i've been trying to pierce into the lily lore and it's only dawned on me now, why do people refer to him with correct pronouns? and why aren't kiwis cannibalizing one another over this? not to politisperg or whatever the fuck, ultimately i dont give a shit, but i thought it was the farms whole gimmick to hate troons, and from what I've gathered of jerry/lily being an incestuous child rapist groomer it's shocking that people respect his pronouns lmao
Everyone has their reasons.
In my case, I don't refer to CD-Call by her present name and pronouns because I have any respect for her. I do it under the notion that her trans-identity has
nothing to do with my criticisms.
A lot of people are under the impression that KiwiFarms' whole gimmick is "to hate troons".
While I do think that's true, at least to a point where I can sympathize with that disgust, being here to comb through the evidence had lead me to realize that there is (for a lack of a better term) an
exaggeration. Have people been hurt because of things that happened on KiwiFarms? Very likely, but I have yet to find anything that would suggest anything of that extreme happening to CD-Call. The only critical difference that I've been able to see is the use of slurs and misgendering.
CD-Call weaponizes that exaggeration to encourage people not to look in here for evidence. The fact CD-Call told me and many other people like me
not to do it was exactly the reason why I chose to do it. She destroyed whatever credibility she had left and giving her opinion any consideration made me realize I had given her power over my thinking that she should not have had in the first place.
The following quote from ShiftyBoi pretty much sums up the unspoken understanding between everyone.
The arguments been had like 12 times, there's a mutual understanding that arguing about it isn't really productive. Lily being trans is the least interesting part about her compared to her feelings for her sister and her constant lying.
On top of that, only a specific sort of people are really invested in Lily, mostly autistic people from tumblr. These people mixing in with your average Kiwi would do nothing but shit up the thread all day everyday, so it's best to ignore how people choose to address Lily.
Funny enough, I got my start in criticizing CD-Call on Tumblr, and it's actually on Tumblr where
I got the anonymous question why I should be taken seriously, even though I'm a KiwiFarms user. My answer is the same every time - I have a goal in mind, I'm combing through the evidence, and CD-Call
cannot say that I'm not being thorough.
You know what? Hell, I think calling ""Lily"" a "she" is in fact transphobic, because you're enabling this borderline rapist stealing an important medical term from people who actually need it.
In other words, as they say nowadays: "my culture is not your costume"
I see your thought process, but my only concern with it is adding a moral stipulation on someone's internal convictions about themselves. CD-Call does strike me as a borderline-rapist, but that doesn't change the fact she believes herself to be female. I may not like that one bit because of those very grievances, but I cannot tell CD-Call how she should feel about how she feels about herself beyond feeling ashamed for hurting as many people she's hurt.
Many agree to use her pronouns for the sake of being taken seriously by people outside of the farms and to not have our opinions dismissed as a transphobic mob; which Lily does anyway, but people exist outside of Lily.
Not using her pronouns is
definitely something CD-Call can weaponize and does use on a regular basis, even if she has been documented to doing the same thing at this point.
"Why aren't kiwis cannibalizing one another over this"? Because we're mature adults who've come to the conclusion it really doesn't matter.
And that's something
I think the person who asked me that anon question doesn't understand. It is possible that they're so blinded by the fact that I use KiwiFarms as a means to discredit me, they're not bothering to check and see what I claim is true. I've always made it clear that this is about CD-Call, and with exception to the one time I had to go into Patricia Taxxon's thread, it's always been that way.
Which leads me to this final point: I know KiwiFarms has a shit reputation because of the bad apples on the site, but can I just take a moment to say thank you? I'm serious, even though I'm putting my reputation on the line for doing this, just about everyone I've engaged with here has been engaging and helpful, and that means a lot.