#but I've been waiting for the larger community (aka the lovely trans lady commies I follow) to address it for years and I'm so glad

[fatbitchneedsfoodbadly]

I've been up constipated since 3 am, so maybe this isn't the proper venue for me to be talking about this BUUUUUT... As someone who watched (and enjoyed because I don't care about the show or nuance) Lily Orchard's shitty steven universe video, and as someone who's learned a lot about how trans women (and people who go against the garden variety liberal narrative) get harassed ad infinite if they dare to say something that people don't like, I can safely say that her harassers don't care about her victims. They just don't. I won't sit here and defend her if she is truly guilty of the heinous things her sister accused her of, but the fact of the matter is that Lily's detractors could care less about CSA or anything that her sister has to say. And I will also say that her sister may one day have to contend with the fact that she and her trauma was used by a bunch of freaks on the internet to completely destroy the reputation of one of her family members to the detriment of them both. I won't place any blame on her or even accuse her of lying. The worse case scenario that I'm willing to concede is that the sister, as the victim, decided that revenge was the only path towards personal justice, and went into this knowing full well that these people didn't give two shits about her. Even if that were the case, it's still sad that she allowed herself to be (or was unwittingly) used in this manner. I say all this to say that even taking Lily's worst crimes into account, it's only ever used as a gotcha to silence critics who rightfully point out that, at the end of the day, this is just another case of liberal fandom treatlerites (shoutout to the originator of this term; iykyk) harassing a woman, a trans woman at that, for daring to having an opinion that they didn't like. Literally everything else is superfluous, and as soon as I realized this, I knew that it was the worst case scenario for for any of Lily's actual victims. There is no justice in this. Lily's not going to jail over this, and if the sister is still active online, I pray that she doesn't wake up one day and realize that it was all for nothing. Worse than nothing.