That’s not evidence, Sunshine
Check out this complete fuckwit answering demands for specifics and evidence with a tweet of his own which is just another string of assertions. “Show me some evidence!” “Ok here’s me saying things!” Doing this over and over again. The conceit plus stupidity is quite something. Complete fuckwit inexplicably has 248 thousand followers.
“But why should we believe you that Rosie Duffield is so wicked?”
“Because I said so in this other tweet!”
Yeah, the only actual thing he stated was something biologically factual. She is scientifically accurate, we can’t have that. And Eddie Izzard can fuck off, too.
Want to get a lot of twitter followers? Go into politics, people will follow you no matter how much stupid garbage you spew. Want an example of toxic tribalism? Look no further than politics. Easiest way to take sides and hate other people ever conceived. :P
They realized that they needed to switch to the term “transphobia” when using “disagreement with our ideology” failed to generate enough buzz.
The only thing more annoying is when someone provides evidence in the form of “here’s a link to a 20-minute video of me talking”
He has an opportunity to show HER (alleged) ACTUAL TRANSPHOBIA and he can’t. If she did it with such great frequency, he’d have loads of examples. He just knows that the examples of (alleged) transphobia really aren’t, that to the average person, the “transphobia” would be completely invisible. Activists invested in the “transphobic” nature of her communications will do a Butterworth on reading it, but anyone else would be wondering what the fuss is about, and thus unknowingly out themselves as transphobic for their failure to perceive the Actual Violence of the tweets in question.
Translated into Python sketches, this is a combination of “Burn the Witch” and “Cheese Shop.”
Assuming she said what he claims, she said only women have cervixes, she “doubled down” (whatever that means; said it again?), and she liked a tweet. Oh, and other people are upset, so therefore she must have done something terrible. Not even a link to where she is documented as saying these things, nor even a link to the egregious tweet she “liked”.
Are we at the “I see you follow Rosie Duffield; she is a known transphobe, and you might wish to reconsider that” stage yet?
He blocked me because I said that yes, only women have a cervix.
I feel no poorer for it.
The semantics of blocking are strange. I have about nine followers and I almost never block. This man has twenty four gagillion or whatever and blocks like he’s firing off a whole machine gun clip in one go, giggling. He can’t possibly read all the notifications he gets anyway, so why bother blocking the few people who tell him he’s wrong about everything?
(That’s a rhetorical question, I do have some ideas about the semantics of blocking. I just find the blocking behaviour of some people with a lot of followers idiotic. Fortunately, I will never have that problem.)
But latsot @7, Only women have a cervix, oh except trans “men” (who are really women), and some “non-binary” people (who, if they have a cervix are also women), and let’s not forget the trans “women” who argued that they need cervical screening too (because some people can’t tell the difference between an OB/GYN and a proctologist?). So I think you’re absolutely correct. It’s all so absurd, but getting all upset about it and threatening people is really taking it too far. This guy and Trump could compete in the Ego Olympics, another thing I won’t waste time watching.
I hear being blocked by some people is considered an honor. ;)
#6 Sackbut
In keeping with the exciting! changes in language common to these types, ‘doubled down’ has also been watered down to uselessness. Nowadays it means ‘didn’t recant [her] position and issue a grovelling apology’.
By definition, an ‘alternative tweet’ would have to be a quack.