29 | he/xe (no they) | garrett/Mainframe system | "patronizing dickwad" | queer as in fuck you | radfems/self-identified baeddels, self-hating transmascs, exclusionists, and shitlibs fuck off | assigned shrimpdick at birth | if you're blocked it's probably because I think you're stupid or annoying or because you put that tme/tma shit in your bio
I'm the annoying faggotgender transandro truther they warned you about. solidarity between all oppressed peoples. trans men are trans, transmasc rights are trans rights, fuck off if you disagree.
I don't have a DNI because I think they're stupid but I will block over whatever I feel like. I also softblock minors. I'm realizing I have way too many followers to meaningfully enforce a "no minors" policy, so if you're a minor, just keep it to lurking and please respect my boundary of not wanting you to interact with anything sexual or overly personal that I might post.
I don't remember to tag everything but I do try to get some of the more common triggers. message me if I've been posting a lot of something that you would like me to tag and I'll probably oblige, but I won't be tagging things like "discourse" or "politics" because what counts as discourse to one person is a Tuesday for others.
if you DM me please open with something other than "Hi"/"Hey"/"Hello" unless we follow each other or I will assume you're a bot
I do not post fundraisers except from trusted mutuals, please do not send them to me or tag me in posts/comments. if you message or tag me about fundraisers anyway despite this message explicitly requesting you not do this, you will be blocked. I do not have any money to donate, I can't even afford my own expenses most of the time. Do not ask.
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backup account is @transcyberist
plurality info (ignore this):
- we are a semiogenic system. this origin broadly falls under the quoigenic umbrella. don't do origin discourse. I will block you.
- we prefer the terms "member" or "sysmate" but accept "headmate" or "alter" and have varying feelings about parts language (I[Garrett] am indifferent/sorta identify with the term "ANP," others don't like it so much)
- garrett = primary front of the Mainframe system. if you're not plural or the post I'm making isn't plural-focused I usually just use the name collectively + singular pronouns as part of masking. I probably won't be very open with you if you're not plural. this is not really a conscious choice or something I do on purpose, just a comfort thing.
- host subsystem = Garrett, Jenna, Martin, S, and Ego. [Edit: S has been dormant for several months now and may have merged into Garrett and/or Martin.] Garrett and Jenna are body age (=29), S is ≈ 15, Ego is like 4-5, Martin is... idek honestly, but definitely an adult, usually 30+ and sometimes older. Most of the time it's Garrett posting here but it's sometimes Jenna or Martin in tags. Jenna runs @peepsnuff, Martin runs @shit-hdb-would-say and @entroponaut
- others that are routinely active (not an exhaustive list): Delphi (ageless), Data (unknown age). Delphi runs @deleuzians. Data is pretty quiet but usually he's the one talking if you see some persnickety nerd shit in parentheses.
- Data and Martin are both fictional characters but Data is a fully introjected fictive while Martin's situation is more complicated/something like fictionkin.
- I don't like to get involved in syscourse that much, I don't care why you're like this/what your origin is, I'm not even sure why *I'm* like this and I don't think it would be public information even if I did know. I don't think origin has anything to do with validity and I don't really believe "traumatized" vs "not traumatized" is a firm dichotomy that makes sense to apply outside of a strictly clinical setting. people should have access to whatever resources they would benefit from as much as possible.
- "CDD" (="complex dissociative disorder"; the acronym is actually more commonly used for "childhood disintegrative disorder" which is an ASD-like developmental disability) also isn't actually a defined term that is found anywhere in the DSM just fyi; it's a common term in certain forums but has no official definition per the APA. all dissociative disorders fall under the same section within the Manual, described as a spectrum ordered roughly by typical severity. not that I should need to tell you my diagnoses for you to believe I have credentials to be speaking on this, but I know for a fact I met the symptom criteria of at least DPDR as evaluated by a clinician, and that was without reporting any info about my sysmates because I wasn't comfortable sharing that part of myself in a medical setting at the time. in short, whether or not I have a "CDD" depends entirely upon who you ask and how much "proof" you require and what your agenda is, so I don't want to hear gatekeeping on that basis. I need you to understand that diagnostic taxonomy is clinically descriptive, not ontological.
