I want to start this post by saying I am trying to learn more about the transgender community and how it relates to feminism. I do not want to come off as transphobic, I am truly trying to learn. Here is my question;

Does being transgender, whether transgender male or female play into gender conforming steryotypes? For example, If a man transitions to a woman, usually they will be wearing clothes that are culturally accepted norms of what women wear (dresses, makeup, etc.) Although all women do not dress like this. They do not all wear makeup or behave as what society sees as the stereotypical women. As a feminist, I firmly work against those gender steryotypes that society places on women. Yet those in the transgender community seem to fully embrace them. Is this wrong thinking? I need some insight, clarification , and education on this. Doesnt it make more sense to just wear whatever you want, and behave however you want without having to change your sex in order to identify with that? For example, a man can wear skirts, wear makeup, wear their hair however they want, and still identify as a man because none of those things should be associated with being female in the first place. Does this make sense?

Again I am not trying to offend anyone and I am really not trying to come off as transphobic but I really need some other insight into this. I welcome those in the trans community to comment on this post as well. I am trying to become a more educated individual.

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TLDR: Ali Larsen aka Gross Gore, a UK Twitch streamer, has: asked a 15 year old girl to expose her breasts on a group video call, groomed and solicited pictures from minors, made fun of the victim along with his community, sexually harassed and assaulted women (even other Twitch streamers), bragged about sleeping with a 16 year old, sent revenge porn to a victim’s mother, used racial and homophobic slurs on and offline, makes heavily misogynistic comments when rejected, etc. This is not a call to cancel him, but rather, a call for help when it comes to get answers from Twitch as to why people like this are not only allowed on their platform, but also protected. If anyone knows someone that could help please leave a comment or DM me.

Chapter I: Background

Originally a Runescape YouTuber, Ali moved on to Twitch to stream League of Legends. He was indefinitely banned in 2016 for calling a League caster a pedophile with baseless accusations, as well as being banned from attending League of Legends events for a year. For some reason, Twitch unbanned him in 2017 but was banned for 30 days in 2018 for sexually harassing multiple women at Jagex’s gaming convention “Runefest”. His actions even caused a fight outside of the event where police were involved. Now acting like a “reformed” person, Ali continues his Twitch ventures where any criticism of him and his past is shut down.

Chapter II: Coming to Light

I had heard of Ali in the past due to my participation in Twitch, but I didn’t know about his sexually unhinged behaviour until November of 2020, when someone came forward and said that she had been groomed by Ali in 2015 at the age of 16, while he was 24. This person showed Snapchat conversations between the two where she says that she was attending college (which in the UK means the person would typically be 16, 17 or 18) and later specified she was 16, but that didn’t stop him from soliciting pictures. In other statements, she says that they eventually had a Skype conversation, but quickly turned sexual and promptly ended. Because of this information going public, the victim later revealed that Ali’s community harassed and even doxed her in his Discord server, where they would share information such as name, general location and more pictures. Not only that, but to this day, Ali and his community continue to ridicule the victim by using the term “pic xx” to joke amongst them, which is what Ali said when soliciting pictures from the minor.

Shortly after, I was made aware of a community partially dedicated to bring awareness when it comes to Ali’s previous questionable actions. I was exposed to more information regarding him. It was then that I discovered the real person behind the computer screen.

Chapter III: The Crimes

This is a list of some of his known actions, some involving minors, when he was already an adult, as well as general sexual harassment. I will refer to people as “minors” since they were younger than 18 at the time of Ali’s interactions with them, as there could be some cultural differences when it comes to age.

• When he was 18, Ali explains how he pressured a 15 year old girl into exposing her breasts for a Tinychat video call with multiple people (70+). His defense is that he didn’t know her age but was later informed by others, who called him a pedophile for doing so. Is it really that hard to tell when someone might be “too young” to pressure them into doing something like this?

• When he was 24, he made a Facebook bragging about sleeping with a 16 year old girl. Now, since the age of consent in the UK is 16 you might ask “Ok, so it’s legal. What’s the problem?”. Although personally I do not agree with this since it’s predatory as hell to prey on people of barely legal age, some may say that it’s legally ok to do so. So, is it morally ok to sleep with 13 year olds in Japan or 12 year olds in the Philippines? Food for thought.

• At some point he started a relationship with a 17 year old girl from the USA. To make things short, after they broke up, the girl started selling revealing pictures on Patreon and promoting them on Twitter with some free content. Ali took it upon himself to gather as many pictures and videos as possible to then send them to her mother, letting her know what she was doing online. As per the definition of “Revenge Porn”, what Ali did was and still is illegal, yet nothing was done by Twitch once this started circulating.

