Overpoliced Minorities and Oph…

Our movement was founded in part on islamophobia, so it’s unsurprising a number of our blogs beat that drum occasionally – at least, before the fash sealed their control of the country.  Nobody formally announced we were cooling it on muslims, but it seemed to happen spontaneously among the blogs that were left standing.  It still happens, but with appropriate caveats.

With regard to islam, one FtBlog in particular stood out to me.  Sadly, one of our few ladies.  She left the network to join the terf community, consigning herself to the most miserable company this side of the interweb.  Before that, she would post about the evils of islam just about every single day.

And those evils were evil!  They deserve to be reported.  But in our country, where islamophobia was one of the levers used to help the nazis win, this reportage was equivalent to campaigning for the GOP.  It can simultaneously be true information about shit that deserves to be known, and a bad fucking thing to talk about with that frequency.

It’s the same principle as Breitbart’s “black crime watch.”  Take things that are really happening, shine a relentless enough spotlight on them, serve nazi ends.  We should be aware of why we’re talking about the things we’re choosing to talk about, and what ends we serve by doing so.

Now it’s time to discuss an uncomfortable subject.  Bear with me.  You ever seen a gay pride float that was a massive sexually explicit sculpture?  Topless dykes on bikes?  This sort of thing?  Have you ever sought out furry spaces online to indulge your inner bugs bunny, and found an overwhelming amount of sexual content there?  LGBTetc subcultures have a long history of “horny on main” behavior – flaunting the sexuality the kyriarchy wants to suppress.  This is fine, within certain contexts.

The online culture of transgender women has been long and closely associated with anime, which can sometimes include “lolicon” – sexualized depictions of girls (meaning children) in Japanese-style art.  I’m not going to defend that shit here, but I’m going to equivocate on it a bit.  There are many subcultures of erotica on the internet that involve shit that should just not be done, and as bad as lolicon is, it’s not worse than reading and writing about sexual cannibalism.  You can find a lot of cis women who are into that, if you go looking, and they’re not catching the same shit trans women are catching these days.

Is all that excusable as long as it stays in the realm of fiction?  Not a debate I’m interested in having because it’s far outside of my chosen topic.  There are other places for you to discuss it if you’re interested.  It’s relevant here in that it is a thing some people get up to that hits most of us in the same feelings as epstein revelations.  In some places it really is a crime, and it is something some trans women have publicly expressed enjoyment in.

As we speak, it’s one of the crimes that are getting mentioned in vigilante harassment campaigns against trans women.  But let’s look at cultural context for a minute.  Transgender women are part of that LGBTetc culture of forward sexuality.  For years when they talked about sexual things they’re into, it’s been cheers and bonhomie from the online company they’ve kept.  (Huge overlap with furry culture, it bears mentioning.)  It’s been normalized for them to just be as horny as they wanna be, all day all night, on their respective social media accounts.

This whole time, their political foes have been taking notes.  Terfs, nazis, and just anybody they got into an argument with.  Observe Bidoof’s Law (not censored per my ableism policy in favor of accuracy):  “will there ever be anything more timelessly funnier on this site than seeing some joyless idiot asserting their stupid controversial worldviews internet toughguy style and then checking their blog and they’re just, completely openly and shamelessly addicted to hentai”

The tumblr user who originated that post was talking about conservatives and their public horniness, but I’ve seen the same from people over less acrimonious discourse.  Someone gets their political point disputed by a trans woman, visits her blog, and finds a wall of creepy fetish content.  They remember that shit.

The chickens have come home to roost.  Arguably the first shot fired was when tumblr’s CEO Mxtt Mxllenweg (who has way too much power over the platform of wordpress, on which you’re reading this) got sniped at by a trans woman on twitter and responded by using his admin privileges to list every fetish sideblog she’d ever created.

Now finding excuses to hound trans women to suicide has become the hot sport of the moment on the internet, and thanks to that horny culture they’ve engaged in for years, there is no shortage of rope with which to hang them.

This, I would argue, is overpolicing, in the same way our own Terfelia Benson once overpoliced the muslim community, and Breitshart overpoliced the black community.  Might there be transgender women who have expressed dubious sexual thoughts, even frequently and publicly?  Yes, but so have a huge number of other people who are not getting persecuted for it right now.

Again, look at the emotional motive, look at the consequences.  This supports the agenda of painting all trans women as pedophiles.  This disappears trans women from the public sphere.  This supports the nazism that now has the world under its nuclear-first-strike-capable thumb.

You are likely to see callout posts / articles / videos about trans women in the near future, if you haven’t already.  I am not asking you to set aside your principles, any more than I’d ask you to give boko haram a pass for their shit.  I’m just asking you not to add to the dogpile.

Don’t be part of the problem of fascism.  These dogpiles are going to happen whether you contribute or not, but by choosing to opt out, you’re making them a little bit smaller, a little less impactful.  Just dip on it.  If you don’t feel up to defending these ladies, don’t bother.  Do activism that works for you.

