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I think many marginalised people have had the experience of starting to say something, and then seeing everyone's heads turn away to listen to someone "more important". And even if you refuse to give way, and you manage to make the "more important" person back down, you'll notice that when you stop speaking no one will respond to you, but everyone will immediately turn back to that "more important" person as if to say "Sorry, you were saying?"

And, of course, the specific social dynamics of the group will affect these things, like friendship, enmity, sexual and romantic attraction, or if one person is specifically sucking-up to another for some purpose like securing a job offer. But if you pay attention to this over several groups over a long time, you will pick up on patterns that repeat and repeat and repeat.

For example, normally if a man and a woman start talking at the same time, the man will draw the group's attention. And on those occasions where he doesn't, it's generally because there is some other marginalisation involved: race, class, disability, immigration status, sexuality...

Even if brains aren't particularly structurally dimorphic, they are still implicitly gendered by society. Your mannerisms, interests, tone-of-voice, gait, your whole personality in fact is gendered whether you like it or not. And the sense in which it can be "wrong" is that society can see what it considers a mismatch between your sex-at-birth and how it genders your personality.

E.g. a "boy" can be gentle and softly-spoken, not necessarily because of "his" brain structure being "female-typical", but for any number of potential reasons, and whatever the reason, society will gender "his" personality as female (albeit it will not always use the word "female", but more likely a different f-word to describe it). And then this mismatch between this and "his" birth sex creates a moral problem: it's wrong because society says people with bodies like that should not have personalities like this. And society's response to this moral problem is transmisogyny.

Trans women are often accused by transmisogynists of having archaic views on gender, but the idea that gentleness, meekness etc are "female personality traits" is not a claim made by trans women, but merely a description of a belief genuinely held by almost all of society, and that belief is one of many sources of our oppression. You (society) are the ones telling me I have a female brain, and you are the ones telling me that's wrong.

I could have exactly the same brain, the same personality, and if I'd been born with a different birth sex my life would've been so much easier. In that sense I was born in the wrong body. The body that I was born into has made everyone treat me as "wrong" my whole life, my body is wrong because everyone acts like it is.

Society's preferred response is for me to change my brain, my personality, to become the man I was always supposed to be. Next best is to do nothing, just carry on being the softly-spoken "boy" who keeps "his" head down and does what "he" is told. What society really doesn't want is for me to do the opposite, to change my body, to lean even harder into the womanhood for which I have been denigrated for so long. To say "Yes, I am a woman, I am claiming for myself the gender you have been applying to me all along."

there’s sixteen Colorado counties that their most searched was “wolf furry”, plus thirty-odd counties (not counting either Arapahoe or any of the ones marked here as “Insufficient Data”) which may well have had plenty of searches for “wolf furry”, just fewer than for whatever they’re labeled here

and “skunk furry” searches in Arapahoe County outnumbered “wolf furry” searches in the entire state of Colorado

Okay so I thrifted this for $3. I love to pick up any film camera I see at thrift stores that's dirt cheep like that. If I buy it and it doesn't work and I can't repair it, oh well. I just like weird cameras no matter what.

The weird thing with this is that it isn't a "true" panoramic - it's a faux-panoramic camera. It uses a mask on the inside to achieve the effect of a panoramic photo. I have left the borders on my images instead of cropping them down so you can see just how they look with the borders left intact.

Anyway I was actually a little surprised with how nice these came out. I brought it with me on a short hike outside of Boulder, CO at Bald Mountain. Overall, it's really not a terrible camera if you want something cheap, lightweight, and don't mind some heavier grain/softer details. I'll definitely come back to this for days like these.