#somebody check me for hypocrisy because I feel like this is hypocritical but I can't remember why

[hauntsdiscourseblog]

I admit I don't really have the perspective to see why engaging with terfs on the internet is a bad thing, or why "[people I don't like] dni" is a reasonable thing to put in your bio. Like I'm pretty terminally online. I engage with people on the internet regularly on all kinds of subjects, and it's not like I've never run into a person who can't be reasoned with, or never heard the horror stories of people doxxing other people and shit. In fact that kept me quiet on here for a long, long time because I was worried about it happening to me. But like, here's the thing(s):

Ignoring the problem doesn't just magically cause it to go away. Terfs exist, and part of fighting for lgbt rights is convincing those people that you're not insane for being lgbt. I'm not saying lgbt people are insane, but the fact that the opposition believes lgbt people are insane means they have to be convinced otherwise. And besides, if you take the time to understand where they're coming from, you might even find that they do in fact have an explanation. And once you get there, you can start to convince them otherwise

That whole thing where I kept my silence on here because I was afraid of the repercussions? That wasn't the terfs. It was the pro-lgbt groups, the tumblrinas and sjws, who made me the most afraid to speak, and it was because of what is now the nature of this blog, because my misgivings were and are about the philosophy of being trans, because while the terfs will shout their rhetoric at anybody who will listen, the lgbt people will shut up and hide, or worse, attack the new recruits. I've said it before, I'll say it again, but if the lgbt people are performing the oppressive actions while the terfs are accepting the disaffected with open arms, then the flow of new recruits goes in the direction of the terfs. And then we get things like the election of Trump happening.

If you're fighting for lgbt rights, then you have to be willing to talk to, and even understand, the opposition. Because the alternative is losing.

#somebody check me for hypocrisy because I feel like this is hypocritical but I can't remember why #trans discourse #gender discourse #terfs #lgbtqia discourse #discourse #This blog is starting to seem a little serious #i should reblog a few more things I enjoy lmao