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[–][deleted] 93 insightful - 7 fun93 insightful - 6 fun94 insightful - 7 fun -  (7 children)

Honestly, the TRAs themselves I think are GC's biggest recruiters, especially those on AL.

For instance, I posted a lot on AL, celebrated the "TWAW" posts, and parroted their idea of "inclusion". I never even ventured into GC or TL.

Then they started telling me that as a lesbian, I needed to like girl dick. I must like penis or else I'm a transphobe, TERF, etc. There was this continued homophobia throughout AL and I kept seeing more and more TIMs saying the same thing.

I'm not young and impressionable like the majority of women in AL (sadly), so I left that sub and went to go find people who understood what being a lesbian really was and found some solace in TL and GC.

They're the ones who create what they apparently hate.

[–]Lizzythelezzo 57 insightful - 6 fun57 insightful - 5 fun58 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

You're right - I peaked through dating trans people and being quite involved in the TRA community. If you spend enough time with them they will peak you.

[–]ComfortableEqual 14 insightful - 4 fun14 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Absolutely this.

[–]RealMapleFlavour 40 insightful - 16 fun40 insightful - 15 fun41 insightful - 16 fun -  (1 child)

Absolutely! THEY'RE the reason I found GC reddit. The "Educate yourself" phrase didn't really work to their advantage.

[–]Barber_Acrobatic 20 insightful - 5 fun20 insightful - 4 fun21 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Ahh I see what you did wrong there. You were supposed to RE-educate yourself, the long form version is of course "change your mind, agree with me"

I've developed a real loathing of that phrase

[–]weirdthorn 38 insightful - 4 fun38 insightful - 3 fun39 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

First time I checked out GC was because some TRA was claiming how bad it was. Hadn't had come across it earlier. :D

[–]homeless-g_c-mod 17 insightful - 5 fun17 insightful - 4 fun18 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

IT'S SO HATEFUL! like really? I lurked for a while and was like, ????? This all sounds like common sense. If anything I should probably learn from all these great resources on how porn is harmful

[–]LasagnaRossa 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That's exactly what happened fo me. I was there because I'm bisexual, and the last straw was when I got downvoted because I said I like both sexes with their original genitals. My comment was embellished (that damn "gEnItAl pReFerEncE") but wasn't rude.

Apparently this is hate speech. I don't see it differently than a straight woman saying she doesn't like other women. Is she homophobic? Fucking NO.

I've basically felt unwelcome from my own community, so sad.

[Edit] now that I think about it, I was on r/bisexual, not on r/AL