thecreach:

Heads-up for people who may have to deal with her:

Jill Bearup of “Stuff You Like” fame appears to have gone full TERF. In a recent post, she misrepresents an incident where professional transphobe Maria MacLachlan assaulted a much smaller woman at an LGBT event and put her in a headlock, which lead to her being elbowed in self-defense. Bearup uses the warped and incorrect “innocent old lady assaulted by savage men” version put forth by MacLachlan and her ilk. She also prefaces said post with a link to an article called “The Careful, Pragmatic Case Against Punching Nazis“, so it appears that yet semi-famous internet personality shows her true (and indeed very pragmatic) face when it’s become profitable and acceptable to side with fascists and oppressors. I suggest for everyone who may be targeted by transphobic violence to steer clear of her.

Sad to say, this is true. http://jillbearup.com/post/165633676124/if-you-strike-them-down-they-will-become-more

She even repeats talking points about transwomen (who she refers to by their genitalia) going into toilets (public restrooms), much the way Right Wing Republicans did last year with the unconstitutional HB 2 to create the narrative that transwomen are just men looking to target “our daughters” for sexual assault when in reality transwomen are much more likely to BE attacked than to attack anyone in public restrooms. https://www.bustle.com/p/what-really-happens-when-a-trans-woman-uses-a-public-restroom-40417 As in, as that article points out, “there are zero reported cases of trans people attacking others in public restrooms[.]”



Oh, and she calls the term TERF a slur. And suggests putting a transwoman in a male prison. Which studies show tends to lead to rape. Of the transwoman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_people_in_prison#Physical_and_sexual_abuse



As such, unless she walks back and apologizes (doubtful, given that, as a colleague of mine pointed out, “There’s so much detail in it that it can only be deliberate that the chokehold was left out.“) I will no longer be posting her content on the Chez Apocalypse fan Tumblr.

I’d certainly like for this to just be a blip and that she’s really better than that post I linked to implies, but I’m not hopeful. A shame too, as Stuff You Like was often a top priority show for me for the past few years; meaning I would often watch the new episode almost as soon as it showed up in my Subscriptions, sometimes even pausing whatever podcast or Spotify playlist I was in the middle of to watch it. :(

