#larrys

For anyone that has seen the 'choose silence' posts on twitter. Don't do it, don't stop supporting them. Don't choose to do what the anti's want.

No Larry would actively encourage others to stop showing support, to stop educating others and actively encourage others to do the same, that is a sign of anti.

Choose support, Choose love, Choose them!

Yes the stunts are frustrating, yes they are probably more frustrating for them than us, but listen to them, they are being loud, they need us more now than ever before.

Flood the timelines with your favourite Larry posts/pictures/songs.

Choose to support.

Yes, we can. 

This is something that I really need people, in good faith, to read and understand. It is not a ‘fandom wars’ issue. If you don’t like me, that is fine. But this is too important of a point to simply not bother to engage with because the person speaking is, in your mind a ‘fandom enemy’ or an ‘anti’. Issues like transphobia or anti semitism or misogyny are more important, and far more detrimental to any fandom space, than whether or not you agree with someone over a pop star’s sexuality. 

Yesterday (and for weeks before) people came to me being explicitly and openly...almost eugenicist, and deliberately tried to attack the mental health of a transgender person in the space. 

What has the response been from any ‘larrie’ blog? Silence.

These people saw and were made aware of deeply disgusting behaviour, behaviour which signals some people among them are deeply transphobic and maybe even quite anti-semitic, pointedly and irresponsibly misandrist towards a trans man, and not afraid to put a trans person at risk, and what did they say? Nothing. 

Where are the blogs stepping up and setting a boundary in place, openly condemning the targeted harassment of a transgender person? Nowhere. 

That is simply unacceptable. There is no world in which ANY fandom, regardless of infighting, shouldn’t have influential voices in that scenario speaking up and explicitly saying ‘this has gone too far, what’s been done to this specific individual is not okay, I will not longer contribute in any form and neither should anyone else.’ 

You are in a space where people will openly and actively ignore comments about gas chambers or attacks based on gender diversity, simply because they don’t like the fandom opinions of the person who is the target. These people WILL ignore transphobia, and have done MORE THAN ONCE, and will even defend people who are openly being transphobic MORE THAN ONCE. At what point are we going to talk about the fact that this fandom almost starts to look like a nest of terfs? 

How are you not appalled by this? I would assume there are people in every sub group of the fandom who would be disgusted by that behaviour, including larries, so why are you still engaging with people who only police it if it happens to be convenient to their fandom theory? How can you possibly associate with people who think it is okay to speak to another human being like that if they run a blog with opinions you don’t like? People who think it’s okay to keep openly naming and discussing that person, full well knowing what’s going on? 

How are you allowing that to occur? 

The day before they systematically reblogged posts praising queer women in response to a post which, as I explained, was a) deliberately taken out of context and b) not well written. Refer to my pinned post. 

Yet they see a transgender person in the space get told to die in a concentration camp, get told to be raped into cis-hood...and where’s the posts about respecting transgender people in the space? Where’s the ‘trans people are loved’ reblogs? Nowhere. 

How many of these ‘bigger larries’ bothered to check in with me and make sure I was okay? None. 

Considering the kind of behaviour that’s been popping up in the space since Harry dared to be remotely feminine, and considering this behaviour, I can’t help but think that this space harbours a decent amount of transphobic people or even terfs. The blatant disregard for the mental health of transgender people in the space, the complete disregard and disinterest for how targeted transphobic hate effects someone’s mental health, the blatant lack of interest from cis people in this space to EVER make a post calling out transphobia at any point, the amount of cis people who have openly defended transphobia from specific blogs and made sure they were protected. How else can you explain it? 

And I explicitly asked these people to stop blogging about me because it is clearly fuelling the transphobia I, a specific individual they keep naming and referencing on their blogs, am receiving. And what did they do? 

Kept writing about me. 

Here’s some lovely posts about me that were made AFTER I publicly showed people the kind of things that were being said to me: 

This person complains that they are getting anons about me, when they’ve been making posts about me explicitly and answering anons about me explicitly for weeks. They then imply I must have an army of people at my command sending around threats to people, therefore implying I deserve whatever I get. Despite the fact that I addressed the threats that were being sent and explicitly called them out, explicitly said that they needed to stop, explicitly said I didn’t condone that behaviour and said that a line needed to be drawn, and never sent anyone to do anything, AND never named a blog in order to target them. 

