If you wanna know their logic, it’s headache-inducing but identifiable:
They think being trans is a creepy fetish thing, only engaged in by degenerate sexual predators and their victims, who get tricked into thinking they’re trans through these predators’ grooming and manipulation. (Unflattering phrasing intentional because that’s literally how a lot of them talk about this)
My joke required the belief that children can be trans, an idea which they think fundamentally can’t be true.
Therefore, my joke can’t have been about actual experiences I literally had as a young trans girl. My joke must have been a projection of my feelings onto other people’s childhoods, a sinister insertion of transness (which to them is, again, a disgusting fetish only engaged in by predators and the people manipulated and groomed into being their victims) into the experience of playing pokemon as a young kid.
And therefore, they further conclude that this joke is specifically a trap which I set for young/teenage boys on Twitter, who would see this, remember some instance when they picked the girl trainer while playing pokemon, and start talking to me online, at which point I would pressure and manipulate them into thinking they’re trans women and starting HRT. (That’s another thing. These transphobes are obsessed in particular with the idea that trans women are tricking ‘their victims’ into starting HRT. The person who wrote the most popular hate-tweet about me also wrote a thread immediately after the hate-tweet titled “How Transpeople Manipulate You Into Starting HRT”. They’re for some reason utterly fucking terrified of the idea that someone, particularly anyone they perceive as a boy, could start HRT but then decide it’s not right for them.)
Anyway a much more concise explanation of their logic is this tweet, written by someone who made a couple threads about all the hate my joke was receiving:
So yeah, that’s the bullshit transphobes get up to. It’s literally conspiracy theory.
There’s something deeply cursed about eBay listings for used single halves of Best Friends necklaces.
If you buy one of these you are forcibly befriended on the astral plane by whoever has the other half
I still want to play DnD as a hapless Warlock who ends up getting an extradimensional patron by accident and against their will after putting on one half of a gold Best Friends pendant thinking it was just treasure they’d be able to sell. NOPE. THE CONTRACT IS SEALED. YOU AIN’T NEVER HAD A FRIEND LIKE ME.
what if when icarus fell apollo caught him before he hit the sea, arms as warm as the sun, but safer.
what if when ariadne cast the rope across a broken branch aphrodite stepped in with a reminder that this, this is not the kind of love you die for.
what if when achilles was ready for war ares appeared with a smile and said “you win well when you win, but what are you unwilling to lose if you lose?” and achilles knew the answer.
if you could retell the tale wouldn’t you want to tell it kinder? wouldn’t you want to give them peace, even love, where you could?
nb linhardt postcard & a comic about linhardt’s faith for @rallyspectrumzine! i have A Lot of thoughts about linhardt and getting to articulate some of them for this wonderful zine was a great privilege 💗✨
