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“Sir, Starbase 12 reports a flock of space sharks cruising through the system.  They’re worried about them chewing on the antennae.”

“Can we get the Hood over there to monitor their path and shoo them off if need be?”

“No can do sir, Hood called in two days ago, says the Captain took his security detail down to the local surface to fight an army of evil komodo dragons.”

“Damn.  What about the Valiant?”

“Captain says she’s currently engaged in a duel of wits with a clone of Bismarck.”

“Like the battleship?”

“No sir, a clone of Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor from the 1900s.”

“I’m scared to ask, but where’s the Potemkin?”

“Last reported in pursuit of a super-intelligent shade of blue.”

“God’s sake.  What about the Enterprise, are they available?”

“Something about a hole in space.”

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I wasn’t against communism, but i can’t say i was for it either. At first, i viewed it suspiciously, as some kind of white man’s concoction, until i read works by African revolutionaries and studied the African liberation movements. Revolutionaries in Africa understood that the question of African liberation was not just a question of race, that even if they managed to get rid of the white colonialists, if they didn’t rid themselves of the capitalistic economic structure, the white colonialists would simply be replaced by Black neocolonialists. There was not a single liberation movement in Africa that was not fighting for socialism …

The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn’t working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn’t working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it.

I got into heated arguments with sisters or brothers who claimed that the oppression of Black people was only a question of race. I argued that there were Black oppressors as well as white ones. That’s why you’ve got Blacks who support Nixon or Reagan or other conservatives. Black folks with money have always tended to support candidates who they believed would protect their financial interests. As far as i was concerned, it didn’t take too much brains to figure out that Black people are oppressed because of class as well as race, because we are poor and because we are Black. …

[Earlier in my life] When someone asked me what communism was, i opened my mouth to answer, then realized i didn’t have the faintest idea. My image of a communist came from a cartoon. It was a spy with a black trench coat and a black hat pulled down over his face, slinking around corners …

HAVE Y’ALL SEEN THIS SHIT ON TWITTER I’M LITERALLY DECEASED (her twitter)

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and you must have some concept of how said gender conflicts with the gender society as assigned to you, which means you must have a concept of what that gender is.

which means that in order to identify as any gender, you must have a concept of at least two genders.

and what is a concept of a gender vs a stereotype of a gender?

especially if a gender is not defined by presentation, preferences, hobbies, or physical characteristics? 

what is a gender at all?

what I think this “shower thought” is saying is that in order for one to say “my gender is x not y,” they must be able to point to something about themselves that makes them x gender and not y gender, and that, fundamentally means saying that that trait is something that x gender people do/have/like/prefer. a stereotype, if you will.

in my years of reading, i’ve heard a lot about “gut feelings” or “just knowing” but honestly, that’s fine for you, but it’s shit as discourse and useless as an explanation. I’ll respect your pronouns and your identity, but your not doing anything to convince me that gender is a thing.

please don’t tell me to educate myself i’ve been trying to do that for like 5 years now. if you link me to a text please stick around to listen to my questions about it because honestly, they all have the same issues which are that none of them define gender or if they do they are gender essentialist or if they aren’t they don’t include non-binary/genderfluid/non-op/no-hormone/non-dysphoric trans people.

so this shower thought is badly worded, sure

but calling it “terf logic” and not explaining why it’s wrong is really unhelpful to me. As someone who has been trying to figure this out for personal reasons.

So like. good job scaring away potentially trans people who are logically minded.

For 5 years.

PS. don’t say “maybe you’re agender”

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