Welome to my lair! >:D

Remember the sixpencee child slave thing? What happened there, exactly? Was the kid freed? No? They were just run off the website? OK so what good exactly did that do?

Remember the bone stealing witch? What exactly did that witchhunt accomplish? The person got arrested, oh that's great, the american justice system surely rectified the situation

And again, those are instances where the accusations were true and involved real substantive harm to another person. We used to joke on here how callout posts were shit like "receipts below: [several paragraphs of petty fandom drama] [three paragraphs of petty interpersonal drama involving cheating on partners or stealing food out of the fridge or something] [fabricated evidence that the person is responsible for the murder of JonBenét Ramsey]"

And that was back in the 2010s. The meta has changed. Callouts used to be a tool people used to point out actual harm a person had done, rarely, and more commonly were used as a means of bullying somebody over petty drama. Nowadays they're used to manufacture outrage and harassment against marginalized populations. They are a weapon bigots use to turn us against each other. A few manufactured accusations here, some out of context or clipped screenshots there, and people who should be standing in solidarity with each other against white supremacy, patriarchy, cisheteronormativity, are instead devouring each other.

It's sinister as shit, dude, and people will still share these accusations without a second thought. So, why? What is the point? What's the best case scenario here? Raising "awareness?" what the fuck is that supposed to accomplish? Will we get the oh-so-trustworthy authorities involved? Are we hoping for an arrest? A conviction? Throwing a queer or poc person in prison so they can be abused and assaulted and humiliated behind bars? Is that who we are?

Callouts and the like don't serve any real good in the world. At a macro scale they divide us when we should be standing together, and at a micro scale they result in deeply traumatic never-ending harassment and threats and doxxing and worse to a person who almost definitely does not deserve it. And again, for what? A sense of "justice?" this is not justice. This is retribution. It is punishment.

"They're probably faking it" is so common but so hurtful, and will always state these simple facts about you:

You shouldn't be a moderator for anything as long as this is your mindset.

You have a cop mentality, and aren't safe for anyone with any kind of disability

Stop asking yourself this question, it doesn't help or benefit anyone and actively pushes people out of safe spaces.

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translation: i fucking hate trans women specifically but i cant say that so ima say essentially "males" except slyly make it obvious i dont mean cis men at all. teehee!!!

no one needs to make the equivalent of butch for feminine men because men and women are not dichotomies and gay men don't need an equal and opposite thing for every lesbian thing that exists, and you certainly don't need to appropriate transmisogynistic slurs because some dyke hasn't put in the effort to create a word for you.

you're right, you are getting blocked for this. you didn't need to type this out but you still did anyway, for whatever reason. my blog is not a confessional, you dont need to tell me your sins, especially when you say how you intend to make no effort to change or do better. you're just bragging about your use of slurs

"until someone introduces me to the equivalent of butch but for feminine men"

not "until i find a word that isn't a slur" or even "until we can brainstorm a new term". it always demanding the labor of others, its always making someone else (ie a woman) do the work.

they do this while also blatantly ignoring us saying "no". they know exactly what they're doing.

"i know you dont like me saying this slur, but until *you* do something for me, im gonna ignore you"

this is blatant misogyny. this is how men treat women constantly; belittle us, mock us, ignore us, demand labor of us, and refuse to take no for an answer.

Look up the perfect victim myth. That's y'all right now. Holy shit, I genuinely am gonna have a panic attack.

Also people who compare him to Maxwell are fucking insane. Wagstaff did not get tortured and trapped for years, pushing him to do the things he did after he was in debt and had to run away from people trying to kill him and a shadow entity trying to Possess him and Take Over His Life And Bodyy. He's a rich successful inventor who let a guy die for a projector. Yes he could've saved him. Why else would Klei have included him in the short?? Ohhhh Klei's playing 4d chess right now by making an animation all about Wagstaff that's secretly only supposed you Trick you into not liking him.

"He couldn't have actually saved that guy." OKAY THEN, STORYTELLING WISE, WHY INCLUDE HIM?? That makes the entire short meaningless. How cheap do you think fully animating shorts like that is? Do you really think they're investing that much into a big trick you're supposed to not actually take at face value?? You guys are cooking up a Sherlock conspiracy here, acting like Stranger Things fans right now???? You guys are cooking up theories, coping so hard bc what?? Wagstaff and WX have an actually very interesting abuser/victim dynamic where he loved and cared for them and also abused his power over them to hurt them??? Ohhhh scary sounds like an actually interesting story!!

But no yeah, it was secretly just WX being unreasonable bc *checks notes* they wanted to fully transition and Wagstaff in a completely understandable and not at all violating or controlling move said 'No actually, I don't think u want to transition. I will be keeping your old body and identity alive and treating it with the kindness and respect I won't give to your current one." Which means nothing. Of course.

strange friends

this is not even the half of it. somehow every single sentence has what i can only describe as pure unadulterated hate for an incredibly vulnerable group of people. i dont think i could even cover how all of this is terrible. comparing a trans woman to that of a masculine opppressor. framing her as a parody of a woman that exploits the feminized labor of others like a goddamn businessman. very clearly stating that receiving labor you can't reciprocate is a bad thing. very clearly stating that being supported financially is a moral failing. very clearly stating that having emotional breakdowns is manipulative.

this article was written about the worst caricature of a "crippled leech on society", and rather than address the obvious communication issues displayed in the dynamics present the proposed solution is to oust (kill) the most vulnerable, marginalized party.

as a woman who relies on a caregiver to survive, who identifies with being a puppygirl and functionally inhabits the social position of a child, upset is an understatement with regards to how i feel. if my caregiver took this advice for either me or our mutual girlfriend we would both die. if the people in this hypothetical scenario took this advice the puppygirl would die. systemically if people absorb this information and act according to what it says those who rely on them will die. this is not just a shitty mistake. it's not an understatement to say this is violent and could have terrible consequences.