#this is where The Matrix really nails gender if you think about it

[soulvomit]

I have lots of thoughts about how girls and boys in the US (and lots of places, I just didn’t want to overgeneralize) are brought up in totally different social, cognitive, and linguistic silos that we’re raised in from the earliest part of childhood. As soon as we can talk and our words are corrected by the people around us, based upon their perception of our gender, we’re being socialized into a gender silo.  Now, before I go on with this, I want to point out that for all kinds of reasons - unusual upbringing, gender identity/conformity, neurodivergence, being raised in a culture space without strong homosociality norms, etc - it’s possible for someone not to end up in a silo from early early childhood. So there being no one biologically essential experience of girlhood or boyhood, can absolutely co-exist with the existence of social and cognitive silos.  The thing with these silos is that, in my opinion, men and women have more of the same experiences and emotions in common than not. I am not saying - necessarily - that men and women are the same.  What they’re taught is completely different expected social norms around these things, and different ways of dealing with conflict within their groups and with their friendships. Now, if you are my age and you’ve read Deborah Tannen then this seems like a no-brainer. But I don’t think people really think about how far down this rabbit hole goes, or the probable Sapir-Whorf-adjacent implications of the whole thing.  Boys and girls are given completely different messages by children’s programming and by the world around them about how they’re supposed to interact, communicate, and even PERCEIVE THEIR WORLD, and what words they’re supposed to use to describe their emotions.  Depending upon how sealed off their silo is - they may grow up thinking that only *their* gender experiences specific emotions or life experiences. For example, some women thinking all men are inherently predators, because they’ve never known any men except the ones who preyed upon them. Some hetero-attracted cis men thinking ALL women can get any sex they want, and are never lonely, and that the rich, mean hot girls represent the attitudes of all women - because they’ve never known, in their entire life, unrelated girls or women outside of a very specific social context. Women with almost identical types of attitudes thinking that entitled incels are always male. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.  It always looks like, from within your particular social silo, the opposite sex has actually different emotions and needs as opposed to being socialized to talk about those things differently. Like... it became really clear to me that “bunny boiler discourse” and “crazy ex girlfriend discourse” in the 80s and 90s was actually a conversation about female-on-male abuse and/or predation, filtered through an 80s average male-normative vocabulary instead of the therapy-influenced language that we’re taught as middle class women is “the right way to describe things” (particularly in a social environment where men are ALWAYS seen as victimizers and never victims). When you actually listened to what these guys were saying instead of getting pissed off at their choice of words, you actually absorbed that there was a legitimate experience being described here that cut across gender lines... guys just didn’t use the same words to talk about it, and were dealing with the social minefields of *their* particular silo in trying to articulate this rotten experience that was happening to them (that happens to all genders), and were just as socially slapped for using the wrong choice of words as women are.  And when middle class girls talked about the same experiences, they were often directed away from blunt, short/succinct “working class” or “male” language and reinforced to express their thoughts/feelings in terms of the “polite” therapeutic or academic language that passes for Obligatory (White) Middle Class Female English in your particular era. Further, they were reinforced by practically all adults and all media that it was their job to police the speech of any boys in their presence. What’s frustrating is that a lot of upper class feminist approaches don’t really acknowledge that Compulsory Middle Class Female English is practically constructed so that women DON’T succinctly describe their experiences and feelings, yet this particular style of feminist discourse tends to present this form of communication as the *only* valid communication and actively problematizes other styles of communication.  A big problem with a lot of approaches to feminism is that they don’t question the existence of this metaphysical silo or even try to leave it. You’re stuck inside Plato’s Cave, thinking that’s the whole universe. You don’t try to dismantle it and in many cases the things you’re doing that you think are “feminist” actually just reinforce this cultural silo. And I think it may even go deeper than the most popular approaches to Deborah Tannen’s analyses because there’s a whole Sapir-Whorf Adjacent metaphysical worldview/cognitive component to being siloed, it’s not *just* what words you use... but how you’re taught to relate to the world based upon what words you use and how it may even affect your development.   And it’s also the fact that these silos act as social protection rackets that reinforce compulsory gender-conformist behavior. 

