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Rocky: Grace say Hail Mary archives have all Human media yet Rocky still cannot find classic film Goncharov for movie night statment.
Grace: ....What?
Rocky: Grace not know own earth greatest mafia movie ever made question?
Grace: .......
Grace: What?
Hey strawb I'm a trans woman and my close friend talked to me about how gender isn't real, and that by doing stuff like wearing dresses or having makeup I'm reinforcing the concept of gender, which she said is bad because ideally a post-gender world is what to strive for... this came up because we were discussing Whipping Girl by Julia Serano. I'd like to feel that there is something inherent to me that makes me a woman but am I just repeating gender essentialist rhetoric by doing that?
that's straight up a TERF talking point girl! why are trans women the only people who are doing this enforcement? why do cis women get off scot free? what about men? why is it our responsibility to put ourselves in the closet and not express ourselves for the nebulous promise of a far distant "post-gender" future?
...The practice of subversivism also negatively impacts trans people on the MTF spectrum. After all, in our culture, the meanings of “bold,” “rebellious,” and “dangerous”—adjectives that often come to mind when considering subversiveness—are practically built into our understanding of masculinity. In contrast, femininity conjures up antonyms like “timid,” “conventional,” and “safe,” which seem entirely incompatible with subversion. Therefore, despite the fact that the mainstream public tends to be more concerned and disturbed by MTF spectrum trans people than their FTM spectrum counterparts, subversivism creates the impression that trans masculinities are inherently “subversive” and “transgressive,” while their trans feminine counterparts are “lame” and “conservative” in comparison... - Whipping Girl Chapter 20: The Future of Queer/Trans Activism, Julia Serano
Serano herself hits the nail on the head about this attitude - the shallow "deconstruct gender!" analysis is inherently misogynistic. How else could it be that they consistently portray the feminine is inherently more fake, constructed, and worthy of destruction than the equally socially constructed masculinity?
the idea that quote unquote gender nonconformity is inherently ethically better because it "subverts" rather than "reinforces" is one thing that led me to be stuck repressing transness for years bc i thought not transitioning at all was a morally superior decision to transitioning and better for society
all it did was make me miserable and full of regrets
don't fall for this nonsense
you exist in the world to be a complete human being not to be a "brave" "deconstruction". your life is worth more than just a political statement at the expense of your happiness
I haven't read Serrano yet (its on the list, but time is finite), but I've a bachelor in philosophy, and taken some classes on ontology. Ontology is awful, but studying it helps understand when someone is tuhinga to all you a load of bad goods.
Gender is not, in ontological terms, concrete. There are no particles or waveforms of gender. Its a different type of thing than a rock, or a plant, or a person. And if strict materialism is your benchmark for calling something real, you can say that gender isn't real.
Strict materialism is a pretty rubbish ontological standard, though. If we talked like we'd seriously committed ourselves to strict materialism, we'd be terminally pedantic and meaningful communication would collapse. We'd go around saying things like "Sherlock holmes doesn't smoke pipes because he doesn't exist and only things that exist can smoke pipes, even though the fiction says he smokes pipes." (The ontology of fiction is *hilarious*)
I think the reasonable ontological approach to gender is to recognise that it is a social and cultural convention which originated in humans applying their faculty for pattern recognition to the (incredibly complex, non binaristic) expression of human sexual chatacyeristics, developed through reason and rationalisation.
And like all psycho-socio-cultural cenventions, it's usable as a tool. Gender absolutely has been used as a tool for violence, repression and control.
But it doesn't have to be. Killers and chefs both use knives. Gender conventions can be a technology used for oppression, but it can also be a tool for building connection and positive identity.
I think of myself as agender. I'm normatively male by broad societal standards. I have a great big beard, a bigger bald spot and a beer gut. I have interests and behaviours that accord with some conceptions of msdculinity, But I don't have an internal conception of my own gender. I don't 'feel like' a man, i don't have a notion on what 'feeling like' a particular gender would be.
The certainty of trans women in asserting their internal conception of womanhood was what lead me to realise i don't have that type of internal conception. And I've seen of studies that correalate some neurological structures between cis and trans women, so there does seem to be some biological causation to trans identity.
