timberwraith

You have inspired a new food product:

"hamb"

When lamb and ham are combined into an unholy meat amalgam, formed into a featureless block of factory processed protein, and marketed as something people would stick between two pieces of bread.

(Bluesky's notifications are odd, btw. Your reply to me didn't show up in my notifications.)

I mean hey, that was my goal too! Yay! 😎

Yeah, I think people rephrase that notion as, "You should be the change I want to see in the world." when they're looking at people under them in social hierarchy.

If I were made goddess for a day, the entire universe would be made of bunny fractals.

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[sigh] I hate humans so much. 🤦‍♀️

🫂 Aw, hugs to you too.

Oh, I've been that emo bitch. I've been that emo bitch with some regularity, LOL.

Oh no!

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We had a patriarchy, and then global forced feminization came.

timberwraith @timberwraith People who tell marginalized groups that the world is not as prejudiced as they think it is are generally a subset of the same people who make the world a deeply prejudiced place. There are those who consciously and openly pour abuse and ignorance into the world and then there are those whose ignorance enables them to unwittingly pour abuse and ignorance into the world. The first are openly proud of abuse while the latter feel compelled to gaslight others into believing their false innocence.

It's easy to wear rose tinted glasses when your blood was not used to tint them.

OK, that's pretty fucking funny! 😂

Oh crap. I'm really sorry to hear that. Good grief.

It definitely can be lonely at times.

I'm around. The "line" is free at the moment.

Personally, I find that the vantage point with the best view is usually one that is on the outside of the circle. Whatever that circle may be.

A picture of the ship SS Minnow from the TV show Gilligan's Island, shown in tact and docked in a black and white photo. A sign stands in front of the ship that says, "SS Minnow, Island Charter, Exotic Trip, Free Lunches."

I think what Gavin Newsom needs right now is a nice relaxing three hour tour...

Anyway, that's another thing to keep in mind as you read.

Eh, I'm talking your ear off. So, I'll cut this short.

When I transitioned in the 90s, I had to essentially construct my own "Dorley Hall" and I transitioned in community of supportive cis women. That was immensely helpful but with certain limitations given experiential differences and issues the come up between marginalized people and dominant groups.

Some of us have this and some of us do not. Dorley Hall is a "what if" scenario that asks what transition might be like under far better conditions than is often the norm. (Ironically, it occurs in a carceral setting but I think that irony is a deliberately pointed one.)

(As well as readily available medical assistance, of course.)

This is something that is hard to come by in the real world for us as we transition. We're a tiny populace and it's hard to find others to exist in community with in real time.

One caveat that I should toss out regarding "2) Everything Else" is this: the series has a scenario which is, in a sense, an ideal environment for trans women to transition in: a ready-made community of other trans women with "elder"/experienced trans women who have already been through transition.

If you were reading a book focusing on cis women's lives and communities, you would have already encountered common narratives/perspectives across literature and other media to draw from.

There's just not much representing trans women and other trans people.

Sure. You're very welcome. It's not like our lives are commonly portrayed in literature and other forms of media and what *is* out there is often highly inaccurate and filtered through the negative bias of cis authors/media producers.

Aw, I hope the day gets better.

Anyway, that's one set of lenses to view the story through.

Looking at it through that lens, Dorley Hall is a morally questionable violent reaction to a morally questionable violent world.

Yeah, it's a mess. But moral objections or not, as the series goes on, it does make clear that it's addressing patriarchy and its violence in this manner.

What's the full scope of damage that patriarchy and other hierarchical patterns incur? I think we're living through it in the united states right now. The Trump regime is racist patriarchy running at full speed.

Collectively, this is what these toxic patterns bring.

Patriarchy damages people. It leaves people emotionally impaired. It brings a lot of violence into the world.

Not everyone is hit as badly. Some more than others. The men who wind up inducted into Dorley were among the harder hit.