unironically can't bring myself to hate her though because she was one of the people who made me start to see some of the cracks in capitalist realism

  • frankfurt_schoolgirl [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I agree with this, it's frustrating how every time she gets mentioned we have to veer wildly between "she's a transmedicalist who hates enbies" and "people hate her because she's pretty".

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      there's also very clearly a lot of transmisogyny lumped in with it as well, even here (see the comment misgendering her). but she's also got pretty shitty views on NBs and comes a little close to the transmedicalist line for comfort. (+ liberalism, obviously)

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it's a messy, difficult situation. It's why i'm always very skeptical when online drama focusses on trans people, especially trans women. We're not above having crappy takes and we shouldn't be exempt from criticism, but people have this habit of immediately getting more vitriolic when the crappy take comes from a woman, and that goes doubly for women who are also marginalized in other ways. On one hand i'm like "there's millions of white cishet dudes with the same opinion and thousands of them have bigger reach than this girl, why not dunk on them instead?", but ofc you can raise criticism of public-facing women that aren't soaked in transmysogyny.