Eh, you should just listen to trans people on trans issues.

It’s devolved to that because reason and logic just don’t work anymore. How do you debate someone who willfully ignores basic, objective facts? How do you argue for (to pick just one example out of many) reasonable climate change mitigation when the other side is convinced that global warming is a Chinese hoax?

then listen? do you think the snark and the rage are completely for show? obviously there’s humor in phrasing this question as “what’s your fucking deal,” but consider there’s a reason we’re tired of having to do the song and dance of making sure we’re respectable by your standards until you’ll listen. just fucking…

You’re usually much better than this. I hate losing respect for people.

The deal is that Jesse Single is a transphobe hiding behind “but what about the children?” and editorial boards keep giving him platforms because enabling bigotry through probing questions about whether good thing is actually bad is what centrist, neoliberal press outlets specialize in.

That “rude” in your screen name is 100% misleading.

The human race. But please, do flee this conversation like you’re catching the last helicopter out of Saigon now that everything you’ve said has been exposed as pure, weapons-grade stupidity. We can’t miss you until you leave!

“He didn’t say that!”

The e-mails take up less a quarter of what Walker wrote. You’re free to fixate on them and ignore the substance that precedes and follows, and I’m free to repeatedly point out your mischaracterizations, exaggerations, and omissions. Cool?

Thank you for taking the time to articulate why critizing Harron as “unprofessional” is a moot point. Even if she had been “professional”, I have no doubt the author would have offered some bullahit wish washy platitudes along the lines of “but I’m just representing trans kids! And learning!” Blah blah fucking blah.…

There’s a fucking direct link to his exact words in the article, dumbass.

just to puff up her own ego a bit.

Giving him oxygen = laughing in his face and proving he’s got an agenda. Okay.

She does not have to directly engage with someone well-known for stalking and harassing trans people. She cited and supported her facts. I’m totally fine with trolling bigots. It’s a relaxing diversion. They do not deserve face-time and they have not earned any respect.

You sound like you’re carrying water for a man who’s made a name for himself equating the counseling and support of trans people with child abuse. Don’t rp-asterisk me.

“Harrumph! It’s impossible to take the substance of your concerns seriously when you express them so flippantly! Why can’t you express them with the proper journalistic tone, like when Jesse Singal admitted he made a mistake?”

No, sweets, I don’t want a response from The Atlantic or its bigoted writers. I’m perfectly fine dissembling their hateful garbage from over here where I don’t give them a shred of credibility through further association nor do I lend credence to the idea that we can re-package and re-market their bigotry with…

I don’t get what disingenuous or pathologically uninformed people get out of these handwaves and calls for More Discussion: Singal has been fucking this chicken unrepentantly for years. He actively promotes “desistance,” trans-conversion. If you don’t already know this, stay in your goddamned lane and read the article…

You think the dude that defended the transracialist lady is going to be intellectually honest and engage in a real conversation here? I’d bless your heart, but I think you misplaced that when you lost your brain.

That reflects more on you than it does on Harron, pal.