Sorry if this is too off topic, but I don't know many other places to vent about this.
I'm just so sick and tired of having this shit seeping into every facet of life. More and more I've just been having this crap popping up into completely unrelated stuff.
I used to follow a blog that just posts cute pictures of little animals. I unfollowed a while back after they posted a picture of an animal with a caption saying "<Name of animal> hates t3rfs!" (Because little animals are so concerned and knowledgeable about human politics, right?)
One of my favorite bands has this silly song about women being trapped in this hell where they'd be doomed to eternally ignore each other. Of course, the top voted comment on the lyric video for the song on YouTube is about how the song is really about transwomen. And it's the top voted comment by a wide margin. Which is honestly kind of creepy, because this is a pretty obscure band. Their lyric videos generally only have like 10 comments or less.
A couple years back, I had to stop reading a web comic that I had been reading for years, because it just got to be too much, how they were changing shit to accommodate their new trans character. First, they retconned this minor female character into being an MtF. Then more and more, they started focusing on this character and their transness. They even retconned it that one of the main female characters had been in love with the MtF character all along. It was just so fucking obnoxious, the MtF character just started becoming more and more of a flawless Mary Sue that was adored by pretty much all the other good guys. They even started fucking going back and changing earlier chapters of the comic to add in scenes between the MtF and the main female character.
I’m always wary at work, because I’m afraid my job could potentially be in danger if I eventually get forced to play pronoun games. Stating your preferred pronouns isn’t mandatory (yet?) but a lot of people have their preferred pronouns listed in their email signature where I work.
I haven’t spoken to any of my (former?) friends in months, because the last time we hung out, they were all talking about how JK Rowling is a horrible t3rf. Before that I hadn’t even known they were into the whole TWAW/ “T3RFs are the devil crap”. It was such a punch in the gut. I feel like I don’t even know them anymore. Basically feel like I’ve lost my entire friend group that I’ve had for 10+ years, because if they think Rowling is a t3rf, then I’m definitely one.
And then there was today’s incident. I’ve been watching Yugioh the Abridged Series on Youtube for years, it’s one of my favorite nostalgic series from the good ole days of YouTube. Today LK finally uploads a new video after a long hiatus… and the new episode of course has a joke that’s an obvious dig at JK Rowling. I couldn’t even finish watching the episode.
This jacktivism is just cancer. It infects and decays anything it touches, then it spreads to the next thing to infect. Can’t just look at cute pics of animals without being told that they totes “hate t3rfs”. Can’t listen to a silly song about women without having people insisting it’s really about transwomen. Can’t hang out with friends or watch a silly youtube series without hearing about how Rowling is female Hitler. Possibly don’t even have any friends at all anymore, because they might abhor me if they knew I agree with pretty much everything Rowling said. Have to be careful to remain extremely impersonal at work.
Why, LGBDropTheT? I just wanted to watch a silly animoo parody. Really can’t go FIVE MINUTES without having some random, unrelated thing force me to think about LGBTQWTF jacktivism again? I want to get off Mr. TRA’s wild ride.
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