"It's not ableist because I'm also autistic" si sabés que se llama Trastorno del Espectro Autista por algo no? Es un Espectro? O sea que no todes les autistas tienen los mismos síntomas???
La verdad que parece que buscas roña. Viste un bache la ruta y trajiste una pala para hacer tremendo pozo al pedo. Sos brasileñe/canadiense, literalmente lo que dijo no tiene nada que ver con vos porque no sos parte de los 3 paises afectados que si son hispanohablantes de Latinoamérica.
Además de todo esto me sorprende que no vean nada de semiología en la lingüística, ni siquiera lo básico. Básicamente: el contexto en el que se formula una oración donde se enuncia una palabra influye en el significado específico asignado al significante, siendo que no solamente lo que diga la lengua, es decir las definiciones establecidas en un diccionario por ejemplo, son importantes para entender el lenguaje, sino que las vivencias personales de ambos individuos influyen el significado de una palabra. En este caso, se proporcionó el significado particular de las palabras usadas por delgado-master para aclarar lo que quería decir y por qué eligió esas palabras, y lo pasaste por alto porque no te incluyó en algo que ya de por sí no te afecta. Es decir, la elección de palabras no tendría que haber llevado la conversación tan lejos del tema a tratar, pero vos decidiste atarte a un árbol particular a prestarle atención al bosque. No tenés lugar para desmerecer las experiencias de alguien solamente porque no son como vos, a no ser que busques ridiculizar a alguien porque querés sentirte superior.
Y antes de decir cualquier boludez como "ay los gringos" te recomiendo que te saques la bandera canadiense de la foto de perfil
"It's not ableist because I'm also autistic" si sabés que se llama Trastorno del Espectro Autista por algo no? Es un Espectro? O sea que no todes les autistas tienen los mismos síntomas???
you know that it is called Autism Spectrum Disorder for a reason, right? It’s a spectrum? In other words, not all autistic people have the same symptoms???
Discutir con alguien que es autista no es capacitista a menos que mencione su autismo como una razón por la que no lo está escuchando o no lo está tomando en serio. ÉL mencionó ser autista de la nada como una excusa de por qué nunca debería decir que están equivocados en nada. Pero por esa lógica no deberían estar discutiendo conmigo porque yo también soy autista. SEGÚN SU LÓGICA, si es capacitista decir que un autista está equivocado, entonces es ableist decir que estoy equivocada.
Arguing with someone who is autistic isn’t ableist unless you’re bringing up their autism as a reason why you aren’t listening to them/taking them seriously. THEY brought up being autistic out of nowhere as an excuse for why I shouldn’t ever say they’re wrong about anything. But by that logic they shouldn’t be arguing with me because I’m autistic too. ACCORDING TO THEIR LOGIC if it’s ableist to say an autistic is wrong then it’s ableist for them to say I’m wrong.
¿Estás realmente tratando de explicarme sobre mi propia condición médica? ¿De verdad crees que no sé que diferentes autistas tienen diferentes síntomas? ¿Y por qué importa eso en este caso? ¿Sabes cuáles son MIS síntomas para juzgar quién de nosotros es “más” autista? (Que, por cierto, es un concepto muy capacitista para empezar)?
Are you really trying to ablesplain to me about my own medical condition? Do you really think that I don’t know that different autistics have different symptoms? And why does that matter in this case? Do you know what MY symptoms are in order to pass judgement on which of us is “more” autistic? (Which, by the way, is a very ableist concept to begin with)?
La verdad que parece que buscas roña. Viste un bache la ruta y trajiste una pala para hacer tremendo pozo al pedo. Sos brasileñe/canadiense, literalmente lo que dijo no tiene nada que ver con vos porque no sos parte de los 3 paises afectados que si son hispanohablantes de Latinoamérica.
The truth is that it seems that you are looking for a fight. You saw a pothole on the route and you brought a shovel to make a tremendous well. You are Brazilian/Canadian, literally what he said has nothing to do with you because you are not part of the 3 affected countries that are Spanish-speaking from Latin America.
