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parallax, famous terfs, useful idiots, terrible ideas 

So I smarted off to notorious TERF/mediocre sitcom producer Graham Linehan a week ago, challenging his knowledge about the actual genetics of gender.

I unexpectedly received a reply today, from both him and a toadie of his, challenging me to a debate. It went exactly as expected: I kept asking them to start talking genetics and they kept calling me names.

But something interesting happened. Graham made a remark like "oh, you're one of those furries," the first person in ages to do so. And I had a moment of that old reflexive fear—what if he retweets me to his huge audience and tries to make me into a laughing stock?

And then it dawned on me: it would be PERFECT. Yes, world's most famous and closely scrutinzed TERF, retweet me to an audience that consist largely of transpeople waiting to see what bigoted thing you'll say next! Drive them to my Twitter userinfo, to see the link to my queer comic!

I decided not to push it, because frankly they were just too annoying to be worth the trouble, the comic's not quite ready IMHO, and I'm not in the mood for the attention right now. But it's good to know that when the time comes... easy PR is there for the plucking. 🤣​

parallax, famous terfs, useful idiots, terrible ideas 

@zebratron2084

One of them there furries what with your tails, and facts, and genders, and arts. How dare you have those things.

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