Just don’t add to the chorus – at this point including no small amount of progressives, political leftists, and even trans people – bringing ruinous attention down on trans women, in a way that makes us all look like pedophiles.  In a way that gives the death camp crew more pitchforks for the pile.

Thank you for your consideration.

And to any sex weirdos in my readership who have done horny things online, just pay attention to what’s happening here, and consider again what you want your digital hoofprint to look like.  I have, in my day, seen no small amount of genuinely amateur pornography.  People who were old, young, fat, disabled, unacceptable to the ghost puritan dominating our national pysche, but who felt for a shining “felt cute, might delete later” moment that they were a sexy creature who deserved to be sexually appreciated by strangers, and laid it all out for people like me.

Mwah.  Love you.  But very little is ever truly deleted.  Just think twice before posting horny on main.

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Do Not Reblog Callouts of Transwomen

I’ll have a lot more to say about this when I have time to knock together an essay, but right now there’s a lot of rumors and callouts and harassment of trans women going on.  Some of it looks quite justified, doesn’t it?  Breitbart’s “black crime watch” looked pretty reasonable from a certain point of view as well.  Just think twice, maybe don’t reblog that shit if you see it.  Thanks.

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I Remember the Loving Vampyress

I don’t wanna bother anyone who doesn’t wanna be bothered, and the person I’m about to mention, when last seen, was on some “don’t bother me” business, but in this moment I cannot resist (besides they’re ungooglable so i’m probably in the clear).  Many years ago now, I was in a contentious comment section, when a young lady possibly having a manic episode got into frantic posting, which I matched.  But should I have?  Probably best to help calm people down when they get too hype.

Especially when it’s a person who makes themself too visible, gets embarrassed, and deletes their existence.  I think she changed her name like three times in the course of that conversation alone.  Somehow I ended up seeing a blog of her writing elsewhere, and it was erotic in nature – again to be disappeared, perhaps from a fit of embarrassment.  I don’t know how much of what I remember is vibes and how much was revelations, but I believe she was very poor – possibly in public housing.  I could say a bit more, but obviously she didn’t want to be known.

The Vampyress is immortal but exists at the outer limit of entropy, capturing the imaginations particularly of those who are haunted by mortality and living in the half-light of gothery.  The Vampyress drinks of the well of life until there is nothing left; in the case of her erotic fiction self-insert that wasn’t just blood.

I hope she’s alive and well in this World of Darkness, and the same for all my long-absent commenters – especially the few who I have reasonable cause to suspect are no longer alive.  Let that reasoning be wrong.  If you see this and know who you are, drop an anonymous comment, or too many comments by various names until you run away blushing and deleted once again.  I won’t forget you.

(EDIT TO ADD … don’t read too much into the lyrics of this song, just a feelin is all …)

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Do Not Post Bette Midler Plz

Bette Midler has long been associated with gay culture, being a purveyor of showtunes and bland liberalism.  In the runup to the fascist takeover of the USA, she wrote a very TERFy op ed in some newspaper or another (this is not factually accurate, see correction in comments).  As transphobia was one of the levers the nazis used to gain power, she directly contributed to that.

And yet a month or so after the old Woody Guthrie song “You Fascists Bound to Lose” started trending on yewchoob, to what should my wondering eyes appear?  Bette Midler doing a cover of that song!  Look gays, she hates fascists almost as much as she hates transgender people!

I hope no other bloggers or commenters on FtB will post anything about her anywhere.  Trans Day of Visibility.  Make that shit go unseen.  I only mention its existence the way you say Dracula! before you raise the crucifix.

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Jenny McCarthy sang Trans Rights?

I had a dream a young lady in a black wig came into my place of work.  This was Jenny McCarthy, younger than she would be in real life, fallen on hard times that she will never experience in real life.  She was reporting income from a singing gig at a strip club, because she was receiving a need-based social benefit with eligibility tightly linked to those numbers.

As I was trying to get access to her benefit record for the purpose of placing this work report, her social security number was showing on two lines, where one had to zigzag between them to get the sequence, and each zero was replaced with an ascii character of a double zero.  Do those even exist?  She was sitting right next to me and I had to dissuade her from looking at the screen while I sorted this out.  I told her that normally she’d be on the other side of the counter, please don’t read this stuff.

Somehow that changed in the course of the conversation to where I was willing to let her sign into gmail on my computer, to download her pay stub.  It was a pdf full of hyperlinked images, looking like a porn site.  I was trying to understand which number represented her gross income and accidentally touched one of those links, forcing me to close my browser immediately before the malware could load.  Then I had to get back in and start over from scratch.

In waking life, I’m under pressure at work to not use the hold button.  I just try to do my inputs quietly while people yak at me.  She said she wanted to regale me with an original song about trans rights, and launched into it.  I had to ask her to be quiet twice, while nearby coworkers were on phone calls.

