A big rectangular lie
Even in death, women are being erased
In this piece on the artist 'Teresa' Margoles, what Guardian writer Claire Armitstead calls 'anti-trans violence' is actually homophobic violence committed against transvestite male prostitutes in places like San Paulo and Tijuana.
In 2023, 100 trans people were reported murdered in Brazil alone, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of the global total. Mexico represents 22% with 52 reported murders. Whatever your location, building a career in what the Left likes to call 'sex work' is very often a dependable way to get yourself killed, and sure enough, the inspiration for the piece was described thusly.
The data on Brazilian and Mexican male prostitutes selling their bodies in two of the most dangerous places on earth has been dishonestly extrapolated worldwide so that trans-rights activists can use terms such as 'trans genocide' without blushing. But if anyone has a claim to that word, it's women. Last year, 3754 women were murdered in Mexico. And in Brazil. 1463.
That's why the eyesore currently occupying the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square is just more misogynistic propaganda--activism disguised as art.
They don't just want to erase the concept of 'woman' but also the global scandal of femicide along with it.
It is spectacularly ugly and why is a monument to murdered male sex workers from Mexico and brazil in london? Why isn't it in their own country? The "artist" sounds a but unhinged to me
Now we need that person who was painting over the pride flags on the ground in Forest gate to sneak up to this and splatter something on it.. hmm which colour I ponder? Red? Then paint the true number of women murdered this year alone in the world.
Will 89,000 (2022) do?
See here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2024/09/15/rebecca-cheptegei-and-the-many-women-killed-globally/
In 2023, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published highly concerning findings from 2022 on the scale of the situation including that:
• Nearly 89,000 women and girls were intentionally killed that year, making it the highest yearly number recorded in the past two decades.
• While the overall number of homicides globally has begun to fall in 2022 after a spike in 2021, the number of female homicides is not decreasing.
• Around 48,800 women and girls worldwide were killed by their intimate partners or other family members. (On average, more than 133 women or girls were killed every day by someone in their own family.)
• While most homicides worldwide are committed against men and boys (80% in 2022), women and girls are disproportionately affected by homicidal violence in the home: they represent approximately 53% of all victims of killings in the home and 66% of all victims of intimate partner killings.
• Women and girls in all regions across the world are affected by this type of gender-based violence.
Oh the rage!