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Varkias (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} varkias) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunny_fandom, |
Re: TW: Transphobia, ableism, misogyny, suicide, bullying/harrassment, general vileness
Feeling attacked is one thing - I live with people who think that me holding hands with my girlfriend is an infringement on their right to pretend that gay people don't exist.
But implying that people exist who hate people just for being straight so much that they are more psychotic and violent than homophobes have shown themselves to be over and over again, to the point of actual physical violence and murder...that's a new one for me, and one I could have done without. It made me so sick and angry I was shaking.
I have to live my entire life with the knowledge that if I say or do the wrong thing at the wrong time in front of the wrong people, I might be beaten or killed for it. I live in a red state in the midwest, it's not very theoretical here. Someone co-opting that fear to make a vile point of false reversion in a joke, I can't even.
Feeling attacked is one thing - I live with people who think that me holding hands with my girlfriend is an infringement on their right to pretend that gay people don't exist.
But implying that people exist who hate people just for being straight so much that they are more psychotic and violent than homophobes have shown themselves to be over and over again, to the point of actual physical violence and murder...that's a new one for me, and one I could have done without. It made me so sick and angry I was shaking.
I have to live my entire life with the knowledge that if I say or do the wrong thing at the wrong time in front of the wrong people, I might be beaten or killed for it. I live in a red state in the midwest, it's not very theoretical here. Someone co-opting that fear to make a vile point of false reversion in a joke, I can't even.
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