- Do NOT message/harass us on our other blogs over discourse or other stuff posted to this blog or vice versa. We keep them separate intentionally; if you stir shit in the wrong place we will definitely block you. I post a lot of discourse and for the most part my sysmates do not. Address your problems with us to the one that you have the problem with and leave the others out of it. They'll step in if they feel it's necessary but that's our boundary to set.
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There's an open pit in the middle of our office plan that drops down into a bunch of very sharp spikes that kill you instantly. This is bad. People keep falling in there and dying. Someone put a sign up, the other day, all bright yellow so you can't miss it, that says "Beware!!! Spikes!!!"
The office immediately split into two factions over it. One says that if anyone falls in the spike pit it's their own fault for being so stupid and not watching where they're walking, so we should remove the sign. The other says that the sign is an insult, there shouldn't be a spike pit in our office at all, and having the sign up like that is just normalising the existence of the spike pit, so we should remove the sign.
We ended up removing the sign. Probably for the better. Still... for a while there it looked like it might have worked...
Nobody has ever been capable of writing a scathingly harsh and well formulated satire about the perils of modern capitalism, that doesn't just get immediately one-upped by some random food service worker talking about their actual week.
When we talk about trans people and sex work, we don’t talk about trans men.
Hi! I wrote a medium article!
If you've been at all interested in what I've been posting about historical sex work and FTM crossdressing, that's what this is about. I go over three examples of this in ancient Greece, Renaissance Venice, and 19th-20th-century San Francisco, and talk a bit about my thoughts on how these stories tie in to transmasculine erasure (& specifically the erasure of gay transmasculinity).
Unfortunately only found out about this after publishing, but this is another example in the realm of "FTM crossdressing being seen as highly sexual and obscene" (w bonus intersexism and racism because all oppression is intertwined):
So I was rummaging through my books in storage in an attempt to get some inspiration for this week’s post. Serendipitously I came across t
The emergence of women cross-dressing really troubled the connection between clothing and sexual identity. For those Latin nerds out there, you probably notice something wrong right away with the term hic mulier: hic is the masculine form of “this,” while the noun it modifies is feminine, “mulier” or “woman.” The comment being made is that the female transvestite throws everything into chaos, including language.
In the 1620 pamphlet, Hic Mulier, the writer constantly describes this figure as defying any categorization: the hic mulier is “not halfe man, halfe woman; halfe fish, halfe flesh; halfe beast, halfe Monster.” The pamphlet goes on to accuse the female transvestite of dressing more lasciviously:
“From the other, you have taken the monstrousness of your deformitie in apparell, exchanging the modest attire of the comely Hood, Cawle, Coyfe, handsome Drsse and Kerchiefe, to the cloudy Ruffianly broad-brim’d Hatte, and wanton Feather, the modest upper parts of a concleaing straight gowne, to the loose, lascivious civill embracement of a French doublet. . . and extreme short wasted to give most easie way to every luxurious action.”
In other words, yet confusing, the writer actually finds that in dressing like a man the hic mulier is exhibiting her lustful nature. The anonymous writer at one point insinuates that the female transvestite has traded sexual favors for her outfit and for having her hair cut short. Among being compared to a monster, “the untamed Moore, the naked Indian, and the wilde Irish,” the writer also suggests the hic mulier to be comparable to a prostitute. In Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton’s The Roaring Girl (1610), Moll Cutpurse, a character based on the real life female transvestite, Mary Firth, is often perceived by other characters as being sexually promiscuous. [...]
The villainous father in the play, Sir Alexander, who is under the impression that his son wishes to marry Moll, thinks that she may be a [slur for intersex people]: “Hoyda! Breeches! What, will he marry a monster with two trinkets? What age is this? If the wife go in breeches, the man must wear long coats like a fool.” (Ii.ii.71-2)
I know I already posted this quote elsewhere but I wanted to place it in this context:
Unless they present hyperfeminine, butches don’t have access to the job market. You will not be considered if you don’t wear nice women’s clothes. If you set up catering, you will get told, “I am disgusted; a woman who thinks she’s a man is cooking for me.” So butch lesbians normally have an assistant, or their femme partner if they have one, who is more feminine-looking to run the front so customers don’t know a masculine-presenting person is cooking behind the curtains. Many of us become sex workers [due to lack of job opportunities].… But then when police raid brothels and homes, the masculine lesbians get treated “like men.” This means more forceful handcuffing, kneeling, and stripping their shirts off. [...]
