The woman is horrible and I mostly just want her to stop hurting people, but I do think that replies like this do more harm than good for trans people. Transphobes want to depict us as extremely violent and unsympathetic, and this image sure doesn’t come off sympathetically unless you have all the context and already think that she’s a horrible person. It gives her rhetorical ammo to further fight our acceptance in society.
You don’t play it to her, you play it to the crowd she’s trying to convince. When we’re being rougher around the edges we should be targeted. The Stonewall riots are a great example, we had been attacked by the law and resisted violently. ACT UP was loud and disruptive and never let you forget that it was about our people dying.
I’m not saying we should be quiet about her or play nice with her, I’m saying when you go on the offensive make sure that someone who has no idea what’s going on here and might be sympathetic to your cause doesn’t think you’re the bad guy. Constantly saying “kill yourself” to a children’s author turned bigotry financier without even bringing up why she’s evil when you do it is just venting your anger, not advancing our cause.
The right is going to depict us as unsympathetic and violent no matter what we do. They feel no responsibility to the truth because the crowd they play to believes everything they say without question. Playing the good queer gets us nowhere. Their acceptance cannot be gained that way.
Yeah, but there are a lot of people they’re trying to convince to be bigots and you sure can aid in their arguments or hinder them. I’m not going to pretend that people who are undecided on if I deserve rights or who only kinda lean one way are good people. But I want us to make the bigots have to work for it to make us come off badly, or at the very least when we come off badly for it to actually have a chance at advancing anything.
So I guess really my attitude is: what good do posts like this and replies like depicted in it actually serve? Because as far as I’m concerned if I were conducting an anti trans psyop I’d absolutely be encouraging that behavior. It feels good while being easier than activism, community building, and being a positive first interaction with trans people, all while giving plenty of room to allow bigots to claim that they’re the victims of the people they’re actually taking rights from.
She’s had ample opportunity to educate herself and come around. She’s refused to do so and has continued to double down on her bigotry. Fuck that bitch. Anyone that would be sympathetic to her should dome themselves too.
The woman is horrible and I mostly just want her to stop hurting people, but I do think that replies like this do more harm than good for trans people. Transphobes want to depict us as extremely violent and unsympathetic, and this image sure doesn’t come off sympathetically unless you have all the context and already think that she’s a horrible person. It gives her rhetorical ammo to further fight our acceptance in society.
Hon, don’t try and play Good Queer to people who want you gone. It doesn’t work. That’s explicitly why we have Pride.
You don’t play it to her, you play it to the crowd she’s trying to convince. When we’re being rougher around the edges we should be targeted. The Stonewall riots are a great example, we had been attacked by the law and resisted violently. ACT UP was loud and disruptive and never let you forget that it was about our people dying.
I’m not saying we should be quiet about her or play nice with her, I’m saying when you go on the offensive make sure that someone who has no idea what’s going on here and might be sympathetic to your cause doesn’t think you’re the bad guy. Constantly saying “kill yourself” to a children’s author turned bigotry financier without even bringing up why she’s evil when you do it is just venting your anger, not advancing our cause.
The right is going to depict us as unsympathetic and violent no matter what we do. They feel no responsibility to the truth because the crowd they play to believes everything they say without question. Playing the good queer gets us nowhere. Their acceptance cannot be gained that way.
You can’t simply “comply” your way into being accepted by bigots, nothing you do will ever be good enough for them.
Yeah, but there are a lot of people they’re trying to convince to be bigots and you sure can aid in their arguments or hinder them. I’m not going to pretend that people who are undecided on if I deserve rights or who only kinda lean one way are good people. But I want us to make the bigots have to work for it to make us come off badly, or at the very least when we come off badly for it to actually have a chance at advancing anything.
So I guess really my attitude is: what good do posts like this and replies like depicted in it actually serve? Because as far as I’m concerned if I were conducting an anti trans psyop I’d absolutely be encouraging that behavior. It feels good while being easier than activism, community building, and being a positive first interaction with trans people, all while giving plenty of room to allow bigots to claim that they’re the victims of the people they’re actually taking rights from.
Here, I’m straight, I’ll post this meme to her. Better?
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She’s asking about vapes so now she’s a double tit, so she can get all that’s coming to her.
Counterpoint: the venn diagram of transphobes and fascists is a circle, and the only language fascists understand is violence.
She’s had ample opportunity to educate herself and come around. She’s refused to do so and has continued to double down on her bigotry. Fuck that bitch. Anyone that would be sympathetic to her should dome themselves too.