Pretending You’re Oppressed: The New Internet Fad

[dearmisterecho]

On top blogging sites like Tumblr and Livejournal, the biggest new fandom is no longer anime or evening fantasy drama, but that of “SJ,” a nickname for “social justice,” which refers to discourse on equal rights and how to, essentially, be kind and respectful to all people. As a trans person of color, I have used these platforms as a means of

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[ten_of_swords]

http://watchful-entity.tumblr.com/ is a tumblr that reblogs all sorts of stuff like this from the tumblr realm. Also http://melted-snowflake.tumblr.com/ is a new tumblr by an ex-otherkin who is essentially calling the community out for being bullshit and they're all frothing at the mouth over it.

[dearmisterecho]

...who needs sleep, right?

*curls up with some veggie chips and begins reading through the lulz and rage*

[screamingintune]

lol I just got some crackers and settled in. tumblr, man. it is like the internet's trainwreck.

[homasse]

~one of these things is not like the other one of these things is fucking insane~

XD

TW: transphobia

[a_leprechaun]

I tend to think I'm pretty desensitized to internet wackiness. Don't feel a need to make a fuss about it. Even with stuff like otherkin, I shrug and say "Well, it's not hurting anybody, so do what you like," and move on.

Yet when I first heard the terms 'transethnic' and 'transabled,' I wished I could go back to five minutes earlier and stop the concept from ever being introduced to me. I yearned for brain bleach.

Like, seriously. Seriously. As if transgender and transsexual folks didn't already have to deal with the idea that we're just being silly or ~making it up to feel special~, now comes this fuckery. It pisses me the fuck off that someone decided to co-opt the word 'trans' in a way that can only be more damaging to a fight against actual oppression.

It's like that goddamn South Park episode come to life.

Re: TW: transphobia

[redglare]

The sad (and by sad I mean MY BLOOD IS BOILING) thing?

On a good portion of the internet, these people won't be harassed for IDing as "transethnic" or whatever, and in that same portion of the internet, a trans* or genderqueer person who's as open about their own identity would get harassed, sent death threats, and constantly have their identity invalidated.

URGH. UUUUUUURGHHHHHHH.

Re: TW: transphobia

[a_leprechaun]

yyyyup. If I hold out any hope in this, it's that these ideas will stay in their natural internet habitats and not migrate too far out into the real world.

edited because I can word

[eversofar]

Personally, I think they all suffer from plain old “being boring” oppression.

pretty much. why be boring when you can be a transethnic japanese cat who is occasionally sherlock holmes?

[popehippo]

Transaged is also apparently a thing to. As in you're 16 but really you feel that you belong from the 1920s or something.

....Yeah.

[mycenaes]

...o m g

that explains so much, somehow.

[redglare]

Bet you a thousand dollars that's all white people.

[screamingintune]

probably, but I bet plenty of them are women, which depresses me

[mollywobbles867]

I read this on the mothership. I just can't wrap my head around any of this and I never will.