Just like the sheer obsessive hatred around the mere existence of Caitlyn Jenner, the need to bring her back up again and again "She's trans and she's fucking RICH, do you expect me to feel sorry for her?"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
This is how the discourse of the master and the hysteric intersect, you see, how they feed on each other The master who's been made to feel guilt and pity has, in fact, won, even if the hysteric has also succeeded in their tactic and won their own victory in the process
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
Like any abuser, they get what they want after they succeed in proving that they're the ones with the power They completed their flex, they got their licks in, they got that "Ouch!" and that bruise out of you, now they can afford to be nice because they made their point
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
And nothing makes someone in that position *dangerous* faster than them realizing this arrangement is about to be disturbed When that power starts slipping away, when you can just fucking take what you want without paying the coin of performative pain
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
This is what the dysphoria discourse boils down to I'm like really serious about this, even though I'm sure Jesse Singal will dismiss this as another "manic paranoid anti-science rant" This shit is Critical Theory 101, Baby's First Foucault
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
They want you to suffer before they'll let you do what you want That's the price of admission To get to be trans "for free", without suffering and pain, is to pick their pocket, to rob them of their power and authority and the satisfaction that comes from exercising it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
The outright rage at the prospect of redefining the relationship of transness to dysphoria "So you just... decided to be trans Because you thought it'd make your life better, and it did Nothing but gender euphoria, no dys- Everything's just awesome for you"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
"Then WHY SHOULD I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU I thought this was about you being OPPRESSED" (They say shit like this word-for-word, about big celebrities like Elliot Page, about small celebrities like Abi Thorn, about non-celebrities who just seem too happy on their Instagram)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
Yeah that was a fucking tactic and it always was The performance of pain as coin to trade for a "diagnosis" was always a way to cope with and survive under your arbitrary rule It was never a necessary, fundamental part of someone's identity, it was an injustice you perpetrated
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
The goal is a world where people just "decide to be trans" for whatever the fuck reason they want and they get to answer or not answer whatever questions you have any way they please with the answers having no impact on anything Because it's NONE OF YOUR GODDAMN BUSINESS
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I don't know if that world is possible, if it's ever going to happen -- probably not, power is slippery and clever and always ready to evolve into another form But no one should ever feel like they have to settle for anything less
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Replying to @arthur_affect @zsitter
"My body, my choice." It really is that simple.
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