Apartheid manbaby's Twitter is my new "Facebook"-- in the sense that at a certain point, beacause of the platform's shittiness, I lost interest in doing anything on my FB wall other than posting my latest columns and articles. Eventually I just stopped posting to FB altogether
It's harder to completely give up on Twitter. As I've carved out a little career for myself as a self-employed writer, Twitter has literally been my bread and butter--getting me in front of new editors who offered me paying work and helping me find new Patreon patrons.
Apr 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Does this "Trans Radical Activist Network" (TRAN) group that was planning a "Trans Day of V*ngeance" march even really exist?
The name of the group sounds like something transphobes would make up. And the name of the march is obviously counterproductive to a targeted minority
Some mainstream sources are reporting as if the group is genuine, but Politifact says "The group’s size and scope were unclear."
It all looks very sus to me. If these are genuine transgender advocates and activists, they are very bad at it
Personally I find this some of this language awkward and don't use it all the time, but that's the thing--it is indeed technical language--and technical language is often awkward--that has value when applied to specific contexts. Language also evolves; there's no stopping that
But I mean, come on, no one's going to come up to a cisgender woman who hasn't had a hysterectomy on the street and say, "Greetings, citizen uterus haver!" The moral panic TERFs foment around this language is pernicious nonsense, and they know it
Mar 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
You all realize that Michale Knowles' "trans people can't be genocided because trans people don't exist" rhetoric has been used for gay people as well, right? And that right-wing Christians will apply it to gay people again if this eliminationist rhetoric gains traction?
Ask anyone who grew up evangelical. "As God sees it, there's no such thing as being gay as an identity. There's only experiencing same-sex attraction, and choosing whether to act on that sinful temptation." Being gay is a "lifestyle" and a "choice," we were told over and over
Mar 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Lol, you do that, Mr. Spock, even though it’s illogical
“Occupier of political no man’s land,” aka a reactionary contrarian who doesn’t want to admit he’s conservative. Classic
Mar 4, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Florida’s metastasizing fascism is basically a stage cancer 4 at this point. It’s always important to consider how boycotts will affect ordinary and decent people, but things are so bad now that I support boycotting Fla.
It’s also literally unsafe for queer, esp. trans, folks
Imagine if Disney made a credible threat to leave. Many GOP state senators might suddenly not be so gung-ho to rubber stamp DeSantis’s authoritarian rampage.
That may be unrealistic—but if other companies start pulling out, things could snowball to where state legislators balk
Apr 21, 2018 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
1. FOX "News" is playing at white Christian persecution complex, so let's give #GoodChristian™ Douglas MacKinnon a little of the "persecution" he so craves. Because, believe me, calling out someone's #ChristianAltFacts is obvs equivalent to them being murdered for their faith. 2. Guess what? Your friend is either delusional, stupid, or dishonest. Unless you made up said "friend" like many of the "facts" in this article. Hey, I'm just asking questions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
1. I don't know how many people who teach in Christian schools or Evangelical colleges have spent time on the Russian mission field, but I do know those groups overlap. Whatever the numbers, the broader context around international collaboration in the culture wars is important.
2. @Beachbumjules, I'm not sure if you were worried about Russian influence on American schoolchildren, or American culture warriors' influence on Russians, but both countries have hardline right-wing populist/conservative utopian traditions of their own to draw on.
