/r/Books is pissed off that historical female authors who were forced to publish under male pen-names are having their work republished under their real names, because apparently it's evil to assume they weren't trans

Anandamide · 2020-08-14T04:07:47+00:00

I think so, and not just in this regard. I was at a lecture discussing the excavation of ancient Viking graves in Scandinavia, and the primary topic was the discovery that one of the warrior-style graves contained a female body. The items buried with her indicated wealth, high-status and esteem. During Q&A, an audience member could barely contain her excitement that this woman MUST have been trans! The lecturer (Neil Price btw, excellent) politely made reference to beliefs at the time of shapeshifting into animals and all sorts of things, but this woman absolutely would not consider that perhaps, the buried woman had simply been a female warrior. The myopia was astonishing.

Anandamide · 2020-08-14T03:46:34+00:00

I hope you're doing alright! That's always a tough situation to handle.

Anandamide · 2020-07-26T18:12:57+00:00

Well that research is quite possibly fucked. This person well ought to be fired; and medical research isn't so big of a field that a reputation for data falsification won't haunt them for a long time.

Anandamide · 2020-07-26T04:47:19+00:00

It's important to talk about for sure. Here's an interview with Maryam Namazie, an ex-Muslim and human/women's rights activist who is a key member of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. She's been the target of innumerable death threats due to speaking out about the treatment of women and girls in Islam, as well as other heretical critiques of the religion. Criticizing aspects of Islam, or the behavior of its adherents, does not make one Islamophobic.

Anandamide · 2020-07-26T04:38:38+00:00

Normally, I attempt some level of wit or verbosity, try for a riposte to sting or joke to elicit a bit of laugh at the absurdity. In this case, though, all my brain says is OH FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUU. The sheer entitlement and manipulative bullshit!!...and to think there might well be girls who haven't yet been hardened to such obvious and clumsy guilt-trippy nonsense and would let themselves be shamed into doing something they weren't really comfortable with just to be "nice" just pisses me off. Fuck this male entitlement shit.

Anandamide · 2020-07-25T22:49:10+00:00

Fionne Orlander seems to get it pretty well.

Anandamide · 2020-07-25T17:46:59+00:00

"Ugh, I hate labels. I'm not THIS label, I'm THAT label, duh!" This obsession over new and exciting identities is exhausting, so self-absorbed and ultimately tedious. I'd rather be out living and creating experiences that influence my perception of the world than obsessively navel-gazing about how I want other people to describe me.

Anandamide · 2020-07-25T17:33:14+00:00

Oh, that is such a good show. I have a morbid fascination with catastrophic structural failures, why they happened and how they were accounted for going forward in design and engineering. The TRA worldview and stranglehold on culture is built on the flimsiest of pretenses, little more than delusion and faith. Spread facts and try to keep as many people from getting hurt as possible, I agree.

Anandamide · 2020-07-25T03:09:55+00:00

I hated being a wife. Often I was treated as an afterthought and taken for granted, not just by my ex but his friends too. I told my ex that I felt like his warden and he agreed, which is the exact moment I knew we were done. Ugh.

Anandamide · 2020-07-25T03:05:25+00:00

(anteeks, mut ootko suomalainen?)

Anandamide · 2020-07-25T03:03:15+00:00

Ooh such a good show. Made me tear up a few times and I am NOT a crier. Went way darker than I expected too.

Anandamide · 2020-07-25T02:45:27+00:00

Yes. It was a completely avoidable tragedy, had the building owner just closed the mall when they saw the floor separating from the pillar on the 5th floor. Those poor people died of his short-sighted greed.

Anandamide · 2020-07-25T01:55:15+00:00

I think of the Sampoong department store collapse. Shoddy construction, top heavy and arrogant management and boom, gone in a matter of seconds.

Anandamide · 2020-07-25T01:43:19+00:00

Can one have a spiritual construct of a vagina? Ethereal labia and incorporeal vulvae? I mean, I've always wanted to be surrounded by a giant fiery bird-form like Dark Phoenix (don't talk to me about the movie) but I never thought to tell people I in fact was and they had to respect my identity. Reality, do you know it?

