Dearest, gentle blogger:

Hhhmmmm. Do I swing a bat at a hornet’s nest tonight…

Eh, fuck it

Crosshair is the new Kylo Ren in the sense he is very much “uwu poor baby”-ed when. No, no he’s not really

No, no i wanna hear more

You know, I will elaborate thank you for giving me the chance

Honestly, if you sit down and compare a lot of the way the fandom treated Kylo and now treats Crosshair the parallels are astounding. Genuinely, I bet I can predict where the discourse with Crosshair will go just based on where the discourse went with Kylo.

Kylo was a bad person and because people found him hot, they tried to justify things. Oh, he killed Han because Han was a bad father! Oh, he killed all those kids at Jedi school because they bullied him! Oh, he tortured Rey because he loves her! It doesn’t matter why he did it, it just matters he did fucked up and bad things. However, because people found him hot, they just tried to pull any and all excuses as to why it really wasn’t Kylo’s fault, he’s just a poor victim. He’s my sweet little uwu man

And you know what? I’m seeing the exact same pattern with Crosshair right now. Oh, he shot at the Batch because of his chip! Oh, he just felt betrayed that’s why he committed war crimes and turned to the Empire! Oh, he’s not a bully because everyone else was bullying him! You can trace the same arguments people used for Kylo with Crosshair. Don’t even get me started on how the “well the chip made him do it” is like “Well, Snoke was in Kylo’s head the whole time!”

I’m going to make a cursed prediction, and I expect all of the dodgeballs thrown my way when it comes true. If they were to ever give Crosshair a love interest, it will follow the same path as Reylo. It’ll be okay Crosshair tortured her for information or even shot her because he loves her. He gets a redemption arc by saving her!

It’s just… People feel the need to justify why they want to fuck Crosshair, just as they felt the need to do so with Kylo. So they make the character toothless and act as if they’re not responsible for anything in their life. They’re the victim, not everyone else. And since Crosshair is the victim, when he very obviously isn’t, then it’s okay to want to fuck him

Anyway. Crosshair is the new Kylo Ren is what I’m saying

@lady–kenobi So Crosshair is a bad-boo-boo cuz you don’t like him and you’re going so far as saying he’d be an abusive partner, taking an obvious dig at anyone who likes him which is none of your business

But Aemond Targaryen is suddenly okay? 🤣

Fuck, talk about being a hypocrite and throwing morality out the window when it comes to something you like.

And Fox.

Fox killed Fives and y'all still like him, there’s no way around it. Maybe just mind your own business from here on out instead 🤷🏻‍♀️

And don’t tell me “boo hoo Fox was ordered to” because literally Crosshair was ordered to as well. Just leave people alone and stop playing high and mighty.

talk about being a hypocrite and throwing morality out the window when it comes to something you like.

Hhhmmmm. Do I swing a bat at a hornet’s nest tonight…

Eh, fuck it

Crosshair is the new Kylo Ren in the sense he is very much “uwu poor baby”-ed when. No, no he’s not really

No, no i wanna hear more

You know, I will elaborate thank you for giving me the chance

Honestly, if you sit down and compare a lot of the way the fandom treated Kylo and now treats Crosshair the parallels are astounding. Genuinely, I bet I can predict where the discourse with Crosshair will go just based on where the discourse went with Kylo.

Kylo was a bad person and because people found him hot, they tried to justify things. Oh, he killed Han because Han was a bad father! Oh, he killed all those kids at Jedi school because they bullied him! Oh, he tortured Rey because he loves her! It doesn’t matter why he did it, it just matters he did fucked up and bad things. However, because people found him hot, they just tried to pull any and all excuses as to why it really wasn’t Kylo’s fault, he’s just a poor victim. He’s my sweet little uwu man

And you know what? I’m seeing the exact same pattern with Crosshair right now. Oh, he shot at the Batch because of his chip! Oh, he just felt betrayed that’s why he committed war crimes and turned to the Empire! Oh, he’s not a bully because everyone else was bullying him! You can trace the same arguments people used for Kylo with Crosshair. Don’t even get me started on how the “well the chip made him do it” is like “Well, Snoke was in Kylo’s head the whole time!”

