Are optics important?

>>40079001 (OP)
@grok is this real

>>40079001 (OP)
ayy lmao

>>40079001 (OP)
Mogs me./=

>>40079001 (OP)
Optics are important, but in a media context, completely out of the control of good/normal people. All it takes is one freakshow you've never met to make a scene and suddenly the whole demographic needs to answer for it.
It doesn't even need to be real; the people who benefit from keeping the hate machine running will just make up people and events, they don't even need to be out of real freaks to do that. The good/normal will be demanded to answer for the fake and "what if-s" too.
It's not fair and it's not meant to be.

This is why gatekeeping is an essential part of community: when a weirdo does weirdo shit and some eager wretch demands you answer for it, you can say "they're not with us" and ignore the interrogation.

>>40081176
>you can say "they're not with us" and ignore the interrogation.
Why can't you say it here?

>>40081176
No amount of gatekeeping will stop bigots from doing what you just said: making up their own version of a queer weirdo and running with it.

>>40081213
idk if I understand what you're asking
by gatekeeping existing, randos aren't automatically included in your community if that's what you were asking
>>40081297
I suppose the function of gatekeeping here is to keep the in-group secure among each other by letting the people you care about protecting know that they're not associated with the weird/imagined bad actor by reasonable people.

>>40079001 (OP)
No.
Only validation is.
Go bus kween!

>>40079001 (OP)
>the lolita line
ok lmao Parents would have to be crazy to let their kids ride on that bus.

>>40081176
This will be called a no true scotsman and you will be lumped together anyway. Basically the cissies are engaged in a mass logical fallacy and cannot be reasoned with. There is only one cure.

>>40081608
>There is only one cure
I'm sure the feds would love to read your tranifesto

>>40079001 (OP)
what autopedophilia does to a mf

>>40079001 (OP)
>Are optics important?
Is the pope a Catholic?

>>40079001 (OP)
It's important to push the limit at absolutely every turn. This will shift the Overton window until your not-fucked-up ass is considered "one of the good ones."
Have you learned nothing from the Republican party's descent into insanity?

>>40083186
doesn't work like that for trans people, sorry. instead people start thinking the trans they know are secretly like that too.

>>40079001 (OP)
If you care about social acceptance, then you care about optics.

>>40083186
You dont' operate in a vacuum. The harder you push, the more notice you get, from other people, who may decide to push the overton window hard the other way, and they outnumber you by a lot. Just look at german gay rights in the 1930's or the MAP movements of the past 50 years.

>>40079001 (OP)
Optics are the be-all-end-all of trans rights.

>>40079001 (OP)
You'll never guess

>On April 19, 2022, The Washington Post published an article by journalist Taylor Lorenz which further publicized Raichik's identity, noting that she worked in real estate in Brooklyn and that she was "proudly" Orthodox Jewish.

>>40079001 (OP)
My favorite part of this image is the cunty little pose he does while just stepping out of the bus

Not really, perfect message discipline is not a possibility.

>>40079001 (OP)
Theres a saying in the trans community “the fresher the egg, the yummier the yolk”. This scientifically real woman simply knows how to get her big meaty hands on a bus full of delectably tight fresh eggs for essential healthcare reasons.