Oh, just that the percent of people who endorse rabidly transphobic attitudes is lower than the percent who think that more should be done to mitigate transphobia.

Which, tbc, absolutely just shows the limits of these kind of items to get at complex attitudes; but is kinda amusing on its face.

TBC, this isn't something I think your work really contributes to. You're very clearly offering a corrective, and one that is substantively a lot better in all these aspects.

It's mostly then, just some fairly small concerns about emphasis.

the same spaces very often seen as lifesaving for people like me; or where Brianna Ghey can be murdered by her peers and somehow we're now seeing fairly regular (if smallish) news stories that make it sound like her death was related to using her phone too much.

Or rather, I think there's a lot of skepticism 'in the community' for anything which can't foreground that, for a pretty substantive number of people, the status quo is, if not good, probably better than it's been before.

Particularly as interventions like KOSA in the US take very direct aim at...

In that there's a very widespread belief that online communities are somewhere between a net positive and literally lifesaving for trans adolescents.

In the context of mental health and social media, I do worry then about starting from the proposition that we need to do something or start somewhere

At least as a trans person, looking at how people I know and the broader community/the limited academic literature on trans adolescents and online community treat these spaces vs how popular and academic discussion treat them often feel like living in mirror worlds.

Thanks for the thoughtful and charitable responses!

I guess, sorting through my mess of a thread; I do agree and understand that you mean this mostly as a tool for theory generation; and I'm sympathetic to these kinds of evolutionary arguments in other areas (e.g., the media equation), but...

"It is easier to accede to these unconscious desires if it keeps him focused long enough to escape. Let him blame me for the lie when we’re back in the real world."

Rainy Autumn Nights by @shadell.itch.io

Grats!

I do think the article actually seems to agree on this one?

While the headline is really dubious, the actual article seems mostly fine, I think.

I am so bad at this lmao.

…. Again…

Thanks a ton for the catch!

Part of it is that we had to grow up on media that was shit for us, I think. Whereas, there's never been a serious shortage of deeply ick shit.

I'd wager it's part that and part being profoundly bad at reading comprehension makes it easy to ignore any themes you don't like.

And then there’s the one time the sheer intensity of @edieisgay.bsky.social’s headcanon ended up gaying the one straight girl on me.

TBC, I don’t automatically mean giving the audiences more of what they like. Sometimes killing their darlings is important. But it’s a surprisingly great way to get a sense of where the narrative and emotional momentum are going in ways that aren’t always obvious to me.