Queer Crip Intersex

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

These cars don't fit into parking spaces and make pulling out in parking lots impossible

The weight of big cars is causing additional stress on roads and bridges

The number of big cars and trucks is directly linked to the number of children struck by cars because the drivers can't see over the hood!

And this is its even worse sibling from this year.

No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.

A baby is never doing something to upset you. They don't act up to piss you off. They act in the only way they know how, and yes, sometimes the behaviour they're drawn to isn't great! That's why you guide them and comfort.

Rather famously George Washington was pretty conflicted about the whole thing (not enough to free his slaves immediately because he was still a bit of a hypocrite) but did put in his will for the slaves to be freed once his wife died… Which Martha realizing that put a massive target on her back and led to her immediately freed the slaves after he died. (Unfortunately he couldn’t free the slaves legally belonging to his widows family because of course not, which was about half of them).

Seriously, people knew this shit was wrong, it wasn’t hard. Though it is rather ironic that Jefferson was among the worst when it came to slave treatment (there was so much fucking rape)

No one ever believes me that I don't really get sugar cravings or binge candy because I never ever make candy into a special thing I can only have sometimes. If I want sugar I eat sugar and I honestly fail to finish candy off more often than I eat all of it, and the days when I do I was clearly extremely stressed and I immediately feel better and, crucially, STOP CRAVING SUGAR.

This is the opening of the aricle: "Have you ever felt a loss of control while eating sweets? Does it feel hard to stop eating? Do you feel ashamed of how much you’re eating? Has this caused you to wonder if you’re addicted to sugar?"

And I have never once restricted sugar, and I promise all of you, I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE FELT LIKE THIS. I grew up food insecure, have several mental illnesses that make me prone to addiction, and my parents were addicts which means I'm genetically predisposed to addiction AND EVEN THEN I have never had trouble controlling myself around sweets EVER even when I was a kid!! The only food I get like this about legit is fresh fruit bcs I was too poor to afford it regularly as a kid, and gee, I wonder why being denied this type of food made me fixate on it like crazy, maybe there's something to think about there, yeah??????? The ONLY time I have ever felt even a little like this was when doctors were trying to get me to lose weight and the second I stopped restricting the cravings went away. And again, the cravings I do have are when I'm stressed, about to have a migraine, or when my doctors were trying to give me an eating disorder, and they go away when I let myself eat some gummy worms or make brownies. Every time. Every single time.

Constantly craving sugar is a sign something is wrong with your body. It's not normal to feel that way 24/7. You should be able to have candy in your house without stressing about it or eating all of it in a day. You're not a bad person or a failure, your relationship with food is broken and it can be fixed so you don't have to live like this. You should not have to live like this.

so to me the whole "AGAB identity" thing just feels weird and off. AGAB is about an event. gender imposition is a process that is ongoing throughout life, and intersex people are a good example of that process... unfortunately.

for example we have a term, RGAB, meaning reassigned gender after birth. i was reassigned female hormonally as a teenager while they knew I didnt identify as one - implying I did not then fit binary female assignment, not just with identity, but with the help of my intersex variation.

basically, AGAB is the first act of imposing gender. that's all. your identity as a trans person is impacted by that, but it is not defined by it. we chose our identities in spite of our assignments or imposed genders. and no, i dont mean the feelings behind that identity is a choice.

i mean that we choose to give voice to who we are, not just who others have forced us to be. that is what identity terms are for. it's not about what gender you were assigned at birth. its about you, as a full living being.

it's called an "id"entity for a reason lol. if you find AGAB relevant to your identity, that's fine. not an issue at all. if you don't, that's okay too.