It’s become odd that, in light of the JSomerton information that has become more widely known, a lot of people are surprised he was also a raging misogynist on top of being a shameless plagiarist. Then, they cite videos like his dreaded and woefully ignorant Killing Stalking video as one of the videos by him they liked… even though this is, by far, his most wildly misogynistic video. It’s almost as though misogyny is not just as simple as saying “All women need to do is have children and cook.” Misogyny encompasses patterns and thought processes that systemically diminish women’s values and contributions. BL enthusiasts watched that video and could tell immediately all his talking points were the same ignorant, recycled points used to demean BL and women all the time. If you agreed with what he said, you’re also a misogynist and should spend more time actually learning about BL through BL studies field of study. It’ll take time, and it won’t be simple or straight forward–still, you need to unlearn your misogyny and decenter yourself within everything in order to actually form community with people. (I’m not gonna get into how women have been saying this about him for years, but only when two men say he’s a misogynist is it taken seriously because yikes!)
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Yeah. He’s a bog standard “Girls are stinky and trans men and nb AFABs are also girls” style asshole.
Anyone who couldn’t see this at a glance from many of his videos is clueless as hell.
Seriously. I watched a single on of his videos (the one about shipping that starts with him talking about Sk8 the Infinity) and I spotted it IMEDIATELY. How did people who were supposedly watching him for a long while not see that? (If anything, AT LEAST him calling the author of the ‘Love, Simon’ book a ‘straight woman’ should have been enough of a red flag. But it seems people just ignored that?????)
How?
Simple.
Flagrant misogyny that ranges over into transphobia (as we redefine people as girls who are not girls) is so normalized in fandom that people don’t even notice it’s a problem.
The crowd that loved him is young and clueless and finds it completely normal to talk about women ~fetishizing~ all day long without the slightest knowledge of queer history, BL history, etc. I’m sure they all assumed Love, Simon was by a straight woman and missed both that she came out and the discussion around why that wasn’t necessarily a great thing.
They don’t wise up until they run into some more oldschool queer creators who tell them where to stick it, and they won’t run into those on Youtube or in their own circles on Twitter.
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