The End of Transhats
Really, this ended a few months ago when I stopped posting, but I'm officially ending this now. Full disclaimer: I'm not really a hat. I don't even identify with identity politics.
I started this blog as a spoof of cryptospoof Transcats. I even copied over her blog description and changed the word 'cat' to 'hat', and with a bit more humour injected. It all started when I said 'Hah! Transcats! What if there was a Transhats!' Thus this rather silly blog was born.
Most genuine otherkin I've seen online seem like nice, friendly people and I never intended to make fun of them. Ridiculing other people's beliefs isn't conducive to friendship and understanding.
Most of my funnier posts were funny because I was talking from a completely absurd and fictitious perspective with enough earnestness such that some people were mislead (much to my impish delight).
Obviously the name 'transhats' came from 'transcats' and was not meant in anyway to denigrate any trans* people.
I think we can all take ourselves too seriously. When you're coming of age it's easy to be gripped with doubts and it is tempting to latch on to certainties, to coat yourself in labels to pin down and make sense of your mutable essence. And so we then play-act the roles that we have been assigned or we have reassigned for ourselves. You may be play-acting the otherkin teen, the heterosexual playboy, or the misunderstood vagabond. But play-acting is still acting and our actions define what we really are. You are otherkin if you act otherkin, just as I am a disaffected intellectual if I disaffect and intellectualise.
I'll let people respond to this first and then I'm shutting things down.
