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Prompted by having received an utterly anodyne response from the party that completely ignored all of the actual issues I raised.
So, with content notes for transmisogyny and transmisogynist violence, here's the very brief summary of why -- regardless of party leadership's opinion on that matter -- that poster is Not Okay. (Yes, I have explained this in painstaking detail in reply to the e-mail from the party.)
Specifically, this poster: strapline VOTE HER GET HIM, image of Nigel Farage's face badly photoshopped into Theresa May's haircut, pearls, and jacket.
It is not intended to be transmisogynist, I am very sure! But, fundamentally, it's relying on the idea that men disguise themselves as women for sinister purposes in order to sneak into places they oughtn't be and cause harm. Does that sound familiar from anywhere? Yeah.
It relies on the trope of "man in a dress" as ridiculous and vaguely threatening. There does not exist any compelling reason to not do better: as other folk have pointed out, Farage pulling May's puppet strings would have communicated more-or-less the same message without the transmisogyny.
... I remain really disappointed that party PR and leadership think this is okay.
So, with content notes for transmisogyny and transmisogynist violence, here's the very brief summary of why -- regardless of party leadership's opinion on that matter -- that poster is Not Okay. (Yes, I have explained this in painstaking detail in reply to the e-mail from the party.)
Specifically, this poster: strapline VOTE HER GET HIM, image of Nigel Farage's face badly photoshopped into Theresa May's haircut, pearls, and jacket.
It is not intended to be transmisogynist, I am very sure! But, fundamentally, it's relying on the idea that men disguise themselves as women for sinister purposes in order to sneak into places they oughtn't be and cause harm. Does that sound familiar from anywhere? Yeah.
It relies on the trope of "man in a dress" as ridiculous and vaguely threatening. There does not exist any compelling reason to not do better: as other folk have pointed out, Farage pulling May's puppet strings would have communicated more-or-less the same message without the transmisogyny.
... I remain really disappointed that party PR and leadership think this is okay.
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Date: 2017-05-28 05:25 pm (UTC)(did you mean to close the bold at some point?)
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Date: 2017-05-28 06:51 pm (UTC)Which is NOT AN EXCUSE, I just like collecting examples of that kind of shit. Because like you could run the same structure for two male politicians (of the same race/religion) without it hitting the other notes, so I can honestly see them thinking over it superficially and going yeah, fine, great! . . . And just. Not having a CLUE about the other shit they are, whether they like it or not, tapping into. *facehands*
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Date: 2017-05-29 07:14 pm (UTC)(Actual amusing me: I am sufficiently faceblind that I had to google it to work out why my trans friends and acquaintances were so annoyed by it to start with -- I seriously didn't get AT ALL what the intended message was. It was a picture of someone with Theresa May's hair and terrible fashion choices! It was... clearly Theresa May...?)
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Date: 2017-05-30 11:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-05-28 08:12 pm (UTC)Their response continues to elicit swearing from some of the LGBT+ exec. There's more I could bitch about, but maybe not so publicly. :)
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Date: 2017-05-29 07:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-05-29 03:35 am (UTC)/o\
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Date: 2017-05-29 07:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-05-29 06:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-05-29 07:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-05-30 02:30 am (UTC)~K.
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Date: 2017-05-30 03:18 am (UTC)