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@sewersystemsludgezone
Call us sewer, sewers, or cecil
23
He/it pronouns collectively
Polyfragmented DID, schizoaffective depressive, BPD, Autism and ADHD
Physically disabled
As previously stated i am a traumagenic system but i am pro endo and have alters of mixed origins
Rebranding this into a general system blog bc im so burnt out on engaging with syscourse publicly that idk if i have it in me to go back to it
A long rant related to some takes I've seen from anons from hotsystemtakes that are genuinely just racist. Hi, I'm a Native Hawai'ian + Asian mixed POC, and today, we are going to talk about cultural appropriation within the system community. For reference I was raised in a predominantly white city and moved to a small US city that's still predominantly white. While my small city does have at least 2 other hawai'ian families, it is still hard to ever see my culture. Whether it be through our names, our tattoos, traditional dances, our chants, or simply seeing other families and people who look like me. Now you might be wondering what does all of this have to do with me a random system on the internet who thinks telling to stop using closed names is stupid? Here is your answer.
For decades starting in the in 1860 my people's king Kamehameha signed a law to regulate our names. This law was not repealed till 1967. This meant our names that have a very deep spiritual and familiar connection to who we were as people was ripped away from us. Next we have laws against Chinese and Japanese immigrants who were often targeted for hate and bigotry. There is a reason #stopasian hate became a thing in the first place as we experience racism and culture appropriation too. There are also many other minorities who likely have had similar experiences such as having your voice not heard in the conversation of racism within the CDD community, having their cultural names stolen, microagressions, and many others. I mainly mentioned my culture as well as Asian culture simply because those are the groups I typically fall under and I have a closer connection to.
You see all of this was not because our people were bad or because our cultures were wrong in any way. It's because our cultures, our lives, our beliefs were a threat to white folks. You now praise and love to fetisize each of us in your own way. You think now that we have a bigger population that it's ok, you can use our names that have genuine deep meaning to our people simply because you are an introject and have CDD. I've talked to many of my aunties and uncles*[1] about having haoles*[2] name themselves our names. We not only find it extremely disrespectful but to us shows the true lack of understanding for our culture. Our names are not simply given to us for no reason. Each was created us as individuals, we might be named after our grandparents, be given names after big parts of our lives, have names are also linked to our mana*[3] and who we are.
You claim you care about POC and to have our issues heard, yet when it comes to your own racism you are ignorant. You throw out that Kai is a name from many cultures and while while it's true. You should not use Kaimana as a name because it's not open for haoles to use freely. Yuri, a common name in both Japan as well as Russia + Ukraine, does not mean it is now suddenly open for non Japanese, Russian, and Ukrainians people. You still need a tie to those cultures in order for you to use it.
If you are white, I'm not sorry to say you're not allowed to have any conversation in our cultures names and who is allowed what. There are plenty of open culture names, whether they are Irish names, Scottish, Latin, Italian, French, and many more. Stop your damn bitching about but but my name is apart of your identity as a part/alter when you are literally ignoring our culture and history. Suck it up all you sound like is a whiney coloniser, an appropator, and most of all, someone who gives no respect for cultures that you were never a part of. I've seen this argument for the last 3 years of being out as a system. If you even as another minority can not respect someone else's culture and traditions, you can shut up and keep it to yourself. Also yes even if you are apart of a different minority group you are suddenly not exempt from being racist and appropriating cultures.
[1] not literal uncles/aunts - in my culture to refers to those older men/women who are hawai'ian or are apart of our culture
[2] a hawai'ian word for foreigners often times white people
[3] Mana is a Polynesian word for energy, spirit, power, and many more words. It's often spiritual in nature and is all around us.
new syscourse hot take: there is nuance in literally everything as with all life. its less who is right or wrong but more if you have an actual opinion outside of being the most correct person on planet earth
Fun conversation topic:
Do different alters in your system have different food preferences? Do those preferences blend somehow when cofronting / coconscious?
Asking because one of my parts absolutely despises chocolate and was cofronting with me this morning. When I ate some I got incredibly repulsed despite the fact it’s delicious to me.
there's one guy who absolutely hates anything sweet whatsoever in my system. like takes a sip of soda and grimaces at the very least.
some alters are really averse to anything that isn't just bland also.
hey friends. do you like. talk about divisions in the LGBT+ community often, or just when transfeminine people talk on issues that impact their specific subset of the community?
ok great, now when is the last time you complained about cis gay/bi/lesbian people. no reason. just like. curious on your stances on divides in the community.
the syspunk conversation is inane and boring but has really highlighted the fact that this demographic can't handle a disagreement without positing it as some moral Oppressor vs. Oppressed quandary
Because, with the way the syspunk crowd talks about endogenic systems, one might assume they're a unified class that holds direct power over the mentally ill. Like, endos are supposedly part of the Machine they're raging against.
