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lolothesilly · 1 year ago

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god. sorry to add on your post but i was thinking about this exact issue yesterday but specifically as it applies to the trans community. SPECIFICALLY as it applies to people (trans AND cis) deciding that its acceptable to misgender shitty trans people, as if using someone's stated pronouns is a privilege that can be revoked, as if misgendering is a "punishment" for being a "bad trans".

sometimes individual trans people just fucking suck! that does not make them less trans and that does not make it magically not transphobic to misgender them! it is not anyone's prerogative to pick and choose which trans people "deserve" to be gendered correctly! but thats too much nuance for the internet to handle i guess.

people need to accept that some gay/lgbt people are terrible and some gay/lgbt people are boring and it doesnt make them Actually Straight or anything

#ask to tag #yes this is about chris chan #and i guess caitlyn jenner as well? but shes less relevant these days #sorry i hope this is like. relevant enough to your original point #if not i'll gladly delete this + make my own post + reblog again without comment #@ op #but yeah. sometimes lgbt individuals are assholes! that does not make them Not LGBT! it just makes them assholes!#and claiming someone cant possibly be Really LGBT bc of their assholeness is actually queerphobic #telling any lgbt person their identity is fake is inherently queerphobic regardless of whether theyre a Good Person #its not about them as an individual its about feeding into bigotry as a system #and its about not deluding ourselves into thinking our own community doesnt have shitty people who need to be dealt with #its the moral equivalent of spraying febreeze on the trash can and pretending its not full #taking out the trash is not a one time thing. there will always be more trash to take out. there will always be more bigotry to fight again #you cant just say ''we dont claim this person'' and act like thats ANYTHING #because. its not. it solves zero problems. you have not cleaned your room just bc you shoved your dirty laundry under the bed!!!#its still there it still stinks!!!!#throw it in the wash and be prepared to keep throwing dirty socks in the wash for the rest of your life!!!#THERE ARE ALWAYS MORE DIRTY SOCKS!!!! OUR WORK IS NOT FINISHED!!!!! THE MORE COMPLACENT WE GET THE BIGGER THE MESS WILL GROW!!!!!#cough cough anywayyy i need to sleep haha sorry

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