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This is a pretty weird take, like trans people can only like things that are totally ethical? And then like oh but the microtransactions website that couldn't even pull off an nft is ok?
holy purity test batman
No it's a reasonable criticism of how we construct our identities with acts of consumption. The point isn't that you're a bad person for buying the toy shark, it's that a company isn't your friend because it makes products you like.
Shark isn't ikea, trans people liking shark isn't liking ikea, and calling out a single, extremely marginalized group for a meme toy when capitalist realism forces constructed identity on everyone every day is a little weird.
no one's bein called out, this isn't a sermon, and i think that ascribing the consumption of a single product to all trans people such that criticizing it is criticizing an entire marginalized group is kind of a good demonstration of the problem at hand
also the specific shark with the tradmarked name that everyone repeats literally is manufactured and sold by ikea
It sure reads like a call out sermon
we despise microtransactions and anything even tangentially related to crypto/nfts in this house.