Let me be 100% clear about this so there can be no misunderstanding. Trans women need access to rape crisis centers and shelters because trans women are raped and sexually assaulted and face intimate partner violence at alarmingly high rates, and for NO OTHER REASON.
If you are the kind of ghoul who'll make absurd charges that trans women are trying to access services they need for sexual gratification or predatory reasons? YOU ARE A FUCKING MONSTER. You are a god damn monster who is making a case for systemic violence against victims.
I can't tell you just how much I hate having to speak out and be vocal on issues trans people face, because it is just exhausting, facing cruelty stacked upon cruelty, vile and dehumanizing rhetoric from sadists who take glee in the suffering of others. I loathe it.
I despise having to speak out, because NOBODY should have to say something like this! Nobody should have to say that yes, a woman who is raped or sexually assaulted may seek help from a rape crisis center and that's the reason why she needs access. I hate that I have to say this!
If you are the kind of ghoul who'll spread depraved qanon style conspiracies about the intentions of victims, fucking *VICTIMS* of rape or sexual assault, just because they're trans? Fuck you. Jesus fucking christ, there's something deeply wrong with you.
I wish to hell I didn't have to say this, but he we are...
And I understand all too well the point of this cruel and sadistic line of rhetoric. You want to make the social cost of transitioning so high, so unthinkable, that trans people will be too scared to come out at all.
I get it, I do! I implicitly understand the point. You don't want there to be trans people any more, so you try to make life so unbearable for trans people, including telling rape victims they're perverts and predators if they ask for help, that we just stay in the closet or die.
I mean, that's the end goal of these anti-trans campaigners. They want trans people eliminated, the very concept of trans people gone! They openly call for it. I'm so very weary of having to state the obvious here, that's their endgame.
But all the cruelty, and hate, and scorn... it's pointless! Trans people just are.
Fuck these utter ghouls, these anti-trans sadists. Go support a good cause.
By the way, Shaun from Youtube uploaded a very good video about the absurd claims of the "GeNdEr cRiTiCaLs" that nobody knew about trans stuff before a few years ago, and that Terry Pratchett couldn't have known about trans people.
You should watch it.
Now, Shaun does a real good video, but something I'd add is that yes a lot of GCs think that trans issues just didn't exist until 2015 because (insert conspiracy theory here) and the reason for is simple:
The religious right lost on marriage equality and changed tactics.
Obergefell v. Hodges happened, and they immediately turned to trans people as the next target. They still wanted to stamp out LGBT rights as a whole, but just changed the messaging a bit. They even say so openly themselves: pinknews.co.uk/2018/12/07/ant…
Incidentally, I really like writing these mini curator reviews, there's a challenge to getting across your best elevator pitch for a game in the strictly limited word count.
Then of course you have curators called wharrgarbl where every single review just says wharrgarbl
Hey folks, I have added Fuga: Melodies of Steel to my Steam curator page.
This seems to be slipping under a lot of people's radar, which is a pity, because it is without a doubt one of the best I've played all year. I highly recommend checking it out.
If you've not heard of this game, it's an extremely anime game where you play as a bunch of kids in a furry alternate France who commandeer a mysterious Howl's Moving Castle-esque tank to fight the invading Berman army. Yeah, it's a fantasy WWII setting like Valkyria Chronicles.
It's hard to compare the came to anything else, but the closest thing I'd compare it to is actually a linear Darkest Dungeon, where your Howl's Trundling Fortress moves left to right coming across different enemies or bonuses along the way with some branching paths.
God damn, here's a game I wish I'd gotten to sooner, it's god damn bloody terrific, and has me exclaiming "what the fuck? you little shit!" at weird nightmare monsters that eat my agents.