Todo lo que hice fue señalar que hispano no es un término que abarque todo. Él fue el que buscó pelea. Ni siquiera los etiqueté en mi respuesta original.
All I did was point out that Hispanic is not an all-encompassing term. They were the ones who picked a fight. I didn’t even tag them in my original response.
Además de todo esto me sorprende que no vean nada de semiología en la lingüística, ni siquiera lo básico. Básicamente: el contexto en el que se formula una oración donde se enuncia una palabra influye en el significado específico asignado al significante, siendo que no solamente lo que diga la lengua, es decir las definiciones establecidas en un diccionario por ejemplo, son importantes para entender el lenguaje, sino que las vivencias personales de ambos individuos influyen el significado de una palabra.
On top of all this, I'm surprised that they don't see any semiology in linguistics, not even the basics. Basically: the context in which a sentence is formulated where a word is enunciated influences the specific meaning assigned to the signifier, since not only what the language says, that is, the definitions established in a dictionary for example, are important to understand language, but the personal experiences of both individuals influence the meaning of a word.
Hice varios cursos de lingüística en la universidad, sé lo que es semiología, gracias.
I took several linguistics courses in university, I know what semiology is, thank you.
Es decir, la elección de palabras no tendría que haber llevado la conversación tan lejos del tema a tratar, pero vos decidiste atarte a un árbol particular a prestarle atención al bosque.
I mean, the choice of words shouldn't have taken the conversation that far off topic, but you decided to tie yourself to a particular tree to pay attention to the forest.
No saqué la conversación fuera del tema, ello lo hecho. Hice un solo comentario de una oración en el que no traje a nadie a la conversación. ELEGIERON interactuar conmigo, yo no comencé la interacción.
I didn’t pull the conversation off-topic, they did. I made a single one-sentence comment in which I did not bring anyone into the conversation. They CHOSE to interact with me, I did not start the interaction.
No tenés lugar para desmerecer las experiencias de alguien solamente porque no son como vos, a no ser que busques ridiculizar a alguien porque querés sentirte superior.
You have no place to demean someone's experiences just because they're not like you, unless you're looking to ridicule someone because you want to feel superior.
Señalar que latino e hispano no es lo mismo no es degradar a nadie. El hecho de que se molestó con varias personas diciéndoles que estaba usando la terminología incorrecta no significa que estuvieran siendo degradados.
Pointing out that Latino and Hispanic aren’t the same is not demeaning someone. The fact that he got upset at various people telling them that he was using the wrong terminology does not mean they were being demeaned.
Y antes de decir cualquier boludez como "ay los gringos" te recomiendo que te saques la bandera canadiense de la foto de perfil
And before saying any nonsense like "oh the gringos" I recommend that you remove the Canadian flag from your profile picture
Soy una ciudadana dual. Los ciudadanos duales y los inmigrantes son una cosa que existe. Se puede ser latina sudamericana y canadiense al mismo tiempo. Crecí en Brasil, ergo no soy gringa por definición.
I am a dual citizen. Dual citizens and immigrants are a thing that exist. It is possible to be Latina sudamericana and Canadian at the same time. I grew up in Brazil, ergo I am not a gringa by definition.
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The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.
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Since it's pride month, just a little reminder for everyone that disabled people cannot flee their respective countries as many people are suggesting in response to recent legislations in USA and Russia--and not just because of the high cost of doing so!
When you want to permanently immigrate to another country, the embassy interviews you. People on any sort of disability payments and visibly disabled people are usually rejected outright because most countries have laws against disabled people immigrating. Even if you have a job now, but are visibly disabled or they can see you were on disability in the past, they may still deny you.
For disabled Americans, if you want to even visit another country for more than 30 days, if you are on SSI your payments will stop. If you're on SSDI you can only visit certain countries and still get your SSDI payments.
