(I'd post a link but it's a locked thread and the screenshot is the whole entire thing so nah)

  • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This whole thing is a mess. TERFs are going wild because Reddit hired an admin who is trans, and her husband has posted some pretty pedo stuff.

    That admin apparently is deleting articles that even vaguely mention them, which has caused a Streisand Effect.

    And the best explanation I've found so far is on 🤮 🤮 Graham Linehan's blog (Who is a dedicated transphobe), which I'll decline to link.

    • Randomdog [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Hmm I mean if it's to shut down TERFy nonsense then maybe it's a good thing? But yeah you're totally right about this being a major Streisand Effect. The drama this has kicked up has made a lot of people more aware of it.

      • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I don't know, Brits are blaming her for closing down the TERF subs, which was a very good action. However, she showed very poor judgment by nuking the article & mod. And on the other hand, really her husband is the problematic one, not her.

        But "strangely" the Brits seem more pissed at her than her husband. So after my reading last night I'm going with TERFs mad, so fuck them, but I wouldn't let her husband babysit my kids.

        • JonathanKington [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          But it shows poor judgement of her to stay with him knowing he's a pedophile. On top of that, she had previously made her father her election agent after he -

          CW: SV

          spoiler

          raped and tortured a 10 year old girl

          - so, like yes, people should be more mad at the husband and the father for being massive pieces of shit, but it's kind of an issue that she seems fine with that type of behaviour. To me that definitely says something about her character. It sucks that TERFs are jumping on this but I don't think this is a situation where she's entirely innocent either.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            What the fuck. How can her father do that and not be in prison for the rest of his life? Especially when people know about it?!

            Edit: He is in jail...why did she do that?

          • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            She's a Reddit admin, she's definitely not innocent.

            But yes, overall everything about this situation is awful.

            • JonathanKington [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              I'm not talking about how she's a reddit admin. I'm talking about her association with pedophiles and child rapists.

              • disco [any]
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                3 years ago

                Pretty sure that associating with pedophiles and child rapists is par for the course if you’re a Reddit admin. See violentacrez.

              • DresySupremacy [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                Lol trying to downplay that a 10 year old was tortured and raped. Not the time or the person to defend buddy

                • JonathanKington [none/use name]
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                  3 years ago

                  Yes, I am clearly downplaying the actions of this POS in posts like this and this. Just look at how much I'm defending the child rapist.

                  Or maybe, just maybe, I was making a comment about how some folks care a lot less about child rapists when they happen to be members of the royal family.

                  Give me a fucking break.

        • Saint [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I have a friend who's involved with the Green Party, where there's a constant struggle between trans allies and TERFs. The TERFs had a field day with Aimee.

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            3 years ago

            Pretty much the same shit happened during the gay rights movement in the 90s/00s.

            A handful of creeps and sickos would get dragged out by the religious right as poster-cases against gay marriage. And the frighteningly insular political/media community trying to cover it up would only inflame the convictions of the bigots.

        • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          I mean, let's be serious here: she lived with her father...

          CW: SV

          spoiler

          ...AT THE SAME TIME THAT HE HAD A CHILD SEX SLAVE DUNGEON IN THE HOUSE...

          ... so she's either the dumbest woman on the planet, or she's complicit. Given that she also married a nonce, I'd put money on the latter.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          And on the other hand, really her husband is the problematic one, not her.

          It's very difficult to talk about Famous Person's Husband without so much as mentioning Famous Person, as someone will inevitably ask "Who the fuck is Husband?" and then a dozen people will get insta-banned trying to provide an answer.

          This doesn't benefit the Trans-Community in any meaningful way, either, as it absolutely screams "Pedophile Coverup".

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        Hmm I mean if it’s to shut down TERFy nonsense then maybe it’s a good thing?

        Like, this isn't simple TERF shit. The Reddit response is draconian in the extreme. And, as sites like Parlor demonstrate, you don't really "shut down" TERFs. You just create 4chan-esque communities that use these insane policies as proof of even more insane political attitudes.

    • DresySupremacy [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Lol missing the part where she hired her dad who got convicted off raping and torturing a 10 year old girl while cross dressing as a women and wearing a diaper.

          • Bedulge [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Pedophilia is a mental illness. He should get therapy. He should not be merely thrown into a concrete box, certainly not if he hasn't hurt a real, flesh and blood child.

            Any pedophilic act (involving a real child I mean) is a disgusting crime that needs to be dealt with because it can do such severe mental damage to the child but do we really want to send the cops to imprison people with mental illnesses who haven't hurt any actual person?

            Were ya'll not serious last summer when everyone was talking about "Fuck 12" and "abolish prison"? Now we are going to send the cops to imprison mentally ill people for committing thought crimes?

            I don't think a good society will be throwing people into jail just because it has been decide that he has a predisposition toward a certain crime.

            The father, who really did commit crimes against a real child tho? fuck that guy, to be clear

    • Malikto [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      A lot of times, opposition sources are the best information about their specialized topic. Especially when they've got the goods and are telling everyone. Lots of Germans tuned in to the BBC because they were the only ones telling the truth about what was happening at the front.