I’m going to make a cursed prediction, and I expect all of the dodgeballs thrown my way when it comes true. If they were to ever give Crosshair a love interest, it will follow the same path as Reylo. It’ll be okay Crosshair tortured her for information or even shot her because he loves her. He gets a redemption arc by saving her!

It’s just… People feel the need to justify why they want to fuck Crosshair, just as they felt the need to do so with Kylo. So they make the character toothless and act as if they’re not responsible for anything in their life. They’re the victim, not everyone else. And since Crosshair is the victim, when he very obviously isn’t, then it’s okay to want to fuck him

Anyway. Crosshair is the new Kylo Ren is what I’m saying

@lady--kenobi So Crosshair is a bad-boo-boo cuz you don't like him and you're going so far as saying he'd be an abusive partner, taking an obvious dig at anyone who likes him which is none of your business

But Aemond Targaryen is suddenly okay? 🤣

Fuck, talk about being a hypocrite and throwing morality out the window when it comes to something you like.

Imagine hating a show so much that you're willing to sit through it just to pick on the people who do enjoy it 😂

Think about it.

A fan who enjoys a show and is capable of recognizing its flaws and giving a valid analysis because they've invested their time willing and openly gives a much more valid critique than someone who is notorious for only ever being a bitter voice on any subject they touch, only ever makes angry-coded comments and has ridiculous standards for the people acceptable to interact with them.

Take every comment from whom it's coming from 😉

Also don't go around starting the whole hate bullying towards fans who happen to gravitate towards Crosshair's character.

This was a big problem during season 1, with many fans of Crosshair being called terrible things that shouldn't be thrown around lightly, especially not to fearmonger, to prove a point, or to feel superior.

Crosshair is a fictional character (one who ended up in his position through manipulation and literal mind control at that) and Star Wars has countless more characters in the Empire, many who are far worse than Crosshair, many who are adored by the fans clutching their pearls at this one clone.

Don't go around harassing the fans of the show, and don't go around harassing the fans of this character.

After about a year (bit longer) of being in the fandom and observing "Crosshair fans" I've noticed most of them (with a few minor exceptions, and even they shouldn't be labeled as acceptable targets for violence and harassment) are very sane, very kind people who only like him that much because they're capable of seeing things as not black and white.

That is the whole point of Crosshair.

I think it's a decent time to reblog this and remind people to let people have fucking fun with what they do in fandom, as in, time spent in a fictional universe.

Not everything in media has to be political or perfect and it certainly doesn't have to cater to your tastes for it to be good, and you certainly don't have to go around look at my hot takes i'm better than you-ing people who really don't want to hear how much you particularly hate on something they love.

Quit ruining what should be a good experience for others and invest that energy in things where you'll actually make a difference instead of shitting on others because it's easier for you :)

Leave other fans to their own devices, they don't care what you think and don't want you in their noses trying to convince them otherwise.

A lot of people like to say radical feminists are white women and therefore white supremac*sts and whatnot. Have you not noticed that a lot of radical feminists aren't even white?

We're Mexican. We're Latin American. We're from India, from the Middle East, from Asia. We're from places where it is life and death to be a woman. Where we're targeted as criminals for protesting the injustice we live every day, where one late night might mean we won't return home, where our sex means a difference in how we're treated all our life in every aspect of it. Jobs, socializing, studies. Everything.

Take a look at Iran. At Mexico. At Korea. Do some research before you throw around words like white supremac*st and n*zi around like they mean nothing when you're talking about radical feminists, the women fighting and putting their lives on the line to stop all of this horrible, terrifying violence against us. Literally, google any of these countries next to the word "femicide" and open your eyes a little to the harsh truth (and I must warn you, if you do this, the results will be upsetting).