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I'm nonbinary and SEA and every time I remember the existence of Ties That Bind it makes my day 1000x better. Nat my beloved
I'm so pleased... peace and love to all the seasian queers in the crowd
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so there's this post that talks about how people call jason's curved knife a kris but it's not a kris 'cuz why would he have a southeast asian knife? and op's tags say if you're gonna give him an 'exotic' weapon at least make him malay or something. a later reblog adds a filipino kris as an example, and then i was like, 'omg, jason in a barong tho.' SO i tried designing a bat-barong inspired by his hood logo, for a filipino jason haha. and now here we are! 😊✨️🇵🇭
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German ministry of defence considers 'fixing' the shortage in military personnel by tying military service to getting german citizenship more quickly for immigrants without a german passport
"To fix the personnel shortage in the federal army Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius can imagine to also hire soldiers without a german passport. He's getting support for this suggestion both from defence politicians of the government coalition as well as from the opposition.
"Basically we need to think far more european when looking for able young people that are ready to serve in the federal army" the president of the defence committee in parliament, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP) told the "Rheinische Post".
This also includes the idea "that soldiers without a german passport can get one faster by successfully serving in the german federal army."
yeah this is definitely not gonna lead to immigrants being used as cannon fodder at all, certainly.
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I'm always thinking about how G— was an engineer. A damn good one: the sole engineer of the cryo project, good enough that of all the ten billion, the FTL project chose him to inspect their work, back when the project was still a pipe dream. He was a man from an immigrant family in an underprivileged area who became arguably the world's best engineer, which is impressive in its own right, but it gets me thinking... Pre-Resurrection, John says they can't grow food on Mars (and for all John's unreliability, that's pretty believable, given that the high perchlorate concentration in Martian soil is one of the big obstacles to carrying out a sustained Mars mission), and as silly as this might sound, the engineer and scientist divide is real, and of all the nerds that John resurrected, I can't imagine it was the artist or the contract lawyer or the medical and chemistry experts that made the Mars installation viable. Gideon made a House out of it, and one that accepts recruits from across the Dominican system! "Saint of Duty" is said to fit him, evident in his loyalty and commitment to the Cohort and fighting the Resurrection Beasts, but I have to wonder, how much of that was his commitment to making shit work? I can't shake the image of a couple million people awaking to a ruined world, and someone had to get the other Houses settled, figure out spacecraft and space habitats using what little supplies they have left, and what better candidate for that than the man who canonically engineered spacecraft twice?
ANON I love this so much. You're SO right, and you put into words something about G1deon and John's shared background that I've tried to articulate for a while. In the very first chapter, John says, "It wasn’t that they didn’t have the money for a bigger team; we were simply the only ones capable of what they were asking."
This was an incredibly elite team. They were a brilliant bunch of hyperspecialised nerds. And, like, among John's squad, A- and M- and everyone else started out as colleagues — very smart people he probably met in academic circles, where being smart was kind of a prerequisite. It was their research that brought them together to begin with.
G1deon, though! He was John's friend growing up. John knew his grandparents. They spotted each other spare changes for snacks!! Then John went on to Dilworth, then to university and then overseas, and G1deon had his own (probably different) academic path, and maybe they only stayed vaguely in touch, but when it was time to look for an engineer that could help them build spaceships constructed to provide life support to the whole of humanity for centuries — and G1deon was the guy for that.
The fact that two boys from similar underprivileged backgrounds individually made huge breakthroughs in their chosen fields, and got to work together on a project that was meant to save the world... I bet at the time it felt like a miraculous coincidence. I think they thought, if they'd made it that far, that they could do anything.
(yet another layer to the tragedy of what happened etc etc. G1deon torn between John and P—. John stopping G1deon's heart)
Thank you so much for all your thoughts about the Mars space installation, also — I wonder how long there was between Mars becoming the Second House (founded by G1deon! he and Pyrrha did the bulk of the work!) and the institution of the Third House, which doesn't have a named founder and might very well have been a shared project built on the blueprint of what G1deon set up. "the man who canonically engineered spacecraft twice" — my god I love this so much. It's G1deon emo hours today
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My best friend and I had a call recently---she’s back with her family for a bit helping out with some hometown stuff. As part of the stuff, she’s been going through a (deceased) relative’s scrapbook, compiled in the American Midwest circa 1870-1900 and featuring mostly cut-out figures from the ads of the day.
