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Hey cisgender followers: Be careful how you interact with the following thread. I& #39;m just a bit fragile and a tactless remark would be unfortunate.
Trans followers: I& #39;m fucking TERRIFIED of the trans community. Y& #39;all will lob the most insane, heinous accusations about people 1/11
Trans followers: I& #39;m fucking TERRIFIED of the trans community. Y& #39;all will lob the most insane, heinous accusations about people 1/11
casually and just ... stir shit up. Don& #39;t like someone? You can& #39;t just say they& #39;re annoying. You can& #39;t just turn your nose up and just hold it in like normal goddamn people. You fling these insane accusations at each other. "You& #39;re a fascist" "You& #39;re a kinkshamer" etc. 2/11
Y& #39;all are scary fucking abusive to each other. I& #39;ve joked about it before, but it& #39;s getting ridiculous. We& #39;re like the fucking Jacobins with picrew avatars. And honestly, I& #39;m dead certain that if the online trans community COULD have people murdered, they absolutely would. 3/11
Please joke more about guillotines while trying in earnest to ruin someone& #39;s life because you took shit they said out of context. That& #39;ll really placate everyone. Although, guillotine fetishists aside, libs aren& #39;t immune to this shit either. I get that we& #39;re all traumatized 4/11
from life lived in a society that fucking hates us, but jesus christ fucking chill. You& #39;re all like wolves just waiting to get the chance to be the fucking bully. You& #39;re like dogpile fetishists. This community seriously needs to fucking re-evaluate how it deals with people 5/11
My greatest dream is to make a living as a published author. I don& #39;t talk about it much because I really don& #39;t ever think I& #39;ll manage it. But sometimes when delusion finally takes me, I instead end up at night having to fight off the intrusive waking nightmares of being 6/11
taken apart by a faceless mass of "my own people" who just want to destroy a "bad person" to get some fleeting sense of agency in a life that feels completely deprived of it. I& #39;ve got Bad Opinions according to the community at large. I& #39;ve been told so often enough. 7/11
So as soon as I trip the emnity trigger of someone with more followers than me? My life is over and my dream is crushed just as it& #39;s starting (at least in the nightmares). The publisher pulls my book and wants their advance - that I& #39;ve already spent on student loans - back. 8/11
It& #39;s a ridiculous nightmare, but it comes from a real fear of my community. A community should have your back, but I really don& #39;t think y& #39;all would. Some might, until a Twitter mob asks you to disavow ever liking me. "Block the persona non grata or you& #39;re just as bad!" 9/11
And it hasn& #39;t happened to me or anyone I know on a LARGE scale, but I& #39;ve seen micro versions happen to people I know and talk to on here and I& #39;ve seen what happens to trans creators who say the wrong thing. We don& #39;t GET to apologize. We don& #39;t get to move on. And it& #39;s awful 10/11
So I guess what I& #39;m saying is, I& #39;m not quite sure if I& #39;ll ever fully feel at home anywhere. There aren& #39;t many trans people in cis spaces, and I just don& #39;t know if I& #39;ll ever feel safe in online queer communities until something changes. Sorry about all this. I had to vent. 11/11
