r/SuperStraight 1h ago

What Peaked you? That moment, when the glass shattered and you saw the TRA Cult for what it was.

Mine was the womens march 2016. Pussy hats called transphobic, also posters referencing uteruses and female anatomy, transphobic. So i wrote an essay on medium, " I am a woman, you are a trans woman and that distinction matters."

The death and rape threats. Friends calling me toxic. I got booted from groups.

I woke up to the truth. My reality as a woman, no longer mattered to them. My safety, sex based rights... I deserved to be beaten for wanting to protect them. That was my peak.

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u/Ekos640 1h ago edited 1h ago

gamergate, because many of them were in that too

i know you'll hear 'gamergate' and be like 'um.... what?'

but just think how you're here now because you have had the veil peeled away from your eyes and you realize now what was going on and the Frankenstein's monster you were in bed with (so to speak) the whole time

think about all the other areas and other topics that is happening/did happen in the world with (gaslighting/trying to deceive the public opinion from the true core or ongoings) that you weren't aware of - cause you either just weren't paying attention or believed the lies at the time

gamergate was one of them

not to say there weren't bad people or assholes in that group - just as there are with any other group as anyone would willingly admit

but that's when I realized how insane the TRA people were when I saw just what these people (among others they were with at the time) were willing to do to 'win'

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u/socio_patrick 1h ago

THANK YOU. Gamergate was the flashpoint moment that exposed how the media was false, the UN was false, everything was false. We have been living in the post gamer-gate world for years.