Camura

How does one know if they were groomed in the rqc? What counts here? I'm trying to make sense of some stuff about/for myself

There are no weird questions.

Grooming, in this context, is more related to the grooming in cults and communities. Not the typical 1:1 grooming that involves a predator conditioning a victim. With this definition in mind, I will answer your question.

Radqueers usually are disorganized with their grooming, but according to this post, we could concretize their tactics as:

Using your mental illnesses, paraphilia and overall “weirdness” against you by making you feel you will never fit in (“They hate us, you will never fit in, there is no community for you so join us” and so on).

Promising you total freedom at weird prices (trauma competitions, transIDs competitions, etc).

“Assigning” paraphila to people as sexuality/kinks (saying the victim is an autopedophile just because they enjoy lolisho or ageplay).

Manipulating you emotionally into thinking you are lesser and not worthy to use labels that actually help you (“I don’t fit the RAMCOA label so I have to use transRAMCOA” when you do, in fact, qualify it).

Purposely ignoring actual evidence of their contradictions, and treating it as fake.

How does one know if they were groomed in the rqc? What counts here? I'm trying to make sense of some stuff about/for myself

There are no weird questions.

Grooming, in this context, is more related to the grooming in cults and communities. Not the typical 1:1 grooming that involves a predator conditioning a victim. With this definition in mind, I will answer your question.

Radqueers usually are disorganized with their grooming, but according to this post, we could concretize their tactics as:

Using your mental illnesses, paraphilia and overall “weirdness” against you by making you feel you will never fit in (“They hate us, you will never fit in, there is no community for you so join us” and so on).

Promising you total freedom at weird prices (trauma competitions, transIDs competitions, etc).

“Assigning” paraphila to people as sexuality/kinks (saying the victim is an autopedophile just because they enjoy lolisho or ageplay).

Manipulating you emotionally into thinking you are lesser and not worthy to use labels that actually help you (“I don’t fit the RAMCOA label so I have to use transRAMCOA” when you do, in fact, qualify it).

Purposely ignoring actual evidence of their contradictions, and treating it as fake.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

It’s still the 26th somewhere

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I'm blurry / co fronting with the host a lot, and it's somewhat annoying. It's not that I dislike the host of our system, it's just that I want to be my own person, and front by myself. It just triggers a lot of doubts and worries that we're "secretly faking it" and I'd rather not deal with that.

Holy us too

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*looks at the list of overused jokes*

*sigh*

Jeff the kms