Tumbler Ridge

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Or some other fucking tragedies. A statistical one-in-a-million shot tells you nothing about the group from which the person comes or with which the person identifies.

If the group is significant, it should be noted that, down hereabouts anyhow, most mass shooters are young (21-30) heterosexual White men.

I'm not equating it to mass shooters, I'm saying expect more tragedies and violent acts from the "Trans community," because most of the violent ones aren't actually trans, they're mentally ill, who were told their trans.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Within hours of the first reports, many commentators did what they almost always do in crime coverage: they started sketching the perpetrator in demographic shorthand. Age. Appearance. Sex. In some accounts, the suspect was described as “female.” In others, as a “female with brown hair, wearing a dress.” Female wasn’t a throwaway adjective. It was part of the mental picture readers were being asked to form.

The adjective “female” stuck out. Not because women are incapable of violence, but because in this specific category of atrocity, female perpetrators are rare enough that the descriptor does cognitive work. Your brain can’t help it. It starts asking: What’s different here? What explains the outlier? You don’t have to like that instinct for it to be real.

If a newsroom believes sex is relevant enough to include in the first wave of reporting, relevant enough to help the public picture the perpetrator when our only context is “18,” “female,” “dress” and “brown hair,” then sex can’t become irrelevant the moment it gets complicated.

Either the public deserves a clear picture of who we’re discussing, or it doesn’t. Either sex is useful context, or it’s not. Treating “female” as a singularly normal adjective while treating “trans” as unspeakable isn’t neutral reporting. The rule here isn’t “always mention it” or “never mention it.” It’s relevance, consistency, and honesty about what you’re doing.

If an identity marker doesn’t clarify the story, leave it out. If it does clarify the picture you’ve already asked readers to form, then say it plainly once it’s confirmed, instead of letting people piece it together through rumour and resentment. In any story about such an atrocity, being “trans” is at least as relevant as being “female.”

Julia Malott: I'm transgender. It's wrong to hide mass shooter's trans identity — National Post

Treating 'female' as a normal adjective while treating 'trans' as unspeakable isn’t neutral reporting

apple.news

Unfortunately, it's not about a clear picture, it's about narrative.
Follow the narrative.
You are Number 5.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I'm not equating it to mass shooters, I'm saying expect more tragedies and violent acts from the "Trans community," because most of the violent ones aren't actually trans, they're mentally ill, who were told their trans.

So, do we blame the trans community or the mental-illness community?

I know! How about True Dope? Let's blame him!

 

[Dixie Cup]

Personally, I hate to disagree with the trans community, whoever the fuck they are, but I think the approach to grow the community and normalize it is going to lead to a lot of fucked up people. I've heard quite a few cases already of people who transitioned, cutting off their biological parts, only to find out they were suffering from mental illnesses like clinical depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia. Expect more of these tragedies.

And lawsuits as well. It appears that those who are in the process of de transitioning are doing so because they've been lied to. Huh, who knew??? (snark).

 

[Taxslave2]

If a newsroom believes sex is relevant enough to include in the first wave of reporting, relevant enough to help the public picture the perpetrator when our only context is “18,” “female,” “dress” and “brown hair,” then sex can’t become irrelevant the moment it gets complicated.

this is much how police would write it if the person of interest was at large.WHen they already know the person of interest is already dead, it seeems a bit odd.