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No it's a reasonable criticism of how we construct our identities with acts of consumption. The point isn't that you're a bad person for buying the toy shark, it's that a company isn't your friend because it makes products you like.
Shark isn't ikea, trans people liking shark isn't liking ikea, and calling out a single, extremely marginalized group for a meme toy when capitalist realism forces constructed identity on everyone every day is a little weird.
no one's bein called out, this isn't a sermon, and i think that ascribing the consumption of a single product to all trans people such that criticizing it is criticizing an entire marginalized group is kind of a good demonstration of the problem at hand
also the specific shark with the tradmarked name that everyone repeats literally is manufactured and sold by ikea
It sure reads like a call out sermon