A few days ago, one of my colleagues saw a one year old kitty for sudden onset seizures. First thought was idiopathic epilepsy, but:
Turned out that someone in the family had brought lilies into the house and put them up high, thinking that the cat wouldn’t get to them. Alas, even a lick of pollen from lilies causes fatal kidney damage in cats.
Said cat was not epileptic. Her kidneys were fried, so she lost her life at one year of age.
If you have cats in the house, that means no lilies, no matter how high up they are.
No lilies. Ever. Not even once. If someone gives you a bouquet with lilies, throw the lilies out before you ever bring those flowers into your house. Just breathing the pollen in the air can kill a cat.
If you have cats, please take this seriously. No lilies.
Within 24 hours of posting a callout of a trans woman who’s in pain (traditional TWERF pasttime) on a whole different website, her Twitter account gets nuked.
Over and over again, we inform these people that pointing out the slights trans women make will always hurt these women way worse than anyvody else, and they just keep doing it anyways.
I’m 100% convinced it’s on purpose 99% of the time. I don’t believe the Tboy Tears.
if a cis woman, after a breakup, said “done with men forever sorry” and got dogpiled by men harassing her it would be obvious to everyone that these are misogynists punishing her for saying out loud that she’s no longer romantically or sexually available to men. but i guess because she’s trans & people have heard of her, everyone lines up to demonstrate their virtue by vilifying the Bad Trans Woman Of The Week instead. clearly any trans woman you’ve heard of is a celebrity worthy of being #canceled, and surely no woman can ever be allowed to say she’s not interested in men or she’s tired of their behavior. i hope every single person who harassed this poor random trans girl chokes and fucking dies for real
people on twitter are trying to cancel sadie liath (the trans woman who went viral not too long ago for wearing blue body paint) because she tweeted “done with trans men forever sorry.” the post literally feels like the sort of thing you’d post after a really shitty date or a breakup and isn’t targeted at anyone.
i don’t know her at all but i really hope this doesn’t hurt her too badly, and i haven’t seen anyone here talk about it.
turns out i was right and she did just get out of an 8 year long abusive relationship with a trans man. not sure why people decided to add getting her run off of twitter to the pain of that, but congrats. you made it worse.
Hopefully it’s okay for me to add onto this (if not i’ll delete it), but this situation has been bothering me all day as well
I essentially had to investigate to figure out what happened here after seeing nothing but replies to a now-deleted tweet of trans women i follow shading anecdotal stories about how trans men helped them in the past with shaming comments like “you could never make me hate our brothers”
eventually i saw a vague post about it and looked into the replies, somebody asked for context and the only reply to that said “the blue lady went transphobic.” which was odd to me, seeing as how i primarily knew her from being trans!
the fact that i couldn’t find additional context aside from this was pretty terrifying, all i could find was “she has a bigoted crash out” without anyone actually elaborating
the rest of the day all i could find were posts from prominent trans women (notably all white and relatively well-off, as they so often are) talking about how they love and support trans men, replies condemning division and “hating on oppressed groups of any kind right now”
the worst of it though was seeing people already speculating on her mental state- “a person trying to tattoo themselves blue was kinda insane?” (notably of course also degendering her). it’s the tried and true way to cast aside women, to call them insane and write them off
and of course anybody pointing out the harassment of an abuse victim being fucked up is met with the old “you’re just like TERFs”
when i FINALLY found the full context i was shocked that it was even more benign than i assumed it had to have been. all she really said was that she didn’t like or trust trans men after a traumatic experience
as my girlfriend pointed out, it’s a pretty universal experience for cis women to say “i hate men” or “fuck all men” especially after a bad relationship, so why on earth is this any different, why is it now a huge issue of bigotry?
I say all this as someone who didn’t really follow her btw! i have no vested interest in defending her, i found the blue thing kind of annoying. if she kept posting as normal i likely would’ve never known or encountered her again
but this? it’s terrifying, and it’s enabled by the types of trans women who are allowed to have a platform. only those that are white, rich, conventionally attractive, and know which buttons not to press. it’s horrifying to see them turn on their sister en masse as soon as she steps out of line
