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

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    2 years 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.