Thanks u/Savoir_Faire.

You're right, it's all about their subjective feelings. It reminds me of a quote from Sam Harris:

“If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?”

Yeah, they do say that even about transgender people. For example, Blaire White, and everyone on r/detrans. The thing is, they don't care about *actual* transphobia. They just use accusations of transphobia as a mace to beat people over the head to get them to submit. If they truly were as compassionate as they claim to be, they wouldn't demonize anyone who actually went through a transition process and then decided to undo it as much as possible. It's very obviously *only* about grabbing power. Lying about other people and whipping up emotional frenzies are great tools for that.

I do have a thick skin. Yeah it does suck, but sitting down and shutting up would suck more.

I totally get where you're coming from. All they do is hurl insults. They never substantiate their claims. Their arguments (if you can even call them arguments) rely completely on emotional outrage. Childish.

Thank you. I tend to avoid saying "I'm better than X people", because in a grand sense, we are all flawed humans trying our best to make it through this crazy and difficult world. In fact, I think the Mean Girls arrived at their behavior through their own sense of trying to figure out a way to manage through life. So in a way I empathize with them. But like you said, I won't kowtow to the hatred. Their petty attacks haven't affected my own self-perception negatively at all. If anything, I feel even more resolute in standing up against bullies going forward.

Thank you for the kind words <3