Well. The person said "All fictional man are gay, don't @ me <3". And so, I tried to be diplomatic, telling them that their opinion is valid, but they shouldn't force this headcanon onto everyone, since some people have a crush who's their opposite gender. On the other hand, nobody should enforce headcanons onto trans people's crushes. But guess this was a big mistake, suddenly everybody told me that me, a cis woman, tried to make everything revolve around me. I got so many hate messages, one of them said, for example, "choke". Just "choke".
Ahh, I've usually seen that statement played as a joke! There's so little representation in mainstream media that "all x is y" tends to be sort of a way of dealing with it, it's usually not meant literally / something to be forced onto others.
Sending death threats is still wrong, though, and I'm sorry that happened.
That's pretty extreme :O tumblr is really brutal. That being said I'm not sure what a "different opinion" on someone being trans means?
3 years, 7 months ago
Well. The person said "All fictional man are gay, don't @ me <3". And so, I tried to be diplomatic, telling them that their opinion is valid, but they shouldn't force this headcanon onto everyone, since some people have a crush who's their opposite gender. On the other hand, nobody should enforce headcanons onto trans people's crushes. But guess this was a big mistake, suddenly everybody told me that me, a cis woman, tried to make everything revolve around me. I got so many hate messages, one of them said, for example, "choke". Just "choke".
3 years, 7 months ago
Ahh, I've usually seen that statement played as a joke! There's so little representation in mainstream media that "all x is y" tends to be sort of a way of dealing with it, it's usually not meant literally / something to be forced onto others.
Sending death threats is still wrong, though, and I'm sorry that happened.
3 years, 7 months ago
I wish I knew that earlier. Thanks to my aspergers, I take things too literally sometimes. But guess they didn't want to understand that.
it's fine. I'm still recovering, but it's fine now.
3 years, 7 months ago