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Reading James Roberts be like:

I determined which TMUK story this came from. It is surprisingly, not written by James Roberts, but instead a Matt Dallas and Andy Dornan called "Trial and Error".

In the archetypes [of how people react to a GNC person] sketched above, the misguided altruist, the oblivious genderer, and the hostile enforcer, we can see a conflict in recognition of gender non-conforming persons’ humanity as underwriting the reactions, whether they contain reactive attitudes or not. All of the orientations, even the altruist, rest on a kind of judgment or perception that the gender non-conforming person is a kind of failure at being a human being, because human beings are intelligible only as men or women. The failure to conform to the ways of enacting humanity is what is so befuddling or enraging. Gender non-conforming persons, I think, are met with such attitudes because they are perceived as occupying a space of contradiction: human and not intelligibly human. Their bodies and self-presentation do not fit within the schema of intelligible humanity. Normative notions of humanity carry with them the gender binary. One is never simply a human. They are a kind of human, a man, a woman, a member of a racial group, and so on. [...] But, unlike those drawing on misogynist ideology to punish women for “stepping out of line”—for aspiring beyond their place, as it were—the hostile enforcer of gender conformity relies on the ideology of gender binarism to insist that the gender non-conforming person is entitled to no space, no place, no existential entitlement. There is no place for the gender non-conforming person to retreat and exist as such. Retreat—conformity to the gender binary—entails annihilation, non-existence. Misogyny’s logic doesn’t entail the annihilation of women, as a category, even if many forms of its practice target some women for annihilation. Women are permitted to exist, so long as they stay in their place. None of this is to suggest that women’s existential choice set—adopt compliant femininity or face penalties—serves their interests or represents a superior position to the gender non-conformity person’s choice set—adopt a gender or fail to have a social existence. Both choice sets are manifestly unjust

I work with kids and sometimes we have to do safety lessons with them about like, not telling strangers on the internet your home address or something. And sometimes the kids wont understand why, so you have to impart upon them that, well, some adults want to hurt children. And thats kind of difficult to do, because you have to beat around the bush, both because you dont want to scare them (while still making them understand how serious it is) and because you might lose your job if you explain it too straight forward.

yes rodimus is silly and hyper and all but he does like to fish. that takes patience... drift seeing rodimus fish and is like 'ohhhh. this is his form of meditation...' and then sees rodimus finally get a catch and gut a fish and is like 'ah. and also he gets to disembowel something too.'