You guys like to tag radical feminism as this horrible trend that oppresses other movements when in reality, it's a handful of new, "progressive", "liberal" movements that are trying to demerit and oppress feminism and feminists, whether they're aware of it or not.

If your movement has to take away women's rights, you need to revise what it is you're fighting for and how you're doing it.

I am a radical feminist because I am tired of living in fear. I am tired of hearing in the news of another woman whose life was brutally ended simply because she was a woman.

We're not dying out here, we're being murdered. We're being discriminated, we're being denied safety and body autonomy and the right to choose over what happens to our bodies, we're unable to earn the same as a man for doing the same job, we're unable to express a strong character without being called manipulative or hysterical. We have so. much. bullshit to deal with simply because we are women.

And you still think our sole purpose is to target some random movement and some set of pronouns? No, honey, feminists, real feminists, have our priorities very clear.

What we don't like is that now, we have to be reduced to our organs and that we can't even freely call ourselves women because some people will be offended even by that. I cannot fathom how some people still don't realize the slap in the face that is calling women "uterus-havers" just to coddle other people. Use what pronouns you want, but don't take away women's right to call ourselves women - how absurd is that?! I can't call myself a women to not offend certain people!

Are you really telling me that, on top of having to deal with all of the risks that being a woman implies in my life, I have to not call myself a woman and instead use some odd, progressive term just so I don't offend you?

No. Enough is enough.

Women do not deserve to be silenced, on the verge of the year 2023, because other people with very specific needs and wants, want to be coddled by us. Fight for your rights, by all means, but don't try to take away ours just so you can feel better.

Get a grip on what feminism is, what it stands for, and understand that radical feminism only exists because movement after movement tries to crush everything we've fought for and everything we've achieved.

And, if you're a woman and claim to be libfem, or claim to hate feminism, or claim that feminism doesn't represent you, think again. You're only able to have access to a computer or a mobile platform to express your opinion, wear pants, and have access to basic education, among countless other privileges you take for granted, because of feminism.

I mean, come on. A woman wishing for another woman (e.g. "terfs") to be hurt and die? How awful do you have to be to wish that upon another woman? Who's the bad feminist in this scenario?

Women should support and help women before all else, because we're all each other has. You can coddle and favor men all you want, but heaven forbid, if you ever have to deal with sexual harassment, gender violence, anything related, those men you defend won't help you. They will blame you. The men who love women who hate feminism are the men who are most prone to causing harm to a woman for any reason, and you're coddling them by saying "Oh, feminism isn't about me! I believe in not all men! Death to radfems!!"

Think about that if you consider yourself "libfem" - it's a lie. It's a goddamn lie fabricated to coddle and submit to people who feel entitled to our social struggle, people who are so privileged already that they have to find problems and social causes and make up endless terms and pronouns and bullshit to justify it.

Nothing justifies you trying to silence feminism when, all over the world, no matter what country you look into, women are hunted and hurt simply because we are women.

Get that in your heads.

Unfriendly fucking reminder that TERFs, SWERFs, and really any other self identified “radical feminists,” “gender abolitionists,” “womyn-born-womyn,” or anyone whose feminism is “female centric” (ie excludes trans women) are not fucking welcome here. You are not welcome to this space, to my posts, or anywhere near me. Get lost.

Um… what kind of person hates women because feminism is female centric?

Why shouldn’t feminism be female centric if it is literally called feminism because it was created for women to at least try to live decent, normal, safe lives?

And if women are still labelled acceptable targets for violence by people of different types, why shouldn’t we still be fighting for women?

Do you hate women that much?!

Gods, the woke, liberal, gendie mentality these days. While minorities all over are opressed, that doesn’t and shouldn’t try to erase the opression women receive since day one.