Anandamide · 2020-07-25T01:01:57+00:00

They often have stereotypically girly screen names too, "Miss/Lady/Ms GraceRoseEvangeline".

Anandamide · 2020-07-24T00:43:50+00:00

What a nonpology. She should ask them to donate to Keira Bell's CrowdJustice drive or LGB Alliance lol. Saw some comments by the Twitterati saying how gauche it was for a high-profile signatory of the Harper's letter to sic her lawyers on someone for libel after grandstanding about a commitment to free speech, but I think that's bullshit. Everyone has the right to speak their mind and say their peace--but libel is libel and if you come for the queen, you best come correct with ALLLL the receipts.

Anandamide · 2020-07-22T22:51:23+00:00

Ready to Glare and Blaire White have both done videos on so-called MAPs (Minor attracted people aka pedos). Got their own pride hashtags and tried to adopt the language of LGBT to normalize their sick shit.

Anandamide · 2020-07-22T04:40:36+00:00

we are the manifestation of all their internalized fears.

This should be the sub header. Motto. Cross-stitch that shit and make it a pillow, 'cause it's perfect. We most certainly are.

Anandamide · 2020-07-21T21:07:17+00:00

I'm just a woman. I like men, politically don't really fit in anywhere and am not overly concerned with the labels used to describe me. I am. Reason, logic and science are my driving considerations. I think women and men should have single sex spaces available to them, no one should be pressured into having sex with anyone they don't want to for whatever reason, and human sex is binary. No speggs. Big supporter of free speech (say your peace, so I can crush you with facts) and interested in any well-reasoned takes.

Anandamide · 2020-07-21T17:55:47+00:00

Still populating most of the top spots in Amazon's Sci-Fi and Fantasy sales!

Anandamide · 2020-07-21T13:17:06+00:00

It's purely "I am what I say I am", full stop. As a state of mind it can't be disproven and is magical thinking, reinforcing delusion and fantasy. The isolated echo chamber of Tumblr did more damage to peoples critical thinking skills than has truly been appreciated IMO. 2+2=/=4 when you're an otherkin and it can equal strawberries!...Reality and growing up are hard, but now we have a lot of people who are not only completely unequipped for the challenges of adulthood but actively resentful of the expectation. It's a form of arrested development, really.

Anandamide · 2020-07-21T04:44:02+00:00

The difference is that you are willing to look at the evidence and ideas put forth by other people and he is not. Do you remember the debate a while back between Bill Nye and Ken Ham? They were asked "what would make you change your mind?". Bill Nye answered "Evidence" while Ham said "Nothing". An unwillingness to allow ones understanding to adjust to new facts is a tenet of a faith based religion, not a reason based mindset. And your BF saying it's not his fight as a cis male is a cop out of the highest order; these attacks on women aren't happening in a vacuum.

Anandamide · 2020-07-21T04:10:46+00:00

we romantically unpacked our traumas as he walked me home

I generally only mess with more centrist guys, but woke romance just sounds fucking exhausting. How can you enjoy sex when your head is so far up your own ass?

Anandamide · 2020-07-21T03:51:57+00:00

One of the most frustrating things IMO is how TRAs make EVERYTHING about being trans. Not just the incredibly insensitive and tone-deaf things like you mentioned, but even the most innocuous. It's just so one-track and honestly, more than a little boring. If being trans and trans issues is your defining characteristic, you're just not a very interesting person.

Anandamide · 2020-07-21T02:05:23+00:00

"trans ppl just want to live their lives" mmmmhmmmmmm. Coordinated homophobic harassment is such an unrewarding hobby.

Anandamide · 2020-07-20T04:08:52+00:00

I am really looking forward to his and Helen Pluckrose's new book. They break this shit down like none other.

Anandamide · 2020-07-20T03:26:08+00:00

Absolutely. James Lindsay goes on about this frequently. It's adherence to dogma, and we the GC are heretics who must burn for our sins.

