I joined Twitter, and was shocked at how much Trans allies hate us.....

A friend went on a rant about 'JKKK Rowling' this week. He's a performer with a small, devoted following of gamers and geeks. He's straight but open-minded and prides himself on his kindness and empathy to others. It's not performative, he's a decent bloke.

So not even attempting to listen to women when they talk about the conflict here is a massive blind spot that doesn't compute with the hippy 'nice guy'. If I challenged him on it like pp suggested, I'd have hundreds of his like-minded followers calling me out as a bigot and I'd probably lose a lot of mutual friends. I really wonder what they can't (or won't) see.

Take a look at Terfisaslur.com OP.

I warn you, you'll need a strong stomach. But if you want to see the absolute depths that can be sunk to, some of the nastiest stuff collected in one place to show you the behaviours and thoughts that underpin all this 'be kind' and 'this is no threat to women's rights' go take a look.

Believe me, you won't need to carefully debate any single one of those screenshots to try and establish was harm really meant and was the context not taken into account, and to identify tiny bits of failing to be sensitive enough or whether the tone was mocking. Not one of them. And then think about those openly stated extreme threats and fantasies alongside 'maybe they were making fun of x people if you squint a bit so evil'.

That's what women are up against.

There isn't a man alive who really believes a penis can belong to a woman, or that all the sissy and forced feminisation porn online has been created by evil middle aged women, to trick people into not believing the lovely, late transitioning person. That kink has nothing to do with any of this.

Not one man really believes that. What they "know" is that the uppity women need taking down a peg or two, and this is a rather marvellous way of achieving this.

Agreed, Twitter is an absolute midden. Leave them to it.

As for experiencing PTSD over bad book reviews ... give me strength 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Wow that got deleted quick.

It sounds like your friend/family member is at home there though, OP, I sympathise.

Twitter is definitely a total cesspit.

twitter is a toxic misogynistic hole that deserves to sink, I am amazed countries have not banned it, it clearly supports incels, look at what twitter police and what they leave up.

Well it's rather hypocritical to stand with people who repeatedly issue rape and death threats and send unwanted pictures of their erection to a victim of domestic abuse, then complain some bad book reviews gave you trauma....

Isn't it.

Threads?
When you say threads do you mean what is threads on here people have started, or on actual Twitter itself?
Because yes, people can look for themselves and see what the tweets actually were between them.
It was making fun.

Well it's rather hypocritical to stand with people who repeatedly issue rape and death threats and send unwanted pictures of their erection to a victim of domestic abuse, then complain some bad book reviews gave you trauma....

I see the Scottish actor appeared back on Twitter yesterday. I set an alert and forgot about it. When I checked my phone this evening Ive been blown away by the number of tweets he's posted in one day. Not to get into the ins and outs of that case but its mind blowing to me the arrogance people display. Twitter isn't a healthy place - for all sides.

So Julie and JKR were "literally" making fun of Laurie Penny for claiming her lack of literal success caused her trauma

Yes.
Making fun of others mental health.
You even say it yourself but don't seem to think they were at the same time
How the hell can others get to decide whether others mental health is '' worthy enough'' or' 'how real' ' it is?
Seriously people are OK with that?
Not for me.

He made it seem like Julie and JKR were making fun of people with DPTSD

They were.

He made it seem like Julie and JKR were making fun of people with DPTSD.

That is quite literally what they were doing.

Pretty much most men who state the same opinion as those like JKR do not receive abuse, it's only women who are on the receiving end of the abuse. And that pretty much tells you what is going on.

It's also been shown that a lot of the men who attack women have had a history of transphobia themselves, so I don't believe for one second they care about trans people.

A friends ex was the most vicious TRA that I personally knew. I was quite able to keep things civil, but he’d often end up in a frothing rage when I refused to capitulate to his TWAW stance (she stopped bringing him out in the end).

When she found all the trans porn and hook up sites/messages she dumped him.

Not saying that all of the male ‘allies’ are running from their own sexuality/homophobia (‘If he is a woman, then I’m not gay) as most are just bog standard misogynists. But he genuinely took it personally that I wouldn’t say TWAW.

He also threatened Dfriend with death if she ever told anyone, as he had an image to maintain.

Lovely chap

Sometimes I think they are typical keyboard warriors who would never say these kinds of things to women IRL

Other times I think they are misogynistic psychopaths and the cognitive dissonance is frankly terrifying.

I try to steer clear of it all most of the time. People like Prior, Montgomery et al are so spiteful and full of hatred (jealousy) it’s just more pleasant to go through life without experiencing their vitriol.