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Seeing a lot of people talking about the outrage over JKR's new book, that apparently features a murderer who is a man who likes to wear women's clothes.
I'm also seeing a lot of people acting like this is surprising. Acting like being upset by this is some kind of self-own.
I'm also seeing a lot of people acting like this is surprising. Acting like being upset by this is some kind of self-own.
"Urrrh It's just a cis transvestite! If TWAW and not just transvestites why would you be upset by this, really showing what you truly believe!"... etc.
How blithely ignorant are you all? Plenty of you CLEARLY have NO idea of the prejudices many trans people had to overcome.
How blithely ignorant are you all? Plenty of you CLEARLY have NO idea of the prejudices many trans people had to overcome.
The idea that trans people are just "sick sexually deviant predatory men in dresses who are also likely pedos" has been around longer than most of us have even been alive.
Plenty of gay people can relate to an almost identical experience, just "maybe" minus the "in dresses" part
Plenty of gay people can relate to an almost identical experience, just "maybe" minus the "in dresses" part
It took a LONG time and a lot of work to get past that idea. The expectation that people DON'T naturally believe that in general is a NEW thing.
Yeah, we have come a long way. Plenty of us DID have to grow up and experience those attitudes!
Yeah, we have come a long way. Plenty of us DID have to grow up and experience those attitudes!
I literally grew up under that. Add "also demon possessed" to the description, and a lot more.
I got kicked out of my home simply because I dared to grow my hair too long.
You have NO idea how long it took, how hard I had to work, to move beyond those ideas.
I got kicked out of my home simply because I dared to grow my hair too long.
You have NO idea how long it took, how hard I had to work, to move beyond those ideas.
Do you have ANY idea how hard it was to move beyond that image, to see that one could be better than that image, that there was a reality where one could transition and not have everyone thinking that about you?
You think that kind of trauma does not leave some triggers???
You think that kind of trauma does not leave some triggers???
So now you have someone putting out that material, who has spoken out in ways that puts her aligned with GC/RF types...
Who many REGULARLY go on and on about... how we are just men in dresses. Run into plenty who wont even call us transwomen, just MEN, TiMs, or worse... Who regularly call us perverts, predators, fetishists, pedos, etc.
And you DON'T expect a kneejerk reaction???
And you DON'T expect a kneejerk reaction???
This was literally inevitable.
And no, I don't think she's transphobic, and yes, I know the story behind it about the research and such. I think she is the kind of person who knows this reaction will happen and will do it regardless.
And no, I don't think she's transphobic, and yes, I know the story behind it about the research and such. I think she is the kind of person who knows this reaction will happen and will do it regardless.
Good on her.
But to act like this is some unreasonable leap for trans people to be making in response to finding out about this, is either incredibly naive, or to be deliberately obtuse as to the reality plenty of us have LIVED.
But to act like this is some unreasonable leap for trans people to be making in response to finding out about this, is either incredibly naive, or to be deliberately obtuse as to the reality plenty of us have LIVED.
This does not justify the threats, the hashtag, or anything else in the angry responses, and I think there are a lot of disingenuous actors in this that are deliberately stirring the pot, or utilizing it for their own goals.
But within that mess there are plenty of people legitimately dealing with trauma around exactly those representations, who are quite scared of what can be seen as a drastic regression of all gains made to finally be free of those horrid prejudices
We're all humans, on BOTH sides
We're all humans, on BOTH sides
Tab back to my feed... and the first thing I see...
Seriously. Fuck twitter. You wonder why I be flipping the table some days??? THIS IS EVERY DAY. A CONSTANT FEED.
Seriously. Fuck twitter. You wonder why I be flipping the table some days??? THIS IS EVERY DAY. A CONSTANT FEED.
