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[anonniemouse]

Please use this post for discussion of those contentious, murky, triggering issues too complex to discuss/moderate on the main post.

Note that this post is NOT a free-for-all and will still be modded for slurs, namecalling, doxxing and trolling. But fair warning that it will not be moderated for discussion of issues some find triggering (trans issues, mental illness, etc.) and that if you choose to participate here, you do so at your own risk.

Comments

Re: Andy's "I was harassed by an Avengers fanboy" story

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, in actual circumstances where drunk asshole mistakes androgynous dude for a woman, violent homophobic backlash to the gender reveal is a real concern.

Re: Andy's "I was harassed by an Avengers fanboy" story

[(Anonymous)]

Hell, not to mention the transphobia. I'm a very androgynous trans man and have had to keep my damn mouth shut when creeps misgender me and start hitting on me because if I correct them, it's not just the backlash of homophobia I face, it's transphobia and shit like threats of corrective rape. If Andy thinks there is 'safety' of revealing one's gender as a trans person in this kind of situation he is either a) completely and totally unaware of exactly how fucking dangerous that is, or b) making the whole thing up.

Maybe a little column A, a little column B, actually. Either way there's a hell of a lot of bullshit in that post.

Re: Andy's "I was harassed by an Avengers fanboy" story

[(Anonymous)]

It's not like there's a Transgender Day of Remembrance, to honor the memory of trans people who were killed because of transphobia, many of them because of the so-called "trans panic" ("gay panic"'s younger sibling) that their killers felt when they realized the person they were hitting on (or making out with, or had sex with, or even just were romantically interested in sometimes) was trans. Nope, these things never happen.