• He is now permanently banned from attending Jagex events (the company behind Runescape, the game where he first grew to popularity) for harassing multiple women, one of which spoke out and another person jumped to her defense, causing a disturbance outside the event. He made disgusting, unsolicited comments about a woman’s attire, forced a kiss onto another woman, and starts crawling towards another woman’s butt when he had a camera pointing at him. Jagex was quick to permanently ban the guy, but apparently this was only a slap on the wrist from Twitch, as he only received a 30 day ban from the platform despite having already been indefinitely suspended in the past. Who knows what kind of morals are going on at Twitch.

• Ali is no stranger to this behaviour, as another streamer talked about her experiences with this character. During a live stream she said she was once sexually assaulted at a Twitchcon event without revealing who did it. Sometime later, she revealed that it was Ali himself, and that she was banning people who mentioned his name in order to avoid remembering the incident. Sadly, during another stream, Ali himself revealed that during another party, he was told to “get his dick out” by another streamer, and this time, he did it next to the aforementioned female streamer so she could see. Quite the gentleman.

• Ali has filmed a woman breastfeeding in public and quickly pointed the camera TOWARDS HER once he saw what was going on. You can argue that he was distracted with something else or that he wanted him to be in the middle of the frame, but with a quick glance at the camera AND the woman being one of the few people visible, one really has to wonder what was going on there.

• Despite being obsessed with women, you might find it weird that Ali is fairly misogynistic. Here’s a well-known “women rant” where does nothing but trash on women for 2 minutes for being rejected at a night club. He also objectifies women by saying he wants to review them on a YouTube series when he goes out partying.

• As the cherry on top, he has also used racial and homophobic slurs on and off his social platforms, including the N-word with a hard R, the N-word in his livestream, and even dropping the f-slur super casually.

Chapter IV: The Aftermath

If you tune in to his livestream or his social media accounts nowadays, you might find that his attitude doesn’t reflect what has been said here. According to the people who have documented most of this information, this is just an act to avoid being suspended by Twitch, as their Terms of Service got harsher as of the 22nd of January and things such as toxicity, harassment, and even making unsolicited comments about other people (streamers included) can get you in trouble, which he did in most of his previous broadcasts, and he has always been known as a problematic personality. Just a few months ago in October, he went out to parties pretty frequently, challenging UK’s lockdown rules, where he let some of his personality shine through thanks to the effects of alcohol, as he said “YOU DON’T PRETEND TO GO TO A HOSPITAL TO AVOID A DATE, YOU FAT CUNT” once again making derogatory comments towards women who reject him.

He was also under investigation by the UK version of CPS because he would have his daughter on his live broadcasts, but heavily neglecting her. After being reported and “audited” for months, he later revealed that he is not allowed to have her on camera. This makes sense since someone close to him let people know that he confessed to use his daughter for money and donations, saying things like “Twitch loves kids”.

Chapter V: Answers

As stated before, my aim is not to cancel the guy. I firmly believe that someone can have a problematic past, learn from it, and grow. This, however, doesn’t seem to be the case for Ali, as some of his recent actions indicate that his past self is still there. I also believe that someone can enjoy a creator’s content without being bothered by what they have done in the past. Up to a certain limit, of course.

This, however, is a big question for Twitch. If sexual activity with people of barely legal age, grooming, sexual assault, sexual harassment, misogyny and racism is not enough to ban someone who clearly is not fit to represent your platform, what is? Are people like this individually protected by the platform? Just how far is too far?

Does anyone have a way to contact anyone at Twitch, or knows of people who reply when contacted? Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc.? I would really love to know why people like these are not only still allowed on the platform, but also protected from any harm.

I thought about where to post this, and realized that I needed a "safe space" to talk about this. I feel kinda hurt, and it may be stupid to be hurt over a children's (or teen's) show... But then again, media shape our reality and it's so frustrating that they just never get it right with the "strong female characters"...

So, I started to watch Avatar because my husband thought I would like it. And I did! I enjoyed the childish humor. I really liked the characters, and I became invested in their fate. First season was quite allright.

But you know what happened? The male characters got depth. Character development. Relevant story arcs. The female characters got nothing of that. They became less and less important to the story. In the great finale you just see what you always see: Men in charge and women following.

Characters aren't "strong" because they know how to fight. If you never feel their inner struggles, if the story isn't about how or why they make decisions... then they are just a nice little add on. Wow, great, a fighting woman, how strong... I'd prefer relevant.

And here's the thing... This always happens when I get invested in a show. The last two series (some years ago) were Grimm and Supernatural. I just stopped watching after they killed the female characters.

Shows display "strong" women but then make them powerless and irrelevant. I probably take it too personal, but I just want to watch something with relevant women. Where you couldn't take the female characters out of the story, because the story is about them.

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This is something like the macho paradox would cover and I was wondering if this is true. Like I've gotten some setbacks with this "fact" and I'm rethinking some things

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