Sure, one can argue that them not being mentally ill puts them in a position of power over the mentally ill, but we aren't talking about "people without mental illness" as a class, we are talking about "endogenic systems". And as it stands, there is absolutely no infrastructure in place propping endogenics up over people with CDDs. There simply is not. Endo systems would get passed over for all the same opportunities in the current cultural climate and it's frankly disingenuous to imply otherwise, or betrays a fundamental lack of life experience
So this whole thing is fascinating if you know anything about modern society. Like, even with the most bad faith interpretation of what an endo is, it still makes no sense to act like they're writing the laws or solely perpetuating the stigma that is making your life worse. And there's no way in which yelling at them will make your life better, other than maybe sating your demon bloodlust or whatever the problem is with you people. It's a completely dead-end ideology that actively makes life worse for Everyone in the conversation lmao
don’t you know endogenic systems are people too?
they breathe like you, wake up to see the dawn like you, laugh like you, chat like you, eat tasty snacks like you, curl up with their pets like you.
they revel in nature like you, they stargaze like you, they help earthworms off the sidewalk into the safety of the grass like you, they wish on dandelions like you.
they trust like you, they want to be heard like you, they believe in themselves like you, they fight to be seen like you, they long to be understood like you.
they hurt like you. they cry like you, they have nightmares like you, they may be traumatized like you, they push forward like you, they bleed like you, they heal like you, they hope things will get better like you, they start again like you.
they’re people like you. they’re plural like you. they’re misunderstood for being more than one like you. they’re afraid like you, they’re strong like you, they’re resilient like you, they are loved, just like you.
endogenic systems are not our enemies. they are more like you and me than you might think.
plural solidarity forever. peace and love on planet earth.
the anti endo community is so brave and mental health advocacy core when they call people they don't agree with schizophrenic and/or delusional, spam cdd tags with discourse, and suibait people.
they dont do that! Hope this helps
hey! i have seen it happen before multiple times and had it directed at me! please don't be passive aggressive on a post where i am venting my frustrations!
Ive seen pro endos do the same thing 😞 its not the entire anti endo community, just as its not the entire pro endo community. Generalizations like that can b harmful 2 both sides
i have been denied cdd resources and entrance to cdd specific for the sole purpose of not giving enough of a shit about endos before i even started labeling as pro endo is that good enough for you?
pro endo vs anti endo is chronically online bullshit discourse either way.
and its kind of fucking weird for you to like. say that "they don't do it" and then pivot to "well both sides bad :((" the point is that they do it and are still platformed after doing it.
the anti endo community is so brave and mental health advocacy core when they call people they don't agree with schizophrenic and/or delusional, spam cdd tags with discourse, and suibait people.
they dont do that! Hope this helps
hey! i have seen it happen before multiple times and had it directed at me! please don't be passive aggressive on a post where i am venting my frustrations!
Being a trauma survivor doesn't excuse poor behavior. It doesn't excuse lying about other people to get back at them. It doesn't excuse vitriol directed towards an entire demographic of people.
As an abuse survivor myself, some of y'all need to get the fuck offline and heal your issues before they become someone else's. Syscourse isn't an effective coping or healing strategy when it's just posting about how much you hate people who are just living their lives.
hey all great news syscourse is over. its time to get off our phones and computers and play toys.
im not kidding lets all go on an outside adventure. right now. put down your device. go outside. ignore your tumblr notifications.
bonus challenge. reblog this with images from your adventure.
(accessibility addendum. if you cannot or do not want to go outside do another one of your hobbies that isn't arguing with people online, you can also share that)
its so hot outside but literally first
hey all great news syscourse is over. its time to get off our phones and computers and play toys.
im not kidding lets all go on an outside adventure. right now. put down your device. go outside. ignore your tumblr notifications.
bonus challenge. reblog this with images from your adventure.
(accessibility addendum. if you cannot or do not want to go outside do another one of your hobbies that isn't arguing with people online, you can also share that)
If you call anyone on any side of syscourse things like braindead, brain damaged, delusional, psychotic, etc., you are being an asshole.
If you post hate in tags you don't belong in or tag invade in general, you are being an asshole.
If you reblog someone's response to your syscourse with "lmao okay", you are being an asshole.
If you say "[group of people] can interact but I'll bully you!", you are being an asshole.
It's not hard to be nice. I'm on the verge of blocking every single person I see doing these things. Then again, I can't really, since 90% of the blogs I see in syscourse are doing this. Cut it out and have an actual discussion. Please. We aren't getting anywhere with this.
using the wrong tags is probably making your posts get less interaction.
A lot of people check tags before reading the post. Either by scrolling down or by using the tag filtering feature on tumblr.
Lets say you are pro-endo and make a post that uses anti endo and endos dni tags, anyone with either endos dni or anti endo tags filtered are not going to see your post and instead will just see you used those two tags which means there is a decent chance they scroll past or even block your blog. The same goes in reverse.
Tagging shit incorrectly means the people who you actually want to see your content will not see it.
the cultural boogeyman of the faker is such a convenient lie for ableism. Waste your time fighting about who does and does not deserve help, and maybe you wont realizes that there was never any help to begin with. The is no epidemic of malingerers taking up resources they don't need, there is a lack of resources for disabled people
if you have a headspace- does it feel safe?
yep!
no
no, and it actively feels unsafe
nuance
not applicable
