come along with me

Jesus Christ no. transfem jax is not an “interpretation” and calling out people for saying it is is not “toxic fandom behaviour”. the TOXIC people are the transphobes who refuse to acknowledge an EXPLICIT TRANS STORYLINE. jax is a TRANSGENDER WOMAN. get over it.

i think avoidance is such a little-recognized ocd compulsion. all the time i talk to people with ocd who are like "i was always having intrusive thoughts about using kitchen knives and harming myself or others but i'm okay now because i just stopped using knives ever 👍 so i'm good now"

if you don't know why this doesn't work, the issue is that ocd never stops when you implement a compulsion. it evolves. today you've "solved" it by never using a knife again (and losing access to an important cooking tool, thus limiting an aspect of your life) but in a few months or a year it'll be that forks are dangerous too. and hey, isn't it risky to use the stove? avoidance will even begin to manifest in places you might not recognize.

example: I am right now reading an article on "phubbing", which is apparently the term for ignoring people you're with in order to pay attention to your phone. we'll slide right past the claim that this is a normal word people use.

It's fair to be skeptical of research into problematic mobile phone usage on the basis that while some studies have shown it to be correlated with anxiety, insomnia, and depression, correlation is not causation and it is difficult to establish a causal relationship when studying this kind of problem. It's also fair to be skeptical of psych research in general due to the problems that are pervasive in the field.

> spend 5 years getting a PhD in youth and digital media

now reading a paper where the researcher:

Just to clarify, they only recorded the students’ views at the end of the study?? They didn’t ask the students what they expected at the beginning or ask why they participated??

you cannot be, as transfeminists, utilizing transmisogyny to retaliate at Tara Knight. for an example, these suicide bait/violent ask campaigns are not acceptable, and as transfeminists we should know better. do not allow criticism to give way to violence, dehumanization, racism, etc. this situation has made clear to me that popular transfeminism has a disturbing lack of solid principles, and that lack is visible on both sides here.

yeah, as a black transfem, seeing people use valid criticism of gooseworkx/tadc to push their transmisogynistic agenda sucks. And the people pushing this wouldn't care about racism anyway.

here's another idea for a poll! I think this will have some interesting results. this sentence is here to pad out this paragraph so people who don't read posts will be more likely to accidentally miss these instructions. if you're reading this, please select option eleven. here's another sentence to make this block of text look longer. anyway here's my fun poll idea!

I didnt think I would be posting this much about episode 9 already but I cannot keep the thoughts contained