your cool english professor

if you want your fictional society is to be less just world, but in new ways.

Sexist society that believes men are better; thus, views transmen as extremely valid, as unlike women, they have seen the light.

Gay men are honored, as with polygamy there is a continual shortage of women, and gay men means more women to go around. Lesbianism is seen as just something wives do sometimes. Transwomen are controversial because, on one hand, more women, but, on the other, some people suspect it is a scheme by fathers to have more daughters to get a bride price for.

Lesbians are controversial but only because they are seen as appropriating Amazonian culture. If you are over 6ft tall and strong, then it is okay.

Gay men are seen as too manly. That they are somehow stealing the manliness from the straight men. If woman are around them, they will somehow turn into men.

Society that "solved sexism" by dividing the world into short people and tall people and then assigning the short people to the former women's roles, and the tall people, to the men's. Now people are homophobic about two short people getting married.

people are afraid of people born in the same country as them. i.e. the opposite of xenophobia. This is homophobia. (this is what I thought homophobia was when I first saw the word)

people assume that men are gay because they have never seen a women before. People react very sympathetically to a gay man coming out because they assume it means they were locked away from society as a child.

Personally I’ve been intrigued at the setting conceit of societies that have intensely binaristic gender roles, like more so than even medieval Europe and Asia (in which people did generally grudgingly accept women in positions of power in certain necessary cases, e.g. a noble lady managing her husband’s lands while he was off on campaign), like roles actually categorically barred to certain genders, but with ASAB as only really a suggestion, and codified means to switch which side of that divide a person was on. And then explore all the ways such a society would work and evolve.

Children rode in the back seat of cars; if you had more biological children than you had room in your car, then any excess children had to be given up to a couple that had room, who thereafter became the child's adoptive parents. If no seats were availabe in any of the tribe's vehicles, then infanticide was the only remaining option.

People who were unable to either drive or shoot due to injury or advanced age were effectively desexualized. Such a person might ride in the back seat with the children if a seat was available, or be left to die if one was not. Either way, the spouse was expected to remarry.

Children are required to choose between learning to drive and learning to shoot upon reaching puberty, and were thereafter expected to stick with that choice. Something like 80% girls defaulted to driving and 80% of boys defaulted to shooting, but a boy learning to drive or a girl learning to shoot wasn't especially shocking; however, moving from the driver seat to shotgun or vice versa as an adult was the equivalent of transing your gender. 

Teenagers were allowed and encouraged to have sexual relationships with their peers (provided it was between a driver-in-training and a shooter-in-training), but any children that resulted could not be raised by the teenagers, as they did not have a vehicle, and would have to be adopted by someone who did (or be abandoned to die). 

Upon reaching adulthood, a person was required to find a spouse of the opposite driver/rider alignment. A major part of the marriage ceremony consisted of the newlyweds being presented with a car. The marriage could not take place (and thus graduation to social adulthood could not occur) unless a vehicle was available. Until a car could be acquired, the couple would be forced to remain in their parents's cars, which was inherently somewhat awkward, and was humiliating to both families if it lasted for an extended period of time.

but that LITERALLY just looks like a niqabi or someone in a jilbab. Like Look at this pic of me (from a self photoshoot, now w/o the dramatic lighting and dark background)

or this pic of me

or this pic of me

fireworks on the night before

Eid celebrations

YOU THINK JUST THE NOISE IS FUNNY AND FITS WITH THE GIF REALLY WELL

BUT THEN

THEN

THE LYRICS START

OF MY FAVORITE TUMBLR

POSTS IN EXISTENCE.

IM FUCKING CRYING WITH HOW

HARD I AM LAUGHING

The first pride my mother attended, she marched with me alongside the PFLAG float, holding a sign that read "I'm Proud of My Gay Child".

I noticed she kept falling behind and running to catch up, nearly a whole float behind us. So finally, I stopped to see what was going on.

People kept pointing at her sign and cheering and then she'd proudly point at me, saying "they're here!"

That was usually the point where at least one person burst into tears. And this is where my mom started lagging - because she'd stop, reach over the barrier, and hug them. Teenagers, twenty-somethings, thirty-somethings... they'd break down crying at the sight of a cishet woman proudly marching with her child in Texas, of all places. That she'd claim me and be proud of me. Because they couldn't imagine their own family doing the same.

So she stopped and hugged them and told them she was proud of them, even though she had to race to catch up in the heat, even though they were strangers. And i like to think she made those young people's lives a bit better.

I’m pleased to inform you that after this clip ends, Brennan immediately goes off script trying to estimate how long this took.