Post B9Fwn78iMOd8T7QtNI by 0utside0utsider@social.xenofem.me
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 (DIR) Post #B9Fwn78iMOd8T7QtNI by 0utside0utsider@social.xenofem.me
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       "life was better before cis people knew about trans people"objectively true. most cis people accept trans people better from a place of ignorance because our condition is at the limit of their sense of being, much less sense of knowing. Unfortunately, you cant put the cat back in the bag, and no amount of genocidal erasure ever makes the neurotic oppressor class truly forget to be on the look out for freaks, because the freak gender class was always baked in to the structure- in secret. The pass and disappear strategy is a kind of luddism* - a reasonable response to the machinic machinations harming us, but not likely to usurp the true locus of control, especially as in this case, it still relies on enough social knowledge that full transition is available to all and transness is understood enough to be able to be understood (especially early on), but somehow not well known enough to preform an opinion. ultimately, its avoiding overcoming the contradiction
       
 (DIR) Post #B9FwoAgeelOvlCoPnk by fiore@brain.worm.pink
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       @0utside0utsider peak  take  holy shit
       
 (DIR) Post #B9FwolseN7yt77i18S by 0utside0utsider@social.xenofem.me
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       *(the luddites often get a bad reputation and are used as a conceptual punching bag by morons who like their history to be fed to them in just-so storybook simplicity, but in practice many of them were familiar with highly socially distributed forms of technology such as looms and common use house-sized ovens, but were objecting to the forced enclosure and forced laboring interaction with technologies they did not have any say in using the outcomes of nor of modifying to better be able to use, almost ever free software type is closer to the actual luddites than they think)
       
 (DIR) Post #B9G0ALCoWpe2cJ7KjI by 0utside0utsider@social.xenofem.me
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       tho, i should be careful to clarify, this doesn't mean "passing bad" or "stealth bad", anyone ever making a moralizing issue out of someone passing or trying/wanting/needing to pass (or being devastated by not passing) is making a fool of herself and spits on her sisters. its instead saying that its not possible to "be enough" as it longs for a by-gone era that was always part of a fleeting cycle in the infinite trans fem mulching. Its an attractive but false alternative to the liberalization idpol acceptance or the radlib idpol acceptance+healthcare (if the social body approves lol )Besides, successful infiltration relies on passing as human, however that works ;)