Meet My New Friend!

[clovehitched]

Imagine my delight when I see this turn up in my inbox this Sunday lunchtime:



How truly nice it is to be wanted, but I have no idea why the sudden interest. The S'onewall awards are coming up soon and perhaps they've nominated her for one of their awards for services to canapés again. We don't actually know as they've decided not to publish the list of nominees this year, which was probably easier than going to all the trouble of adopting some sort of pesky anti-transphobia stance in public.

As for the 3 mutual friends, at least two of them are trans activists of my personal acquaintance, presumably keeping tabs on her or something - whatever, *clickety click*. There - ignored.

Originally posted at http://auntysarah.dreamwidth.org/211101.html - you can comment here or there.

Comments

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

ha. ahaha. ahahahahahaha

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

You are *kidding*!!

[bloodbeauty.livejournal.com]

seriously??

it might have been funny to let her friend you actually...

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

omg whut?!

[jinxremoving.livejournal.com]

ZOMG.

[tartful-dodger.livejournal.com]

But haven't you heard?

Some of her best friends are...

:P

[ephemerita.livejournal.com]

Hah! I had no idea she was a comedian as well!

You could always send her the Facebook Song"> in response, she'd probably sue you for Harrassment and Being Mean on the Internet, though :(

[cericonversion.livejournal.com]

So you're living in a lesbian remake of You've Got Mail. Roll with it.

Or don't.

:)

[(Anonymous)]

She's got a lot of fucking nerve hasn't she?!

Write viotrolic articles telling us that we don't even know of our own minds and bodies and that surgery shouldn't be an option - we just need some therapy.

Have prawn sandwiches over an interview with one-time people that represent our interests, and whilst being all 'nice and lovely' also refuses to accept the gender of the person she is being interviewed by.

And now, she wants to be your FB friend, coz, 'the political isn't personal' is it?!!

Good grief.

[krissie-r.livejournal.com]

AAAAAh ha ha ha ha ha ha! */me Wipes tear from eye*

Curious on the candidate list though.... very curious. lol

[nicollegurrl.livejournal.com]

Oh, you must feel honoured? :D

[klonecaid.livejournal.com]

Facebook needs a FuckOffAndDieInAFire button...?

[(Anonymous)]

It's a shame that instead of just having 'Ignore request' it had a 'positively refuse your request' option too :)

[mon462.livejournal.com]

Oh my!!! Perhaps this is a sign of the apocalypse?

[krissie-r.livejournal.com]

Oi! Stop talking about me on other people's journals! :-p lol

... Ooooooh! You mean the incivil and unfriendly kind of rude and nasty! I seee. lol ... must be someone else then :-)

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Classy.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Now of course she's going to threaten to sue you for not friending you. How could you be so mean to the poor oppressed ciswoman?

[fierceawakening.livejournal.com]

what?

[techiebabe.livejournal.com]

Oh, my ribs!

As for the 3 mutual friends, at least two of them are trans activists

Don't you have a strategy for dealing with tranny chasers? ;-)

[klonecaid.livejournal.com]

I just breathed my tea...

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

Erm.

I'm sorry - what?

Why for F's sake. I mean if she wanted to 'bury the hatchet' there are far more less socially inept ways of getting in contact.

The only thing I can think of is now when she writes about stuff in the future she can talk about how she 'tried' to be friends and got summarily ignored by you on Facebook. But perhaps that's not very nice of me to think that.

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

Oh and I hope your computer screen has now recovered from the tea spray that no doubt resulted from you opening your in-box.

[quentinwrites.livejournal.com]

I had her on my friends list to keep tabs on her, until her recent status update about "being a duck" ("Julie Bindel has decided she is now a duck and demands to be put in the duckpond regardless of the fact she has raped and killed ducks" - a supposedly-humorous take on the recent trans woman who won the right to be housed in a women's prison) and then I couldn't take any more so she went buh-bye.

[biascut.livejournal.com]

HOLY GOD.

[parmonster.livejournal.com]

GAAAAGHGGHGHGHG!!!!

Put that kinda mierde behind a cut, woman!

I nearly lost my cheerios looking at that.

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

I do apologise. I hope the rest of your day involves productive cheerio retention.

[mentalfirewall.livejournal.com]

Ye Gods, I cannot believe the gall of that woman.

[nodesignation.livejournal.com]

When I signed up for facebook recently, double clicked on an okay button. But it's so quick that it loaded up another question -- email everyone in your contacts list a friends request? -- and counted that as a confirmation on that as well.

So facebook sent out friends requests to every email address I had ever emailed. Including listserves, tech support, ex's I'm not on good terms with, alternate email addresses for myself, and old activist rivals I had had email exchanges with. I was kicking myself when someone I actually have not forgiven friended me back and proceeded to act like everything was a thing of the past.

Perhaps the same kind of thing happened to her.

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

Thing is, this is, I think, the third time she's done it. The first two were last year. This one kinda came out of the blue.

Also, there's no reason my email address would be on her contact list.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

All I have to say is lolz.

Because it's just to depressing not to take this (the whole Bindel thing) as anything but a joke.

These people are jokes, come to think about it. Talk about unwarranted self-importance.

It's just to bad that the Guardian gives jokes national platforms to spew intellectual blather all over.

[natalie-456.livejournal.com]

oh dear, someone clearly needs to find better things to do with their time then friend 'enemies' on facebook. Better that then spewing transphobic crap in the guardian though, right?