You shouldn’t hate women for wanting to keep themsleves safe from ideologies that actively want to do things that would erase our rights (I.E. if we begin saying that a “woman” can be someone with a penis, why should there be rights protecting a uterus if literally anyone can be a woman?) or prevent us from having spaces exclusive to women that were built like that for our safety. It is misogynistic to do so.

Just say you are a man who hates women or are a woman with internalized misogyny.

Women should be protected and women should prioritize their own and their fellow women’s safety before coddling anyone else.

This is my unfriendly fucking reminder that if you hate women you are not welcome here, you will not be welcome in many places, and if you’re willing to use the term TERF or whatnot and claim women deserve to die and be on the receiving end of even more violence because they deign to disagree with your opinion, you are a fucking mysoginyst.

Please, have some fucking critical thinking.

And the amount of women agreeing with OP's sort of mentality is alarming. Don't let yourselves be manipulated, keep yourselves safe.

Unfriendly fucking reminder that TERFs, SWERFs, and really any other self identified “radical feminists,” “gender abolitionists,” “womyn-born-womyn,” or anyone whose feminism is “female centric” (ie excludes trans women) are not fucking welcome here. You are not welcome to this space, to my posts, or anywhere near me. Get lost.

Um... what kind of person hates women because feminism is female centric?

Why shouldn't feminism be female centric if it is literally called feminism because it was created for women to at least try to live decent, normal, safe lives?

And if women are still labelled acceptable targets for violence by people of different types, why shouldn't we still be fighting for women?

Do you hate women that much?!

Gods, the woke, liberal, gendie mentality these days. While minorities all over are opressed, that doesn't and shouldn't try to erase the opression women receive since day one.

You shouldn't hate women for wanting to keep themsleves safe from ideologies that actively want to do things that would erase our rights (I.E. if we begin saying that a "woman" can be someone with a penis, why should there be rights protecting a uterus if literally anyone can be a woman?) or prevent us from having spaces exclusive to women that were built like that for our safety. It is misogynistic to do so.

Just say you are a man who hates women or are a woman with internalized misogyny.

Women should be protected and women should prioritize their own and their fellow women's safety before coddling anyone else.

This is my unfriendly fucking reminder that if you hate women you are not welcome here, you will not be welcome in many places, and if you're willing to use the term TERF or whatnot and claim women deserve to die and be on the receiving end of even more violence because they deign to disagree with your opinion, you are a fucking mysoginyst.

Please, have some fucking critical thinking.

"Women don't own womanhood" oh then who tf does? The 30-something year old man who decided he wanted to be a woman and knows nothing about what it's like to grow up silenced, marginalized, discriminated, harassed, treated like a sexual object, only validated based on unrealistic and even deadly beauty standards? Who must now be applauded for saying "I feel female!" Who must now, despite looking and sounding and behaving like a man, even before properly transitioning, be allowed into women-exclusive spaces which were only created to protect women from predators?

Right. Of course. (sarcasm, for those of you who can't understand the connotation)

All your progressive movements are crap; you guys have no idea what you're talking about, what you're saying, what messages you're actually conveying.

Woke culture is a dangerous, disgusting thing. Keep it out of feminism, we're actually fighting for our lives here.

This is literally not a thing anyone who is pro-trans rights says ever because women do own womanhood, it just trans women are also women?

You can absolutely tell this is a strawman argument that no person who accepts trans people for who they are would ever say because we don't separate trans women from cis women, they're all women to us moron.

I find it hilarious that they use grown adults transitioning for the first time in adulthood because of systematic barriers and most likely child abuse preventing them from accessing care as minors, but also claim that children cannot be trans?

Like, if we advocate for letting children choose their gender, this moron will throw a hissy fit but then this moron throws a hissy fit when adults decide to reject the sex binary and start transitioning.

Also, no trans woman has ever said "I feel like a female," you absolute moron.

You know so little and you are so happy acting like you know it all.

For once in your fucking life, prioritize women and women's safety :)