Title: Purple Tinker Attacks Author: Anonymous Pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/wBFXKE3r First Edit: Wednesday 22nd of August 2012 01:13:04 PM CDT Last Edit: Wednesday 22nd of August 2012 01:13:04 PM CDT Sandy, I have to level with you. (It's what I do.) I'm disgusted with you. I'm disgusted with AC, I'm disgusted with Andrew, I'm disgusted with Bejoty, I'm disgusted with every major figure in the fandom. I was lied about, mischaracterised, and subjected to HUGE quantities of revolting transphobic bigotry. None of you lifted a finger. As community leaders, you should have led the charge against this filthy bigotry. You didn't. You were content-- all of you-- to stand by the sidelines and watch me get bashed. You better believe that if there were screeds on facebook calling you a 'filthy faggot' and a 'thief' and a 'paedophile', I'd be there on the front lines calling them out. Just like how I routinely call out the disgusting bigotry vented against poor Yamino, whose only 'crime' is having an unpopular opinion about Derpy. But nobody is willing to help me. Nobody ever was, and nobody ever will be. And for that, I have nothing but disgust for all of you. I'd be a liar if I didn't admit that. And do you know what? The excuse I've heard, the sole "reason" used to justify keeping quiet, is disgusting. Evidently, i'm not worth defending because I GOT ANGRY AND DEFENSIVE. It's pretty damned normal to get angry and defensive when one is being bashed./ So if someone goes up to a black guy and beats the shit out of him, screaming "nigger nigger nigger", you shouldn't come to his aid if he .... gets angry? Is that the logic? Or does this special logic apply only to hatred against LGBT people, as I noted in that essay-- that special, "acceptable" hatred? If this was about racism, the whole community would be up in arms. But it's not; it's about transphobia and homophobia, so everyone keeps their yaps shut. Because when you're the victim of virulent transphobic or homophobic attacks, you're expected to JUST SHUT UP AND TAKE IT. Well, I'm SORRY for not just shutting up and taking it. The only goddamned point anyone's EVER made against me in the past few months that's even CLOSE to true boils down to 'Tinker is angry and bitchy'. Evidently, that's the biggest sin of all. Accuse me of lying, of stealing, of being a fucking paedophile (!?) and a wannabe rapist (!?), and that's okay-- because I'm trans. Oh, and you can bash me about THAT all you want. That's the perception I've gotten from this community. And I'm FED UP with it. You and AC, and the Bronyville guys, and the BronyCon guys, and the Everfree guys, and fucking EqD, should have posted a PSA about this when it was going on. But you DIDN'T. You WOULDN'T. And you never would. Because you did not care. You didn't care how badly I was attacked, how much I wanted to end my own fucking life over these disgusting attacks. None of you cared. Social justice isn't on your agenda. Defending the innocent against spurious attacks and filthy acts of bigotry is absolutely not on your list of interests. I'm sick of being the fandom's bitch.\ I'm sick of being the butt monkey. I didn't bust my nonexistent balls building a convention scene for this fandom from the ground up so that I could routinely get attacked as a 'thief' and a 'paedophile' and a TRANNY TRANNY TRANNY AND DID YOU KNOW SHE HAS A *PENIS*? (I don't) and to watch the major names in this fandom just SIT THERE and WATCH THE SHOW. You should ALL be ASHAMED of yourselves. Leadership means standing up to evil. It doesn't just mean getting famous by interviewing people on the air. There is an OBLIGATION to it. I understood that. I stood up against bigotry and unfairness when I saw it. And you know what? I got smacked down for it. People told me that my job was to run a con, not to be an activist. What's the implication? That leaders shouldn't care about injustice? I think that's EXACTLY what was being implied. Well, evidently, that's your philosophy. And AC's. And Andrew's. And Bejoty's. And EqD's, and DHN's, and that of all the other major figures in this fando/m. I have to admit, sometimes I want to kill myself JUST so you guys would all finally suffer for letting me, well, suffer. To ignite one final shitstorm. After all, who'd care? Just a bunch of faggots. Faggots don't count; they aren't actual PEOPLE, you know. You of all people should know that. Traitor. Letting another LGBT person get bashed and SAYING NOTHING ABOUT IT. You are a DISGRACE to your LGBT status.