#fandom problem 7844

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Fandom Problem #7844:

Tumblr fandom spaces being rampant with the "if you use the term SJW to describe activism, you're a conservative homophobe bigot" talk.

I'm a 40-year old gay transsexual, Helen. I was dealing with "warning, this fic contains SLASH!" and other homophobic crap before your baby ass was even born. And I use "SJW" for SELECT situations where a deeply-troubled person goes full tilt trying to find issues online because they are desperate to make social change, but feel totally impotent, so they end up carpet bombing innocent people, including trans people, because they're so desperate to find things they can "call out" that they literally MAKE PROBLEMS where there aren't any (be it because they're misreading things, trying to convince themselves that x little mistake is really because that person is Bad, or straight up intentionally manufacturing outrage to be performative), and they can't even see they're hurting trans people like me and others, rather than making any real difference or helping us.

That's not "activism". That's bullying done by severely maladapted people who will NEVER be activists doing what they're doing and who are, functionally conservative, no matter what their intents are. Big damn difference! If you attack trans people with logically unsound accusations, that is by definition conservative. So are people like me the conservative ones here? No way.