#this is where The Matrix really nails gender if you think about it #reason the millionth that I'm an egalitarian #my own experience is that I was raised to communicate my boundaries and needs in short/blunt ways and had to learn how to use and speak #in politicized therapeutic language not just to interact with women but increasingly with many men too #the Sapir-Whorf adjacency and the cognitive aspects of these silos is why I feel that yes - correcting someone's language about describing #their own feelings and experiences - is just often just straight gaslighting

[thatdragonsdrabbles]

[I'll make the assumption that it's not a result of Lucina dying, and simply an AU sort of thing where for some reason using (Parallel) Falchion is not necessarily hereditary. You're more of the tragic adventure fan than I am. *That dragon blows a rapsberry.]

Other future kids wielding Falchion

Owain of course would be a likely candidate, and a good fit, for using Falchion. He has a hyperfocus on swords, especially the “legendary blades,” and he could be flashy with such a cool heccin' blade. But he doesn't shy away from the serious bits. Sure, he might get carried away with his heroic storytelling, but when stuff goes down you know he's stepping up to the plate to do what needs to be done. He would be more likely to take it if the situation arose, or if Lucina wanted to spar using a different weapon. He would take it in his epilogue given permission, though he might rename it for “the start of a new fantastic tale.”

Kjelle is obviously powerful, so her strikes would really pack a punch, if perhaps slower. She has more of an interest in lances, but doesn't avoid other weapons in her quest to be the best defender Ylisse has. She would need tips from Lucina and other more experienced sword-wielders to truly be comfortable using it. Honestly though, she would be more hesitant to take it, even with Lucina's blessing. There's a slight feeling of not being the one the blade is meant for, regardless of her ability to use it. She would see no need to keep it in the epilogue, because fated blade or not, it's served its purpose and would be better suited in other hands.

Cynthia would make an interesting sword-using pegasus knight! She seems more inclined to learn a new weapon-type, especially for cool heroics. Now, whether she'd be particularly talented or not, is dependant on her nailing things in training and not getting too distracted by stunt ideas. She would definitely need lots of pointers from Lucina. But with the right guidance, she'll be able to go toe-to-toe with other aerial units, and maybe even pull off those awesome entrances! She could keep Falchion in the epilogue, or she could give it up, but either way she's being dramatic about it. Heroes gotta have stories told about them!

Laurent is not at all interested in wielding Falchion. Why would he be? Unless he could manage a spell that utilizes Falchion's interesting powers, or suspend it in arcane matrixes to launch like a projectile. Which now that he thinks about it, would be a very intriguing spell. He might want to do experiments on it. He'll attempt wielding it if he has to, but even with his surety and steady hand he wouldn't benefit more from it than he would from magic. He could easily observe others' forms and incorporate them for his own, though. He leaves Falchion for sure for the epilogue, except perhaps to study its divine properties.

Brady would be really reluctant to pick up this blade. He's not cut out for that kind of crap, yunno? That's meant for the heroes and the guys that look good, not... well, a guy like him. It would take a lot out of him to try learning how to use it, too. He would need a lot of talking—and I mean a lot—to be convinced to use the thing, and in the end he wouldn't be that talented at it. The finesse escapes him. Training him to use Falchion would be a long project. There's no love lost between him and the sword in the epilogue, he'll leave that sucker with someone better for it.

Severa would utterly destroy with Falchion. She's stubborn enough to learn how to use it properly, after maybe a few tantrums when the stress really gets to her. And she'll definitely be hard on herself, partially from her mother's reputation and partially from Falchion's. Can't have just any loser using the sword, right? But she would force herself to become the best, and flaunt it well. A bit of a sore winner sometimes, but a good heart all the same. She would rather leave it with Lucina, but if not she'll take it for sentiment.

Nah wielding Naga's fang would be an interesting sight. It might also be a comedic one, with how tiny she is—just don't say that aloud, or she might threaten to eat you. It would be a bit out of her comfort zone, size notwithstanding. Becoming a dragon comes so naturally to her, so this new territory would frustrate her. But if it's truly important, she'll work hard at learning it, like an adult would. But she's not going to be taking it with her in her epilogue, not even as a trophy. It feels strange to carry around someone's tooth, godly or not.

