Liminal Space for Sale

Great thing about being into the steampunk and gaslamp fantasy subcultures is that I do pick up some oddball bits of trivia.  And contrary to the thread’s assumption, the concept of the “Veil between worlds” and the fair folk don’t hold grounds in religion at all.  They’re actually literary in origin.

Specifically, medieval French translations of various works and folk tales.  These are, for the record, largely oral tales being passed down through the ages, translated (likely by someone whose grasp of the language is passable at best), and related for written record.  It’s like the telephone game: Things will end up warped and changed before all’s said and done.  And between time passing (as in, centuries), human behavior, and translation into multiple languages, a great many things will end up mixed, warped, or lost altogether.

Every damn gnc woman I know was bullied for their gender nonconformity when they were a kid, ESPECIALLY with homophobia as the undercurrent. But these self-righteous dingbats writing their cutesy articles about how “masc privilege” oppresses “women and femmes” will look straight at a bunch of feminine girls harassing and degrading a gnc girl and call them Empowered Feminists for fighting off Toxic Masculinity.

You’re telling girls, a great many of which aren’t straight, that they deserve punishment for the way they look and dress. That’s it. There is no way to argue around that. You are telling them their abuse is just a natural result of some inherent flaw, that they earned it for having Internalized Misogyny (not what that means).

What the fuck do you think you’re doing to them and their sense of self by saying that the only way that they can happily present themselves is inherently destructive and threatening? That they’re exactly like the boys who are most certainly threatening and harassing them too? That they’re probably insidious predators for even daring to think that someone could like them while they’re so PROUD of being “unattractive” (to you)?