She started playing with one of those coworker’s hair, like a stripper might do to somebody during a lap dance.  Then Patrick Stewart came, in character as her strip club manager, in a black toupee of his own, tousling her wig hair.  I got that he was playing a character even tho I didn’t feel the same about her, and wondered why he was still doing shitty parts when he could have retired long ago.

I finished my work, she was gone, and I wanted to tell a coworker about it, enough that I violated a privacy policy to do so.  Then I noticed Jim Carrey sitting on floor, leaning against a pillar, and thought, shit, ex-boyfriends are a category of people we particularly do not want to disclose information to.  I hoped he hadn’t heard me.  Ho-hum, I woke up.

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Catgirl Zoo

Had a dream, felt like the raw setup and environment were recurring, but the feeling of remembering can be fake, like in déjà vu.  I was at a zoo adjacent to a small amusement park, trying to climb into an off-limits area with a better view of the reptiles.  The zookeepers caught me but I kept getting away on some woowoowoowoo nyuk nyuk nyuk shit like a cartoon character.

This time, outside the zoo, I was trying to explain why I do it, that I’m not animal thief, and while they didn’t believe me, they weren’t going to arrest me either.  I went to get a milkshake at a fast food restaurant, ran into more hijinks I don’t remember, then back, but this time…

I met a small group of zookeeperesque people who were trying to be very supportive of and help me in gender transition.  However, all their methods were geared toward me transitioning not to a woman, but to an anime cat girl.  They were trying to get me to eat cat food.

Even tho in real life I’m not pursuing medical transition (aside from an idle ambition to get facial hair removal if I ever get more money) or even more full time social transition (might if my life circumstances were much different), I was very accepting of the situation.

I didn’t like the cat food, but I was just like, This is my life now…

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a couple of weeks after this, i was awakened from deep sludgy sleep by a little gastroesophageal reflux.  my acid is strong enough i can’t ignore it, had to get up to treat my throat in some way.  i had been in a dream of details worth remembering, and i tried to, but only one odd bit survived my subsequent trip to nod and back.

i had to catch a violent cat, so i was trying to wrap her in t-shirt bondage.  she still managed to bite me a few times.  what was her crime?  murder.  apparently she had murdered somebody.

the dream was also guilelessly convinced that she was psychotic (how would you know this of a cat?) and that she was transgender.  the psychotic transgender murdercats must pay for their (imagined) crimes…

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Are You the Baddies?

Lil’ question for the scientists and science communicators and defenders of liberty who thought woke moral scolds were impinging so badly on their freedom to be assholes.  Who is censoring the hell out science right now?  Whose side is doing that?  I know, bring up the way your fave race “scientists” could only sometimes get published in mainstream sources, cool cool.  But on this scale?  How about the way they’re gutting universities?  Destroying the Department of Education?  Libraries?  This sound like the work of people who care about academia, enlightenment, the advancement of the human species?  Sophisticated discourse, holding up the hem of your toga as you walk through the agora?  Is this how you saw yourselves?

Are you starting to understand what censorship actually is?  Are you starting to understand how misogyny, transphobia, and racism will always lead into fascism?  How there’s no good and actually cool version of any of those things?  Growing a tiny spark of self-awareness yet?  The clock is ticking.  You’re running out of time to breathe the air of freedom you’ve so stridently clamored for.  Anything you might think say or do that isn’t in support of the party line, better get your freak on while you still can.

Remember those guys painted out of Stalin’s photograph when they became not stalinist enough?  By supporting this situation, you’ve put yourself in a more dangerous position than most.  Does this feel like freedom to you?  Does this look like what you imagined it would, throwing off the shackles of woke?

I’m thinking of Jerry Coyne and Ophelia Benson here.  I’m not gonna host an answer by one of those humanoid tools of fascism, but I wonder vaguely what that would look like.  I wonder if OB feels like this is the dawning of a new feminist paradise, feels completely blameless in the use of transphobia as a wedge issue to establish Gilead.  I wonder if JC feels good about the state of science now, feels completely justified in working to achieve that egregious new normal.

I don’t wonder enough to read their sniveling bootlicking shit, but maybe one of you could summarize it for me in the comments, heh.

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Primary they Asses

My union talked me into writing to my representatives thru a web form, and the responses have trickled in.  Clearly just had a machine or intern look at the subject matter vaguely and send robo-reply.  On the web form all three required an honorific but the senatorial old ladies only had mr. and mrs.,  while the congressdude had other options.

For the senators I chose mrs. but also used masc legal name.  First senator with a robo reply “corrected” it to mister.  Kinda like, fuck all y’all.

I’ve said before I’m ok with dems taking some bad deals when they’re in the weak position, negotiating however they can to reduce the damage of nazi policies, but if they act at all like they consider a demographic an acceptable loss, or worse, show enthusiasm for nazi ideas like fuckface newsom, we must brutally primary their asses back to whoville.

And if the dem establishment rams a shit candidate through?  I think they’re a few decades overdue for a riot at their convention.

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