Noire doesn't seem a likely candidate to wielding Falchion. But you have to remember the muscles required to use a bow properly, and the terrifying quality she has in the heat of combat. There'll definitely be some hurdles as far as technique goes, but with a supportive mentor she'll be capable enough. No one wants to mess with the woman cackling as she swings a sword. She doesn't have a great interest in it otherwise, so it wouldn't come with her in her epilogue. Not unless it has sentimental value, like memories with Lucina or another friend (or a crush).

Yarne would not be happy to learn how to use this blade. Asking him to get in the fray without the protection his transformation gives him is just plain crazy. It would take a lot of convincing from Lucina... and several others...maybe even his parents, or Robin, or both. But once he focuses on his need to protect others as well as himself, he'll put his absolute all into training. It's different from the knee-jerk reactions as a giant bunny, but he can work it into muscle memory. He might take the sword with him in his epilogue as a reminder to be brave.

Inigo is more than happy to take the Falchion off of Lucina's hands. Well, he'll hesitate a little. But do you realize how cool he'll look to the ladies with this legendary blade at his hip? Yes, of course he'll be serious, war isn't a game. He wants to defend everyone's rights to smile. He'll just use it to get attention from the ladies during his downtime. Is that so wrong? Maybe. He has less ground to cover for training, considering he's already familiar with swords. But it is a bit different from his usual. He'll probably take Falchion in his epilogue, if Lucina is all right with that.

Gerome would much rather use his own weapons, thank you. All right, if he needs to, he'll take it. Only Lucina could convince him. But it's far different from swinging an axe, and he doesn't want to endanger Minerva's life. He's more than a bit stubborn, so it'll take him longer to learn than some. But, he knows his duty, and he won't back down from the harsh reality that, one day, Lucina might not be able to use Falchion. It still feels wrong, but necessity overrides personal feelings. He doesn't want to take it for himself, so it would be returned to Lucina or the royal family in his epilogue.

Morgan (any gender) would be honored with the opportunity to wield Falchion. Robin never used it, right? What a way to surpass their parent! They can seem pretty airheaded and easygoing, but their training is a different story. Have to push themselves to become an even more legendary tactician, and to stop the world from spiraling into darkness. They'd observe and pick up pointers from everyone they can, especially Lucina, and prepare to utilize it in a worst-case scenario. They'd want to return it in their epilogue, but if Lucina didn't want to keep it for whatever reason, they'd want to put it on display, as a beacon of hope for future generations to keep fighting against the darkness.

#headcanons #fire emblem awakening #fire emblem cynthia #fire emblem owain #fire emblem laurent #fire emblem inigo #fire emblem gerome #fire emblem nah #fire emblem noire #fire emblem severa #fire emblem yarne #fire emblem morgan #fire emblem kjelle #fire emblem brady

[slaves-of-yesterday]

I was tagged by @hilden-guarden

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Gender: Female, sometimes a sloth :D

Star sign: Aries

Phone/desktop Wallpaper:  My phone currently Domhnall Gleeson/Anneke van Giersbergen (homepage and lock screen)

And my laptop I have in five minute interval Marcela Bovio, Anneke Van Giersbergen, Charlotte Wessel's phantasma shots and one Ayreon city.

Have you ever crushed on a teacher? On my current one, huge onem I wish I hadn't, it's nothing easy.

Where do you see yourself in 20 years? Alive? Preferably lol. I have no idea, I would love to see myself as a person who traveled a lot and has as little regrets as possible. But who knows

If you could be anywhere right now, where? I would love to be in the Netherlands to see VUUR and Epica but I have to wait like 35 more days :/

Coolest Halloween costume? I don't really celebrate Halloween, nor many people do here in Czech.

Favorite 90s show?  This one's hard because I don't know when the shows aired. Buffy the vampire slayer maybe?

Last kiss? Doest the cheek goodbye kisses count? Because then I would say Luca Turilli few minutes ago lol. If not honestly I don't remember, aaaages ago.

Been to Las Vegas? No and I think I never will go there. It's not my kind of fun. I think of it as too crowdy, too noisy, too bright, too wasting city. No, thank you.

