Something People Don’t Understand About Child Abuse

if you’re american and coming to australia, I’m gonna go ahead and say that you should be 100 percent way more worried about being king hit by a dude named “dane” in a bintang singlet than any fucking spiders that exist here

ah, perry the platypus! i see you fell into my trap… the strangling arms of cissexism! you may be wondering what the purpose of this machine i have pointed at the sky is. you see perry the platypus, when i was born in gimmelshtump the doctor assigned me a gender… and my family went with it! and so did i, perry the platypus! i am a cisgender male! but i decided to use my privilege as a cis man for good and came up with this new invention. behold, perry the platypus, the degenderinator! thanks to this wonder of science, no one in the tri-state area will have an assigned gender anymore, allowing trans people to live as their true gender! trans rights, perry the platypus! trans rights!!!

FANDERS, WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T SIGN THIS PETITION.

No, not even as a joke. Don’t share it with your friends as a joke either, or make a meme out of it, or anything. I don’t know what the motivation was behind creating this petition – I guess it very well could have been a younger well-meaning Fander who genuinely doesn’t understand how elections work – but regardless of what the intentions were, this is so so so awful and could have so many terrible consequences if it starts gaining traction.

Listen, we all understood why Kanye’s “presidential bid” was harmful, right? This is basically the same thing: right now, every third-party vote is a vote for Tr*mp and, no offense to my American friends, but your country cannot afford to vote Tr*mp back in. The upcoming election needs to be taken seriously now more than ever. 

The fact that this petition is being directed at the Thomas Sanders fandom is extra unsavory. It’s common knowledge that a huge chunk of this fandom is made up of younger people, and as much as I love, cherish, and respect our younger population – heck, I’m a minor myself – the fact is that we’re much more easily influenced, eager to give people the benefit of the doubt, and unfortunately, way too many of us may not know any better.

“But Spec!” I hear you cry. “If this petition is mainly being spread by the younger side of the fandom that doesn’t know any better, what harm could it do? They can’t vote anyway!”

The thing is, if you follow multiple Sanders Sides blogs, you’ll know from all the times you’ve seen the same post on your dash ten times in a row that we spread stuff like wildfire. If enough people aren’t aware of the harmful consequences and start spreading this petition around, then regardless of whether they’re seriously asking for signatures or just spreading it as a joke, one viral post would be all it takes for the mainstream internet to take notice. I cannot stress enough how disastrous that would be. 

The second that this petition catches the attention of the wider public, the US will be at risk of having a repeat version of Kanye’s presidential bid: people with a vote, a terrible sense of humour and no understanding of the consequences may write in Thomas Sanders as a joke, thus effectively wasting a vote that could be used to take Tr*mp out of office.

Oh, and if for whatever reason you’re a Fander that “doesn’t care about politics”, then first of all check your privilege at the very least you could care about Thomas?? He is a real person that could suffer very real harm not only to his brand/reputation, but also his personal safety if this petition thing gets out of hand. A similar thing happened to the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series when a petition to change the US flag to the face of his fictional character began to gain traction. He was unaffiliated with the petition, but still received honest-to-goodness death threats. We cannot let this happen again.

Sorry if this post makes me sound angry, but it’s because I am. This is absolutely ridiculous. Please signal boost.

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I don’t get transphobic people. Like everyone is just a brain. A brain!!!!! Your body is controlled by a brain. A person’s body doesn’t define them lmao. If someone with a penis identifies as a girl, then who the fuck are you to tell her she’s not. She knows who she is. If someone with a vagina identifies as a man, I’m calling him what he damn pleases to be called. If a person is non-binary, bigender, gender-fluid,etc., then whatever pronoun they are comfortable with shouldn’t be a problem. Why is it a problem? What is just so wrong about not identifying as a gender SOMEONE ELSE said that you are. Transphobic people just put people into two categories just because of their genitals and that’s wack. Y’all will call robots that talk in movie he or she and they don't have genitals at all but the robot will act like a girl or guy and you’re fine with that, but if some human person who has a penis says she’s a girl, y’all will just fucking go batshit crazy because “it’s not normal” like huh? How are you ok with a movie robot that uses he/him pronouns that doesn’t have genitals, but you’re not ok with a human that identifies as a male but has a vagina ?what ? Huh? How are you fine with one but not the other? That doesn’t even make sense. I’m mad at the moment because of something I heard someone say. I just wish people didn’t care about this kind of stuff. I feel like I phrased some of this wrong so if it is phrased wrong tell me and I’ll change it.