hey everybody this is aniki chad and she’s transfem so let’s no longer refer to her with masculine pronouns and terms please! I know y'all didn’t know but now you do! Here’s the link to her website with her personal journal and socials. she does have a youtube channel and twitch but isn’t really active on those lately, but you can still leave tips on her twitch if you feel compelled to do so.
Therapy is risky because sometimes they’ll just ask you their standard “why can’t you, though”, and you think you’re making some good point by saying something like “well if I don’t do anything with my life then what’s the point of being alive in the first place” and your therapist gets that look on their face and you immediately realise that your dumb ass just got caught, pinned to the ground with your stupid-ass neck between the spikes of a pitchfork, and you are not going to wiggle out of there before you two unpack what the fuck you just said.
this is about david tennant telling a transphobic politician to “shut up” btw:
Nah, shutting up transphobes and homophobes it’s always the right thing to do.
For the millionth time the freedom of speech protects you from the GOVERNMENT not the DAVID TENNANT
He’s a citizen criticising a politician also. That’s the direction that freedom of speech is supposed to protect.
Granted him being a celebrity means that many people think he’s no longer a citizen, but the fact remains that celebrities aren’t government.
Like I know this is a bit of a circus because people get to defend their pet celebrity on social media and it’s all very distracting and sparkly, and it feels like a chance to be witty and look at David Tennant. It’s presented in a very online storm-in-a-teacup way. Everyone knows the Tories are faithless and everyone’s used to social media being nasty and there are pictures of David Tennant to spice it up. It’s something to distract nerds with, and it doesn’t take much.
But don’t get distracted from the fact that the prime minister of a nation, leader of the nation’s government, is publicly claiming that a private citizen of the nation criticising a member of that government is a violation of freedom of speech. Even if Tennant wasn’t someone whose face you like, it would still be absolutely shocking for the leader of a nation to call for his shame on public like that. It should be shocking. And the inversion of the idea that “people have the right to criticise the government” into “the government has the right, and indeed the duty, to retaliate against citizens for criticising it” should be something you can instantly spot and point out. Don’t look at the magic trick - look at the person’s hands. Don’t look at the celebrity - look at the behavior.
That’s the political sleight-of-hand that’s worth engaging with here. Especially since if anyone “wins” in the resulting court of popular opinion, it will likely be Tennant, and it will likely be attributed to his nerd-popularity. Notice and name the behavior instead. That will be perennial, sometimes associated with less beloved figures, and a good piece of critical thinking to practice.
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