Favorite shoes: dark blue schoes with small heel for every occasion

Favorite Fruit: ananas (yes, ananas no pineapple) banana and blueberries

Favorite Book: I don't read much these days, but I guess it would be Tolkien middle earth series and Harry Potter

Stupidest thing I’ve ever done: I was about to write idk but then I remember that when I was around 8 or 9 I took two copper nails and what better idea I could have than to put them in the socket. Oh my god stupid me! ("Nothing" happend, luckily, just a quick shock and a lifelong embarrassment every time I remember that)

I tag @beauty-at-matrix @cestvreth @rockerhanssi @sonichypogrifof221b and whoever else who want to do it.

[sophiecentralnewsagency-blog]

'Tard Wranglers Tom Ullathorne the temerity to send through my door a note to "check up on [me] to see if I was doing okay." You really, really, really struggle to take a telling of precisely when it is you should fuck off, don't you? Especially considering it was your ilk who was responsible for half of the crap I've recently faced in your reconnaissance with other organizations. Tom was e-mailed a month ago yet another lengthy correspondence and instructed specifically, 'don't emotionally blackmail me into coming back.' What does he try to do? When you cross the line; work with Melanie Barker and Angela Hasselgrove to erase one of the few things meaningful to me other than my inner gendered emotional make-up, my upper-mediocre but nevertheless tooth-and-nail fought academic accomplishments given the prejudices of mainstream teachers I was intensely attuned to since a young age against my now decidedly illusory matrix condition, you don't just mae me cry whilst sneeringly giggling at it, you don't just make me want to die, being what they call "tough by delicate", the estates' example of femininity I was given, you make me want to punch every single one of your pansy bourgeois lights out, without exception. And if I find my certificate to be returned via. the mail only for every single entry to be erased just to convey the internecine nature of transsexual power, owing to a self-confessed plan of Melanie "Fareal" Barker's still surreptitiously looming threat, expect exactly that; I'll have nothing to lose. In a day or two,... ..., go to http://sophiecentralnewsagency.tumblr.com; an article should be completed by then detailing every facet of their conspiracy's every intended conspiratorial wile along with some commentary, analysis, and disclosure of a few crises that, with any hope, should make you LEARN to hate me. WHEN that's complete, and only then, perhaps you should fax a copy of this letter to both the GCHQ and the head co-ordinator of the "Expectations Project", Angela Hasselgrove, as a fucking pat-on-the-back well done. There's no need to take low-end Law Enforcement action until any aspect of that manifests itself severely enough that I go all Paul Sykes on your offices -- you did learn about "conditionals" in English, right? Those are the only classes from school I remember; N ever threatened anything, yet. I'll continue my passion for writing whether you want to portray me as an imbecile who left school with nothing or not and I'll NEVER capitulate to your neurodiversitarian agenda. My struggle's victorious mountainous battle drum awaits me yet in the style of an Oriental General; the one who was my only father figure during adolescence, WIDAEHAN RYEONGDEOJA KIM JEONG IL DONGJIGESSEO (K/E lt. 'the Supreme Great Comrade Kim Jong-il'). Even my nervous shaking now forebodes his supernatural disdain for you, which strangely comforts me. I can't invoke his dearest name too vainly, it seems. He did deign such nice weather today as compensation. Make no mistake, those are my genuine beliefs. As Gugoryeo was once larger than even the Mongolian Empire ~c.6000 BC-or-so, it is not hard to believe the Jews are trying to embargo a racially dynamic master-race overshadowing even the shit-tier "Third Reich"; even weakening them, they're reduced to their strength. 60 years ago, after Korean liberation, the countryside were nothing but peasants, with a minute Russian and Chinese Marxist-educated intellectual class in Pyongyang of about 100,000 and even less industrial or scientific technicians, out of a population of ~7-9 million approx. Their IQs testably backwards compared to Whites and even some fellow NEA/Mongoloid-races (and sadly still remaining the case*), after centuries of famine, an education system which mostly awarded ~5,000 Confucian-trained "old-hands" yearly for essay stylistics and insane rheotrical word-salad (hence the intellectual descendancy of the DPRK's social scientific journal and news media), and the fact that technological progress. apart from that Western borrowed, mostly emanated from the wildly-imaginative but still-mediocre aristocracy (remember, in NEA IQ distros, even