Swedish newspaper posts otherkin hate joke on their official blog, community suggests protest

[avianthrophile.livejournal.com]

Trigger warnings: joke involving killing children, mocking of otherkin.

After a recent documentary on Swedish TV channel 5 which included interviews with a big cat therian, the idea of "species-change surgery" as a joke apparently has spread around the Swedish blog community.

This ended with a blog belonging to the editorial staff of the “Young people” part of the local Swedish paper Norrköpings Tidningar (NT), posting an article joking about what might happen if species change was possible. It includes a disturbing mention of killing your grandchildren for being different, translated to English here by Swedish member of the otherkin community, Susitar:

I will not be that old, gray and grumpy old woman who harbours contempt and anger towards my grandchild when he acknowledges that he or she during the greater part of his life felt out of place as a human being, but however, has developed a great desire to be an anteater. No, I won’t shake my head or faint. I’ll just sit there, smile, be responsive and serve my grandchild army ants containing a dash of arsenic.

(Bold by Susitar)

Arsenic is a fatal poison.

Susitar is arguing that this is not a responsible thing for the newspaper to do, and gives two contact email addresses to contact the newspaper to complain, webben@nt.se and ungnt@nt.se. The newspaper understands Swedish and English.

Sources

1. http://www.nt.se/bloggar/bloggentry.aspx?blogg=6327692&entry=7242097
2. http://kinspeak.tumblr.com/post/13901940007/funny-joke-about-poisoning-therians-otherkin

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For continuity, this is a follow-up post to an earlier article on Otherkin News: "Swedish TV program about furry fans."