Since @star-anise has said I'm misrepresenting her position, here are her words and why I don't associate with her anymore.
To be clear, I don't care WHY people choose to give a platform to hate blogs. If you do, I want nothing to do with you. I didn't block her between the first conversation on 8/13 and now because I left the door open to her deciding to not give a platform to hate and to respect my decision to not associate with her until she does.
But as she's decided to contact me repeatedly after I asked her not to do so, here are her own words and her repeated contact of me over my request that she not do so.
And now she's blocked, because she kept contacting me even after I said no AGAIN.
I already felt weird about her when she made comments about "The only reason I identify as cis female and not nonbinary is because rural canadians let their women use powertools" because thats not even close to understanding what transness is much less nonbinaryness. Im nonbinary and from the same area shes from and thats... Not how any of that works. So Im hellaciously unsurprised that she's knowingly giving equal platform to terfs and radfems.
Personally I found her statements about not being nonbinary transphobic-ish(or at the very least very misguided).
Yeah, I’m from the mountains, I grew up chopping wood and carrying it in for our wood stove and using power tools. I never got that and was mildly insulted by it but I figured she’d figure out over time that it was not cool.
But whatever. This is the last thing I have to say about it: I don’t really care why people reblog from TERFs -- especially if they’re just reblogging the positions of TERFs, without commentary, which is exactly why I unfollowed her in the first place, nine days ago.
I made my feelings clear, and I didn’t -- despite what she may want to portray -- go on a campaign about her. I responded once, several days after I unfollowed her, to someone tagging her in on my posts, with why I don’t want people to do so. This is the first time I have posted publicly about why I asked her not to speak to me or associate with me, and I did so because she wouldn’t respect my request to leave me the fuck alone, after I asked her repeatedly.
This is the last thing I have to say about this, because I am not and never have been on some sort of campaign against this person:
It is not okay in my eyes to knowingly give a platform to TERFs, especially if you’re just reblogging a post full of dogwhistles without any analysis on it, which is why I unfollowed her in the first place. TERFs are hate blogs. I hold the same position on them that I hold on white supremacist blogs, especially because there’s such a huge overlap between white supremacists and TERFs.
It is not okay to continually violate someone’s clearly-stated boundaries, even if that person says ‘I don’t want to talk to her,’ in public. That’s not a reason.
It is not okay to screenshot someone’s blog after you’ve been blocked, in order to continue a conversation that the person has made very clear they want to end.
None of these behaviors are okay. I just. want. to be left. alone. by someone. who. has proven. she cannot. respect. boundaries.
