So, y'all know what’s happening with Photomatt now, right?
He’s being lovebombed by transphobes, overloaded with supportive messages, and sent links to anti-trans articles and podcasts and videos and newspaper columns. He’s being told about the toxic TRAs and cancel culture censorship and the violent trans activists who “eat their own”.
Sympathic lips are telling him all about “children being sterilised”, about “unfairness in women’s sports”, about autogynephilia, about Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, about “gay conversion therapy”.
And because he’s angry, bitter, and has had his ego bruised, he is listening.
He’s been in the rare position of a CEO actually subjected to a similar treatment as the people using his service, and he did not care for it. He feels uniquely hounded, he feels alone, he feels deeply wronged. He was an Ally, he did and said all the Right Things. And even still, he was Cancelled, labelled a transphobe.
I don’t want to predict the future or guess to Matt Mullenweg’s character. I genuinely, deeply hope I’m wrong here. However, if within the next few months, he starts expressing some “legitimate concerns” with trans rights, I will not be the least bit surprised.
I’m repeating myself a lot here with other posts, but this is why its important to acknowledge that he’s not a frothing at the mouth, wrong speak transphobe. He’s a complacent person with power and biases that is too engrained to change them. And again, that is not a sympathetic viewpoint. He’s a hateful idiot who thinks that acceptance only goes as far as checking the boxes.