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Fantastic reddit rant

60 replies

whatsthecomingoverthehill · 17/04/2019 11:45

So nice to see in another forum. The comments are well worth reading too.

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Michelleoftheresistance · 17/04/2019 15:22

Read every word. Well reasoned, well explained, and by a clearly nice, liberal, well intentioned person who has done their best to be understanding, supportive and inclusive. And realised they'd been suckered into a co dependent relationship with a bunch of abusive arses with a black pit of need that can never, never be filled, where their sole job was to be the scapegoat. Never right, always wrong, it's Cinderella syndrome. Run around hard enough trying to please your betters, trying to do right, trying to do enough, and maybe one day, just one day, we'll let you have a little bit of a reward.

Yeah women saw through that one over a century ago. This is why younger women need a community with older women who have done the domestic abuse relationships and have the t shirts, who know about narcissism, male violence, abusive personalities, about learning to have boundaries and enough self esteem and life experience to say back the hell off, you do not get to treat me this way. And no, I'm not interested in how my having boundaries makes you feel, that's your responsibility not mine.

Identity politics is academia approved ad hominem

Ain't that the truth!

tobee · 17/04/2019 15:02

It would be great if this were more widely read.

This is the realisation that you can't "play nice" with narcissists. It's never enough. You're never good enough. That's the whole fucking point!

Antibles · 17/04/2019 14:16

Great rant.

littl your autocorrect has me in stitches Grin

PurpleCrowbar · 17/04/2019 14:08

That is a superlative rant.

Tl;dr? Not a chance. I relished every word. Seriously tempted to show it to my year 11 class as a bloody good example of polemical writing. Absolutely nailed it.

AlwaysTawnyOwl · 17/04/2019 14:00

I love the Cis rant. Why on earth should I abide by ‘preferred pronouns’ if you won’t call me by my proper title of WOMAN.

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 17/04/2019 13:46

"trap"?

They believe they pass, don't they? Its amazing. I have millennia of programming to determine sex and risk of strangers.

Of course I can tell.

Maybe someone who's Asian with fine bone structure and a performer in the ladyboys, maybe they'd pass.

But, Betty/Barry from Kent? Sorry, mate. No. See you a mile off.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 17/04/2019 13:33

Ooh! Is it? Well, that's another thing that never bloody happens.... Smile

SmellsLikeAdultSpirit · 17/04/2019 13:32

What does trap mean?

aprarl · 17/04/2019 13:30

I think "trap" is about passing well enough to purposefully trick people (mainly men tricking men).

HollowTalk · 17/04/2019 13:22

Does anyone find it funny that with all the Brexit and trans bollocks they haven't the time or energy to get incensed about Trump? I keep thinking, "Oh he'll be gone soon" - I can't do that with Brexit or the trans issue.

HollowTalk · 17/04/2019 13:21

What does trap mean? I've never heard of it.

Bobfossil2 · 17/04/2019 13:17

That was the best. So true.

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 17/04/2019 13:16

"...so, I'm a TERF now"

Welcome, little baby TERF.

aprarl · 17/04/2019 13:14

Good to see so many people on reddit talking openly about the problems.

The moment the younger generation starts tackling this is the moment things will change.

WhatTheWatersShowedMe · 17/04/2019 13:11

My mate peak transed so hard and fast it was like she was wearing a jetpack. It was amazing- from foothills to the summit in the space of a weekend.

BeUpStanding · 17/04/2019 13:09

Yay! That's a bloody brilliant rant 😂

ahagwearsapointybonnet · 17/04/2019 13:07
Grin
Absolutepowercorrupts · 17/04/2019 13:06

little brown dog
🤣🤣I think randy, shouty and sweaty, pretty much nails the description for some.

PlasmaRain · 17/04/2019 13:06

I learned a lot there. Trap? Who knew? More importantly it was kinda reassuring to read some much younger voices (that’s with all due respect and deference to the voices of wisdom and experience here) on the subject. I thought they were all sucked in tbh. But no, I have learned that there are a lot more fundamentally kind and well-intentioned young people caught up in that exercise in futility of trying to please everyone in extremist trans circles (and ending up pleasing no one) than I thought. I think these are the truly ‘woke’ kids, they know it’s all bullshit but have gone along with it, they didn’t want to hurt anyone yet they’ve been shit on anyway.

littlbrowndog · 17/04/2019 13:04

Sweary. Not sweaty. Ofgs

littlbrowndog · 17/04/2019 13:04

Ranty not Randy ffs. 🤐🤐😈😈😂

littlbrowndog · 17/04/2019 13:03

Yeps glad to se an rant. That’s how I feel now. Randy shouty and sweaty

AnyOldPrion · 17/04/2019 13:02

”I hate it all so much. I hate every last one of them. I hate them, hate them, hate them, hate them.”

So much sympathy for this. It’s the cry of someone on the wrong end of gaslighting, who has reached the end of their tether. Yet of course those doing the gaslighting would use this feeling and call it transphobia.

I’ve sometimes thought that transphobia is a misnomer, mainly because being afraid of aggressive male bodied transactivists is not an irrational fear.

SarahTancredi · 17/04/2019 12:58

Brilliant

GirlDownUnder · 17/04/2019 12:56

No one is going to read all of this, so... TL;DR
Your rhetoric makes no sense, it's hypocritical, unscientific, illogical, and you harass people for being incapable of reading minds so... I'm a terf now. ¯\(ツ)/¯

I did. I read all of it. I think everyone on this thread read all of it. You nailed it.