Watch out, Jamie -- you'll end up as the next Lily Orchard if you disagree with SarahZ too publicly.

And what was Gio's point again? Oh right, I remember, that Andrew is a wife-beating cult leading aggressive cisgender man who treated Gio like Nazi Germany treated Jewish people. And that it's Andrew's fault when others harass him, but not Gio's when he directs harassment to minorities. Interesting.

because the majority of the people who work in it are close friends with Andrew, and have been longer than the HICU has even existed. I don't see why you're acting like it's this smoking gun when it's just a normal behaviour between professionals. You're being weird about it.

I'm not interested in litigating obvious both-sidesing to transmisogyny with a "detrans" person. Andrew described themselves as not a man & clowgender in Psycolonials and then every public appearance we've seen since has matched this description of gender identity. Stop lying. It's on the record.

...Also, I'm not talking about like Making Posts. This isn't "online abuse" but actual real life abuse that Gio has enabled.

It sure doesn't help when you team up with a notoriously bad at researching drama youtuber who unleashes three million followers on a vulnerable marginalised group though!

I don't think Gio's article proves anything about Andrew's "involvement" the HICU other than the fact that the HICU & Andrew agreed they should be involved in the process with Gio specifically, which makes sense from a legal AND social perspective, because of the shared history.

It's pretty obvious to me that at very best Gio is "operating on good intenion but being aggressive in a way people don't want to interact with". He fucking compared Andrew to the nazis, wifebeaters & cultleaders, and lied about a bunch of stuff that Miles & FRAF members have testified against

I mean Andrew literally has a self insert character (ala Homestuck) who is explicitly identified as non-binary in Psycolonials. I don't know anything about it being in the credits. It's just in the game itself. It's pretty unmissable.

Ok, but why was there a footnote there at all if Gio was genuinely, sincerely under the impression that Andrew was a cis man? People don't leave citations for he/himing cis men. They just do it. It undermines the claim that Gio didn't know Andrew is NB, which is a main theme of psycolonials.

You can't bullshit me Gio, I saw it happen with my own eyes. There's photographic evidence. They weren't harassing you. She left maybe two, very lightly worded comments. It doesn't matter how you "meant" the header, it IS antisemitic, and it's not just a little whoopsie, it's totally out of line.

On Tumblr, Gio is blocking *exclusively* Jewish people who point out that the antisemitic "joke" where he compared his relationship to Andrew as the Jewish community's relationship to Hitler wasn't just "a bad choice of words" but a dogwhistle. Now, he's lying about blocking them. It's shady as fuck

This is what I'm talking about, you're blatantly just letting somebody obviously shady change & tweak the narrative to how he sees fit when he experiences any amount of pushback. The footnote is a lie! I read the earlier version of it. It's on wayback machine. It's shady as fuck to cover that up.

But that footnote is a lie bc the first version of the article started with a preemptive disclaimer defending Gio's choice to gender Andrew the way they did. People don't justify using he pronouns when they're under the impression the person they're talking about is a cisgender man. They just do it.

I mean, when I've been shared direct firsthand accounts of shady shit Gio has done to enable people's abuse in other fan spaces before, yes. I think I absolutely am.

I would genuinely believe this if it weren't for the direct references to Psycolonials (which explicitly, unignorably defines Andrew's gender identity as non-male) and the fact that the earliest version of the article started with that pre-emptive disclaimer. Seems more like damage control to me.

Wait, this doesn't make sense. The original version of the article opened up with a footnote explaining Gio's choice to gender Andrew that way -- why would Gio do that if he had no knowledge of Andrew's gender identity? Why is he referencing the visual novel Andrew wrote about being non-binary?

it's pretty funny how you changed your tune from "this hysterical bitch thinks me making sex jokes next to her is sexual harassment & that i wanted to FUCK her" to immediately being like "oh yeah i did ask you for pictures of your tits that one time". it's funny that i used to feel bad that you left

me when im ethically the good way armchair diagnosing women as having personality disorders over the internet to make fun of them:

It still is pretty blatantly sexual harassment to say "ooooh lewd" to random's sentences, especially long, long after everybody asked you to stop multiple times.

yeah. i was making fun of you for being a loser. it's sort of separate from but intricately attached to the Pushy Creep thing

the other times were "just jokes" and thus can't possibly be sexual harassment,

unwanted sex jokes in my general area about my body and inviting you to look at your body would be sexual harassment (they're one of the primary forms of it?) regardless of whether you wanted to fuck me or not.

yeah that was the problem. it's my bad for not enjoying your unwanted sexual advances on me that i repeatedly rebuked. sorry for being a frigid bitch :) h-how l-l-l-lewd!!

did you ever stop sexually harassing other trans girls?

Like come on Sarah you're cleverer than this. You're not this thick. the refusal to acknowledge somebody's gender IS the transmisogyny. This isn't something people "don't know" it's something they're selectively pretending to not gleam from Psycolonials because it conflicts their opinion of Hussie.

what zero transfeminist theory does to a mf

the term "transfeminine" was originally coined to describe trans women who didn't want to/couldn't medically transition, why are you talking out your ass? You really don't know anything about trans history

It wasn't supposed to be a gotcha, it was just an example for what I'm saying. Again I don't need you to explain the concept of changing names to me? It's just culturally considered a term for trans people. Because of the threat of our identities not being posthumously recognised.

I'm aware that cis people can change their names lol. My fiancee changed her name but wouldn't refer to her old one as a "deadname" because culturally, it refers to trans people's old names (originally to evoke "the names we might be buried under"). The wikipedia page even defines it as a trans term