Words cannot express how insidious these types of posts are, and how distressing it is to see them become so commonplace. I’ve seen variations of this exact joke at least a hundred times on insta, all with hundreds of likes and shares. I cannot emphasize enough how these types of posts are the exact same as those ai generated videos of angry snap recipients, or made up stories about crazy feminists. This joke is just one of many targeted attempts to do four things: Normalize ableism and make people wary of suicidal people, Further the stereotype of queer people being weak and unstable, further the even more specific stereotype of the “cringe, weak” transmasc or nonbinary person with a weird name, and ultimately divide the community. The kind of things described in this post did happen, but nowhere near as frequently as is described, and mostly during the national mental health crisis of the pandemic. This is cherry picked propaganda, meant to make people say “I’m not like them. I’m normal, I’m strong, i fit in. I can’t be associated with this group.” All in all, as a community we have to be more vigilant against these types of blatant attempts at sowing discord and crush them at inception.
