novatorine 🏴🏳️⚧️Honestly this whole fucking tactic from #TheBadSpace defenders of insisting that the trans women who are upset with them and their disingenuous, dismissive, downplaying, darvo rhetoric are just racist and incapable of overcoming their whiteness sounds very much like the way conservatives use sexualization of children and pedophilia as cudgels against... oh look, trans women again! All you have to do is accuse us of something that everyone agrees is very bad and then it becomes impossible for anyone to defend us because it sounds like they are defending the bad thing, and it becomes impossible for us to defend ourselves because that's what bad-thingers would say. And this works especially well on trans women because we are entitled white women Karen's when it's convenient and male socialized manly male men when it's convenient and you can just rhetorically put us in whatever pigeonhole is convenient for you in the moment to discount what we say.
I've spent basically the last two days trying to tease out and articulate and examine this deeply disingenuous rhetoric, and it's been an incredibly nerve-wracking process because these constant accusations mean there's this toxic reek around everything so that if you touch it you can very easily end up accused of terrible things without ever doing anything — see Welsh Pixie putting someone on fediblock as using racist slurs because they bleeped out the word asshole even though asshole doesn't even have the same number of letters as any slurs — and at the same time, there's this constant self doubt that's very much weaponized by the people that use this rhetoric, where, because you actually do genuinely care about the issues that these people are co-opting, you wonder if you truly are whatever bad thing it is and just aren't able to notice it because half the rhetoric around this is about how if you're a bad thing you won't know if you're bad thing.
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