Distribution is a popularity contest at Medium, always has been. I know I'm not the greatest writer ever and I certainly wasn't there; but I also wasn't their worst, by far, and they had their favorites who always got distributed regardless of what they wrote. Even their best, most popular writers aren't capable of hitting it out of the ballpark every single article but they got fairly robotically distributed. It was a couple of years before they distributed anything of mine, and probably because it got published in The Ascent. Later, another distributed article got taken down, because it apparently offended some when I argued that white people who hate white people are racist. No mention of trans anywhere.
Unfortunately, many platforms have become woke shitholes. Free speech my ass. The woke love censorship every bit as much as Ronald DeSantis.
I've never written anything remotely antagonistic on Medium, even about "trans." But something as uncontroversial as "trans women are biologically male" is treated like "trans people all deserve Zyklon-B."
I had one guy react to that simple assertion by telling me he was going to summon all his Medium cadre and have them pound on the Report button until I was banned. I just deleted the response and blocked him (if only substack had block). His Medium profile was nothing but a recitation of his "queer" credentials and like so many "trans" writers on there his avatar was himself wearing an angry snarl.
On another substack I read a therapist was saying that she can usually make progress with depressed and angry patients, but never with the "trans" ones.
You see it all the time, transitioning is nothing but joy. But you don't see a lot of joy among these nincompoops. They're all in a state of maximum rage, when they aren't crying about not getting everything they want immediately.
Seems to me they're getting way too much. Middle schoolers can get a teacher fired for forgetting to change to the pronouns that a student adopted fifteen minutes ago.
And transitioning is anything but joy. Complications galore; shortened urethras that leak piss, fistulas that have feces oozing out around stitches, sterility, lifelong sexual dysfunction. Yeah, joy. Uh-huh.
Yeah, they don't tell you that at the gender identity clinic, do they. Your description of what these spoiled brats are like is something to remember the next time they go on about how 'marginalized' they are. They choose it. They want it. And they know no one's trying to murder them all. I found recently that in 2021, about 59 transpeople were violently killed in Canada; before that it was less than fifty a year, about a third the number of women violently killed in Canada that same year. And both groups' murders look pretty similar: Most by male partners.
These people have WAY too much power, especially the kids. It's time for the Level Left and Rational Right to start drawing some boundaries.
Unfortunately the right goes at them for the usual right-wing reasons, founded on plain bigotry.
So when we voice our opposition for completely different reasons, we are seen as having the same reasons as the right, which most people probably know is not true but run with it anyway, because truth is not something they care much about.
It makes me laugh a little, being told I watch too much Tucker Carlson and I support Trump. I let them know I'm gay and I've dated real transgender men (actually diagnosed dysphoric and headed for surgery after the requisite year living as women) and of course this makes no impression, they just keep reading out their act.
Distribution is a popularity contest at Medium, always has been. I know I'm not the greatest writer ever and I certainly wasn't there; but I also wasn't their worst, by far, and they had their favorites who always got distributed regardless of what they wrote. Even their best, most popular writers aren't capable of hitting it out of the ballpark every single article but they got fairly robotically distributed. It was a couple of years before they distributed anything of mine, and probably because it got published in The Ascent. Later, another distributed article got taken down, because it apparently offended some when I argued that white people who hate white people are racist. No mention of trans anywhere.
Unfortunately, many platforms have become woke shitholes. Free speech my ass. The woke love censorship every bit as much as Ronald DeSantis.
I've never written anything remotely antagonistic on Medium, even about "trans." But something as uncontroversial as "trans women are biologically male" is treated like "trans people all deserve Zyklon-B."
I had one guy react to that simple assertion by telling me he was going to summon all his Medium cadre and have them pound on the Report button until I was banned. I just deleted the response and blocked him (if only substack had block). His Medium profile was nothing but a recitation of his "queer" credentials and like so many "trans" writers on there his avatar was himself wearing an angry snarl.
On another substack I read a therapist was saying that she can usually make progress with depressed and angry patients, but never with the "trans" ones.
Can you pass along that therapist article? I'd love to read it!
If I can find it again,, sure.
You see it all the time, transitioning is nothing but joy. But you don't see a lot of joy among these nincompoops. They're all in a state of maximum rage, when they aren't crying about not getting everything they want immediately.
Seems to me they're getting way too much. Middle schoolers can get a teacher fired for forgetting to change to the pronouns that a student adopted fifteen minutes ago.
And transitioning is anything but joy. Complications galore; shortened urethras that leak piss, fistulas that have feces oozing out around stitches, sterility, lifelong sexual dysfunction. Yeah, joy. Uh-huh.
Yeah, they don't tell you that at the gender identity clinic, do they. Your description of what these spoiled brats are like is something to remember the next time they go on about how 'marginalized' they are. They choose it. They want it. And they know no one's trying to murder them all. I found recently that in 2021, about 59 transpeople were violently killed in Canada; before that it was less than fifty a year, about a third the number of women violently killed in Canada that same year. And both groups' murders look pretty similar: Most by male partners.
These people have WAY too much power, especially the kids. It's time for the Level Left and Rational Right to start drawing some boundaries.
Unfortunately the right goes at them for the usual right-wing reasons, founded on plain bigotry.
So when we voice our opposition for completely different reasons, we are seen as having the same reasons as the right, which most people probably know is not true but run with it anyway, because truth is not something they care much about.
It makes me laugh a little, being told I watch too much Tucker Carlson and I support Trump. I let them know I'm gay and I've dated real transgender men (actually diagnosed dysphoric and headed for surgery after the requisite year living as women) and of course this makes no impression, they just keep reading out their act.