LenoraRose

Writer, potter, parent, Canuck. Social Justice Bard. Mostly SF/F, politics, art, tea. She/Her. Cis but know trans women are women.

Header is by Laurie Raye.

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

This is going to be my pinned tweet until I have publication news. If you're following me because you think "Hey, that's a female name, maybe she'll be interested in sexytimes with me", you're SOL. So unfollow.

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@SassyMetisChick @HandlebarMike pylon (officially a traffic pylon but nobody says that) or traffic cone.

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@Imonlymewhoareu @karma_pupper @paorcu @MockeryMonarch @AriDrennen But they didn't say they hate kids. They said they don't like kids. This may seem like a distinction without a difference to you but it seems pretty important to me. There are a whole lot of things I don't like yet don't wish harm upon and would protect if threatened.

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@Imonlymewhoareu @karma_pupper @paorcu @MockeryMonarch @AriDrennen Sometimes people who don't want kids do care about kids, and it's WHY they don't. There's a lot of self knowledge required to decide you would be a bad parent - as *also* demonstrated by bad parents who do have kids.

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@OliLondonTV And of course Garry Trudeau got there in 1989...
https://t.co/jQKWslW9H6

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@tiagoramossdg @MartinGloba @BenZeisloft "Recipient of untamed lust" is the phrasing of a woman worried a so-called husband foisted upon her will rape her.

"Someone will be the object of a man's sexual desire. It's best for all involved if she be his wife" suggests you endorse marital rape instead of male self control.

[Omar El Akkad @omarelakkad]

One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.

[BeadsAgainstFascism 🇵🇸 @beadagainstfash]

Some thoughts on this: one is that this pretendian hunting thing is way out of hand. What was posthumously done to Sacheen Littlefeather is horrifying, and now they're going after an 80-something Indigenous Auntie who has more than put in her dues to ndn country.

[daanis @gindaanis]

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Who claims you?
How has your community shaped your work?

Buffy is claimed and that relationship has shaped her work in a way that has made the world a better place for Indigenous peoples. For me. For so many others. Do not allow others to disparage that. #StandWithBuffy

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@LateForTea5 @MusicSolitaire I definitely think the male guards that are notorious for sexual abuse in women's prisons should be stopped. What are you doing about it?

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@Imonlymewhoareu @karma_pupper @paorcu @MockeryMonarch @AriDrennen As well as being a parent, I know several other parents. I have NEVER seen parents kiss their kids on the lips. Cheek, forehead, chin, nose - and on cuts and scrapes on knees and elbows and hands. It is NOT normal to kiss a kid on the mouth.

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@Imonlymewhoareu @karma_pupper @paorcu @MockeryMonarch @AriDrennen It totally is.

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@rams830 @UrsulaV We got this one (open Patreon post) and Whalefall. I do wonder about the slime molds though...

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@Imonlymewhoareu @paorcu @MockeryMonarch @AriDrennen You're the one who seems convinced that a child trying something briefly to see if it suits them is lying, which makes you accusing others of not differentiating between reality and fantasy hilarious.

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@Imonlymewhoareu @MockeryMonarch @AriDrennen I wouldn't let them operate on an animal, but I would talk to them about what vets do or let them practice with a non-sticky bandage on a stuffie. And changing a kid's pronoun for a month to see how they feel is more like those than like putting them in an operating room.

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@Imonlymewhoareu @MockeryMonarch @AriDrennen Name me a professional that would say that.

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@Imonlymewhoareu @MockeryMonarch @AriDrennen Asked and answered. Do keep up.

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@Imonlymewhoareu @MockeryMonarch @AriDrennen So if your kid said "I'm a veterinarian" you'd tell them to shut up and stop playing because you think that doing otherwise is lying. That's... telling.

As for the other, I'd take my daughter to professionals, and discuss with them the best form of care needed for the situation.

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@Imonlymewhoareu @MockeryMonarch @AriDrennen Most kids are playing at being a vet, and never get past sticking a bandage on a stuffed cat. Some have an actual calling. Dismissing the latter as still "playing" when they've said it consistently for 4 years or more starts to seem like disrespect for their mind.

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@Imonlymewhoareu @MockeryMonarch @AriDrennen Say it only lasts a couple of months. Does calling her a him for that time somehow damage her psyche? Or does it tell her that her parents will trust her to be herself even if herself is himself.

More importantly, what happens if that 9 year old still says him 9 years from now?

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@Imonlymewhoareu @MockeryMonarch @AriDrennen And as a parent, you don't support your kid's unlikely-to-be-permanent desire to be a veterinarian by denying them. Similarly, there's no harm letting your AFAB 9 year old child cut his hair like a boy and use he/him, even if it only lasts a week. Hair grows back. Trust doesn't.

[LenoraRose @LenoraRoseSFF]

@Imonlymewhoareu @MockeryMonarch @AriDrennen It's possible to tell when a kid is playing, and when they're not, and what they genuinely feel - even when the two share superficial similarities. Many kids say they want to be a veterinarian at 6, but only a few keep saying it in high school, and look into the degrees needed.