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A disabled white man sees a disabled black man making positivity posts for disabled black people. He feels insecure because he's not included, so he asks the disabled black man if it's okay to be a disabled white man. The black man would probably get frustrated by this. He might even roll his eyes or playfully tell him no, it's not okay to be white. Even though they are both disabled, it's easy to understand why this interaction was not ableist.

A trans man sees a trans woman making positivity posts for trans women. He feels insecure because he's not included, so he asks the trans woman if it's okay to be a trans man. She gets frustrated. She probably rolls her eyes. She playfully tells him no, it's not okay to be a man. It should be easy to see why there's no issue with this interaction.

Reminds me of this post by @corpsehusk-creaturedoll

Totally normal comments on a reddit post about a comic about trans women being excluded from women’s shelters and “afab only” housing and how people will then hyperfixate on the trans woman potentially saying a mean word to the people excluding her rather than the mass exclusion that trans women face. Literally every single one of these comments are pearl clutching over the fact that the trans woman in the comic said a mean word to the precious “afab” (just ignore the wildly transmisogynistic things that were hurled at the trans woman just moments before)

do correct me if I'm wrong, I don't like being wrong and haven't exactly kept up on my research.

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last year I made $21,000 USD gross income for a household of 2, placing me just below the federal poverty line, and I live in an expensive city, very frugally, paycheck to paycheck. Despite this, I'm in the top 25% of incomes globally and live with a number of luxuries that could not be sustained globally, and indeed, even the current level is already killing the planet.

When I go to the store, everything is the product of deeply inefficient global supply chains because it's cheapest thanks to colonialism suppressing the cost of labor and fuel for shipping outside the imperial core. This, combined with all the disposable plastic and goods generally built to be quickly replaced instead of kept and repaired, is unsustainable. My ability to cheaply buy any fruits and vegetables I want year round is unsustainable. I do not own a car, but private car ownership likewise is unsustainable. All these practices rely on mass exploitation and pollution. Even the poor and oppressed in the United States and her imperial sisters reap these luxurious benefits that much of the world cannot access and could never sustainably.

Any kind of equitable global arrangement where we abolish the class divides that drive this exploitation, whether we call it anarchism or communism any other ism, will mean that some luxuries must be done away with.

However, crucially, I do think that we'd all be living more comfortably and happily as a result. We are currently deeply alienated, from our work, from our communities, from ourselves, as a result of these systems. At all times the forces of capital seek to further alienate us, to bulldoze what bonds of common sisterhood between all maidkind remain and put up more walls, make less space for us and more for the sake of profit, pave over life for parking lots and six-lane roads. You can afford a great many treats, but the only comfort in your life is that which can be bought.

"intrinsic gender," on the other hand, is what I used to refer to the sense of the word "gender" that a lot of trans people are talking about when they discuss social gender dysphoria and euphoria. it's the internal sense of category that's resistant to external impositions

but then we also use the word "gender" to refer to subconscious sex, which is the term Julia Serano coins in Whipping Girl to name the phenomenon we're talking about when we talk about bodily dysphoria. it is the "gender" being "affirmed" by gender affirming healthcare like HRT and bottom surgery

sex is just as much a socially connected spectrum of characteristics as gender, it's just that the characteristics are physical ones, which makes seeing it as a social construct harder for a lot of people, i think.

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