She talked about how painstaking this relative’s work was. (Apparently the relative was careful to cut out every finger, every cowlick; this was by no means carelessly or hastily assembled.) But she also she talked about how---the baby on the baking soda ad is ugly, it is so ugly, why anyone would clip this heinously ugly illustrated baby and paste it into a scrapbook? Why would you save the (terribly told, boring) ghost story that came with your box of soap?
(Why include these things in the first place? we asked each other. ”There’s a kind of anti-capitalism to it,” she mused.)
And we discussed that for a bit---how most of the images, stories, artists, and ads were local, not national; they’re pulled from [Midwestern state] companies’ advertisements in [Midwestern state] papers, magazines, and products. As a consequence, you’re not looking at Leyendecker or Norman Rockwell illustrations, but Johann Spatz-Smith from down the road, who took a drawing class at college.
(College is the state college, and he came home on weekends and in the summer to help with the farm or earn some money at the plant.)
But it also inspired a really interesting conversation about how---we have access to so much more art, better and more professional art, than any time in history. As my bff said, all you have to do to find a great, technically proficient and lovely representational image of a baby, is to google the right keywords. But for a girl living in rural [Midwestern state] of the late 1800s, it was the baking soda ad, or literal actual babies. There was no in-between, no heading out to the nearby art museum to study oil paintings of mother and child, no studying photographs and film---such new technologies hadn’t diffused to local newspapers and circulars yet, and were far beyond the average person’s means. But cheap, semi-amateur artists? Those were definitely around, scattered between towns and nearby smallish cities.
It was a good conversation, and made me think about a couple things---the weird entitlement that “professional” and expensive art instills in viewers, how it artificially depresses the appetite for messy unprofessional art, including your own; the way that this makes your tastes narrower, less interesting, less open.
By that I mean---maybe the baby isn’t ugly! Maybe you’ve just seen too many photorealistic babies. Maybe you haven’t really stopped to contemplate that your drawing of a baby (however crude, ugly, or limited) is the best drawing of a baby you can make, and the act of drawing that lumpen, ugly baby is more sacred and profoundly human than even looking at a Mary Cassatt painting.
And even if that isn’t the case....there was this girl in [American Midwestern state] for whom it was very, very important that she capture every finger, curl, and bit of shading for that ugly soap ad baby. And some one hundred years later, her great-something-or-other took pains to preserve her work---because how terribly human it is, to seek out all the art we can find that resonates with us, preserve it, adore it.
It might be the most human impulse we have.
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in a museum with my mother (but it could be anywhere at all)
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i admit that i find it a little bit frustrating how Wildly Astonished other antizionist jews act when i tell them my israeli jewish family have lived in the region since [some unknown length of time before 1800 when there start being records about it]
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Jesus man, relax.
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Genuine question, because I don't know a lot about the topic and you're:
If someone identifies as non-binary and genderfluid, which from what I've gathered means something like "human" instead of male or female, doesn't that imply that women are not humans , like whole complete people with richer inner lives? And why is a dislike for (performative) femininity combined with a preference for things that are stereotypically associated with maleness an indicator that one is genderfluid? Does that mean a woman is only a woman if she loves to do make-up, wants to be a mother, only wears skirts, dresses and high heels, shaves daily, is always kind and never angry, has long hair, hates to get dirty and so on? Because I have never met a woman who's exactly like that in my life, but plenty who liked gaming, sports, being loud, opposed to shaving & make-up, who wore pants every day.
I do not believe this is a genuine question, but I'll answer it as if it was, just in case other people have to deal with this, and would like someone who is patient enough to give them the words.
The argument you're making here is something that already stems from a deep logical fallacy in the beginning argument. You assume "If you are neither A nor B, and instead C, you think that A cannot be C."
It is a logical fallacy to say "X implies Y" when it does not do so. By this logic, I also believe men are not human. By this logic, I believe only nb people are human.
Some - but not all - rectangles are squares. Some - but not all - animals are dogs. Some humans are nb.
I have given no information about how I present, nor my interests. I am not going to give you that information, because it's irrelevant. What I need you to understand is that, again, you are making the incorrect logical assumption that "If a person dislikes X and likes Y, they must be Z." For all you know, I dislike performative masculinity and like stereotypically feminine preferences.
