kafukafuura1917:

the etymology of the word “troon” is really fucking funny to me because like, obviously the way terfs use it in this website is because they’re afraid to use the other more common t-slur for whatever fucking reason most of the time, but what it was actually meant to originally mean was a portmanteau of “trans” and… “goon”, goon as in, the term used to refer to members of the Something Awful forums… and like, the word was coined by a trans woman there to refer to people in the forum’s big trans megathread and it only gained popularity when it was seized on by Something Awful’s vibrant community of uh, offsite permabanned neo-nazis who despite being banned were still obsessed with Something Awful (they went through several websites under names like SASS, The New Effort and Something Sensitive), and they used the term specifically in their creepy stalker threads dedicated to trying to doxx and harass transgender Something Awful posters. Basically TERFs are legit so fucking unintelligent they’ve decided to seize on a word that literally only neo-nazis used before them, a VERY specific community of neo-nazis associated with the Something Awful community in fact, and you know, the fact the word moved from an explicitly fascist context to a supposedly “radical” “feminist” context… well, it kinda tells you where and with whom TERFs hang out!