Going on a blind date with a robot and you're sitting at a wonderful little cafe tucked away through a narrow street. She says she's gonna be a little late. Traffic? You ask. Sort of, she replies. A while later she carefully, yet loudly, scoots her way through the street and into view. You'd assumed the 1500cm on her dating profile had been a typo.
d: watching a video about computer security and its over-application and we really like the phrase they coined at the end for intentionally stripping away said measures, "gymnography", using the ancient greek word for "naked" as a basis for it :3
craziest thing is moralizing someone seeing your naked body through your window while you're inside your own home. i walk around my apartment naked and i don't always close the blinds and people will seriously be like 'that's horrible!!! someone might see you naked without consenting!'
implying my nakedness is inherently sexual and that my body simply existing is a sexual act that requires some type of consent
why is it my problem that you're looking in my window? look at a tree or something idc leave me out of it
reblogs really, really appreciated—important piece for me & i don’t know how it’ll fare well with the algorithm.
discovering yourself through pure sensation. context & lore dump after cutoff
cass's manifestation of physical form was to initially address earth creatures. imagine, the devout metaphysical limiting itself (herself) just to be perceived by our primitive biological computations. thank you.
however, to maintain a rigidity that supports the warm, bubbling, acidic, conniving motions of organic matter—and, eventually, life—is to maintain a separation from the rest of the Universe that allows your own processes to accelerate. so by adhering to the biological, cass, inadvertently, closes a part of herself off from the rest of her grandeur. she becomes the Universe experiencing itself through sensation. in all of her infinite & divine knowledge, too. at least we have the luxury of being oblivious.
the only thing cass does not know about herself is why she (the Universe) was born, and it profoundly comes to irritate her as she gains a form, because it feels like another birth in itself, and the the proper one at that. to be so burdened by your own existence bro 😒
fun fact! she chose a form resembling a feline because they are (at least in my universe) considered to be the near-perfect mammal
the thing is that the way people treat trans women they don't like is that the behavior they're engaging in is like as old as (and even older than) the modern generation of transphobic backlash against the trans liberation moment
Beth Elliott is a transfem folk singer who was involved with West Coast lesbian political movements in the 70s. her inclusion was debated for a while, partly because she was transgender, but also because a lesbian who she used to have a relationship with was involved with a separate lesbian group, who protested against her inclusion at a lesbian conference that she had helped to set up. the conference took a vote that resulted in the majority saying she should be allowed to stay, but the trans-exclusive lesbians refused to allow the vote to hold. she performed once on the first night, and then didn't return, and the next night one of the speakers delivered a speech that was changed from her original notes to be more of a transphobic screed against Elliot, alleging her of having "the mentality of a rapist". this incident certainly didn't *invent* the idea of trans women being rapists, but it does predate The Transsexual Empire by several years and was definitely a contributing factor to its creation.
and i say "is" at the top of this story because Beth Elliott is still alive!!!! this incident was not that long ago!!!!! it DID damage her career, however, and it practically made her a social pariah. but it's the same type of shit people do to trans women to this very day. these tactics are relatively recent overall but they are still time honored traditions with trans-exclusive feminists.
this isn't even about michfest is the crazy part. this incident happened in 1973, and michfest as an event started 3 years later in 1976. the first michfest where trans women were explicitly removed from the event took place in 1991, after it had already been running for 25 years. the type of thinking that caused the organizers of michfest to push trans women out of participating in an event they had long been a part of was the same type of thinking that had caused lesbian activists to push Beth Elliott out of the event she had organized as well as her career, and it's the same type of thinking that led to writings like The Transsexual Empire coming into existence.
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