But humans are conplicated! Biological sex expression is complicated enough, and humans have built a jenga tower of concepts and associations atop it.
We can look at an atom of carbon and define it's necessary and sufficient criteria, and demark the careful boundaries of the category.
We can't do that with any particular gender. There is no systematic, naturalistic criteria we can construct that captures a complete model of human gender that isn't arbitrary and simplistic. No physical test can be made without counterexample.
The thing that makes OP/Anon a woman is their earnest desire to conceive of herself as, and be considered ny others as, a woman. That's the only practical test of the concept: given the option, all other things being equal, what would you choose to be seen as.
When we acknowledge that gender is constructed, we can come to the understand that the associations and qualities are all of them provisional, and none are essential. It is a construction, and constructions can be renovated.
And lastly, I gotta stop wrting this at some point, but one last point.
You can accord with a standard or image that is enforced with violence without condoning that violence, and while fighting against that violence. The problem with the aesthetics and presentation of feminity is the violence with which it is policed (And the ways that the policing is informed by the male gaze, but afaict, the gaze is part and product of the policing and doubtlessly others can speak better on that topic than I)
doctor: cure is simple. go see clown
chronically ill patient: but doctor, I'm seeing a clown right now and he's not helping
You were born in the year '07, in the last year of the Commune of Revachol, right before it fell. In the Old Military Hospital, on the ground floor where people usually came to die, during a snowstorm. The Revolution had about one year left to go and the fires were still burning bright. There were explosions in the blizzard. This was 44 years ago. You are 44 years old. The bloating might never leave your face, but beneath it -- you still have some years. You still have some hope.
I love rebloging. It’s the adult equivalent of showing everyone the cool rock I just found.
gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"
How did I get here?
we gotta get back into revolving bookcases i'm begging
truly we allow the pinnacles of human achievement to wither and collapse into ashes in the wind
These are the most fuckable bookshelves I’ve ever seen
Everyone meet just a normal goose :)
Glad you guys like this totally normal goose!
I am making everyone remember normal goose
Well, I can not find the original separate post of this so I’m just going to tack these on here
gay people: yeah I'm gay
straight people: yeah I'm straight
that one weird neurodivergent bisexual girl: hey do you want to watch me play dishonored and infodumping about it
As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".
So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:
Excuse me???
you are right and you should say it.
Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?
Absolutely not
You know who would try that shit?
Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?
You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?
The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:
Some quick research suggests that only Scots English still uses "gat" as the simple past tense of "to get", with the form surviving in other English dialects only in the archaic "begat" (i.e., the simple past tense of the likewise archaic "to beget"), and I feel like we need to fix that.
Local Man after opening Pandora's Box of Non-Standard English Verb Forms: "He choosed his path, clomb this hill to die on, torned off the chains of prescriptive grammar and drunked from this newfound power; but later he had understanden that he had letten himself grow mad with power, he had shutten the voice of reason advising him against this foolery, he had putten himself on this path of chaos and destruction, setten himself on this one way street, standen on top of a mountain of hubris, forgetten wisdom, and for his trouble had getten only the means of his own downfall" [all of those are attested by the way, this isn't just me making stuff up at random]
The thing you need to understand is that my baseline motivation is causing problems on purpose.
Seivarden: When have I done anything rash or irresponsible?
Breq: I keep a list. It’s alphabetized.
“You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor," said Vimes. "And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. Nothing in there about orders, even from me. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government.” -- Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett
Burgers were a type of meat and bread confection[1] and cultural symbol[2][3] popular during the Late Capitalist[4][5] and Early Collapse[6] Periods of the Ancient Yankee State[7].
don’t act like you aren’t hyped to eat my girlfriend’s burgers
Girlfriends were a socio-cultural class[1] of warrior-priestesses[2][3] revered[4] or worshipped[5] across much of the modern Turtle Island Steppe region during the Late Collapse and Early Road Warrior Periods[6][7][8].
wait do they not have girlfriends in the future????
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Temporalism is a disproven[1][2][3][4] pseudo-scientific[5][6][7][8][9] belief that events follow from cause to effect along a linear direction of motion which is understandable or intelligible by sapient minds[10].
CASSANDRA TRUTHS
