Hyrtwyn Writes!

"i am a self described enemy to liberation and i think being asked to respect children by making a minute change to my speech patterns is why nazis have a point" if you stopped acting incredulous so you could hear yourself maybe i wouldn't have to kick you in the shins for being a fucking fascist apologist. if you think not insulting children makes right wingers correct, you don't actually think that, you just already thought right wingers were correct and wanted an excuse.

this posturing is the exact behavior my post was criticizing and it's embarrassing anyone would even say the first few lines, let alone the baiting plausible deniability and accusatory nonsense she followed it up with. you help no one but your ego and oppressors, you are the enemy of child liberation and because i am not a fascist that makes you my enemy too. this is what people mean when they say liberals think fascists are correct and simply disagree about how moral fascist action is.

"but what if i want to imply lesserness of a person and other them by comparing them to a disadvantaged social group" then don't. it's that simple. im tired of people dancing around it. there are extremely simple ways to say that someone is acting inappropriately in any given situation none of which need to include a degrading comparison to an oppressed group. thinking that our language cannot have fascist propaganda baked into what you think is unassuming phrasing just means you fell for the propaganda.

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graph one: total CO2 emissions, NOT per capita, by region. By 2020, China, the US, the EU, India, and Russia are the largest players, with the entire rest of the world barely surpassing China's emissions.

Graph two: The same regions but weighted per capita.

If you look at the median individual across the OECD, take out their taxes, and adjust for cost of living by using purchasing power parity to the US dollar, the US median individual has $46,000 of disposable income a year. Only Luxembourg surpasses that (within the OECD)! Germany is at around $33k, the UK at around $25k, Japan around $21k, Mexico around $6k, and the two most populous countries in the world come in with China at $4.5k and India at $2.5k!

(I do need to note that this is disposable income and doesn't account for the value of services provided with tax money, so countries with a stronger investment in public infrastructure look worse here relative to the US than their inhabitants experience.)

I need to emphasize that while purchasing power parity isn't a perfect measure, its goal is to allow comparison of how much someone can afford given both cost of living and currency conversion rates.

It usually feels really bad. Because this is the point it becomes real craft. It's so, so difficult to really be able to identify if it's truly not going to be anything or you're just in the hardest part of the process, and really the only way to know is to... write through it. Write it badly. Or, if you really can't, put it in a drawer and come back to it after a few months of breathing space. Remember, you can fix so much in the edit, but you can't fix nothing!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/writing-advice-1-82451675

i think about how in spite of this most trans women try to be exceptionally kind and compassionate. many of them do this so as not to turn away allies, of course. people are predisposed to abandon or find reason to hate us, so we must always be on our best behavior, kinder than anyone could be expected to be, damn near saintly. but still, they endure.

most trans women i know have been cast out from somewhere. lost social groups, in person or online, usually both. most trans women i know have been abused, starting with their parents and continuing into friends, partners, and otherwise. most trans women i know have seen the worst parts of humanity on full display all the time.

Like. When us transfems get assaulted or murdered, it is not because we have stubble. We had stubble before coming out, it was never punished then. We get assaulted and murdered because we are embracing femininity.

IF YOU CAN’T GET A JOB, IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT!!!!! THE SYSTEM IS DEEPLY BROKEN!!!!!!!!

The hiring process has never been great, but in the past couple of years it’s hit rock bottom. Ghost jobs probably outnumber real jobs on job sites. Recruiters and HR use AI which throws out 90% of resumes before a real human being sees them. And most companies are hellbent on holding out for a unicorn candidate- meaning someone who already knows how to do the EXACT role without any training while also accepting entry level wages- instead of investing in new people.