Yknow I get the feeling they wouldn’t dare correct a TIM if he said something islamophobic, racist or misogynistic(or that they just wouldn’t care), but they’re incredibly comfortable and eager in ‘correcting’ a Muslim woman of colour on her alleged transphobia
this whole jeffrey marsh shit on tiktok has shown that far too many “allies” can be susceptible to transphobia and terf bullshit.
you saw someone who is presumably amab yet presents in a feminine way, saw out of context tiktok clips and screen recordings of an 18+ patreon with a cisgender person claiming that was “evidence of grooming” and instead of doing actual research that would prove her bullshit for what it is, when “yup, sounds legit!”
it’s disgusting.
you do not have to like jeffrey marsh or agree with everything that they say - I don’t necessarily agree with everything that they say - but that doesn’t make them a fucking child groomer.
Jeffrey Marsh is getting some rightful criticism over on twitter dot com and I thought it would be a good time to remind everyone that even if he was coming at us with his whole approach in a completely above board way, with no nefarious intentions, then he’s doing it really really badly. If you don’t want people to accuse you of grooming kids, then don’t make content for kids that tells them you want to chat to them in private, that they’re so special and you can see it, that no one understands them, that they should cut off their families but talk to you because you actually appreciate them, etc. If you don’t want people to accuse you of dodgy stuff, then go out of your way to appear not dodgy.
I work with teenagers, and I suppose you’re just going to have to take my word for it that I’m not a safeguarding threat, but I’m not a safeguarding threat. I know I’m not, and I still go out of my way to make it very very very clear that I’m not. Never alone in a room with a child, never saying anything too familiar or friendly in case it’s misinterpreted beyond the supportive statement it would be meant as, always making really clear that nothing is just between me and them (I am not bound by any confidentiality requirements, at all).
You know the best way to stop people accusing you of being dodgy? Don’t be dodgy.
I'm all for someone having an opinion [I'll certainly let you know when I disagree with it]. But this modern system of cyber bullying BY ADULTS, who should know better, is DISGUSTING. Fight your own damn battles, Jeffrey Marsh, you loser. Too much of a nothing to manage on your own, eh? So you have to call up your army of THINGS to harass someone who objects to you grooming children. What a spineless whiner.
That host disrespected me as a person, and maybe he even hated me without knowing me. But the whole thing taught me a valuable lesson: If he can hate me without knowing me, if so many people can hate me, that means that I can love anyone and everyone without knowing them.
i remember when jeffrey marsh followed me on instagram liking my posts and commenting weird things when i was still transitioning. i wish i still had the comments because they were...just fucking weird comments. i started transitioning when i was 19 so if that isn't weird enough itself...
I think Jeffrey Marsh once said that the reason why one may feel uncomfortable at work and why one may wish to quit is because work reminds them too much of their childhood and family dynamics and I really can relate to that. Like whole heartedly.