Leelah Alcorn was a 17 year old transgender woman artist. She grew up in a very religious Christian family. When she came out as trangender to her parents they told her it was a phase and sent her to therapy. The therapies they sent her to were religious ones that told her things like god makes no mistakes, told her she was selfish, and that the only way to cure depression was to follow gods path. She came out as “gay” at school so people wouldn’t be as shocked when she came out as trans. Her friends were accepting but her parents called her an embarrassment. They took away all electronics for 5 months and kicked her out of public school.
She was an artist. he drawing above was drawn by her.
She committed suicide on December 29th due to the transphobia caused by her family. Please remember her and the other transgender people how lose their lives to transphobia.
Link to her tumblr (warning that it contains her suicide note and sensitive materiel)
I’ve been getting horrible messages like this in my ask for months, including:
and my personal favorite
After getting the message saying “Just go kill yourself” I was completely done dealing with this person’s horrible messages and replied with just an “Okay.” and logged off tumblr.
About a week later I logged back on with 17 messages in my ask, most of them from the anon. I scrolled down and at first when I logged off, the anon messaged me things like
I scrolled up more and all of a sudden they started sending me more and more messages like
This was extremely surprising to me. I thought “After all those horrible messages you sent to me for MONTHS about hating me and wanting me dead, you say ‘sorry’ and that you ‘cant be responsible for someone’s suicide’?”
But I guess the lesson goes like this:
DONT TELL ANYONE TO KILL THEMSELVES UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED FOR WHAT MIGHT ACTUALLY HAPPEN
I was called a Fat Bitch today. So instead of my usual “sushi rants” text post, I made a video post about it. Because fuck any man who thinks this is okay, that this is acceptable. Fuck this. Fuck that. I’m so furious I’m in TEARS.
EDIT: I am more than okay with this being reblogged since it’s fucking important, dammit. It’s not a fandom rant. It’s a rant about how society trains women to be resizeable fucktoys for men and if they dare step outside that line of “PERFECT PHOTOSHOP MODEL” then they’re “fat bitches” that men can’t fantasize about and it’s not okay. It is NOT okay.
Aww, you poor little baby, you’re furious that not everybody finds you attractive. I’ve been told that I’m “an ugly chink” or “your legs are too thin” and shit like that, but who fucking cares? Really? Can’t you just act mature and just walk away from it? And why are you assuming that “fat” is an insult?
Oh boy, okay, let’s do this.
Does it make you happy when people burst into your life unsolicited and reduce you to your race and physicality? Make you feel good? Give you warm feelings for them?
You are telling tumblr user Sushinfood, and by extension women in fucking general, to be silent when they are belittled, insulted, and torn down for an individual’s perception of their body.
And let me explain a thing about the connotations of the word ‘fat’ from a societal perspective. See, there’s this study in language called Semiotics, and what that means is the dissemination of meaning in words, because words have two layers of meaning - denotative and connotative. Denotation never changes, but connotation is heavily societal in nature.
‘Fat’, then. The denotation, in and of itself, is already negative. ‘Fat’ as an adjective, as used in the phrase ‘fat bitch’ refers to an excess of the noun fat. Too much of it. More than is acceptable.
Connotatively speaking, it’s even worse.
We exist in a society where thigh gaps, prominent collarbones and visible ribs are held, not as acceptable, not as okay, not as nice, not even as a goal, but as the standard for beauty. It’s in television, it’s in movies, it’s in literature, it’s on every billboard and on the cover of every magazine. It’s frozen improbably in the windows of the shops where we get our clothes. It teeters down runways and it sticks fingers down its throat to achieve.
She’s assuming that ‘fat’ is an insult because here, now, in the world in which we dwell, it almost exclusively is.
You do not have, nor should you ever have been lead to believe you have, the right to tell a woman she should just ‘walk away’ from such a negligently tossed reduction of her self-esteem to whether or not she’s fuckable by anyone’s standards.
‘i get insulted too so what you go through doesnt matter’
she’s not furious that not everybody finds her attractive, she’s furious that people think it is okay to yell insults at strangers, and anyone. did this person even watch the video?
it took me so long to realize that armin was planning to kill himself rather than be eaten before mikasa threw the blade away, and i’ve never been the same since tbh
oh my god are you serious
HA HA YUP. He gave Mikasa all of his blades and gas, then asked her to leave one short, broken blade in return, and says:
Girl from my class:
But suicide is kind of selfish. Do people who kill themselves even think about how much they hurt their friends and families?
Me:
People who kill themselves have a fucking illness called depression. They feel mentally alone even though they may have friends or other people who care about them. They can sit in a room full of people and feel so lonely inside. Yes, they do think of the people around them. But they feel like those people don't need them or don't really care. Could you take it to feel lonely all the time? Could you take it to feel like everyone's better off without you? Could you take it to hate yourself for not being good enough for anyone? No, you couldn't and other people can't either. So don't you dare to say that suicide is selfish because it's fucking not.
