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LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
Every time. Because sometimes it's someone on the opposite side of the political spectrum from me, and sometimes it's someone whom I thought was a friend. I'll let Morgue tell the story of a recent time when the latter happened.
ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F
@LordShadowfire The person in question was OogieBoogie. Someone I didn't realize was as toxic as she turned out to be.
I had posted an article, quoting the whole thing as well as providing a link to the original, talking about puberty blockers, and debunking the myth that the right keeps pushing about them hurting children. This is an important subject to me, because I spent my entire childhood and adulthood essentially pretending I didn't exist.
(Not that I'm planning on taking hormones and having surgery, because I have to share this body. But I can imagine trans children freaking out every single day because they just know they are one gender, but the body they are in is the opposite.)
In swept Ms. Oogie, screaming "HOW DARE YOU!?" Accusing me of using children to promote an agenda and harming them in the process. Completely ignoring the points the article made and repeating the same old debunked BS about permanently changing their bodies. (For the record, puberty blockers only work until you stop taking them. Then you go through puberty. It's kind of stated flat out in the name, but apparently some people who drink the orange Kool-Aid don't grasp the core concept.)
I was so emotionally overwhelmed at the fact that someone I thought was a friend would come at me with such an angry Trumpian attack that I did something I didn't think I would ever do willingly. I reported her comment for hate speech, knowing full well that she would suffer no consequences for her hate speech, and that I would be forced to block her for a month.
A month went by, and I unblocked her. Shadowfire approached her when she commented on a different post altogether, and brought it up again. He used language I do not approve, but that technically applies in her case, calling her a transphobic catch you next Tuesday. I legitimately thought she would respond, even if it was just to drop more hate speech.
No.
She blocked him, and then she blocked me, and for good measure she blocked Corvus.
That's how much she hates anyone who tells the truth about trans children.
Or maybe she just really hates being called that name. But she definitely hates trans kids.
I had posted an article, quoting the whole thing as well as providing a link to the original, talking about puberty blockers, and debunking the myth that the right keeps pushing about them hurting children. This is an important subject to me, because I spent my entire childhood and adulthood essentially pretending I didn't exist.
(Not that I'm planning on taking hormones and having surgery, because I have to share this body. But I can imagine trans children freaking out every single day because they just know they are one gender, but the body they are in is the opposite.)
In swept Ms. Oogie, screaming "HOW DARE YOU!?" Accusing me of using children to promote an agenda and harming them in the process. Completely ignoring the points the article made and repeating the same old debunked BS about permanently changing their bodies. (For the record, puberty blockers only work until you stop taking them. Then you go through puberty. It's kind of stated flat out in the name, but apparently some people who drink the orange Kool-Aid don't grasp the core concept.)
I was so emotionally overwhelmed at the fact that someone I thought was a friend would come at me with such an angry Trumpian attack that I did something I didn't think I would ever do willingly. I reported her comment for hate speech, knowing full well that she would suffer no consequences for her hate speech, and that I would be forced to block her for a month.
A month went by, and I unblocked her. Shadowfire approached her when she commented on a different post altogether, and brought it up again. He used language I do not approve, but that technically applies in her case, calling her a transphobic catch you next Tuesday. I legitimately thought she would respond, even if it was just to drop more hate speech.
No.
She blocked him, and then she blocked me, and for good measure she blocked Corvus.
That's how much she hates anyone who tells the truth about trans children.
Or maybe she just really hates being called that name. But she definitely hates trans kids.