According to Rosa, police are “far more brutal” to masculine-presenting queer women, which is particularly dangerous given that their masculine-presentation is a large part of what originally forced many LBQ+ people into sex work. Thus, masculine-presenting queer women’s discrimination in employment may lead to police violence after being pushed into sex work.
— Rosa, lesbian and sex worker rights defender El Salvador, quoted by the Human Rights Watch
"The House of D [was] 500 feet from the Stonewall Inn," Ryan says. "On the first night of the riots, people incarcerated in the prison could actually see what was happening out their windows, and they started a riot all their own, setting fire to their belongings and throwing them down to the streets below while chanting 'Gay rights! Gay rights! Gay rights!'
"By the '50s and '60s, Ryan estimates, "around 75% of the people incarcerated in the House of D are queer in some way." In the 1960s, the prison began marking gay prisoners with a "D" for "degenerate," and placing them into solitary confinement because they were considered a "danger to other women." […]
The first waywardism laws in New York State start in the 1880s and they only apply to girls and women, originally ones who are arrested for prostitution and then expanded greatly in the late 1800s to women who might become prostitutes. And that's where they really get into danger, right? Because suddenly the charge of prostitution has nothing to do with sex work or exchanging sex for money. Instead, a wayward girl is anyone who was thought to be improperly feminine to the point where she has an invitation to prostitution. She's either too sexual or she's too masculine and unable to get any other kind of job. So of course she's going to end up being a prostitute.
This forgotten women's prison helped cement Greenwich Village's queer identity by Terry Gross
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Everything in fallout 4 has to be built fitting the historical neighborhood character. The historical neighborhood character in this case being abandoned bombed out skyscraper.
Saw this in another group that I follow, posted by a self-professed "lab monkey." He wrote: "Long-term nuclear waste warning messages + rich people's indoor swimming pools." WTF? (He labeled the photos.) People making pools in the underground former nuclear waste tanks in their doomsday luxury bunkers.
They're not even appealing. I feel claustrophobic.
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we've definitely posted about this before but if i see one more person act like the only forms of childhood trauma that exist are abuse from family or sexual assault i will actually start crying and it will be so so so loud everyone will hear it from every corner of the earth
THE SCHOOL SYSTEM !!! PEER ABUSE !!!!! ISOLATION !!!!!!!! RACISM !!! SEXISM !!!!!! MEDICAL ABUSE !!!!!! NONCONSENSUAL SURGERY !!!! POVERTY !!!! SO MUCH MORE !!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Natural disasters! I never see anyone talk about that one and as a result I spent years thinking that watching my hometown get destroyed on the news and subsequently having to uproot my entire life at the age of seven wasn't Real Trauma because there was no Abuser™
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the threat of the plea deal, "take this shitty circumstance, or risk being found guilty and receiving the worst punishment," is just openly admitting that the trial is not about finding the truth, but about the thrill of punishing
I'm old enough to remember GamerGate and the rise of "Anti-SJW" slop (yes, I know it was only 10 years ago). You know who the cliché "cringe SJW feminist" was? What they painted women and queer people who fought for their rights as, in order to ridicule and silence them?
Pixie cuts. Body hair. Either buff or fat. Violent. No makeup. Deep voice. Small breasts. Usually lesbian. Either a butch cis woman, a trans man, or a trans woman with exaggerated "manly" features like a beard or a cartoonishly pornographic bulge.
But sure, the Patriarchy always rewards masculinity no matter what. Keep believing that.
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a rough timeline of events (from memory, there may be inaccuracies, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)
Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic
the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal
this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately
somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large
following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor
today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea
the British tabloid press remains, and will always be, fucking evil
