Steve

but "TME" isn't really useful of a term at all. While yes, the attack on trans women is the most prominent at this moment, it would be denying reality to ignore that this is affecting ALL people who are queer or read as such.

Trans men and transmascs, all intersex people, all nonbinary people, all gnc people, anyone who has ended up outside the strict dichotomy of gender the patriarchy has laid out, can and will be affected by transmisogyny.

Yeah, I can tell you're new

"It's not a binary lol"

It's literally two options with zero nuance

"I don't feel victimized as a tme"

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.

Chattel slavery is an incredibly cruel and dehumanizing system.

So is every other kind of slavery.

This doesn’t diminish the awfulness of what people were forced to endure under chattel slavery.

I just think it’s useful to remember that cruelty is complicated and diverse and just because a cruel system is different doesn’t make it right by any means.

Roman slavery operated differently from slavery in the antebellum American south which operated differently from slavery in the Ottoman Empire which operated differently from modern prisoner chain gangs.

In the unit about physical work, he points out that work is, at its core, a measurement of labor, and that labor which isn’t done by a paid laborer had another name before the rise of automation: slavery. He has his students quantify the amount of physical work that you might expect out of a human slave, and then sets them to work calculating what that means for their own standard of living. If you wanted to live like you currently do in the ancient world, how many slaves would you need? Calculate your washing machine in slaves. Calculate your dishwasher in slaves. Calculate your refrigerator and your TV and your HVAC in slaves.

If you really want to read the Harry Potter books for nostalgia and you own copies/can get them from the library, fine. I don't like it, but fine.

If you want to rewatch the movies and you own DVDs of them or can borrow them from the media section of your library or a friend, I don't like it, but again, fine.

I, and most people with basic decency, draw the line at the Harry Potter show. JK Rowling has said she's going to use the money that show makes to fund anti trans bills and make trans people's lives hell.

You cannot watch the show ethically. You cannot go to the stupid Harry Potter theme park thing ethically. You cannot buy new Harry Potter books, movies, and merch ethically. You cannot make a social media account dedicated to Harry Potter content ethically.

Because whether you realize it or not, when you watch that show or buy those books new, you are telling the world you do not give a singular damn about trans people. You are saying that you want trans people to suffer for the sake of your goddamn nostalgia. You know on some level what you are doing with your money, so don't you dare say this isn't what you want when you support that franchise.