Shadying up your course

Someone's discourse sideblog - Any pronouns - I believe in common sense and human decency

[matchlocks]

i was watching the trailer for the new indie game pronoun palace and this made my stomach drop. genuinely what the fuck is this why would you put this in a game focusing on trans people. this is evil.

[shadycourse]

THANKFULLY, this one seems to be a false flag. The developer explained on Twitter that it's from a cutscene that gives the backstory how one of the five playable characters was forced back into the closet. The game nor its developer doesn't agree with the message - it's presented as a very clearly bad thing.

I do get being on the edge about things due to all the hate trans men have been receiving, and I got worried enough to go looking into it myself too. This once I'm happy to know we're in the clear.

[shadycourse]

I respect anyone's rights to define their own experiences as they see fit. I might not entirely understand it, but as long as you're not harming anyone, I can still stand with you and just trust that you're speaking your truth.

But if your definition of your own experiences deliberately ends up excluding someone else from their space, I lose my good faith. I have no problem with polyminds in the general sense, but if your definition of polymind is "someone who exists as multiple people, not just ego states, specifically people. But they don't have a dissociative disorder, so they're not a system, because only people with those disorders can be systems". I have to ask. How many good faith interpretations are you going to find? Is this not directly fake claiming endogenic systems?

When your definition starts making wider claims about communities you're not even a part of (because it's an opt-in thing, the polymind behind this take is still polymind and I will respect that), then you lose my good faith. You can self identify without going out of your way to hurt others.

[shadycourse]

The ongoing Polymind discourse on Tiktok reads as proof that some Anti-Endos don't actually care about any of their demands. Not separate terms, not separate spaces and communities. They just want an acceptable target.

[shadycourse]

Regardless of what you think of the guy otherwise, what the fuck is the point of going after his weight? What does calling Ian 'fat' in the same sentence you're calling him white (actually relevant to the conversation) and an idiot (an insult) accomplish? This is genuinely pissing me off.