why are we here? just to buffer?

anyway. I think the problem with a lot of "women's" spaces is that their logic of oppression is based in superstitious bioessentialism rather than the actual logic of how oppression works. so they exclude women who are incredibly more oppressed than them on the basis that something about a person's body makes them dangerous, rather than something about their position in society

so you have women's shelters, institutions based on the logic of protecting people who are oppressed by of the systemic and societal structures of sexgender, which exclude those who are most oppressed by the structures of sexgender, ignoring all data that shows just how vulnerable we are

this is TME privilege at work. to be TME is to either have access to male privilege, or to have access (if at times limited and conditional in the case of trans men) to the institutions and resources meant to protect those who don't. trans women have neither of these things

I understand the logic of including trans men in women's shelters, as the project of these shelters should really, in my opinion, be about protecting those oppressed by the structures of sexgender--aka, everyone who isn't a cis man--despite the naming. however, it's telling that a recent post I made about "afab only housing" was quickly derailed from "trans women are explicitly being discriminated against" to "hey, trans men are sometimes not allowed access to these spaces either!" to "trans men are afab, so they should be allowed into women's shelters, but trans women should have to remove their genitals or stay on the street"

the logic underpinning the inclusion of trans men in these spaces is often a bioessentialist logic that excludes trans women, which I think is part of why many of us are wary and combative about arguments on why trans men should be included in "women's" spaces. what these arguments should be based in is, in my opinion, exactly as I said: protecting those oppressed by the structures of sexgender

These orgs seem to have genuine difficulty reasoning about how risk factors in our society work in a material sense. Like it's always made about who is ontologically predisposed to do harm, rather than who has the opportunities and the incentives.

okay i watched the lesmis new movie trailer and. cant have any thoughts on it other than the youtube comment saying "will it finally be an adaption with a happy ending?" a happy ending... for a book/movie adaption called... the miserable ones?

Even if the vorkosigan saga came out today it would be ahead of its time in how when characters talk in therapy speak it actually signifies something about them (in this case that they're from or associated with beta colony).

Long familiarity with A Civil Campaign, in which Miles Vorkosigan invites a few friends round to meet his gardener, really inoculated me against the dinners in Harrow the Ninth. Six-armed skeleton clawing its way out of a dude's chest? God and his necrosaints getting biblical on the dining table? Ianthe is there? Ech, I've seen worse.

i think i finally put my finger on what lmb does so well with gregor that makes me insane about him. it’s the fact that she uses him SO sparingly that whenever he is actually on the page it has this Weight behind it. he so rarely makes sustained appearances and a lot of the time he literally has one couple page scene in a book before dipping. but each appearance is just so potent because there are so few of them and also just because gregor is so quiet and restrained most of the time that he just has this Presence. i’m trying so hard to describe his character and why it works so well but it feels a little bit like trying to paint the sistine chapel while colorblind. you all understand what i mean send post

im still not over the bit in acc where ivan is grumbling something like. whats dono gone and worsened the ratio for. we should be sending vor lords 2 beta and turning them into hot ladies instead

aral vorkosigan really is one of the most characters of all time. he’s bisexual. he watched the dismemberment of the emperor and the killing of most of his immediate family when he was eleven years old. his first wife cheated on him so he challenged both other men to a duel and killed them both. it looked as if they’d killed each other so nobody ever investigated and he got away with it. his wife then killed herself. he went on a years-long bender and had a very public affair with his dead wife’s brother. he dumped his dead wife’s brother thus initiating a ~20 year long toxic yaoi situation. he helped lead the invasion of the nearest planet and was dubbed "the butcher" of said planet after a subordinate initiated a massacre against his orders. he killed said subordinate with his bare hands. he met his second wife after his crew mutinied on a near deserted planet, and also after her entire party was killed. he fell in love with her at first sight because she was throwing up in the dirt while wearing pants as a woman. she helped kill his ex boyfriend. he proposed marriage to her in the middle of a war while she was considered a POW. he plotted with the emperor to kill the heir to the throne and all his significant supporters. he’s an adrenaline junkie who enjoys drunk driving his lightflyer through canyons at night and definitely has a death wish. and he's bisexual. all of this is information available in book 1 of 17

i just got to the part of the manga with the pitch diagrams and i am so confused. i am so confused. i know higuchi-sensei says you don't need to understand this to understand the manga but then why did you show it to me. now i'm fixating on how confused i am. i went to wikipedia but that confused me more because half of it seems to be in direct contradiction to her diagrams. i'm not even trying to understand the spin diagrams and magnus force etc., i'm just stuck on the ballpath and whether it changes in the horizontal and vertical axes. i don't understand if pitches are named according to velocity or break (which i think is the same thing as change in ballpath in one of the axes?) or spin or the pitcher's form/grip and maybe some of them are named for one thing and then shift over time so that that thing isn't really an accurate description anymore? and what the hell is the deal with a change-up. is mihashi's "fastball" just a change-up??

@joelletwo because i still can't reply T_T diagrams are at the end of vol 11 ch 22!

thinking about ivan&gregor... very interesting dynamic to me. hi my names If I Stay Real Quiet They Wont Put Me In The Family Torture Nexus and this is my cousin Trapped In The Torture Nexus Forever. normal!!