case: (Default)
Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2020-05-29 07:16 pm

[ SECRET POST #4893 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4893 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.



__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.
[Interview with the Vampire]


__________________________________________________



07.



__________________________________________________



08.
[Disney Descendants 3]


__________________________________________________









09. [SPOILERS for Making the Cut]



__________________________________________________



10. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia]



__________________________________________________



11. [WARNING for discussion of pedophilia]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #700.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2020-05-30 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.

It's not a women's problem that you are a man who is afraid of other men. We started shelters to protect each other from men. Before that we sheltered women in each other's homes.

I would 100% support trans people to create services for their communities, but the need for women and families to have access to places free from male violence has not diminished.

I volunteer with women's domestic violence services and we are already every day of the year stretched beyond our limits and having to refer people to other services. We do not have the funding or extra locations just waiting there to help trans people. We do not have the resources. We do not have the time. Frankly we do not have any sympathy left to give. We're all burned out and we are in the middle of an increase in demand for services. Male violence never ends. There's just more and more and more.

And this is what we receive hate mail for. This is what our founder receives death threats over. This entitlement that because we have clawed our way into existence we must now forget our work and go back to help this other lot get priority for resources that we desperately need and cannot afford to forfeit to their cause.

Transgender people account for less than one percent of all people in my country and they are angry that we get more funding to support women. They do not understand the sheer numbers that we face. Everyone must put them first. Everyone must support them. Everyone must listen. But our numbers are only increasing. Our funding is decreasing. No one is listening to us.

It is a bad time right now. I am often the one who has to tell people we don't have room for them, and yes, we know they are in immediate danger, but we can't help. Maybe the state department will find them emergency housing. Probably not.

A lot of keyboard warriors get to make judgements about what organisations like mine should be doing, but honestly, they're probably not lifting more than their fingers to type the word TERF over and over again. That is not activism. That is not helping anybody. Donate. Get involved. Start something. Yelling at me and my crew will not change anything. In fact, the only thing it accomplishes in some areas is giving the government an excuse to cease financial assistance to programs like ours.

Congrats. Great job.

K I'm done. I hate people. Enough internet for today.

(Anonymous) 2020-05-30 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
Your story has moved me. You're a brave person and thank you so much for what you're doing to help women.

(Anonymous) 2020-05-30 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
There's an echo chamber going on here.

People doing nothing always know the best.

(Anonymous) 2020-05-30 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
If you hate an oppressed group for being angry, you're on the wrong side of history.

The reason you think they're angry is incorrect, however, and fed to you through a full-on TERF/transphobic news columnist lens.

(Anonymous) 2020-05-30 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I would 100% support trans people to create services for their communities, ....

Given how many states are moving to incrementally criminalize our services this year, I'm deeply skeptical.

(Anonymous) 2020-06-01 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
right?? almost like "separate but equal" has been proven to be an ineffective and counterproductive strategy for the entire history of its employment.

HMMMM

(Anonymous) 2020-06-01 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
oh hey, I'm somebody who worked at a resource facility that helped homeless trans women try to find shelter and food. I'm the person the trans girls would come talk to when they'd been turned away because some self-righteous TERF assholes like you decided she didn't have the right to be there because her presence would make "real women" uncomfortable.

i'm the person who had to explain to trans women that although yes, that shelter was for women who are victims of domestic violence and they were indeed trans women fleeing domestic violence, they could not safely go to that shelter because the staff would not accept or support them, putting them at further risk of violence and death.

imagine a world where trans women don't exist to threaten you and maybe you'll hate people just a fraction less. I have absolutely zero sympathy for you. fuck your organization and all the others that think it's okay to discriminate.