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  • Very interesting, I haven’t really been very introspective about my own feelings about gender and considered the possibility of being agender. I’m very supportive of our trans friends because I know how much it means to them and the mental, emotional, and physical damage that is done to them when they are not allowed to transition safely. But I will admit I definitely don’t get it. I can’t imagine feeling so strongly about my gender I’d want to change it or be upset if I was misgendered, but I fit so well into the mold society has for me that I’ve never really been challenged about it. Maybe I would feel differently if I was more androgynous or had a mix of typically feminine and masculine interests…

    I agree with the author that I think we’ll never really know. Partly because everything exists on a spectrum so drawing a line between cisgener and agender will be inherently arbitrary and difficult. But mostly because social constructs (for good evolutionary reason) can embed themselves so deeply that it’s impossible to tell if you truly feel a way or if you are trained to behave in a way.





  • the US will just incrementally move further and further right

    This is just historically inaccurate. The US has been moving left (on average) since the late 1700s. The US was founded as a slave state in which property owning whites were the only ones who could vote for representatives and only representatives could elect the president. The US committed genocide against the native peoples and annexed territories by imperial conquest. There was no such thing as labor rights until the unions took them barely 100 years ago. We’re still making progress, but not without bumps along the way.

    needs a healthy cleaning from the inside out

    How?

    Seems to me there’s 2 options, the constitutional way and the violent revolution way. So far in our history, the violent revolution way has been started quite a few times and it usually gets stamped out or enough concessions are given that it simmers down. Of course you can’t forget that the biggest one was an unsuccessful right wing revolution, better known as the Civil War.



  • There was a primary, just no one of any relevance ran against Biden because he was the incumbent and that’s the way we have always done it. I’m pretty sure I voted against Biden to make a point. Did you?

    The DNC can’t actually force anything. They didn’t want Bernie running at all. They didn’t want AOC making every other Dem look like a conservative. They really didn’t want Zohran to show people that leftists can win. But all those things happened.


  • This perspective is extra trippy because the port of Oakland and Naval Air Station Alameda are both so incomprehensibly huge on a human scale. You have an awareness and feeling for how big a city and skyscrapers are, so to see them in this perspective get made to look so small and so close to these expanses of concrete is mind bending.