Since I made my post about being a bra store owner and how TIMs treat women in my industry I have a few updates.
During the pandemic we have switched to a system where most days of the week we operate by appointment only. Since we have started this system EVERY SINGLE TIM who has made an appointment has not shown up. EVERY SINGLE ONE! You may be wondering how I know the people who are standing us up are TIMs, it's because they tell us when booking the appointment. Some say they are Trans and some say they are Trans women, so some may be TIFs but I really doubt that because why would they be shopping in my store that sells women's lingerie?
Because bra fitting appointments are so hard to book less than 5% of the women who book appointments with us don't show up for their appointments. And of those 5% who miss their appointments about 80% apologizes afterwards for not coming to the appointment and books a new appointment. It's very telling to me that Transwomen are just so much more inconsiderate of our time that women are.
The second thing I wanted to report was a conversation I had with another bra store owner. I told her about how badly transwomen often treated me in my store. She told me that she found transwomen polite and respectful. I was surprised and then she said: "Well, a lot of them have shown me their penises. No woman has ever done anything like that." (Edited to add: I think she just needed me to push her a little to notice a pattern. She had heard the mantras of TWAW for so long that she didn't want to paint them with the same brush and was trying her hardest to see them as women, but after I started talking about things I had experienced she either started realizing a pattern of disrespect or she felt more comfortable talking about it.) It should be noted that there is no reason for anybody ever to take off their underwear in a bra store. Even if you are trying on underwear you would leave your own on. Then she said: "Sometimes they ejaculate on the clothing or the changeroom walls."
TIMs being TIMs. Men being men.
A neighbour runs a wig shop that is patronised partly by cancer patients who have lost their hair, and partly by the community of very religious Jewish women in the area who cover their natural hair with wigs. A couple of years ago she started getting TIMs, and as usually it Ruins Everything. While there isn't nudity involved as with bras, Jewish women who are that religious cannot uncover their hair in front of men outside their family; and cancer patients are often incredibly uncomfortable and self-conscious having their heads exposed, particularly around men.
Add in that these are fetishists, with stubble and 'girldique,' who interrupt women discreetly looking for a flattering religious hair covering, or a wig to help them look like their old and healthy selves, by demanding flattery and positive feedback. It's repulsive. She's shifted to doing by-appointment only, and the excuse is that this way shoppers only have her in the small shop with them, but it's really the TIMs. With women she knows, they're often fine having other women shopping at the same time. She also has started telling the known TIMs that she's happy to make an appointment, she's fully booked for the next 8 weeks but can fit them in at 8 am on a Saturday in February, will that do?
They are so shameless and so gross and I dearly wish she could just say "this store is for women only."