Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

Being fair, I think people that enabled people like Wu worst behavior also helped the perception that being Trans was a bizarre form of social status upgrade. I remember how much Gaf defended a lot of the her BS during the Gamergate years and Patrick Klepek pretending that her game had some merit outside getting connections to the SF Indie circle.

Also remember how insane that thread at Gaf with Chloe Sagal (?) scamming people for money for her transition and how they attacked the journo for trying to warn people after everything else failed? There was a sincerity in both Wu and Sagal, but they also benefited from the growing nastiness of the movement before getting kicked out of it.

I see that only connected to their trans status because that was the movement these "progressives" were already going in. Yeah, Wu has always been this way if you look into their background. And Sagal had all kind of issues. The criticism wasn't handwaved because of anything they did, it's because the social justice rules were kicking in about how you must always treat "marginalized people" (the term hadn't come in yet) which wasn't to treat them as humans like everyone else but to place them on some kind of social and cultural pedestal immune from criticism and excuse anything they did as if they had no agency of their own.