#original mediations

[girl-debord]

there was a weird little slice of my life where i was boymoding for school but not so much for work, but those were both in the same neighborhood, so i went to the same bagel place for lunch every day & the workers there knew me--except they didn't know i was one person. so I'd come in & they'd be like "the usual?" & if they thought i was a boy i got an egg & cheese and if they thought i was a girl it was cream cheese toasted. went back a couple years ago & they were happy to see me, but i didn't know how to tell them this meant two of their old regulars were alive & well. anyway happy teedeeohvee

[girl-debord]

"why don't trans women do any domestic labor" is right up there with "why do trans women never date each other" in terms of questions that show that you know nothing about trans women. except in this case the idea that trans women don't do domestic labor is instrumental in maintaining the social hierarchy that keeps trans women doing domestic labor. the idea that trans women are male-socialized and therefore predisposed to exploit the domestic labor of people who are female-socialized keeps trans women in the insecure position of having to prove themselves by taking on historically feminine domestic roles. the reification of economic feminist analysis into biological/socially-essential categories presents the perfect opportunity for tme partners & roommates to benefit from exactly the type of economic exploitation being criticized.

[girl-debord]

jfc the US hasn't been at war 10 minutes and braindead american lefties are wheeling out the support our troops shit. read the fucking room

no one knows better than the soldiers-turned-commies ive known that there is no hope in expecting class consciousness to develop among US military personnel, you all have no idea just how much these ppl are reactionaries among the reactionary. if there's any hope for armed communist struggle in the US it's going to have to be self-taught militias, these men are the fucking wehrmacht

[girl-debord]

playing this new game called indeed.com and it fucking sucks

[girl-debord]

>"playing 5d chess with gender"

>look inside

>it's a trans man being accepted as a lesbian for bioessentialist reasons

[girl-debord]

coach mcguirk would be cool about it but like. a little too cool about it

[girl-debord]

you all cannot seriously be reblogging this lmao

[girl-debord]

we (non-monogamists) definitely shot ourselves in the foot using terminology to describe our relationships as a matter of personal orientation instead of as an ethics/politics regarding sex & romance. now we've got single people describing themselves as polyamorous--not just because of the long-term relationships they might be looking for, but even for doing things that used to be expected for any single person--going on casual dates with a few people, having hookups & sleeping around. meanwhile single self-described monogamists are narrowing their expectations even further & blaming poly ppl when those expectations aren't met. talking about what we do as a reflection of individual identity & not as resistance to a reactionary culture & its mores about sex & dating leaves us incapable of pushing back against this, even though our opponents have no issue reaching for language that limits our options & preserves their position's apolitical air--branding "relationship anarchy" as a term only used by abusers, for instance. not putting up with the slander of polyamorous people & seeking more explicitly political ways to talk about "polyamory" need to go hand in hand.