this trans woman wrote a story about a woman who identifies as an attack helicopter to become a better pilot and was attacked by queer activists for transphobia. it caused her to be admitted to a psych ward for suicidal thoughts. she said it increased her dysphoria because ppl told her "only a man would write such a story"
>>43183743>she suffered under hot allostatic loadmany such cases
>>43183803it's not HAL for people to assume that someone writing about "identifying as an attack helicopter" in 2024 is a transphobic troll
>leftists are idiots who don't get postmodern writingsNothing new. Sucks though.
>>43183808i read the story and it very clearly wasn'tperhaps other people should do that instead of getting stuck in some outrage cycle on twitter
i dont believe her. she admitted herself into a psych ward because her article was shit
>>43183743>it caused her to be admitted to a psych ward for suicidal thoughts. she said it increased her dysphoria because ppl told her "only a man would write such a story"kek
>>43183817maybe don't write a short story using one of the most well known transphobic memes as the title if you don't want people to assume you're a transphobelike I feel for her, but come on. She should have had more awareness of how this would have come across to people.
>>43183829you know i have zero sympathy for someone who passes judgement on a short story without even bothering to read itremove the attack helicopter and the short story makes no sense and loses all impactis that a world we want to live in? where art is limited by the kind of person who doesn't even look at it let alone think critically about it
>>43183848I'm not saying she can't or even shouldn't write a story using that titleshe just should have had the awareness that literally any trans person on the internet would see the title and immediately assume it was transphobic. I do feel bad for her because clearly the reaction hurt her a lot emotionally, but did she really not expect this kind of immediate backlash?
>>43183848That's the world chronically online and chronically politicised people want to live in.Mix of modernism and Christian puritanism. Aquinas and Marx have many incestuous children.