22. system. tma. despair and red truth coded. gyaru in elden ring. she/her for the most part. i have evil opinions
for a first effortpost, I’ll say something wild. i think, when discussing politics, you need to always assume any type of person exists. the wildest stupidest strawman. you have to assume they exist
you can say, prison abolition, and someone will bring up some example of a person who Just Likes To For Fun Kill Strangers At Random And Doesn’t Care About Being Ostracized For It And Will Not Stop And Refuses To Ever Change Under All Circumstances
and you can say, well, that person doesn’t exist. and you’d be largely right! but they also probably actually do. there’s 8 billion people. they do. even one is enough for your opponent to continue Fearing. and you won’t convince who you’re arguing with by just telling them that person doesn’t exist
you have to assume that person exists, and then explain why your system is okay even if they do. that the benefits of your system outweigh the detriments of your opponent by chance meeting that person. or, better yet, that this person isn’t someone to fear in the first place - in this case, how Evil isn’t inherent, similar things
and im not saying you have to do this for every online idiot who presents you with a world is made of pudding scenario. no, I’m saying they can fuck off and the world isn’t made of pudding.
but
if you do want to convince them, and whoever agrees with them-
then you have to assume the world is made of pudding, and show them how you’re still right even then. because that’s the first step to showing them the framework with which to understand the world is not in fact ever going to be made of pudding
(that is, if they seem to actually care to argue rather than clearly be trying to throw you into a trap, which tbf, they usually are. but really, my point here is, i think a really, really good system, an ideal socialism, would work well even under the most bizarre circumstances of the world. even if people were somehow inherently inferior, inherently stupid, inherently needing of authority, whatever. i think it could, should, win even then)
i havent been making many posts here because I’ve been on twitter but worry not, i have some effortposting incoming
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sorry i didn’t respond to the detached misogynistic manifesto you left in my inbox, i read the sentence “trans women have power over transmasculine people” and got so horny i blacked out. can you type it again
This thread is full of the luckiest people on the planet, I think. Also goes to show just how calm even venomous snakes are - coral snakes rarely bite unless you’re actively harassing them - and how important it is to make sure your ID as non-venomous is 1000% certain before picking up any wild snake.
i was never a boy but i was a handful of other nongirls wishing they could be girls before i became one
i relate a lot to this feeling…
oh, neat actually, i find a lot of peoples (wrt transfemininity) sort themselves into the “always a girl”/“was a boy but now i’m a girl” camps and havent really heard this from a lot of other people
i think it ties to neurodivergence as well but i felt like wearing a mask alot and also was always really bad at performing gender (either way btw, im a failgirlthing smthn). I was somewhat masculine because it was (is still, at least in clothes stuff) my default but i always felt like i had different parts assembled in masks around an entity i dont know much about
yeah this is basically how i feel as well. i didnt really have much concept of gender until i realised people could be transgender, and then realised that i could be too, but a lot of the stuff you mentioned does broadly track for me as well
the reverse panopticon thing in ur tag is especially evocating of how i used to define myself back in highschool.
i didnt really have much concept of gender until i realised people could be transgender, and then realised that i could be too
This. This is so infuriating i am so upset i learned about trans people at like…. 17 ??? and even then i didnt know *I* could be it and now im 20 on hrt and with all the rage that i could have avoided myself so much pain if i was just. taught about trans people without making it look like a weird shit with scary surgeries and also lowkey a mythical thing.
lmao i was wishing i could be transgender at like 13 but confused gender euphoria for fetishism and this is why we need to kill ray blanchard
i think blanchard should be burned on a stake by trans witches
but yeag i had trans thoughts starting like 11 or 12 and i didnt even know i could actually just turn into a girl
i* first wished i was a girl when i was 6, i think. in fact, i wanted to be just a girl, not a human. if you could somehow remove the human part of ‘human with a gender’, that was what i wanted to be, with the gender being girl
the problem is I’m the world’s youngest de-retransitioner because my mother and some other elements imposed certain standards on me that meant i grew completely disgusted with femininity for a time as rebellion against that
* in this post, 'i’ refers to 'whoever was in charge at the time’
shoutout to everyone with forget disorders (adhd, DID/osdd, ptsd/c-ptsd, asd, dementia/alzeheimers, schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders, major depressive, chronically ill/phys disabled people with brain fog, people with long-Covid, natural memory degradation, and etc.)
