r/superstraight was just banned

submitted by Butterlogs✨Superlesbian ✨ from self.LGBDropTheT

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[–]BEB 43 insightful - 2 fun43 insightful - 1 fun44 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Banning the sub is only going to make men angry. Women, and to some extent gay men too, have been silenced about how harmful some types of trans activism are to women and gay rights, but now trans activists have put straight men in their sights and that has awakened a sleeping giant.

Let's hope for the Streisand Effect.

[–][deleted] 39 insightful - 1 fun39 insightful - 0 fun40 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

For as little time as that sub was around, it opened a lot of people's eyes to the kind of abuse we've been getting from the TRAs. Some people were straight-up pissed about it. And it had 30,000 members. That's why they had to shut it down. 30,000 more people are aware of what's been going on.

[–]BEB 26 insightful - 1 fun26 insightful - 0 fun27 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

More than 30K - there were probably 100K at least lurkers.

But also Twitter - I saw Superstraight/ Super LGB Tweets in other languages so the Super movement was to some extent global.

[–]fuck_reddit 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

“I feel that all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” -Admiral Yamamoto, lol

[–]BEB 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You read my mind - that was exactly the quote that I was thinking about.

For all you young ones, this quote was what the Japanese Admiral is alleged to have said after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, which got the US into WW II. The US was the "sleeping giant."

Did you ever see the film "Tora, Tora, Tora"?

[–]fuck_reddit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I believe so... it’s been a while though if I have.