It's so sad to see how trans people's lives are already difficult, then their lives are made harder by activists who manipulate them to increase their own power. What's it called when the only sides we can take are either "transgenderism is fake" or "trans activists are always right"? Politics.
To go out with a bang: Trans activism is harmful to the trans community as a whole. (I say this as a cis person, which means I'm wrong.) Will they fight for what's best for their community or will they sell their fellow trans people out to get more donations? Hint: People are horrible to each other.
I wanted to avoid posting about politics here but I guess I'm tired of this site. The world is a wretched place mostly because people are so horrible to each other, and social media sites like this encourage people to be horrible in a weak replacement for genuine political discourse.
Bluesky is a good place to go if you want to see furry porn alongside political takes that basically boil down to "The Democratic Party will automatically make everything better for weird people like myself as long as we don't criticize them, which is proven by the fact that Republicans are worse."
I'm so irritated by this line of thought. It's quite a feat how people have reinterpreted "being an unpleasant jerk" as "fighting for minority rights". When this results in rights being curtailed even further, they'll assume it's because they were too pleasant.
I think it's naive to assume that merely paying attention to politics is going to make things better. What I've seen is that politics on social media has little to do with actual positive change, and is more about making people angry at each other for the sole purpose of driving up engagement.
This sort of person must have great difficulties in the regular world. "That person looked at me funny and I can't make them disappear! Why is life so hard??"
People are always like "Blocking is good and right and promotes healthy discourse! Be the change you want to see in the world and just block everyone!" Only occasionally do they admit that the only reason to block someone is because it feels good to hurt someone who said something you didn't like.
Conspicuous consumption is when you obviously have tuberculosis.