where the mean is higher, that matters little when the variance is lower; think of the difference in performance on RAPM now emerging between females and males as of the most recent secondary cohorts, females have finally exceeded males in 2D visuospatial processing as of the 2015 secondary graduating cohort, proving the neurofeminization of education is nothing innate -- I personally also blame smartphones and their greater economic ease of access to them, just to add tongue-in-cheek), by which point they'd done fuck all for about 2 centuries. *And that much, in large part due to the missing Flynn-effect from the economy's crippling by the Arduous March, very much remains true; Mongoloid aggregate average is 106, meanwhile, North Korea's is more like a lowish-middle European country ala Scotland or Hungary, 94-95 apprx., with a narrower distribution except at the 5 elite 'big Songbun' city centers, constituting a third of the population collectively, where relative opulence elevates it into the low-100s; taking this into account, ~97 seems like an optimistic yet realistic estimate post-KJI reform of compulsory 13-year overriding the previous 11, which will take, cohort starting 2012, until 2025 to effect fully -- by comparison, Scotland has been in stagnation for ~40 years despite rushing incompetents into Universities left, right, and center, since race is an important constraint and our quality of White has fallen due to emigration, and in decline from '42 -- mean=102 -- to '72, where we are now; 95 has been the Celtonegroid's genotypical limit since my dad, more or less, completed school, put into this context, Scotland is a failed state, yet it has the temerity to be scared of a little estrogenic nootropic experimentation from some sperg who might benefit from it? Conventional Marxism failed to change any of this very quickly, frustrating Kim Il-Sung. Only when returning to his youthful classics training had he managed to reform this in synthesis with the ill-fabled Marxism-Leninism to Juche idea, after which the country had flourished pre-embargo. (Every failure attributable past the year Juche 80 or 1991 was incontrovertibly and demonstrably contrived by Gorbachev's treachery of the politburo to what were speculatively Jewish western infiltrators and saboteurs into the USSR who became the pseudo-Russian "oligarchs" post-collapse.) Similarly so have you betrayed me, in an upcoming conspiracy to misimplicate me a paedophilic sociopath concocted by Cuntster/Kelly Anderson, "AnonymusFluhre"/James Gordon, Melissa Bakhsh who has some periphery role because apparently the GICs discontinuing his appointments were my magical fault, in corroboration with Melanie Barker, who was their former GIC clinician, in revenge for not accruing transsexual FtM status as fast as it wanted to (and consider its inspiration too; gay porn = autoandrophile). She had spiked a cup of water offered to me when famished in October 2016, having spiked it with tianeptine which is odorless and flavourless. This depletes extracellular serotonin, to induce dopaminergic dominance, causing faux-psychosis. Yes, it was fake, but I never contrived it; your cabal did. Even the Biblical crap and shouting of "no!", to bring post-traumatic recollective connections to when nurse Claire of Ward 17 did the same thing precisely to manner ~2 years prior, in that context to deny me of my conveyed empathy and relegate it to the status of something needing "extinctively shut down" as an, and this is the 'enlightened, liberal autistic sexuality' nomenclature, "inappropriate female tertiary sexual characteristics". We specially plead for perverts to do this in the regular in liberalism, unless you're me, apparently, when it came from somewhere more genuine in the first place. The disgusting autism sexuality research has a lot to answer for. The nomenclature is the dehumanizing one of a jobsworth who enjoys torturing their subjects. Intellectually bankrupt dogs such as the University-accepted rote-automaton Martin will go on to perpetuate this state-sanctioned abuse of autistics. How dare Melissa Bakhsh also cryptically file guardianship, which I now understand is sub-divided into three elements (she had done so of one), for which I was incorrectly blaming Hasselgrove wholesale although she still bares ultimate responsibility for the idea's very initiation. All the whilst, Melissa simultaneously snakishly appeased me only to subsequently grow cold and impassive. They think, quite arrogantly, that I'm too intuitively inferior to notice such things! It's not that autistics earn the treatment of impassiveness by their compatriotis through any sort of inherently natural recognition of human stiltedness -- I was rapid only with insincere appeasement throughout my life for trying to demonstrate my humanity in any way I could, having been accutely