@good_girl@hexbear.net recently made a comment mis-speciesing my partner. Good girl claims my partner is helicopterkin instead of airplanekin. Now, it should come as no surprise to anyone that Hexbear users cannot conceive of otherkin except as a transphobic joke. The attachment of Hexbear users to transphobic rhetoric is obvious, especially when they misgendered me as UAVgender because of their obsession with that copypasta.
However, the more concerning part of Good Girl’s comment is where she said that supporting NPD rights is a TERF plot. Her line of thinking is truly bizarre, and I’d just like to paste it here:
But the part that raised a few red flags for me was the obsession over the word narcissistic. To me, the way DroneRights broached the topic echoed the way terfs and transphobes speak about trans people being [insert stereotype about narcissists] …which made me mad uncomfy.
According to Good Girl, the fact that TERFs accuse trans people of being narcissists means that any attempt to advance narcissist rights is a TERF plot. And I’d just like to say, what the fuck. Good Girl hates it when trans people are accused of mental illness, and I hate it when accusations of mental illness are weaponised. So shouldn’t we be on the same side? Well Good Girl and I would be on the same side, except for the fact that Good Girl hates disabled people. That’s the only way to rationalise an opposition to the idea of not using ableist slurs.
Truly, if there’s any other way to rationalise Good Girl’s bizarre comment I would like to hear it. But this support for the practice of using my disability as a slur “because TERFs” seems to me to only make sense within a worldview of hate. I cannot imagine another way to take that comment she directed at me.