continued Thatfucker discussion

[anonniemouse]

Since we've been kicked off FFA for the week, please feel free to continue the anon discussion here. Apologies if this is a big flop - I've never made a DW community before!

The rules are vaguely the same as they are over on FFA. Please refrain from being too much of an asshole, making personal attacks, posting identifying information or engaging in transfail.

ETA: If there's information you'd like to see archived (journal/blog posts related to Andy, etc.), please dump it here and link to it from the main post for discussing.

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Re: DIscussion of Facebook messages: Carlanime/Necromommycon and Andy

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

right, right!
all in all, I feel like there is space to discuss these concerns in this meme, so that's great and it's not like this is a simple thing people agree on (even people interested in this stuff - I actually would super like to discuss Andy with local human rights activists and what they think is a good way to write about a person like him?)

I hate to bring up Aja's article, but it strikes me as a good example of pussyfooting around Andy's gender way too much - like not even mentioning his old identities in full name. You can definitely go too far in this direction as well.

But mostly I think people are angry at him, and I think that sometimes causes people to grasp at things that are not ok. As you have said, grasping at things that are common practices among trans people.