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Originally Posted by Heart
By calling Nikki a "gold digger," accusing her of manipulating and deceiving her husband, etc, Longoria is engaging in hateful transphobic misogyny something that trans women are routinely subjected to. It's horrific and ironic that while asserting that Nikki is really a man, they use some of the oldest, most sexist woman-hating tropes in the book.
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I was thinking the same thing Heart. She has been subjected to extreme misogyny as well as transphobia (and of course the two are intertwined anyway)- classic textbook case of a gold digger woman who supposedly deceives her husband to take his money- yet seen as not-woman.
She was the primary breadwinner. How is she a gold digger out to take his money? She was helping raise his children. How was there any financial gain from this relationship for her? I see none.
The husband's mother and family, on the other hand, are trying to financially gain after his death and "freeze out" Nikki. I have yet to see one news report discussing how vindictive and money grubbing the family is being. They really haven't even pretended that it's the welfare of the boys they are concerned about.
Also, the judge freezing the life insurance proceeds when she is the named beneficiary is just unbelievable. That's only supposed to happen in extreme cases of fraud or where it is believed a suicide or foul play was involved. I believe she will ultimately prevail on getting the insurance proceeds although no guarantees. If she does she has to go through tons and tons of hoops to get it and meanwhile she has to rely on donations to live.
I don't believe for one second that the husband was deceived. Anyway, they were living their lives, having to deal with child custody issues, she's the main breadwinner and they are living as husband and wife. He supposedly finds out during a custody case that she was born male and all hell breaks loose?
He was fine and happy being married to and living with a woman and she is providing major financial support, helping to take care of the children, and then all of sudden none of this matters because of the fact that when she was born she was assigned the sex male, even though she has been living for a woman all her adult life? Even if hadn't known (which I don't believe for a second) where is the fucking crime here???? Does every non trans person who gets married tell their prospective spouse absolutely everything about their past? If they don't, when their spouse dies are all of their assets frozen due to "fraud?" He was married to a woman and they were living their lives. How does this so-called revelation make anything different in what the two of them had shared together? WTF???