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Aug. 31st, 2018 05:58 pmSo I considered attempting to do this in a way that ~laid my soul bare~ and was deeply personal and assumed good faith and tried to Achieve A Rapprochement or whatever, but actually, no, I can't quite believe this is a thing I have to say:
If you want to hang out cheerfully and happily with TERFs or "gender-critical feminists" or whatever the fuck you want to call them this week, I cannot cheerfully coexist socially with you.
It is really very simple.
I don't care how polite you're being about implying or outright stating that I'm deluded or lying or dangerous or, somehow, being disrespectful to nice "normal" people.
It's okay for you to go "I don't get it, can I ask you more questions?" It's better for you to go "I don't get it, but I don't need to" (see also: I fundamentally do not have any intuition for or gut-level belief in angular momentum but that doesn't mean it isn't real).
I am actively not okay with sharing social space with people who are willing to extend infinite sympathy and compassion and ~understanding~ to folk who are loud and vocal and proud about wanting me to not exist, without even doing me the courtesy of admitting that these people they are so friendly with are deliberately setting out to harm me.
Just... no.
If you want to hang out cheerfully and happily with TERFs or "gender-critical feminists" or whatever the fuck you want to call them this week, I cannot cheerfully coexist socially with you.
It is really very simple.
I don't care how polite you're being about implying or outright stating that I'm deluded or lying or dangerous or, somehow, being disrespectful to nice "normal" people.
It's okay for you to go "I don't get it, can I ask you more questions?" It's better for you to go "I don't get it, but I don't need to" (see also: I fundamentally do not have any intuition for or gut-level belief in angular momentum but that doesn't mean it isn't real).
I am actively not okay with sharing social space with people who are willing to extend infinite sympathy and compassion and ~understanding~ to folk who are loud and vocal and proud about wanting me to not exist, without even doing me the courtesy of admitting that these people they are so friendly with are deliberately setting out to harm me.
Just... no.