Anandamide · 2020-07-20T03:04:39+00:00

Oh God, the nausea. Sex: you're doing it wrong

Anandamide · 2020-07-20T02:49:52+00:00

This is a really good point IMO. A podcaster I follow has been flirting with coming out as trans, and recently spoke about how disconnected he is from his own sexuality. He said he doesn't really understand sexual attraction and desire. Obvs that's just one person, but it was a noted observation (and one that had little to do with the issue at hand, a pop song). It honestly made me feel bad for his wife, who he clearly cares for but more as a BFF than lover? IDK.

Anandamide · 2020-07-19T21:40:07+00:00

Also a straight woman, and I know exactly what you mean.

Anandamide · 2020-07-19T20:58:18+00:00

But they're so stealth, bro! Christ. It's like consent and boundaries are barely afterthoughts in pursuit of their own twisted validation.

Anandamide · 2020-07-19T20:56:45+00:00

The delusion is real! On the Boxer Ceiling they have comments from TIFs saying that their collection of strapons is no different than penises, better even as they never go limp and can change sizes. And most are bottoms anyway! so to not see them as gay men is totally transphobic, dammit. It's like, have you ever actually seen or handled a real penis?! I swear these people have no actual sexual experience, just cyber and anime.

Anandamide · 2020-07-19T20:52:33+00:00

Same. I've had a fair few people on Twitter and elsewhere also say that GC is a right-wing movement, but that doesn't appear to be accurate at all. Pure projection from people who can't see past the ends of their own noses. It's like despite claiming so loudly that they are and always have been women, our very existence as natal women exists only to remind them of what they truly are not and never will be and the hate is absolutely real.

Anandamide · 2020-07-19T15:54:16+00:00

The comments are...so hateful. It's honestly a bit disturbing, how focused they are on demonizing the "TERF", the other, while crying that trans ppl just wanna live their lives. There's not much analysis or anything but calling radfems fat and unshaven, etc. If they can't be us, they'll try to erase us, I guess.

Anandamide · 2020-07-19T15:13:16+00:00

Personally I’ll wait until I’m post-Metoidioplasty in summer 2021 and then I’ll go to gay orgies.

Oh my god, the delusion and entitlement. NO amount of plastic surgery and unicorn dreams is going to make a gay orgy a place for you! This story is almost comically sad in the "wtf did you expect" realm, but the comments are fantastic. Reinforcing each others delusions that they "pass" (99% chance you absolutely don't) and that the problem isn't them, it's everyone else. Woof.

Anandamide · 2020-07-19T15:05:39+00:00

Entitlement is the backbone of trans ideology IMO. Not just the demands of transspeak and space access, but medical accommodation. To even consider having non-necessary surgery on a healthy body just to make it match a mental image that never was...how is that not the highest form of vanity? The threats of "Do this or I'll kill myself" just add to the abusive and narcissistic manipulation. Refusing to be gaslit makes them SO angry. I'm no psychologist, but perhaps a person who wants to make irrational demands of everyone around them, mutilate their body, threaten suicide for compliance and violence when they don't get their way isn't mentally healthy, and shouldn't be trusted to make good decisions for themselves or others.

Anandamide · 2020-07-19T02:59:58+00:00

It's a locker room, people are naked, and in the sauna are even more naked people. Having spent too much time in Finland, I'm pretty unbothered by the site of nudity, but it's still segregated by sex (except for the hippie sompasauna in Helsinki). Being discreet and not staring is just normal behavior...and no, I don't want to see your penis in the women's locker room, damn.

Anandamide · 2020-07-17T03:49:41+00:00

The Guardian woked itself out of existence. We didn't have to do a damn thing but sit back and watch it devour itself. The fact that the paper is wildly out of touch with the British populace, as evinced by their utter failure to see the Tory train steamroll Labour in the last election and constant demeaning of anyone who isn't a London-based remainer. Their tonedeaf articles helped tear down the red wall and now they want to blame us? K. If Owen Jones throws another tantrum, make sure to record and share it.

Anandamide · 2020-07-10T20:09:07+00:00

r/detrans just got unbanned.

Anandamide · 2020-07-01T16:03:36+00:00

They act like sexed bodies have parts that can simply be swapped out like a Mr. Potato Head. So delusional and willfully ignorant of anatomy, biology and biochemistry!

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