losing my mind trying to explain how jk rowling isn’t just Some Terf, she was a well established celebrity who brought anti-trans ideology to the general public and that doesn’t compare to public terfs who you’ll only know of if youre in trans or terf circles. not everyone has heard of posey parker but EVERYBODY has heard of jkr. she got to explain trans issues to people who didnt know about it before her so all the convo was on her terms. she is not just some person with a twitter.
i hauve a cold
is that person actually "demanding emotional labour" from you or did you follow one shitty therapist on twitter
while we're at it did that person actually "violate a boundary" or have you been reading /r/relationships again
I'm not just speaking as someone who was abused by a partner who loved doing their emotional manipulation through therapy-speak. I genuinely think this is a huge societal problem and it's how we've ended up with, eg, terfs inventing the clearly batshit idea that you can apply a "consent" framework to who gets to exist around you in public spaces and making it a cornerstone of their fascist bullshit
If you’re reaction to this Neil Gaiman stuff is to crow how “I always hated his work” or “I knew he had bad vibes” I want you to stop, and understand what I hear, which is “they deserved it”
“But no” you say! That wasn’t what you meant. You just wanted to-
What? Talk about how you always knew better? That you were above falling for the act? That you always knew something was off? You are good enough to know evil when you see it?
Cool. So they were too stupid to know better? That they fell for the act? That they should have known something was off like you? That they weren’t good enough to spot this coming?
“That’s not what I meant! I meant his fans!”
Some of his fans were his victims. So only they deserved it?
“Not his fans who were his victims but his annoying fans-“
That’s what you’re getting from this? That you can finally brag to those annoying fans about how stupid they were for liking his work because…. a monstrous level of abuse happened. Glad you’re enjoying putting those fans in their place with….a bunch of horrific sex crimes.
Anyway, people who are making this about Gaiman’s work or his characters have lost the plot, I agree there. But people making this about how smart they were, how they knew better?
Think about what you’re actually saying and maybe shut the fuck up.
The different and sometimes tiring types of reactions to the neil gaiman allegations
- ‘neil didn’t write good omens’ (he did and we simply have to learn to separate art from artist)
- ‘how dare you think about anything else but the victims’ (people can care about multiple things at once + these allegations have been known for months and months?? some of us have processed this)
- ‘how do david/michael/etc feel about this’ (it’s none of our business)
- ‘donate to victims of sa’ (sure if you can)
- ‘bdsm is fine WITH consent’ (it is)
- ‘everyone is innocent until proven guilty and i refuse to condemn him’ (go read the article / enjoy being blocked by me)
- ‘his writing was always Problematic’ (learn to separate art from real life victims of sexual abuse please)
- ‘his writing can still mean a lot to you without you being a bad person’ (yes. just try to avoid giving him money maybe)
- ‘it’s just terf propaganda’ (it really really isn’t. and fuck terfs)
- ‘reminder to prioritise your own mental health, step away from online spaces if you need to, and: you have no obligation to read the entire article if it’s too triggering’ (true. you’re still a good person i promise)
Where's that tweet about people still living long fulfilling lives even through the fall of the roman empire because I think about it constantly
"use chatgpt" that's the devil talking. buy four caffeinated drinks and pull an all nighter. this is the way.
i may lose 5% for a late submission, but at least no one can deny that i wrote it with my own tits i mean brain
"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????
"the world isnt kind" skill issue. I am
Imane Khelif for Vogue Arabia, photographed by Tarek Mawad
“what’s posted on the internet stays there forever” is true for everything except that one piece of fanart you saw when you were 10 that changed the trajectory of your life forever. you will never find that again it is gone forever
girls will see the moon everyday and be like MOON!!!?!!!?!!?!!?
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