You then assume your own statement is correct and move forward with your logic as if I had debated you. This is not a "genuine question" about how nb people work, this is assuming being nb is based on a series of preferences.
As a teacher, I do think it's important to tell you: even if this is coming from a genuinely confused place: you are conducting bad research. You begin with an inherently flawed question, as it biased and assumes a position I must defend against - "why don't you see women as people?" Then you make logical conclusions about my personhood and experiences and ask inflammatory questions as if you were debating me, which I am not interested in doing.
If you were my student, and genuinely curious about how nb people see gender, I'd have no trouble with you asking an out nb content creator. If you're really trying to collect information, ask honestly, without personal bias. Here's some examples of what a genuine question would have looked like:
- Do your preferences play into your gender identity?
- How has being nb informed how you see femininity and masculinity?
- What tools do you use to express your gender?
You are mistaking gender expression and gender roles as being part of my identity.
You are most crucially mistaking being nonbinary as being part of the binary and having to exist "in opposition" to other genders in order for it to "make sense". One of the most freeing things about realizing I was nb is that I don't exist in opposition to anything - and also that all gender works similarly.
Gender is a describing word, and this can be confusing for some people. In general, we tend to learn describing words in binary - short/tall, old/young, kind/mean. Therefore, there are (many) people who think - feminine/masculine must be oppositional. Gender is also a feeling word - and again, these are words that can be taught in opposition to each other. Hungry/sated, happy/sad, feminine/masculine.
But because gender is such a rare type of word - feeling and describing - it exists outside of binary. It exists more like art exists.
Green can exist in opposition to red, but it also just exists as its own color. Blue is a part of green, but it is also a part of yellow - blue is still its own color, and yellow is still its own color, and green is still its own color. One painting titled "still-life with fruit" may be a series of vague colors and boxes. Another may be a hyper-realistic singular plum. They are both how the artist expresses their personal vision of the fruit. They might even be by the same artist! And although we may compare them, they are not opposites.
One song by Hozier is not in opposition to one song by Britney Spears. They are different styles, not oppositional styles. You may choose to see them as oppositional - but that is your personal opinion, and not fact. And some people may feel and experience those songs as being actually incredibly in-line with each other.
This is why we say: gender is a spectrum. That all gender roles are made up. Personality, interests, and experiences may shape how someone sees and feels their gender, but it does not define how they see and feel their gender.
When we question gender roles and gender expression like this, it tends to make people upset. People like me tend to make people upset. So much bigotry is based on the lie that "feminine" and "masculine" are oppositional. Opposition is rigid and important - it keeps white hegemonic structures in power. I don't have time or space in this post to talk about how rigid gender roles/enforced gender expression rules are not just sexist but also racist, classist, ableist, homophobic, and bigoted; but I really recommend you do the research on how disruption of the gender binary might put the patriarchy at risk.
The thing you feel trapped by - that "being a woman" is a complicated series of rules - is exactly the kind of thing a nonbinary person would agree with you about. We have to fight hard to be recognized for what is a basic truth about our identity - of course we don't believe that gender expression is equivalent to gender identity.
And truth be told... I think you kind of knew that. I think you kind of knew all of this. I am going to hope that you are young. I'll tell you this: I was raised by someone who was a far-right extremist catholic asshole. I certainly didn't have the research/knowledge/exposure to interrogate this stuff honestly until I was probably 23.
I am so much happier now. I hope one day you get the same opportunities as I had. I hope you choose to move away from bigotry.
love u anyway. all this in kindness only.
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2024 reads / storygraph
A Tempest of Tea
first in a YA fantasy duology
follows a young immigrant woman in a fantasy Victorian city who runs a tearoom that doubles as an illegal bloodhouse for vampires at night
when their business is threatened, she gets a chance to save it by teaming up with her best friend, a rich girl with a talent for forgery, a vampire artist, and a mysterious city guard to do a heist to infiltrate high society and collect a logbook that may reveal the extent of the corruption in the city
fantasy city with a masked ruler, arthurian elements, themes of colonialism
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