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autistic/trans/queer lady with a deep,desperate desire to create. she/her.ex-academic looking for a career change, and hoping to relocate soon to the Pacific NW

Richland Center, WI
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    1.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

      So my point is basically, I once aligned with some shitty viewpoints because I legit saw the idea that things would be ok if >

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    2.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

      > we fixed identity based injustice, and that still meant that we were tacitly okay with horrible fates for ppl who were "normal"

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    3.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

      In college I got excluded from a lot of"cool leftist groups and it stung, and thinking I was a dude, I went some unfortunate rhetorical ways

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    4.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

      But I mean why do we keep revisiting high school lunch tables and "you can't sit with us?" Because getting told that fucking hurts

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    5.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

      And if we accept that our brains are meat engines driven by chemicals than on some level we do not control who we become

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    6.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

      Which means any coherent society WILL involve coercive power through, if nothing else, not actively including people

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    7.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

      Not to get all ev-psych but not getting to sit with the cool kids on some level is actually being threatened in terms of resources

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    8.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

      Not to mention that being socially isolated has demonstrable health impacts.

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    9.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

      So like, I am not going to agree with incels implying women or anyone should have to sleep with them

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    10.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

      But I honestly don't believe mocking sexual frustration is almost ever right, because unless you're ace it means your life kinda sucks

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       🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

      And hell I am ace and still felt kinda like an incel pre transition because loneliness is very easy to mistake for romantic loneliness

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        2.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          And anyway, I guess my point is that society should have mechanisms to protect people from the most dangerous interpersonal dynamics

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        3.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          And I take what I can get in terms of what I practically support, so like, I don't see any trade-off between trans bathroomrights& economics

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        4.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          And a solution to trans exclusion is closer for our society than a solution to capitalism and its death toll

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        5.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          Butwhen you get to Sheryl Sandberg type feminism,it actively upsets me because it says"we want women to be able to play this cruel game too"

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        6.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          And I mean, I don't morally consider it okay to not hire women as CEOs for EvilCorp because of gender.

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        7.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          But in pure honesty? I don't really care either if that happens at the top levels. A victory for Sheryl Sandberg isn't a women's victory

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        8.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          Now, stuff like Harvey Weinstein shows why addressing toxic sex and gender dynamics matters a ton

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        9.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          Because the number of women he was allowed to directly harm vastly exceeds the number who could ever have become famous

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        10.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          For every Lupita N'yongo there are probably ten other women who were harassed or worse and still failed in their careers

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        11.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          But if we could create a Hollywood where gender didn't affect your likelihood of quid pro quo exploitation it would still suck a lot

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        12.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          Because those ten actresses could be asked to compromise on some other axis and still fail and end up hurt and broken

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        13.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          Those are what I see as the stakes of realizing power dynamics are inescapable,and also as a very unintended but nasty effect of kinkshaming

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        14.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          I dislike kinkshaming because it sucks for me personally but I honestly believe it's toxic to the Left because it promotes illusive equality

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        15.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          If we single out Dom/sub relationships and especially M/f ones as "problematic," there is a massive implicit endorsement of other rls

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        16.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          Which I frequently see among my gay/bi transfem and nb peers as "men are awful, no one should date them"

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        17.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          (tw rape) meanwhile I have been raped by a woman, I know friends who've been abused by women horribly. Yes statistics show it's worse >

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        18.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          > for women, but come on folks, how much time do we spend calling out shitty non-men in our communities? A fucking lot

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        19.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          I'm not saying like "being gay is bad if you're a woman" or any of the other things I've seen this misrepresented as

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        20.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          I'm saying that being especially put off by M/f BDSM, not as a personal trigger but as an overall ideology, is a sign you are ignoring shit

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        21.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          Like to be blunt without my kinks I wouldn't understand critical theory and power AT ALL.

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        22.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          I have always had this little fluttery feeling when I see people explicitly acknowledge that someone has a position of power or not

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        23.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          And noticing that certain, often awful, things were hot led me to notice those dynamics more because, well, they were hot

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        24.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          You can argue that that's trivializing but I mean all of this led to me becoming a professional critical theorist

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        25.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          Which,inconsistent with my platonic ideal fantasy of a kinky lifestyle because my fantasy is being a sex object who has opinions that matter

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        26.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          But having that fantasy is why I can do my job at all, in an indirect way, because it drew my attention to power

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        27.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          And so like, when I see something like, say, Patreon trying to crack down on BDSM content, it bugs me for many reasons

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        28.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          First of all because it's bad for sex workers, and plenty of kink critical people or ppl who don't share my kinks agree

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        29.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          But even deeper because ultimately Patreon, as many of us have grimly joked, is a way to beg for survival above all else

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        30.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          And there's a massive, glaring hole in your entire worldview if you're more bothered by someone begging to live who also likes being tied up

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        31.  🦋this action will have  👻 spooky 👻 consequences 🦋‏ @BootlegGirl 22 Oct 2017

          Like, I can't fully explain my kinks in a way that sounds politically noble. It is POSSIBLE they are a trauma response but I dunno

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