Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-32608842-20170413032229/@comment-5870534-20170416125543

Cosmicbimbo wrote: You guys feel worse for Varner? Yes, it is stupid that he lost his job but, trans phobia leads to trans people being KILLED. Not the same thing.

Varner DOES NOT have trans phobia. He only used the fact Zeke was a trans to try to show that he was not honest, and kept secrets from the others. Varner was not thinking straight, and he thought that a secret like Zeke's is the same as Tony lying he was not a policeman, Gary Hogeboom lying he was a landscape architect, or Brian Heidik trying to hide the fact he was rich. It was a stupid miscalculation and a miserable move. It was not done maliciously or out of hatred towards trans people in general or Zeke in particular.

And the fact Varner was fired from his job over this is not silly or stupid, it is appalling. I don't think they had any right to fire him over this. What does his job even have to do with this incident?! Now I feel even worse for Jeff. It is not like he was trying to be mean to Zeke, it is not like he did not realize his mistake, and did not feel terribly sorry for it. You can see how it bothers him. But no, we are going to make it worse on him, we are going to blame him for being something he is not, we are going to roast him on the internet, we are going to say that what he did was malicious (Sarah...), we are going to fire him from his job... Way to go, society! The man made a mistake, he is sorry, leave him alone.