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𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷 💎
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    1. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints 28 Aug 2018
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      What happens every time I drag someone on Twitter (until yesterday the last one was what, Arielle back in April?) is I waste an entire day on it and then am left with this emotional hangover, feeling I've accomplished nothing but igniting waves of anger and pain.

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    2. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints 28 Aug 2018
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      I feel a need to reassure myself like wait, why did I do this again? I knew I had to say something about Singal when the Atlantic article broke, & on my timeline I saw 1 almost every trans person decrying it & 2 enthusiastic retweets from Blanchard, Dreger and a bunch of TERFs.

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    3. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints 28 Aug 2018
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      Like if I made a video about homosexuality and the majority of gay people hated it while it was enthusiastically endorsed by Ted Cruz and Pat Robertson, I'd have to look at myself and say, oh shit: empirically, I have fucked up.

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    4. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints 28 Aug 2018
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      But I generally don't get involved with these disputes on Twitter. The only reason I did this time is that, as I said, I'm widely viewed as a Singal apologist, which I'm not.

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    5. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints 28 Aug 2018
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      But I suppose I'm worried that my motivation here is too much "I want to wash my hands of the situation" and not enough "something good will happen because I'm doing this."

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    6. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints 28 Aug 2018
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      There's also this background anxiety I have around what I said last night about the obligations of public representatives. I've had no choice but to take on the trans representative role since I came out, and as my platform grows so does that obligation.

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    7. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints 28 Aug 2018
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      And to be honest I'm often not sure I'm up to it. Everything I said about Singal's failures will at some point be said about me. Much of it already has. What does being a good representative involve in my case? Do I just visibly be myself? Or do I have to toe a more generic line?

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    8. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints 28 Aug 2018
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      I'm an abnormal trans person. I wasn't a trans child. I think of myself as transitioning from one gender to another rather than expressing an inherent essence. My sexual orientation has shifted with my transition. I have a performative, non-ontological view of what gender even is

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      𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints 28 Aug 2018
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      Far from having "joined the transcult" I think I'm fairly heterodox. I was being serious yesterday when I said I like having nuanced freespeechy conversations about this kind of thing. But for the good of the community do I need to keep this shit to myself?

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        2. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints 28 Aug 2018
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          I know there will come a time where I'm accused of failing to be a good representative. And I guess I need to prepare myself for that so I'm mentally ready to handle it correctly.

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        3. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints 28 Aug 2018
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          In the meantime idk I guess my plan is to ease into a kind of generic yas-queening around on Twitter, and in my videos experiment with expressing some of my views in the voice of COMPLETELY FICTIONAL CHARACTERS.

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        2. a gog of frogs‏ @frogsagog 28 Aug 2018
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          I don't think the pressure to present a unified opinion is a healthy sign in the community, and I appreciate it when people decide to talk frankly about the ways in which your experience doesn't fit general conceptions of the trans experience. at the same time, it's one to be -

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        3. a gog of frogs‏ @frogsagog 28 Aug 2018
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          appreciative when you talk about stuff like that and another to feel betrayed if you don't. tbh the fact that you've been navigating through all of this while already having a following is daunting beyond what I can imagine, and whatever you need to do for your health is ok.

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        2. Delightingale‏ @Xena_Brand 29 Aug 2018
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          I think part of the problem with wanting deep, open, and frank discussions about this is so few cis people are actually willing to do the same in good faith Most aren't listening and are just trying to win an arguement

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        3. Pixie‏ @pixieofpolicy 7 Sep 2018
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          Sometimes it takes more then one point of contact to change someone's mind. They might not be ready for it this time, but it willl help open them up for next time. Cultural change requires time and patience, and this movement moves much faster then past ones of it's kind.

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        1. Hambone Fakenamington 🧢‏ @2theLeff 28 Aug 2018
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          No, for the good of the community, please do not keep this shit to yourself. It is good thing that you are heterodox. People need to see that the trans community is not a monolithic cult. As you said yesterday, every 3 trans people have 4 opinions.

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        2. Aria Burrell‏ @litui 28 Aug 2018
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          Heck no. I don't have a fraction of your platform but I also feel the pressures of the orthodox activist role. There is a need for it to be subverted to make discourse functional again. If we're only ever repeating purist rhetoric at each other we get fucking nowhere.

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        3. Sydney’s #4 liz‏ @lizduckchong 28 Aug 2018
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          🙌 +1 to this. i still don’t know where that public/private line is, but i’m going to keep fucking up until i figure it out and trying to forgive others for the same as i hope they’d do for me.

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        1. sap‏ @zejohnso 28 Aug 2018
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          No! That's what makes you incredible & inspiring & good at what you do. You can have those conversations & kick ass, provoke thought, dissect arguments etc. thats what attracted me to your channel in the first place! its honest & refreshing & bold

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