I kind of sat on my hands when that plurk came up on my flist because jesus fucking christ was it awful and I don't know what possessed my friend to replurk it. But no matter who you are or how well-educated, well-read and socially involved you are on this topic, you can't go into a frontpage plurk that's been widely distributed all over the fucking place, with that kind of commentary, and expect to get anywhere in a discussion about their shitty, transphobic behaviour. Plurk itself is such a poor platform for that even before you're talking about wide circulation or people who aren't as informed or socially aware as they think they are.
End result, it was a bunch of lowest-common-denominators talking about shit they didn't have a clue about.
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I kind of sat on my hands when that plurk came up on my flist because jesus fucking christ was it awful and I don't know what possessed my friend to replurk it. But no matter who you are or how well-educated, well-read and socially involved you are on this topic, you can't go into a frontpage plurk that's been widely distributed all over the fucking place, with that kind of commentary, and expect to get anywhere in a discussion about their shitty, transphobic behaviour. Plurk itself is such a poor platform for that even before you're talking about wide circulation or people who aren't as informed or socially aware as they think they are.
End result, it was a bunch of lowest-common-denominators talking about shit they didn't have a clue about.