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MacArrowny posted...

Trans people sending death threats to streamers who play HL and donate all the revenue to pro trans charities is 100% a failure on their part.

SirChris posted...

There are many - not you - who I have seen with a lot of sway on the internet saying that if someone buys the game they are transphobic and don't ever talk to them again. I think perhaps as a trans person you don't realize - or don't care to comment on - that you appear to be rather moderate on this issue compared to many within the trans space.

These are great examples of the double standard Grimlyn and Rock brought up, and something I touched on in the last thread. There's a skewed perspective put forth in a lot of media and online spaces that pins these actions on the trans community as a whole, probably related to the stereotype that trans people are mentally unstable. It's not fair to reframe the conversation in this way - to say, "Your human rights concerns are valid and all, but look at these unreasonable things your side is doing," as though that's a valid counterpoint.

I think a sentiment that's lost in translation between trans and cis people is how it feels to hear your community and human rights movement talked about in terms of optics and presentation, to hear people saying the boycott should have been staged and explained better or that those energies should have gone towards some higher, more productive mechanism instead. Hearing outsiders discuss things in this dispassionate way kind of hurts, especially when you know they're not invested in it at all. It's not really accurate to view this whole thing as an organized, planned boycott with premeditation and a game plan and clear goals: it's a natural outcome from a lot of people sharing a feeling about Rowling and her work and her activism, and no individual is going to be responsible for the entirety of how that plays out. When you argue about whether it's a waste of time or whether it's ineffective or whether it's a failure, you're applying those criticisms to people's feelings, not a political event, and that's kind of lame.