Now there's Discourse on Birdhell about how terrible crossdressers are because every single one of them just recapitulates feminine stereotypes "to degrade women" and they're all "just doing it for the attention" and these people are not even recognizing that these are all classic TERF lines EVEN AFTER IT'S BEEN POINTED OUT TO THEM and I swear to god my claws sing to be doused in Queer Puritan blood.

It's gotten bad enough that the poor transwoman who dared say "gee, maybe they're human beings who have a right to explore gender" is being told she should kill herself.

I have been trying SO FUCKING HARD to be less nasty online but they keep reeling me back in and there is gonna be extreme rhetorical violence in a moment here. If you hear about a distemper outbreak on Twitter tomorrow, yeah... my bad.

Aaaaand the closest thing there were to "good guys" on this thread seem to have come to an agreement that it's all the white people's fault.

Even though they're white. And I can almost even see where they're coming from, because the people who are griping seem to have very little notion of what actual suffering and social stigma are like.

But... given that the whole conversation was about NOT MAKING SWEEPING GENERALIZATIONS ABOUT PEOPLE BECAUSE OF A SUPERFICIAL TRAIT, could we not have maybe given this a miss just this once?