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The recording, taken on April 28 by transgender woman Pearl Love, opens with another passenger on the train taunting Pearl about her makeup, handbag and feminine presentation. "Suck my dick!" the passenger screams before declaring that Pearl's presence "ain't appropriate for my child." The recording ends with the assailant jumping out of her seat and striking Pearl, who then stops the recording.
Though she goes by Pearl Love on Facebook, Pearl, a Taiwanese transgender woman, told Mic she just goes by Pearl. Pearl confirmed the authenticity of the video and said she was on the way to New York City's LGBT Community Center when the female passenger began to berate her. After five minutes of verbal harassment, Pearl said she began to record.
Pearl said she experiences harassment in public so frequently that at first she didn't find the assault out of the ordinary. "It happens all the time basically," Pearl said. "I just walk away mostly, or I go to other room or other subway." This is the first time Pearl has recorded an incident of harassment.
But it wasn't until after Pearl posted the video on Facebook and received an outpouring of support that she realized how terrible the ordeal had been.
"I didn't know that it was that serious until people told me, because I've gotten used to it," Pearl said. "I thought, 'Oh, it was just another woman.' I didn't know until people told me that it was not right, that it was assault because it's happened for so long."
Besides attacking Pearl for her gender identity, the woman in the video hurled ethnic slurs at Pearl, who is Taiwanese.
"Whoever that motherfucker is in Taiwan or Tokyo, fuck y'alls emperor," the woman says.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trans-woman-attacked-nyc-train-120300628.html
WARNING! FOUL LANGUAGE!
Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)Response to davidn3600 (Original post)
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2naSalit
(86,775 posts)dilby
(2,273 posts)A woman was assaulted on public transit by some low life bigot. Hopefully she presses charges.
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LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Kang Colby
(1,941 posts)A bigot is a bigot regardless of the race of the bigot.
dilby
(2,273 posts)You want to be rewarded because a black woman is a bigot and you think it's confusing for "Liberals" or in other words you want to celebrate the one time it was not a white person since it somehow makes you feel right with your bigotry.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)about 792 kinds of messed up in the head rubbish there.
My respect for my species diminishes exponentially by the day.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)Too many people out there feel entitled to lecture complete strangers on their shortcomings.
It's why I live in a community of <1200 individuals and moving to one that's even more remote by year's end because this place is getting crowded all of a sudden.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)with about 20 acres of my own, but with my wife's health it will probably never happen. The less contact I have with people, the less chance of being annoyed.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)does the one hurling insults have a dick? I am confused.
moonbabygo
(281 posts)How could she act like that and yet be worried about her child. Makes no sense. As us Patriot fans say, the haters will hate
Behind the Aegis
(53,986 posts)I hope Pearl presses charges against this woman. This bigot feels empowered by what is happening in our country in regards to transgender people. I am not surprised no one intervened on Pearl's behalf, but I am a bit surprised no one else joined in the hate-fest.
This is just ONE example of what is happening out there.
"I didn't know that it was that serious until people told me, because I've gotten used to it," Pearl said.
That makes me so sad and so fucking angry at the same time!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)but saying "suck my dick" is? That's all kinds of fucked up.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)NYers know better but they let that sort of hate monger rave on and on. No one speaks up for Pearl.
rollin74
(1,990 posts)some seriously sick shit there