I may have said this before but that's honestly why a lot of male feminists troon out. Their thought process works like this:
• Men are all problematic, misogynistic, rapists, etc, etc.
• I am not any of those things.
• Therefore I am not a man.
This is both why a lot of Zoe's inner circle at CON trooned out (Jake Alley, Miguel ”Katherine Cross” Casiano) and why non-binary genders became the one thing from Tumblr that got pushed hard by these people - they want a way to get out of being male without having to become a eunuch or really do anything.
And yet they remain male feminists--fundamentally misogynistic sex pests.
I'm starting to think that the placebo effect is actually a humane way to deal with troons. Why not prescribe Miss Crystal-Rose Miku-chan some harmless sugar pills and trick him into going to therapy and apologizing to his parents? It's gotta be better than cutting off his balls and installing titanium mesh onto his skull, right?
Honestly, this is what we used to do for the AGPs--except we didn't even bother with the harmless sugar pills.
Though one of the more hilarious aspects of them bitching about how hard it is to get an orchidectomy is...um....that's kind of like somebody throwing a tantrum over why it's so hard to get water out of their boot. (No, I will not explain here. Just know it's out there and probably falls under 'tales of weird shit urologists see.')
Stopping bullying in school is why we have troons today.
We didn't stop bullying in schools. What we did was enact painfully moronic plans by people who had this theory that bullying is caused by low self-esteem, which if they'd actually bothered consulting experts in that part of psych would have caused
serious injuries from people ROFLOLing at just
how wrong the theories were.
It's artificially-inflated self-esteem that causes it--at least, when the person's narcy. Humans breed for good BS detectors here--it's why it's pretty much universal to loathe and despise brown-nosers--and you've gotta be pretty narcy to just...not notice. So the self-esteem movement managed to give us a lot of much worse narcs and bullies...and, on the flip side, it pretty much nuked from orbit the self-esteem of people whose BS detectors worked good enough that they noticed the smoke being blown up their asses. (After all, if you only know that
some of the complements are outright lies--you have to wonder how much of the rest are merely lies you didn't notice.)
The irreplacable queer art that nuked Tumblr from orbit was CP. Makes you wonder why the most queer/trans friendly place on earth would have problems with that kind of stuff.
Oh, you poor summer child.
One of the
major complaints was that they
didn't get the CP. It was done with the usual competence of anything Tumblr's staff have done--and, honestly, Kev actually is probably
more competent than they are.
Just...wrap your mind around that for a moment.
Anyway, it was kicked off by, as much as I was able to find out,
Tumblr turning in some CP it'd found to the database everybody uses for automagically removing CP--you've gotta feed it the new shit because it uses hashes to ID the stuff. Apple flipped out, removed it from their store (yet hasn't removed Twitter which is literally getting
sued because it's
not removing some CP) and Tumblr's staff panicked. This being Tumblr, they flailed about and failed: They first decided to just ban all the porn entirely, then decided on a date,
then started banning and removing porn artists' tumblrs ahead of the date, and there is no fucking way to report the porn which is still fucking there . They pretty much just nuked the Tumblrs whose owners had cooperatively marked them as 18+.
And, well, there's
still CP. Because the people posting that shit
didn't tend to mark their Tumblrs as being 18+.
There's a reason Tumblr sold
cheap last time it sold. Twittter's probably going to see its own value crater...
