Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win
Jan 08
(A gay couple has just met up in the restaurant and kissed each other upon arrival. Another customer has seen this and is obviously angry.)
Angry Customer:
“Damn f**s.”
Gay Man:
“Excuse me?”
Angry Customer:
“You heard me, you little s***. Let’s not make this into some little pride protest, okay? I have to accept that you’re going to live your lifestyle, and you have to accept that I’ve got freedom of speech.”
Gay Man:
*quietly* “Is it too much to ask for a little human decency?”
Angry Customer:
“Human? Listen up, what you’re doing is not human. I think I have the right to determine what I think is human.”
(The manager shows up. He’s a quiet Italian man who I assume is conservative due to the Christian imagery and portrait of Reagan he keeps around the restaurant.)
Angry Customer:
*to the owner* “Hey, can you move either them or us to another table?”
(Instead of responding to the angry customer, the owner instead speaks to his wife.)
Owner:
“I’m sorry ma’am, but we have a strict ‘no pets’ policy in my restaurant.”
Wife:
“Uh, I, uh, what? I don’t have a—”
Owner:
“Well, according to your talking monkey over here, I can determine who’s a human and who’s not. You bring an animal into my restaurant; I gotta assume it’s your pet.”
(The angry customer storms out. When I left, the owner was giving his description, and copies of security camera footage, to the biggest crowd of police I’ve seen. Apparently it’s a bad idea to not pay your bill at a restaurant that gives free coffee to cops.)
In 49 I repeat FORTY FUCKING NINE states you can kill a trans person and use the “trans panic defense” as your reason for fucking killing someone like me and IT ACTUALLY WORKS. My life is nothing as long as the person who killed me was scared enough to fucking murder me. Who should really be the scared one here? Marriage equality is great and all but FUCK
AND THIS MOSTLY AFFECTS BLACK TRANS WOMEN.
SAY IT WITH ME NOW.
BLACK TRANS WOMEN.
What the actual fucking hell is ‘trans panic?’
“Oh, that person is living their life in a fashion that isn’t identical to mine, I’m terrified!”
“Oh, that person is making a decision to embody a truth that has nothing to do with me, I’m terrified!”
“Oh, that person is daring to be an individual with their own identity, GOD FUCKINGFORBID.”
I get that there are two sides to everything, but if you really do find yourself arguing that a 12 year old boy with a toy gun was to blame for his own murder it might be time to look in the mirror and wonder where your fucking morals are.
