Article on The Gloss about otherkin, Transcats

[frameacloud]

Warning: the linked article contains profanity, hostility.

The Gloss, an online magazine for young adults, posted an opinion article about otherkin. The article focuses on a blogger on Tumblr.com called Transcats.


Source
Jamie Peck. “‘Honey, I think I’m a cat.’” 2013-01-22. The Gloss. http://www.thegloss.com/2013/01/22/culture/otherkin-community-transcats

Comments

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

It doesn't require a study with randomized samples. It's a very simple, observable fact. From claims of oppression to significant numbers of therians/otherkin neither being able to function in day to day life nor, often, even wanting to, to the defense of pedophilia and the welcoming and acceptance of blatantly obvious trolls as if they were genuine, tumblr is observably worse than any otherkin or therian community prior.

If it were solely a matter of visibility, we would have seen articles like this emerge with public LJ and Facebook groups. We didn't. There's a reason it took tumblr to prompt articles like:
http://betabeat.com/2012/07/prince-koyangi-tumblr-troll-otherkin-transethnic-eric-draven-07052012/
http://gawker.com/5940947/from-otherkin-to-transethnicity-your-field-guide-to-the-weird-world-of-tumblr-identity-politics
http://totallydublin.ie/more/entry-level-otherkin/
http://www.thegloss.com/2013/01/22/culture/otherkin-community-transcats/

[citrakayah.livejournal.com]

And in other places we deal with people saying they can shapeshift, talk about tearing out eyeballs, suggest that Australia is organizing therian killsquads, et cetera. And, unlike Tumblr, LJ and Facebook groups do not have, to the best of my knowledge, an organized group of people dedicated to milking therians/otherkin for the maximum amount of mockery possible, even if it involves taking things out of context (for instance, if I went to Tumblr today and argued that, from a specific case of someone in authority exercising such authority to a therian/otherkin in such a way that it met the definition of oppression, speaking about a single case, how much do you want to bet that I would be immediately beset by idiots saying 'You aren't oppressed, har har' without any signs of actually paying the slightest attention to what I said?). There is also, as I already stated, the fact that things spread more easily on Tumblr.