Twitter temporarily banned Drag Race star Aja over a comment calling someone a “senseless cow.”
The comment came after Twitter user @radkween (whose account has since been switched to private) proclaimed that Aja’s gender identity “wasn’t real.”
Aja identifies as non-binary, and @radkween holds a “trans exclusive radical feminist” (TERF) viewpoint.
The TERF movement has aligned itself with radical feminism largely as a means to deny trans women access to female-exclusive spaces, whether that’s restrooms, festivals or healthcare.
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Aja responded by writing: “Shut the f*ck up you f*cking terf – calling me a misogynistic troll? You are a bitter ass fake feminist. Real feminists support all women and all genders equality. Don’t misgender me. You senseless cow.”
Then Twitter shut Aja out of their account.
Comments were mostly supportive of Aja, but there was also some criticism.
“A male raised as male behaving as a male,” someone wrote, adding, “awwww.”
Another wrote: “Ah, this man seems really angry.”
On Facebook, Aja offered this explanation:
“I got banned from twitter because I called a girl from a group of Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists who were all saying my gender identity wasn’t real a senseless cow
But twitter didn’t ban the 200-300 people literally devalidating (sic) my non-binary identity. But I’m here like I might be blocked but guess what I still identify the same way, I am well validated and alive and happy and nobody can take that.
Also feminism can be practiced by anyone who believes in equality amongst men and women – because people keep telling me I can’t be a feminist and that trans women aren’t included in feminism.
A vagina does not make a woman and neither do breasts. That social construct of an idea is extremely over. But hey maybe it’s just me”
Sometime after the above message was posted, Aja’s Twitter account was restored.
Anyways moving on, hi Twitter missed you
— Aja (@ajaqueen) August 2, 2018
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shakes_head
Social media’s community guidelines are a complete farce. I was called the n word several times by a complete stranger, and all I got back was a notice saying the community guidelines had not been violated.
Thad
I’ve never posted on Twitter. I won’t go near Facebook. I stand with Aja on this issue.
TomG
Agreed to not using social media platforms. Waste of my time, and besides, the world doesn’t need to know what I had for dinner etc, even my friends couldn’t care less. Friends are those you know face to face NOT on some (anonymous) public billboard.
CarrieV
TERFs are little different from the Alt-Reich. I wish they’d take the “F” off of TERF as they are most definitely NOT feminists… go to their pages, their websites, etc., and all they blather about is how only cis-women are women. They hold NO feminist views regarding employment, violence, equality, raising children up, and so on. They ONLY exist to bash trans and non-binary folk.
Although never a fave of mine, now I feel some empathy for Aja.
QueerTruth
Twitter is one of the most toxic virtual places on earth. I wish people would close their accounts. Honestly. Nothing good comes from Twitter. It’s simply a hate monger pit where people feel safe to hide their identity and word vomit the most wretched, evil things.