactics have been used.
Gennee
:)
Gennee
:)
Title: Re: News Room bias
Post by: V M on October 14, 2009, 11:50:12 PM
Post by: V M on October 14, 2009, 11:50:12 PM
Well, Mr. Spisak is def. a nutbag. But that has nothing to do with being TG or not.
I am always amazed at how folks try to tie unrelated things together. But I understand, he's getting desperate
Maybe when his death sentence comes do they can have a special gas chamber modeled after the kind the Nazi's used made just for him :P
I am always amazed at how folks try to tie unrelated things together. But I understand, he's getting desperate
Maybe when his death sentence comes do they can have a special gas chamber modeled after the kind the Nazi's used made just for him :P
Title: Re: News Room bias
Post by: heatherrose on October 15, 2009, 12:22:05 AM
Post by: heatherrose on October 15, 2009, 12:22:05 AM
Quote from: Virginia Marie on October 14, 2009, 11:50:12 PMMaybe when his death sentence comes do they can have a special gas chamber modeled after the kind the Nazi's used made just for him :P
Give it what it wants, BA, FFS and SRS sans anesthesia.
Title: Re: News Room bias
Post by: heatherrose on October 16, 2009, 12:40:10 AM
Post by: heatherrose on October 16, 2009, 12:40:10 AM
Quote from: Laura91 on October 16, 2009, 12:00:48 AM...does not have a TG bone in his body.
As heinous as the crimes that is individual is accused of are,
none of us are in a position to judge whether or not he suffers from GID.
It is impossible for us to know one way or another.
Title: Re: News Room bias
Post by: heatherrose on October 16, 2009, 12:55:08 AM
Post by: heatherrose on October 16, 2009, 12:55:08 AM
Doubtless.