Yesterday we covered the story of trans woman Jessica Yaniv who is taking 16 salon workers to court for human rights abuses over the fact they refused to wax her cock and balls.
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Most reasonable people defended the rights of these salon workers to refuse service to Jessica, including Ricky Gervais:
How did we get to the point where women are having to fight for the right to choose whether they wax some big old hairy cock & balls or not? It is not a human right to have your meat & 2 veg polished.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) July 21, 2019
It is a woman’s right to say ‘I don’t wax testicles. On a man or a woman’. End of discussion. No sexism. No homophobia. No transphobia.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) July 21, 2019
Right on cue, the outrage brigade came after Ricky, accusing him of being transphobic, a fascist and all the other buzz words people use nowadays to try and ruin your life and reputation:
Ricky Gervais is a transphobe who (barely) disguises his bigotry as feminism. Real feminism includes all women, including trans women.
— Amy Martin #FBPE (@amyywrites) July 21, 2019
Sad to see ricky gervais, someone i always respected for his animal activism, is a huge transphobe
always a shame when someone you respect falls of that pedestal, especially when it’s for something like this https://t.co/GZ8iDAHVa6
— FarmerJoJo👩🏻🌾 (@JoEdwards41) July 21, 2019
ricky gervais is a disgusting transphobe and deserves 0 success. anyone who found his trans part of humanity funny should educate themselves
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— Antony (@ReformedLuna) July 22, 2019
Famous anti-anti-fascist Ricky Gervais is a transphobe?! Shocker!!
— DjMu3L (@DJMu3L) July 21, 2019
If it’s your job to wax crotches and assholes, why would a dick and balls be any different? Or is it based on the attractiveness of the person? Then why not allow people to discriminate based on other things, like race? Or religion? Or sexuality? This seems really dumb, Ricky.😕
— El Culo Blanco (@bettabomb) July 21, 2019
Disgusting, un woke, cis gendered, white privileged transphobe! I think a light, non fatal stoning or public flogging should “correct” his ways & hammer home how progressive & inclusive you are.
— NotSoMuch (@kingaoliver2) July 21, 2019
Being a piece of shit transphobe isn’t ok 🤷♀️
— Jezika6 (@JeziDoomGirl) July 21, 2019
It’s a shame really because throwing around accusations like this (and other words like ‘Nazi’ and ‘fascist’) only serve to completely neuter those words, which at this point actually seems like it wouldn’t be a bad thing considering how casually people use them now.
The maddest part is that someone did some digging and it turns out that Jessica Yaniv is pretty bigoted herself (not to mention a danger to children). No wonder she tried to take out an injunction blocking websites like us from writing about her.
