The page is doing that annoying thing where it won't let me reply to/quote specific posts, but I love
@Prolego 's on the previous page about troon journos leaving the guardian in protest at their minimal coverage of the Alison Bailey tribunal. Actually, I rather love this propensity of troons in general to flounce at the first sign of disobedience from the cult, as Owen Jones is currently discovering to his chagrin. It's such an indicator of how wildly they overestimate their actual social importance by mistaking people's acquiescence to them so they don't get screeched at for actual loyalty/allegiance. In all honesty I think it will be quite a contributing factor to their decline - they honestly believe that they're so important and valued that readers and colleagues alike will be devastated by their departure enough to put an embargo on so much as
mentioning news topics or people that they don't like. I know it's just another symptom of their relentless solipsism and social insulation, but it's still hilarious to watch and I'm happy to encourage their hubris.
It reminds me - probably appropriately, since the troons in this particular scenario are TiFs - of high school. Occasionally one of the more annoying or immature girls in my year/friend group would finally get told to STFU about something and then pitch a hissy fit about "not talking to us again, like,
ever" by way of punishment. It was almost always the kind of kid for whom their refusing to talk to you was just a sweet (and usually tragically brief) respite from having to listen to them sperg constantly. I think because it pained them so much to deprive us all of their stream of consciousness, they assumed it was also a negative for us.
...it was not. I think the response to troons doing this should be the same as it used to be in high school, too:
"No, you know what would show the TERFs, you guize? If
all of the troon journos, politicians, and activists quit their jobs and stopped talking to us! Oh man, I bet they'd start jailing TERFs for wrongthink immediately, just so that you'd all come back! You should 100% do that"