This. I just want to point out that the
first article misrepresenting us was published back in 2019, so this anti-SaSu campaign has been going on for 5(!) years at this point. We have responded in the past, I know the founders did and I reached out to them myself, but they never took anything we said seriously. They either only put like one sentence of our statements in the article and just keep running the narrative that we're some malicious asshole site or they ignore it straight away. There is an unreleased interview I had with a reporter for 45 minutes where I tried to defend the website, why do you think it's never been released? Because it doesn't fit the narrative. They keep pushing the narrative that we're a pro-suicide cult regardless of what we do. And why should I take anyone seriously that keeps calling us pro-suicide in the first place, when I have literally a
thread up debunking that notion and instead explained why we're pro-choice? There are couple of threads that address common media narratives and misconceptions like that, I literally spent days writing them, they're all well researched and backed up with sources and evidence and these losers who keep pushing a narrative ignore all of that because they already made their mind up about Sasu before they started researching. They don't reach out to us to understand our perspective, they simply reach out to us in hopes we say something that can be used against us out of context. I have responded to the NYT, the BBC, other outlets - not once has there been a correction for any of their errors. Like again, I think it's a blatant disregard for journalistic integrity and objectivity when you call a forum like ours with thousands of active members collectively pro-suicide without ever establishing why that's the correct way to describe our forum, when we have literally gone out of our way to explain why we're pro-choice? And look, the founders have stepped down 2.5 years ago - why do they still keep mentioning their name and run the narrative that the people running this forum have anything to do with inceldom? Is it because maybe the claim that we're a malicious death cult wouldn't be so credible anymore when instead of an incel, a trans woman is running the forum, who has been suicidal her entire life (I've been very open about my background) and who can point out to rational and reasonable factors that justify your right to die? Maybe, maybe. We'll never know because these journalists aren't very eager to defend their claims and accusations either.