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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 3d

at this point im just sick of the whole situation because now its a convenient scapegoat for people to harass trans women because a handful of annoying people made passive aggressive posts about a situation that doesn't really matter.

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 3d

tbh the biggest issue for me is that people said frankie is trans because someone called her franklin, and i think it would be really bad writing to have a trans character get deadnamed and then just. not react to it afterwards in any capacity for the rest of the episode.

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 3d

who was gonna tell me i had messages disabled this whole time

Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 3d

anyways, with that out of the way; comms are open. if you wanna contribute to an actual cause that helps trans women, give me, a trans woman, money. itll do more good than bitching about a cartoon because someone critiqued it or because the creator dared to answer a question honestly.

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 3d

upon further investigation. im like 90% sure no one talking about this discourse can be trusted on what actually happened. everyone please shut the fuck up about dana terrace if you don't have any real evidence for your stance on whether or not shes a terf.

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 3d

oh yea also you did say that. literally in this chain of replies, you decided somehow she was 'forced' to play a male character she applied to play in the first place. they probably weren't explicitly looking for trans women to hire for a MALE ROLE, shes just an Actress who is Good at her Job.

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 3d

not to get on this again but this is annoying me; can anyone. from either side of this. provide ANY SCREENSHOTS of the terfs and/or harassment campaign mentioned in her replies. i'm not gonna take word of mouth for there being 'terfs that love her' or 'trans women harassing her'.

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 3d

the show is a pilot. there is room for trans women to both work on and be characters in the show in the future, and she was asked a yes or no on whether or not a specific character was cis, to which she said no on that one character.

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 3d

To be clear: i still think this is a dick move and she should clear things up, i just really don't want to assume malice, especially without actually seeing the replies she blocked.

Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 3d

Fair enough. I guess i just am waiting for Any official statement on this before i speculate on whether or not she's an asshole.

Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 4d

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 4d

like, ive blocked people because they were kinda annoying but otherwise agreed with me. she seems to mute replies on stuff like this, so maybe shes just not going out of her way to name search herself to block terfs, whereas the original group were direct replies before the mute. 2/2

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 4d

im gonna be honest this doesnt really feel like a salient accusation. like, the entire thing around this is shitty, and i do think dana terrace should be more vocal about her support for trans women, but also i really dont feel like passing moral judgement on her for blocking people over this. 1/2

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 4d

how do we know the terfs weren't blocked? again, genuine question, i don't know twitter's back end, and to me it seems like the terfs just wouldn't wanna brag about getting blocked because it might undercut their 'win', vs us who would mention it bc Safety in Numbers

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 4d

also before anyone tries this; im a trans woman who, again, thinks its kinda shitty. i just also think we shouldnt drag a trans woman who DID MULTIPLE VOICES IN THE FIRST EPISODE into this, and that what dana terrace did is at worst insensitive.

Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 4d

2/2 wanna avoid harassment. like im sorry but maybe just respect that someone doesnt wanna talk to you.

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 4d

i guess i might as well make my stance clear; it is kinda weird that dana terrace has blocked relatively polite trans women, and it makes me feel gross and she should probably reflect on it, but also she didnt name any of them and i really wouldnt self-elect as someone who got blocked if you 1/2

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 4d

hi, im annoyed at dana terrace as well, but i feel like saying One trans woman on an incomplete project willingly applied for a male role is proof that dana terrace hates hiring trans women is. shortsighted as far as critique goes. lots of women, cis and trans, do this. its really normal.

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 4d

genuine question; did dana terrace do something on twitter that differed from what ive heard abt the situation on here? last i checked she was fine with transfem headcanons and her statement about it was 'shes based on aspects of my personality so shes cis'

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Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 4d

tired of internet discourse, posting catgirl boobs in advance to see if it helps me avoid getting roped into it

Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 4d

im done thinking abt this. everyone be fucking normal abt women challenge.

Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 4d

wow ok so everyone's kinda just. making a bit deal out of dana doing something REALLY normal if kinda mean

Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 4d

i ask this, genuinely, as a trans woman; what did dana terrace actually do. like, yeah the people rushing to her defense are pretty clear transmisogynists, but no one's actually talked about what she did,, and the only thing i can find is her saying frankie is cis, which isn't. really anything.

Sinning Squid @squidgirl0413.bsky.social · 4d

ok yea upon further research; yall are fuckin transmisogynists for seeing disappointment and immediately linking it to harassment.

that being said, anyone who earnestly believes dana terrace herself is a transmisogynist needs to like. read literally Anything about how she developed frankie.