Ooc post but I have wanted to talk about a few things these past few days and I just wanted to get my thoughts down. I apologize if I come off rude but I am still rather upset by all this, especially after the anons my friends have gotten, the vagueposts I have heard about and seen, the antisemitism and the general ignorance of racism. But first I want to start at the beginning.
What makes a word a slur? Well when it is used to demean, harm, silence and just be generally used as an insult towards a group of marginalized people.
When it comes to the terms TMA/TME I only really ever see the latter come up. And when it does almost always time and time again I have seen it used to do just that. Especially at trans mascs, nonbinary people, intersex people, and even other trans women who don't agree with the terms which is actually the majority from what I have seen.
By being able to call out harmful terminology now it prevents it from causing serious harm in the future. So while it could be seen as overreacting to some, but I would rather the terminology die out now than become even more harmful than it already is.
For my second point, racism being ignored. When it comes to this situation I keep seeing gooseworks being brought up besides most of my reblogs to this blog not even mentioning her. I have seen people in this community say that there are only accusations of racism and not concrete proof of actual n-word jokes from multiple of the cast, especially when her humor now still is not only overly 'edgy' but very harmful at times.
People keep saying that if she was not a trans women that this wouldn't be happening but it would. I would still be bringing awareness because racism is not exclusive to cis people.
But otherwise. I know this community is very white. So many of y'all have not have to have the same knowledge about things like this even though you all should.
I understand this community is supposed to be a escape from reality but it is also still Tumblr and many, many blogs who are also roleplaying blogs will reblog posts to bring awareness to things. And it is really easy to scroll pass if you don't want to see it.
So overall, I am tired. I am tired of the harassment of me and my friends. The vsgueposting and general ignorance of others. So this post was made to clear things up.