+1 for the fact that âGay Star Newsâ is actually a thing that existsâŚ
And heâs a Democrat.
Fargo, woodchipperâŚ
Geez, I hope he chooses to represent himself in court. âItâs not what it looks like! I was actually preparing to commit a violent hate crime!â
On the plus side, this is what one of the highest ranking members of a once-widely-respected national organization looks like. The KKK has been wheezing its last hateful breaths for years now.
Seems Miller is the third most common Jewish surname in the US. Huh. Probably just a coincidence (since itâs also a very common name), but still.
I understand that this post is meant to point out Millerâs hypocrisy, but it smacks too much of denigrating the sex worker in question for being black, gay, transgender, or all three.
Where did you infer that from?
That is what I got from this as well. He seeâs someone as subhuman, so of course he has no compunction about treating them as a object.
Do you mean you think this killer was trying to denigrate the sex worker or you think the tone of the post is doing so? Iâm not seeing any indication of the latter.
A sex worker with a penis that was dressed as a woman, probably a woman.
I saw this quote on tumblr that I think sums it up nicely
Itâs possible police catching them doing sexual acts was catching Miller assaulting/raping her or ultimately stopped him from beating or killing her because Miller says that was his intention, we donât even know what happened to her because the story is fucked up and cares more about the sensational story of a KKK member supposedly having âgay sexâ than what happened to a Black trans woman WHO WAS TARGETED BY A VIOLENT MURDERER AND MAY HAVE BEEN RAPED OR HARMED. Who is a human being who Iâm sure police arrested and perhaps brutalized and is probably in prison right now, probably with male prisoners and still in danger. Who knows what is going to happen to her or happened to her.
Itâ makes for a witty headline, sure. But the story deserves a little more reporting than itâs being given here.
I expect better from boingboing.
I expect it from the right, like this kkk guy, but I am sick of dealing with transmisogyny from the center and left too, like this story.
âmale prostitute dressed as a femaleâ
I am sick of this phrase, which usually refers to trans womyn, rather than men, despite being female, and often despite not being prostitutes, because apparently being trans is enough for the cops and the news to jump to conclusionsâŚ
I look at this story, and it looks like he was interested in violence against black trans womyn, not that he was interested in sex with black men.
Whatâs really weird is like 3 years ago the local alternative station interviewed this guy as he had placed these crazy ads running for state senate. Guy was nutty. Pulled out some crazy stat about blacks raping all the white women lol.
In this case the quote
Miller, now 73, was caught by Raleigh, N.C. police in the backseat of a car engaged in a sex act with a black male prostitute who was dressed as a womanâŚ
Comes from a decidedly pro-LGBTI publication, The Gay Star News. I think itâs likely they werenât intentionally promoting transmisogyny, but I donât know what the proper etiquette is for quoting news items which make assumptions about gender identity.
Obviously the police report from the 1980s would not have recognized that a trans woman working as a sex worker was a woman, and the reporters were presumably unable to make contact with the sex worker in question. But I think you are jumping to unwarranted conclusions here.
Being a trans woman is not the only reason that a man might wear a dress. In fact, it is pretty easy to imagine why a man who is trying to sell sex to other men in North Carolina in the 1980s might be superficially disguised as a woman (enough to fool onlookers at a distance, say). It also could have had an impact on his appeal to white pretending-not-to-be-gay-and-to-be-disgusted-by-black-people demographic that he was largely serving.
I understand why we shouldnât jump to conclusions about the sex worker, but that is exactly what we shouldnât do: jump to conclusions. If you read the full story then you know the âmale prostitute in a dressâ is so described by Raleigh police in the 80s, and you can take that description with the appropriate grain of salt.
Yes, what we need to know more about is the victim. Without more details how can we blame the victim?
I donât know about The Gay Star News, but there are certain sections of the Lesbian and Gay community who are transphobic. The same people are often biphobic too.
I actually think this is fully in line with the KKKâs thought process, in that blacks (or other non-white males) are objects to be used. They dehumanize âothersâ.
Iâve always been a fan of the word âPerson.â
Or of not reposting stories that donât actually have anything to say.
This whole post is essentially âHorrible person did different, potentially ironic, horrible thing.â
Itâs not worth talking about.
