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I have a question.
Have there every been any civil and sane social justice armchair crusaders? Because I'm beginning to think there isn't. Y'know, I would probably be more give-a-shit about your great interbutts causes if you didn't flip shit about things, slather your arguments with swears, and throw out all your bullshit label cards.
Because, quite frankly, I don't give a shit what you label yourself as. That doesn't matter to me in the conversation or in my judgment of your character. I don't care if you're transgender, bisexual, asexual, white, black, male, or female. If you're being a dumbshit on the internet, I'm calling you out only on the words you're putting on the screen. I know this must be a really hard concept to grasp because I, obviously, come off as such a hateful, bigoted person when I say that you having a conniption over the term 'genderswap' in fandom and fanfiction. I mean, I must be some crazy conservative cisgendered middle class Caucasians person who's been locked in a house for their whole life, never experiencing the outside world to be able to form judgments and assessments on other peoples' opinions, complaints, and words.
Seriously, all that ever comes up with these people is bile when you disagree with them in any manner. Having a different opinion than someone is an execution order. I'm so goddamn sick of it. Listen, if I want to use 'genderswap' instead of your bizarre terms (like 'assigned-differently-at-birth'), that's my pergoative. Also, using 'genderswap' is not the same, nor is it as offensive (or offensive at all, in my opinion. yes, I know sex and gender are different things, but fandom is pretty dumb overall, so expecting sense out of them is slim to none) as using terms like 'slutswap', 'niggerswap', 'spicswap' because, GUESS WHAT, those aren't actually things. And if they are, people KNOW they're offensive and they keep them out of your precious little sight.
Because, GOD FORBID, someone not but a trigger warning on something as petty and small as GENDERSWAP. God forbid someone shield your tender, baby eyes from things with your precious ~~trigger warnings~~.
Also, almost all conversations with these people that actually end usually result in them going 'lol you're a douchebag' or something and not actually coming to a conclusion. Which is pretty typical of people who are just spewing rage all over in a self-righteous manner because they think they're important on the internet.
Listen, I GET that some words are offensive and everyone is offended in a different manner. But the internet does not have a filter and, quite frankly, I don't want it to have one. When you start facing these horrible trials and terms in real life, then is the time to get up in arms. It's still not going to affect me much because I still don't know you personally. The only people I'm fighting for are my friends and family and otherwise, I'm going to dick around on the internet and spend my free time having fun instead of getitng into a tizzy over words on the internet.
You're not here to police what I say and I, as a human adult, know to take responsibility for what I say and do. If I call someone a slur, there's probably a good reason for it in my mind. Speaking of, I would hate to live in this ultra-PC world these people are fighting towards. I WANT there to be words that hurt people. I WANT to be able to call someone something awful if I hate them. I want there to be bad things for good things. I want there to be conflict. What the fuck else would we have otherwise? Peace and harmony? How boring would that get?
But my opinion doesn't matter because I'm a cisgendered female living in my own place in a middle class college town with my transgender boyfriend, our four cats, our dog, with our flat screen television, our XBOX 360, our four computers, our comfortable bed, our car, our public transportation, our government assistance, our college education, our two bikes, ectera, ectera.
And you know what? I'm proud of that. Because I suffered for years and struggled through life to have the things I have. So I'm not taking people calling me a spoiled white girl as a slight anymore (not that I did in the first place, but that's what they mean by it). Yeah, I have all these things because I busted my ass for them and I lived in the projects for years, sometimes only have $20 to my name to feed two people for a week, had a mother who was a junkie, was homeless, walked for miles just to look for work, was denied government assistance because I wasn't pregnant, ectera, ectera. Sure, call me a spoiled white girl. I struggled enough to get here.
Also, this is the post that prompted this: http://blackacres.tumblr.com/post/10198184084/i-hate-the-term-genderswap-i-hate-it-stop-using
Have there every been any civil and sane social justice armchair crusaders? Because I'm beginning to think there isn't. Y'know, I would probably be more give-a-shit about your great interbutts causes if you didn't flip shit about things, slather your arguments with swears, and throw out all your bullshit label cards.
Because, quite frankly, I don't give a shit what you label yourself as. That doesn't matter to me in the conversation or in my judgment of your character. I don't care if you're transgender, bisexual, asexual, white, black, male, or female. If you're being a dumbshit on the internet, I'm calling you out only on the words you're putting on the screen. I know this must be a really hard concept to grasp because I, obviously, come off as such a hateful, bigoted person when I say that you having a conniption over the term 'genderswap' in fandom and fanfiction. I mean, I must be some crazy conservative cisgendered middle class Caucasians person who's been locked in a house for their whole life, never experiencing the outside world to be able to form judgments and assessments on other peoples' opinions, complaints, and words.
Seriously, all that ever comes up with these people is bile when you disagree with them in any manner. Having a different opinion than someone is an execution order. I'm so goddamn sick of it. Listen, if I want to use 'genderswap' instead of your bizarre terms (like 'assigned-differently-at-birth'), that's my pergoative. Also, using 'genderswap' is not the same, nor is it as offensive (or offensive at all, in my opinion. yes, I know sex and gender are different things, but fandom is pretty dumb overall, so expecting sense out of them is slim to none) as using terms like 'slutswap', 'niggerswap', 'spicswap' because, GUESS WHAT, those aren't actually things. And if they are, people KNOW they're offensive and they keep them out of your precious little sight.
Because, GOD FORBID, someone not but a trigger warning on something as petty and small as GENDERSWAP. God forbid someone shield your tender, baby eyes from things with your precious ~~trigger warnings~~.
Also, almost all conversations with these people that actually end usually result in them going 'lol you're a douchebag' or something and not actually coming to a conclusion. Which is pretty typical of people who are just spewing rage all over in a self-righteous manner because they think they're important on the internet.
Listen, I GET that some words are offensive and everyone is offended in a different manner. But the internet does not have a filter and, quite frankly, I don't want it to have one. When you start facing these horrible trials and terms in real life, then is the time to get up in arms. It's still not going to affect me much because I still don't know you personally. The only people I'm fighting for are my friends and family and otherwise, I'm going to dick around on the internet and spend my free time having fun instead of getitng into a tizzy over words on the internet.
You're not here to police what I say and I, as a human adult, know to take responsibility for what I say and do. If I call someone a slur, there's probably a good reason for it in my mind. Speaking of, I would hate to live in this ultra-PC world these people are fighting towards. I WANT there to be words that hurt people. I WANT to be able to call someone something awful if I hate them. I want there to be bad things for good things. I want there to be conflict. What the fuck else would we have otherwise? Peace and harmony? How boring would that get?
But my opinion doesn't matter because I'm a cisgendered female living in my own place in a middle class college town with my transgender boyfriend, our four cats, our dog, with our flat screen television, our XBOX 360, our four computers, our comfortable bed, our car, our public transportation, our government assistance, our college education, our two bikes, ectera, ectera.
And you know what? I'm proud of that. Because I suffered for years and struggled through life to have the things I have. So I'm not taking people calling me a spoiled white girl as a slight anymore (not that I did in the first place, but that's what they mean by it). Yeah, I have all these things because I busted my ass for them and I lived in the projects for years, sometimes only have $20 to my name to feed two people for a week, had a mother who was a junkie, was homeless, walked for miles just to look for work, was denied government assistance because I wasn't pregnant, ectera, ectera. Sure, call me a spoiled white girl. I struggled enough to get here.
Also, this is the post that prompted this: http://blackacres.tumblr.com/post/10198184084/i-hate-the-term-genderswap-i-hate-it-stop-using
