Nyan is a cat

a weird amount of Fandom People but internet leftists in general seem to be completely unable to separate discomfort from harm

there’s like zero consideration for what the scale or context is or if the discomfort is based on anything objectively harmful it’s just one person saying “i’m uncomfortable” with whatever motivations they might have and suddenly it’s causing grave harm to an entire group of marginalized people and anyone who doesn’t agree is a bad malicious person

this is how we get people banning depictions of pre op/non op trans people from trans zines bc one person is Uncomfortable with it and then it gets phrased as like. we are banning anything but the most perfect of cis passing trans people as a way of Combating harmful trans fetishizing and we are eternally grateful to this one guy who was uncomfortable with anything else. this is a real example btw

People should be uncomfortable occasionally. It’s good for you.

one time another trans guy accused me of trans fetishization because i drew a trans man who, quote, “looks like a girl”, and it was making him dysphoric, when the character in question was a self-insert based on the way i look irl

"this makes me uncomfortable" and "this is bad" are two ENTIRELY SEPARATE STATEMENTS and it is honestly STUNNING how many people conflate the two.