Also notice how they say ‘you claim he’s gotten threats’ as if I didn’t publish them as direct evidence. 

They say they’ve been civil in their discourse when they’ve said I’m stupid, don’t know queer theory (simply because I showed them, with sources, that they actually didn’t), have belittled my education level, have implied I’m a racist, have made fun of how I write, and have deliberately taken several posts of mine out of context, been called out for it by me, didn’t apologise but instead got upset with me for defending myself. 

They describe me as lesbophobic after reblogging a deliberately edited down version of a post taken out of context, which I have already apologised for elements of and explained my original intent in a way I hope clarifies what I meant and didn’t mean. 

They then say that people are being called horrific slurs (I haven’t seen any receipts of that, but I also haven’t seen everyone’s blog in the space), as if, once again, me simply existing and other people sending things who I have no connection to, means I deserve to be targeted with transphobia. 

They reference ‘hate speech’ that they think I made (I didn’t) and don’t acknowledge any of the eugenics shit or transphobia that’s been directed at me, a specific target, that they’ve consistently named. 

They explicitly say they’ve done nothing wrong despite naming me and misrepresenting me for weeks on end, which has lead to the kind of comments I’m receiving, and again imply that I deserve it anyway because I’m secretly in charge of all of these ‘anti’ anons that went around several weeks ago and because the ‘fandom’ needs to be defended (more so than trans people, apparently). 

Again, this post starts by victim blaming. 

‘He doesn’t agree with larrie and critiques and debunks things and some antis went around being mean to us weeks ago, so who cares what happens to him?’ 

Again, zero regard for a trans person’s mental health and zero alarm for how appalling the specific attacks were. 

Then they derail by saying that they too have received hate speech (which is awful), which is derailing because they are trying to ‘one up’. The argument is ‘well I’ve received really bad stuff too so it’s whatever’. 

They then pay lip service to not sending abusive things to people and then do a ‘but’. ‘But because this person pinned a post where they said they don’t condone harassment, don’t know who is harassing, asking them to stop, and saying they genuinely don’t have an association with the blog, AND saying that the abuser sounds like someone who has abused them before too, I’m not going to apologise to them for being complicit in naming them in my posts to the point they receive massively transphobic content’. 

Again, victim blaming. ‘You chose to exist in the space with a critical opinion so the transphobia coming at you is your fault’. 

Then a bizarre note about my ‘mission’ (lol) being to tear down the fandom, which once again is inflammatory and surely not an appropriate comment to make to de-escalate the behaviour towards me? 

Then saying that a trans person put the target on their own back, for transphobia and being told to die in a gas chamber, because they had the audacity to have an alternate fandom opinion. 

The absolving themselves from stepping in with ‘its genuinely out of my hands’ whilst proceeding to write two posts explicitly about me on that day, which DIDN’T say ‘please don’t be anti-semitic in this space, what is wrong with you people, transphobia is not acceptable, mutuals let’s de-escalate this and leave him alone’. 

‘Making one joke’ - this person posted my URL openly whilst replying to an anon a while before this lol. 

These are the people in your fandom. People who will witness anti semitism and transphobia and not make a single post asking their own friends to de-escalate, not make a single post defending the mental health of another human being. People who will deliberately circulate an edited version of someone’s post to target hatred towards them, without even giving them a right of reply, and then when that  extreme harassment occurs, absolve themselves of responsibility. People who will be shown the result of their constant specific targeting, the result being appallingly transphobic and violent, and not say sorry,  will not write a single post saying that clearly, it’s time to back off of that individual now. 

The only appropriate response to what happened yesterday, would be to say ‘okay, time to leave this person alone now, even if I don’t like them, clearly this is getting out of hand and we have the power to de-escalate’.  

Instead what happened was victim blaming, obfuscation, no appeal to these people to really stop, no condemnation of anyone in the space who is secretly a terf or transphobe, and the implication that what has happened to another person is entirely deserved and some comments about how they hope I’ll ‘go away’ soon, as if that’s appropriate considering the sentiment of the harassment. 

Me :after the show going on tumblr to see all the great reviews only to see Larry bullshit and shit about who harry has dated or who he's dating