Reddit is so transphobic
I'll never understand how so many anime fans became transphobes. Isn't a big theme in a lot of animes acceptance of people that are different from you? Like, how do these dorks miss those messages?
(not defending them, but) Most of them don't seem to have a specific problem with trans people, they're just highly reactionary and extremely hostile to the idea that the words they use and the tropes they perpetuate are harmful or alienating to trans people.
I think part of it is also that a lot of younger weebs are trying to emulate what they perceive the online anime community as being, but in doing so end up clinging on to the most random jokes/tropes and running them into the ground. I guarantee that most of the people complaining on Reddit are 16 or under.
That makes sense. That would also explain why I've seen nothing but acceptance at anime conventions, most con goers there were over 16.
There is definitely a portion of the sub that is either ambivalent towards the new rule or actively support it, they just don't want to speak up in front of the angry hoard. Within a week or two, the children on the sub will get tired of complaining and things will go back to normal with them going back to switching between posting shitty Re:Zero and Oregairu memes depending on which one aired the most recently
Oh, trust me, the terminally online weebs hate the idea of conventions and think that people walking around like the weebs they are in public is cringe.
How sad. I'd hate to have to hide any of my interests like that.
It's like gay conservatives who complain about Pride Parade.
I don't think they have anything against trans people. My guess is they think they didn't use the world in reference to trans people so they don't want the word to be banned because others did
it's been going for a couple of days now I think. I appreciate the mods but...
Still got an account?
Go out with a bang and post a slightly Japanese-looking 2D nude!
ehh, that just annoys the mods, who as I said I appreciate. if I had a way to get to the frontpage mocking transphobes, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Analyze every top post and mix them together, then edit your post to fuck with the phobes after you get up to Hot.
God I took a look at the subreddit and the arguments are so dumb. "Well this word is an offensive slur thrown against trans people by all the most awful corners of the internet and is perceived as such by everyone aware of these issues, but we use it in a totally cool way. People just don't UNDERSTAND us." If it really didn't matter, just choose a different fucking word. One that isn't so loaded.
I always wonder whether places like this are truly self-deluding themselves on the hateful nature of their own language, or if they are completely aware and just cynically lying about their own beliefs in order to spare themselves scrutiny.
God, they're STILL going on about this shit? Don't they have anything better to do?
God, what's up with anime fans being such asshats? I love anime myself so it isn't a necessary thing but there's so many of them.
my theory is that it used to be a niche thing that people were kind of ostracised for (in schools anyway), but got mainstream, so the "OG" fans resented the "normies" invading "their space" and got more and more reactionary
same deal with gamers
That actually makes a lot of sense. Hell, even when I went onto the sub one of the posts in hot was about that. It was saying the people who came over from other subs are invading "their" space after forcing them out of the mainstream. They used the "why are you excluding us" comic by webcomicname.com whose LGBT ironically.
yeah, I sympathise with the whole "you mocked us for liking a thing, but now thing is cool and you want in" thing, but it isn't an excuse to be shitty to people who probably weren't even the ones mocking you in the first place
https://old.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns/comments/7hiz7c/the_true_art_of_trapping/
Stealing traa content is praxis
The current top post of /hot on that shithole is comparing aforementioned slur to calling people weebs/incels
Oh shit i didn't notice the different spelling
this entire post makes way more sense now!
That subreddit has always been a shithole, and has never really been funny. I appreciate the efforts of the mods there, and I'm glad they're not backing down. Luckily I think we're already starting to see people get tired of the constant bitching about it.
Cis het guy here, but am I wrong in thinking that most of the trans people I see online have anime avatars?
Most trans people have avatars of the characters they wanna look like lol
