girl you're not clocky because you transitioned late, you're clocky because you use words like luckshit. if passing is really that important to you just go outside and stop talking like an incel lmao
having sex with your partner but not actually knowing them, just making up a person in your head and imagining them asleep next to you. never leaving your mind palace and maladaptively daydreaming a sexless marriage. taking imaginary xanax and sitting on the dryer. yes please.
being naked with your partner but not actually having sex, just caressing each other and talking in whispers and admiring each otherโs energy and enjoying each otherโs raw presence. yes please.
If we are to believe in rehabilitate justice then we must overcome the idea of true human evil. Ideological institutions exist beyond human intention manipulating fear for self sustenance. Institutional rape is a patriarchal symptom; evil comes from the enabled privilege of man.
fwiw, this is the emotional place that carceral justice speaks to. we are meant to see patriarchal violence as made inevitable, generating a visceral fear to be satiated by the rare punitive response against men. this is the libidinal process of patriarchy's self maintenance.
Intellectually I'm committed to the principles of prison abolition and restorative justice but on a personal level I do not think I can ever forgive a rapist for what they've done.
I know that's not what beth is advocating for here, but I think its worth acknowledging that the visceral desire for punishment when we hear a story about a grotesque act of violence is the exact outcome desired by colonial capitalism- it justifies the perpetuation of the cycle.
@polypocketknife no legitimately!! so many of these girls need to recognize this as just the pressures of chasing beauty standards, its effortful and cis women are in the same boat. that stuff literally reads as pretty-privilege incel bullshit. just change what you can and accept what you cant