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[-] Grail@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago

https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/princesses-are-nsfw-f9e6c3d4532d

We shouldn't be teaching small children to admire princesses, it's disgusting.

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submitted 3 months ago by Grail@aussie.zone to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org

Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. This is what happened next.

[-] Grail@aussie.zone 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Four years ago, I realised I was goddessgender, and My goddess-mother suggested I try out capitalised pronouns. They felt right, so I kept using them. The inspiration for Me to try out the pronouns came from My divinegender identity, but I don't think of the two as equal. I think the statement "Gods are referred to with They/Them" is about as true as the statement "women are referred to with she/her". I have met women who use he/him, men who use she/her, and enbies who use everything. But if your friend is coming out as transfeminine, it's a good idea to suggest she/her, right? I think it's the same with Me. My pronouns and My gender identity are not the same thing, they just happen to align, as most people's pronouns and gender do. I hope that people can respect My pronouns without having to believe everything I believe about My gender. I think the reason we use someone's preferred pronouns can just be "They like it", and it doesn't have to entail any kind of acceptance of a belief system. Likewise, I would immediately respect the preferred pronouns of any two-spirit or Bissu I met, despite not being a member of either religious system.

I wrote a couple of articles on the subject more broadly: https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/introduction-to-capitalised-pronouns-f5140e722b48, https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/on-spiritual-genders-b4152c4503cb

On My Discord server, The Outside, capitalised pronouns are the default for everyone and everything. We use the change to our language to provoke a change in thinking. It fills the air up with magic, which is very useful because it's an occultist server. And it has the handy benefit of getting everyone used to capitalised pronouns without starting a fight. The rate of transphobia in the server is much lower than other queer spaces I've been.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Grail@aussie.zone to c/main@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Two hours ago I made a post to !libertyhub@lemmy.blahaj.zone about US politics. I had previously had a good relationship with the head moderator of this community. They've encouraged My political posts, and he's removed comments by people that misgendered Me, and reminded people of My pronouns, like in this thread two days ago:

https://imgur.com/RuNKgM1.png

https://imgur.com/GLT7HR0.png

However, an hour ago in this new thread, the same moderator who was telling people to respect My capitalised pronouns uses lowercase pronouns to address Me:

https://imgur.com/fmGtHvf.png

And he has left up earlier comments which also seemed to misgender Me, and which I specifically pointed out:

https://imgur.com/KZnosuC.png

Even as some users in the thread gender Me correctly:

https://imgur.com/EBuGfom.png

I'm making this thread in the main community because since the mod has banned Me, I can no longer report the comment or leave a reply correcting the pronoun. I would like to gain the attention of @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Misgendering trans people and banning Them at the same time so They can't do anything about it is not the kind of thing I expect to see on Blahaj. This mod is clearly 100% aware of My pronouns, and made a choice here. I suppose they could be using the general "you", but it just doesn't look like that, what with banning Me, telling Me My post isn't welcome, and telling Me to go to a different community. I used to have a good rapport with this mod, they said several times that they valued My posts. I posted something he disagrees with, and now all of a sudden respecting trans people's pronouns isn't a priority anymore. He's misgendering Me and they're leaving up comments that also misgender Me. It feels targeted.

EDIT: I cannot seem to embed images. Every time I hit edit and fix the image links and press save, they change to some kind of aussie.zone image proxy link. For now I have left them as links without embedding them.

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[-] Grail@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago

They are people who have left-wing views on policy, diversity, and economics, but who see "the left" as flawed and do not wish to be associated with them. Common complaints include that "the left" is too invested in organisation, identity politics, and morality. Max Stirner, the Egoism guy, is a central figure in post-leftism.

Critics of post-leftists say that they're just leftists who want to seem different and hip and cool. The fundamental post-leftist assertion is that "the left" is a monolithic group of old fashioned people who never accomplished much good, and I disagree strongly. To Me, leftism cannot ever describe a single group, but instead describes a relation between a given group and a reference point; the left is a direction, not a place.

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[-] Grail@aussie.zone 19 points 4 months ago

You're not supposed to find all the koroks. The golden shit is to tell you that you did the wrong thing.

[-] Grail@aussie.zone 9 points 4 months ago

Zionists are fascists. Your comment doesn't really add anything to the discussion.

[-] Grail@aussie.zone 9 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I always hated the word sapphic as well. Seems like people just reinventing the word lesbian all over again for exactly the same reasons, thinking it'll end the exclusionism to let the exclusionists take the more common word without a fight.

I think maybe the correct strategy is to go scorched earth. The exclusionists can have the word lesbian, but now lesbian means transphobe. Let them have it after poisoning it. Because I used to think we had to fight them to keep the word meaning something good, but I was just struck with the futility of such an exercise when I realised it never did much good in the first place.

I'm gay. My femininity doesn't make that something special, doesn't set it apart from any other form of gayness. Gay is gay. As much as 20th century misogynists would have refused to believe that and forced the lesbian label on Me because "gIrLs CaN't ReAlLy Be GaY"

[-] Grail@aussie.zone 8 points 6 months ago

Went ahead and added this comment to the original article. Thanks for the praise, sometimes it inspires Me to write even more.

[-] Grail@aussie.zone 15 points 6 months ago

If Narcissus had been a woman and Echo a man, then we would correctly analyse the story as a misogynistic exercise in heteropatriarchal norms. Modern readers are only able to empathize with the Hellenic view that Narcissus owed other people love, because the heteropatriarchy erases asexual men and maintains that all men are naturally creatures of sexual desire. This is not only aphobic, it contributes to misogynistic rape culture and it degrades men by reducing them to the social role of sexual monster. A role some men take seriously, and to the extent of normalising sexual violence against women.

In making space for men to exist without the pressure to romantically or sexually perform for (or violently against) others, we see that Narcissus is rightfully entitled to his own feelings. Echo is guilty of romantic assault, seeking to make him hers, according to a fantasy she developed in her head while stalking him without his knowledge. Echo fails to respect his right to consent in her heart. And so does the nameless suitor who prays to Nemesis for the act of divine intervention that lead to his death.

Narcissus does not owe his allosexual suitors a polite rejection. From the content of his life, we see that he was constantly sexually harassed, and indeed sometimes violently so. And he was 16, for Dionysus' sake! He was just a kid! Some boys haven't even hit puberty yet at that age. And given the Hellenic idealization of the beauty of male youth, I daresay Narcissus may have been one of those boys. And no 16 year old, regardless of bodily maturity, deserves to be subjected to such sexual harassment. No adult does either, but it's particularly disgusting in the case of a boy like Narcissus.

[-] Grail@aussie.zone 8 points 6 months ago

Soulist lemur

[-] Grail@aussie.zone 18 points 8 months ago

We're playing Glitch! It's about retired world-killing void gods who solve mysteries and go to therapy

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