Stuff and Whatnot

i am a complex organism brutally engineered by uncaring forces of nature

i am a product of billions of years and trillions of deaths

i am building a machine greater than myself

“I have to check my calendar, why, what’s Friday?”

This says “Maybe” without saying “Maybe”, and giving you the option to make up a Doctor’s Appointment You Forgot About (or reschedule one you didn’t!) depending on what they say.

It’s an amazingly powerful sentence for my Autistic and ADHD ass - it gives me the ability to judge my social spoons, as well as communicating that “hey, I might have forgotten something, it’s not you it’s me” in a very non-offensive way.

There's a difference between individual privilege and systemic privilege.

While there may be some individual transmasc people who are privileged, they still aren't systemically, nor do they benefit from the patriarchy.

Take for example, black people. Sure, you have the occasional successful ones (Ben Carson, Obama, Clarence Thomas, Tyler Perry), and even some successful black women (Oprah, Sheila Johnson, Mia Love), overall, these are outliers and by no means represent the wider black community, or women at large.

These individuals still can be affected by racism, or sexism.

Before I started medical transition, I presented as a woman who was married to a man. (This is not the case.) I also presented as someone who was in a monogamous relationship, if you didn't look closely/were at synagogue with me, etc. (This is not the case.) I don't "look Jewish," so I'm not immediately pinged with antisemitism if I'm not visibly marking myself as Jewish. I'm invisibly disabled a lot of the time, so unless I've got my cane or my scooter or you see my limp when I'm tired or... I don't necessarily get immediate ableism.

But the minute that someone knows I'm a dyke, knows I'm transmasc, knows I'm in a "weird" relationship, knows I'm Jewish, knows I'm disabled, all of that "privilege" dissipates like a drop of water on a hot skillet.

Conditional acceptance is not privilege. It is a cage disguised as privilege, and it is only ever individual, not systemic. It demands the sublimation and invisibility of the marginalized individual in exchange for a little temporary safety and promises that if you make yourself at all visible, you will not only lose that safety but may be subject to immediate reprisals or punishment for your "deceit."

Literally, one of my major opinions on humanity is "Humans really seem to like committing genocide???" (Looks, obviously genocide is a fucking atrocity, and I'm in no fucking way diminishing that. It's just also something that people keep fucking committing.)

I work professionally with survivors of abuse, rape, and incest.

I think that most people are (by design, aka evolution!) fundamentally self-interested (and also that that's usually okay)

I am more caught up on the news than like/at least 90% of people.

So when I say that I think that:

Hope is real

There is real, substantial evidence for hope

I think we're going to beat climate change

There is a ton of evidence that supports us beating climate change,

We're going (continue) making the world a better place

The good of humanity and the world ultimately outweighs the bad

It's not because I'm sticking my head in the sand. It's really, really not!

I'm saying that in very real knowledge of how fucking shitty things are and can be.

And despite all that, I'm still hopeful. I'm still optimistic.

I still think hope is going to win.

You don't need to be some huge optimist to have hope.

Anyway here's a link to my masterpost on why we're going to beat climate change,

your options are like

a guy named sawbones jones living in a tent outside a radiation spill, claims he has performed the surgery once and that in general most of his patients survive