you are a gnat, you fly in peoples ears and eyes
Tachanka
joined 2 years ago
Nah, you weren't being aggressive
Totally agree with your assessment about things not needing to be reclaimed. And I also thought you were asking a good question up top; why would a trans person write fanfiction of an IP belonging to a transphobic author? It has the same energy as casting POC as the slave-owning founding fathers in Hamilton. And you're right. the answer I came up with is dissatisfying, but that was my first instinct trying to put myself in the shoes of someone who does that and come up with an answer. A lot of people believe in Reclaiming The Bad Thing for some reason. I agree it's ill-advised.
4chan vs. reddit
and just like republicans vs. democrats they're not as different as they're made out to be
i wanna shake them and ask why but i don't think i'd get a satisfying answer
Reclamation of the Bad Thing
"it's New Years Eve, time to terrorize pets and sleeping babies with low grade explosives"
aww she's holding a baby
opposing imperialism, colonialism, racism, capitalism, patriarchy, animal abuse, domestic violence, or pollution in a way that is not utterly ineffectual or pacifistic
spoiler
even pacifists get called tankie for having rhetoric that's too "mean"
no one calls the UK some quaint society that hasn't fully embraced modernity.
boots with the fur
capitalism when market
socialism when state
