Our enemies have already decided that we're "aggressive TRAs", but we're not. We did everything "right." Peacefully and through the "proper channels." But if we're going to reverse these attacks then we may very well need to become the "TRAs" that they say we are. The kid gloves must come off.

What more could we have done? When I come across someone parroting the same talking points that drove such a devastating wedge into the heart of progressive fan communities, what am I supposed to do to stop them? Our enemies are well armed with the rhetoric that justified cultural decimation.

What more could we have done? When I come across someone parroting the same talking points that drove such a devastating wedge into the heart of progressive fan communities, what am I supposed to do to stop them? Our enemies are well armed with the rhetoric that justified cultural decimation.

I *still* can't do anything about it, because I still see the same talking points and consequences nowadays too, bullshit puritanical values being used to justify calling fans of certain media - especially anime and fanfic - creeps and pedophiles.

Because of these "errors in judgement."

For over a decade, I've been watching more and more decent people and queer communities get shouted down, their careers ruined, their lives destroyed, over this exact issue. And I've been able to do nothing about it except quake with silent fury every time it happens, or else face the same.

I'll DM ya about the details if you don't mind.

Ana went for WORKING FOR VICE, AN INTERNATIONAL NEWS COMPANY this summer

to

Dominoing within a week "Personally flagged by at least First+Last name by major multibillion banking institutions for making sexy voice clips"

They can just. Decide to do that. And they've decided to

So yes, this is a “beginning of the end” thing for me and simple stuff like, for example, having a bank account. Now is a good time to fight this issue and do so very publicly — it’s a matter of financial life or death for me

Everyone is collectively sick of Windows, and one of the main reasons people stick with it is for reliable game compatibility. GabeCube theoretically offers an alternative.