This is because dating is nothing but an unceasing humiliation ritual that leads to nothing but constant pain, degradation and debasement. For many people, there isn't an ounce of redemption to ever be experienced for all the torment they have to endure. So why bother anymore
its possible eval/quant individuals in system w/ reference to a set of contingent values, therefore ppl have fundamental platonic worth encoded in there inner most essence
i care about other things in philosophy(and in life in general), but its a massive motivating factor in my int. development. i dont want to be an academic(yet) but i still want to ponder the gender orb while i do xyz career thing bcs they both have a positive influence on my life
perhaps im not reading [obsessively] correctly, but its the opposite for me i hated not having any “”conceptual tools””” to describe my coconstitutive relationship to le heccin patriarchy. i was defo far closer to walking into traffic back then theres a needle to thread ofc.
as much i agree w/ this as a free speech issue, i wish everyone stopped framing this as a “the woke left invented harassing ppl for minor infractions in 2014, then The West McFell” thing
this is a little oversimplified (bc there are real reasons to criticize somebody for what they said as a teen) but it is basically true that being too strict, too harsh, purity testing so hard that Nothing is acceptable made people throw the baby out w the bathwater and now outright racism and sexism are back & probably worse than they’ve been since before I was born!
every single day we have to treat c1s ppls’ bewilderment/frustration/resentment/disgust/confusion at our continued existence as the single most important fact in discussion.
my friend just went to a lesbian orgy for women only. She was nervous, but said it went great. Said she was a bit surprised tho to find at the end of the night that 50% of the visible genitals were penises
both r governed by spite driven lookism-brained transmisogynistic hierarchies all the way down. basically a “you cant smell ur own b.o.” type situation here
Amusing how the disdain for ballroom slang and the preference for 4tran shit is the difference between actually performing something vs being mad about your denied gender “inheritance” ala genes/whiteness
and im sure our president (and his cronies) who have likely raped more than 100 women/girls were just *dying* for the OK to Kill All Tr4nnies from “Harper(she/they), author of the Seattle Queer Housing Zine”
you're right! wanting to focus on shit that actually matters (healthcare) instead of 'affirmation' and 'validity' is narcissism. we should all just do pronoun circles whilst they take our healthcare away.
imagine living in a world where it was in fact your annoying transmisogynistic genderfluid coworker and not the billions of dollars of fascistic propaganda funneled in to every media operation on the planet who set back queer rights a decade
though ofc other queer ppl wield transmisogyny (for their short-term benefit) in the public sphere all the time, its not as though republicans werent already doing the evil things n desperately needed “handmaidens” or smth
its so awesome that everytime the Grand Old Pedophiles hook up a trans person to the Torture Contraption, the first thing [some ppl] do is immediately soyrage at random tenderqueers. narcissism of small differences.