I keep expecting him to get a prescription for like clomipramine and turn up six months later acting way more normal and just hating trans people an average amount
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Yeah, exactly! Like, I fully accept that there are people who are filled with huge amounts of hate not caused by medical issues, but the ones who do it publicly 24/7 usually seem to be gaining something from it, not losing everything!
sep 2, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
right, it's like the combination of...okay, so this has made your life immeasurably worse, it's made you miserable, you get angrier and more paranoid by the day, even other extreme bigots reject you as embarrassing and too big of a crank...and before this, you were very well-liked and successful!
sep 2, 2025, 4:09 pm • 1 0 • view
and not super right wing or anything! and the impetus for this epic, years-long, life-ruining crashout was [checks notes] you were gently criticized for transphobia on a 1990s TV show you'd written? And you could easily and gracefully have just said "yeah, you have a point, but I've learned since?"
sep 2, 2025, 4:12 pm • 1 0 • view
And multiple interventions from people close to him didn't make him call a halt. It was more like the response of an addict.
sep 2, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
yeah, it's really similar actually-- the intense, defensive dedication to something that has basically no benefits for you anymore and makes you feel like shit all the time
sep 2, 2025, 4:29 pm • 1 0 • view
I remember YEARS ago at the start of his crazy crusade him tweeting about how he needed to stop tweeting so much because his wife said he was spending too much time at it so he wouldn't be on as much. And then came right back. Even if you *weren't* posting hate, go be with your family, dude???
sep 2, 2025, 4:33 pm • 1 0 • view