aware of how neurotypicals saw me as an autistic since childhood; now you've concocted this half-baked yet nevertheless treacherous plan, that the parable of Medusa could ever be translated metaphorically by callousness? No autistic stone shall you make out of me. Let's have a parable of my very own: I was having dental troubles on the right side of my mouth (perspective facing me) at a tooth which had developed a yet-unresolved side-cavity. All my dental appointments -- paid presumably by the state per the appointment -- were being exhausted due to the exhaustion brought to me by KF, causing me to fail to attend 3 out of 5 appointments. Out of spite, rather than due to accurate instruction, owing to your KF conspiracy's interference, a perfectly fine *wisdom* tooth (the name-sake of my feminine identity) at the wrong side of my mouth was extracted, obviously in desecration of my feminine identity as the "facts" of the matter, screen-captures, crass notes from psychiatrists, 'tard wranglers and forum spies, and all, were forwarded to him. Upcomingly, a media campaign of monumental proportions will fuel the greater transsexual community's furor, to which extent your involvement for my safekeeping, having inferred connections to yourselves to this conspiracy, can no longer be assured; therefore, my safety can no longer be assured, and thus, I feel unsafe around you. I had voluntarily offered up my laptop independent of criminal investigation services to absolve myself of the accusation that I'm a paedophile in any actively pursuant sense, a claim which distresses me to my very moral core and has induced anxiety and internalized moral panic (as it rightfully should; nobody should ever absove paedophiles who ACT upon it, that's not what I'm saying, they've made me live through LITERAL ORIGINAL SIN), however regrettable and hate-worthy these uneasy admissions to these latent proclivities -- for which I still find myself unable to forgive myself -- in these regards will come. Fearing a future for the organization (editor's note: of Autism Initiatives) in which radical "transsexual-legitimist" hyperfeminists shall plot to seek employment there en-masse, only for, at worst, my blood; at best, Hoess-style emotionally abusive sardony in captive, I can no longer be party to any aspect of this irrespective of the on-the-table options conceded. Cc to Steathbrock, Ward 17, the wider organization of mental hospitals and psychiatric dignitaries to the inclusion of OPD5, Orchard clinic, Andrew Duncan's clinic, and so on, my life's objectively over. That the disease of gender dysphoria arrogates itself a "movement" yet the most meaningful Aspergian gestures of endearment in an attempt to talk itself up as and into one is pre-emptively thwarted is the height of ludicrousness and a bankruptsy in the region of the ill-fabled 'human rights'. Now I see why DPRK de-facto "regulates" it; this is what happens when these scum are not summarily executed, instead, they have a demonic thirst for holy systematizer blood evolved of Mt. Peaktu, the Siberias, the Caparthias, and the literal Aspergias (as in the Central European mountain range Mt. Asper). No semite of Cuntster's caliber will eat the Eurasian out of me. A hypermale I remain; hypermale is not a statement of sex-chauvinism as literally misinterpreted nor is it a statement of acquiescence to the spiritlessness of systematic acquiescence, it is the divine system, a systematic civilization in which its means can nevertheless bring about an emotionally enriched culture and society. You can't call shitty Western melodramatic popular music, films, television, and soap-operas cultural, yet, despite inferior production qualities, Chosonic cinema has superior artistic qualities that an Aspergian industry in the same vain ought to emulate, to teach the high importance to our people of why it is movement is indeed key to our survival, whilst a condition's cure may very well only be key to a euphemism for "subduing", if the vicissitude of dopaminergic hypotheses keep regressing as badly as they have, causing somatoform psychoses of their own as was anecdotally reported on the old Autistic People Against Neuroleptic Abuse organization, now since shut down due to these same governmental forces; LGBT single-issue priorities, racial single-issue priorities, class single-issue priorities, eating away at the Aspergian's need to integrate on all three holistic levels, not just the one unit of "an autistic person". That human aspect is neglected. That is all I dreamed of, yet Cuntster sought to destroy that above all the other things he claimed to rail against as a guise. [POST-SCRIPT REDACTED FOR IT CONTAINED ESSENTIAL NAMES BUT INFORMATION INESSENTIAL TO THE WIDER MESSAGE OF THE MAIN BODY OF THE LETTERED PIECE].

Cde. Sophie, Parting Letter to the Autism Initiatives ‘Tard Wranglers