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- Nov 9, 2018
This a tl;dr.Exulansic was on Karen Davis's youtube channel last night and they were both doubling down on the CAIS bs and presuming the caricature to be racist/anti-semitic. Both of these women do great work but get caught up in conspiracies and drama which optics wise makes them look bad. You cant blame misogyny for everything - people are criticising Exulansic for valid reasons and it has fallen on deaf ears. Exulansics "I am very smart" energy has become impeachable and it is disappointing to see.
I liked Karen initially. Started watching her youtubes when she got booted off of twitter.
A little acerbic and spicy, but she was going after arguably horrible people, so fine.
Then she went OCD on her need to pump out videos. Not enough targets, so first she would do multi-part vids taking down commenters of her vids.
Well, Benjamin Boyce can be trolly on twitter, which I can appreciate. So she came after him for something she claimed was obvious misogyny (It wasn't. Anyone normal would see he was trying to see if he got a rise out of the hard core feminist types, and he did).
Later, he had a online chat with Meghan Murphy. They joked about the "controversy".
So of course Karen had to make a video about the 2 of them. Seemed out the blue to them,
So they both replied in their own spheres about Karen being a Karen.
But once you do that, which is respond to Karen putting you in her sights, you are now the attacker and all gloves are off.
Now, most people she goes after are people in the gender critical/trans women are men camp. And her most rabid fans are egging her on. Anyone calling her out is just a new target to make videos about. Sometimes 20-30 in a row.
But she's not the bully or the snowflake, you see. Because reasons.
If you see her on Gettr, she has just gotten worse. Any woman who disagrees is a dumb broad, a handmaiden, a dick panderer.
I also liked Exulansic. I might disagree here and there, but I liked the observations she had. I didn't have a major disagreement until the CAIS issue. I could still watch her and disagree with that, but as soon as the Karen/Volkey crowd tried to make Exulansic "aware" that she should not appear on Boyce's show as he is a MRA, I knew the days I would watch her were numbered.
The purity spiral is picking up steam, but have these women NOT seen the eventual outcome of these things?
A few months back, as she was becoming more established on youtube after previously just being on TikTok, she said was going to try this as her job more.I mean it's feasible that being the very public face of TERFs, while doing spergy wig looks and also having all her information out there could have resulted in her being let go (or if she was freelance, not being offered more jobs).
I imagine she probably would have acknowledged that, though.
Opened up a Patreon, found new therapists for some of her clients, etc.
So if she did cut back on her therapy work. losing Patreon and YouTube revenue could affect her.