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[+] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (22 children)
  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    This is not okay.

    If you are an ally, as I think you at least want to be, this can't be the response. You did, in fact, respond to a post about trans visibility with a long rambling post about yourself. The response to being told that this isn't the place for it was again, egocentric defensiveness.

    An ally who is an ally until they're challenged at which point they wave their ally flag around in indignation is not an ally. What you're doing here is using other people's queerness, people who are not you, to push back against queer people daring to challenge your unconsidered sense of entitlement to queer spaces and identity.

    Do you realize how common this is? Do you know how many people will casually make a transphobic joke and then chew out trans people who take exception to it while insisting that they have trans friends so it's okay? You deigning to be friends with trans people doesn't mean you should stop listening to trans people.

    It's not okay. You can do better.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (16 children)

    Dude, I wasn't saying you aren't supportive enough. Just, that you are taking up too much space! This day is (was) literally meant to be a celebration of trans people and their struggles and you try to make it about yourself. So yes, it would be exactly the right occasion to for one day validate us. And if you don't want to, then just shut up.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Siiiiiiiiiiiigh

    Why are the cis like this

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

    By this logic, anyone who isn't Black shouldn't talk for all of Black History Month. It's an absurd expectation.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    You're still saying your supporters have no right to a voice unless they're exactly like you. That is a very slippery slope, since, ostensibly, the point of a day of awareness is to promote conversation. That's exactly the sort of argument people make to oppose trans rights in the first place.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Your anecdotes are cute but I think you're kinda missing the point where it's very explicitly about trans voices.

    With friends like you who needs enemies?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Read what I said again, slower, and ask yourself why asking for a space for our voices to be heard feels like an attack to you.

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  • [+] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    🥺 okay then buddy, grow up?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    No my thesis is you're playing the victim card and it's fucking pathetic.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    How am I doing so? Please, let me know so that I can avoid doing so in the future. "Fucking pathetic" only indicates that you did not like what I said, not any alternative worldview other than "you're cis, and therefore the enemy."

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I believe your heart is on the right place, and would risk the same for your convictions, but analyse from a practical point of view. Is the discussion dominating this post on topic or off topic? When should arguments have stopped in name of be(e)ing nice?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    I wrote one comment and was content to leave it there. The only reason the conversation has dragged on is that I had no right to participate on a public forum.

    I've been engaged in activism for quite some time, and the reactions I got increasingly irritated by are exactly how you kill sympathy for your cause. Engage. Educate. Telling people they shouldn't even be there by the trans community is so tone-deaf that I'm having trouble following how the vitriol advances the movement.

    I'm trying to help. I'm trying to explain how organizing and building a community works, and I keep being told that being cis means I have nothing to contribute. It's sort of devolved into vegans attacking vegetarians for cruelty. Neither eats meat, yet they focus on their differences instead of realizing they have the same ethics, just draw lines differently.

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