like not to psychoanalyse people online but you kinda have to realize that while you might go to bed thinking about your plans for tomorrow or for later in the week or some movie you wanna watch or videogames or about dating or about some cooking you wanna do, basically all the most popular users in TERF tumblr go to bed thinking about what unhinged anti-trans shit they’re going to post as soon as they wake up next day, what users they want to harass, and what anti-trans talking points they’ll be obsessing over the next day, and they do this every day because their blogs have uninterrupted streaks of transmisogynist bullshit numbering in the hundreds of posts. it’s a level of obsession i think most people can’t even hope to be familiar with, and it’s entirely driven by hate and fear and revulsion.
i’ve literally seen testimonials by active users of r/gendercritical saying that this obsession has taken over their lives and describing themselves as driven by an actual addiction to post and share and invent new anti-trans women talking points every day and harass and shame and attack and invent rumors because it literally gives a sense of meaning to their entire lives. they’re like, acknowledging that they’re monomaniacally obsessed with us and that it forms the centerpoint of their entire existence and basically being super close to admitting they should stop, but not doing so because they’re surrounded by a faux-community of equally obsessive hateful people who encourage them to keep going. terfism is basically a fad in maladaptive coping mechanisms for cis women who would rather cope by engaging in daily attempts at harming people they see as disposable than by engaging in any introspection.
