Cliff Canon was, ostensibly, a riff on the idea that all chasers are creepy perverts you should avoid. Instead its an embarrassing failure to deal with what chasers mean to different trans women. Not just on the part of the character of Cliff, but particularly his reply girls. https://twitter.com/Mer_Squared/status/1341902461687259137

Cliff was supposed to be Geoff Nicholson, who wrote an article about fucking TW on the DL. Wark, Lucca, etc were all adamant that we shouldn't judge Cliff, hes a good chaser. They want to disassociate Cliff from Geoff who is kinda a creep, fucking much younger TW

He's not the nice guy sock puppet chaser, hes a DL guy. Nobody besides the replygirls could know that they werent the same person! They all said he was smart and kind, had a crush on him even! But they only meant the fantasy Cliff constructed by women, the one that doesn't exist.

That disassociation is what lets the replygirls complain about this us "making [trans bodies] pornographic" to defend a guy who spent 1/6 of his essay on how he loves tranny porn https://twitter.com/Mer_Squared/status/1341901958198808578?s=19

But they were and are very invested in defending Cliff, and Geoff along with him. One of them said that judging chasers is basically saying that TW don't deserve healthy romantic and sexual interest. I'm not too against this generally, but Cliff is a guy we know a lot about.

The message was basically that it's wrong to not be okay with this 60 y/o serial cheater. Instead of suspicion, we should celebrate Cliff and other "good chasers" like him! Trans women are too hard on the chasers who fuck them. In other words, our standards are too high.

This is utterly divorced from reality. Trans women already usually have standards through the floor, that is *why* we are so desperate on grindr to begin with! A healthy attraction feels impossible, so you let a guy swear you to secrecy, fuck you, and leave. Geoff is that guy.

The message from his replygirls is just scolding us for having any standards at all. We should apparently put up with Geoffs, we should celebrate men who would never date us, we don't deserve to have standards or a normal healthy attraction. Isnt that what they meant to lampoon??

Because of course the critique of T4C we need is a transbian telling transhets that we should be on board with fucking a 60 year old serial cheater.