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Trans Megathread for the Week of 10/14 to 10/20 (hexbear.net)

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(i ripped this off wikipedia real fast so sorry if it's lib)

In October 1776, the Public Universal Friend contracted an epidemic disease and was bedridden and near death with a high fever. Their family summoned a doctor from Attleboro, six miles away, and neighbors kept up a death-watch at night. The fever broke after several days. The Friend later reported that [deadname redacted] had died, receiving revelations from God through two archangels who proclaimed there was "Room, Room, Room, in the many Mansions of eternal glory for Thee and for everyone". The Friend further said that [deadname redacted]'s soul had ascended to heaven and the body had been reanimated with a new spirit charged by God with preaching his word, that of the "Publick Universal Friend", describing that name in the words of Isaiah 62:2 as "a new name which the mouth of the Lord hath named".

From that time on, the Friend refused to answer to their deadname, ignoring or chastising those who insisted on using it. When visitors asked if it was the name of the person they were addressing, the Friend simply quoted Luke 23:3 ("thou sayest it"). Identifying as neither male nor female, the Friend asked not to be referred to with gendered pronouns. Followers respected these wishes; they referred only to "the Public Universal Friend" or short forms such as "the Friend" or "P.U.F.", and many avoided gender-specific pronouns even in private diaries. When someone asked if the Friend was male or female, the preacher replied "I am that I am", saying the same thing to a man who criticized the Friend's manner of dress (adding, in the latter case, "there is nothing indecent or improper in my dress or appearance; I am not accountable to mortals").

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[-] gaystyleJoker@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

hi, does anyone wanna make the mega in the upcoming weeks? if so, reply to this post and i'll add you to the list!

the list as it stands:

Thallo (10/21 - 10/27)
GenderIsOpSec (10/28 - 11/3)
TheChemist (11/4 - 11/10)
oscardejarjayes* (11/11 - 11/17)
HelltakerHomosexual* (11/18 - 11/24)
GayTuckerCarlson* (11/25 - 12/1)
Luna* (12/2 - 12/8)
Eco* (12/9 - 12/15)

* after name denotes someone who has posted before and will be skipped by first-time posters

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[-] Angel@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago

I'm down to talk for about an hour before I go to bed

Length of call: 3 hours, 34 minutes

I can genuinely only talk for about 30 minutes tonight because it's late

Length of call: 1 hour, 32 minutes

(When I pointed out that we're past 30 minutes, she said she doesn't mind staying up a bit longer so we continued talking)

I can talk for about an hour before bed

Length of call: 3 hours, 3 minutes

(This was tonight)

I really enjoy talking with her. She makes me feel understood.

[-] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

this is very sweet! what kind of relationship if you don't mind me asking?

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

We're long-distance friends who chat a ton. Though she is currently in the UK closer to her mother, her father lives in the same state as me. Her father has been wanting her to visit, but she said that she finds me a much larger incentive to go. She was thinking of using it as a "two birds, one stone" opportunity, where she could see us both.

We are quite flirty, but we've made no commitments, especially since a long-distance relationship wouldn't be easy to work out. If we were to ever go down that route, at the very least, she has some form of a connection to the place that I live in already.

We'll see how it goes. Right now, I'm just glad to have such a relatable friend who gets me.

[-] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

damn i can relate too, shout outs to long-distance friends you can lose hours with! best feeling in the world tbh ... good luck :3

[-] sneak100@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

Missing my long distance friend doggirl-tears

I'm glad you have that connection in your life! cat-trans

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I held my tongue for so long but every time Julia Serano writes "hormonally female" or "physically male" my soul tries to exit my body. And then she hits me with the WELL TRANS WOMEN'S BRAIN STRUCTURE like wow.

I respect fully that the intent of this book is to analyse the ins and outs of being trans in the gender binary, but when she writes shit like "mtf spectrum" I'm sitting back and wondering if she actually read Gender Outlaw. Maybe the pre-2016 version is a lot less funny, but this cisnormative gendering of certain bodies and hormones is even less funny and I hate it absolutely to death. It feels out of place and eye-rolling in a text otherwise filled with many salient observations about the media's methods of subconsciously signaling the artifice of trans feminine gender, or just how much society both covets and devalues femininity as a whole.

Like how do you write the quote about "the acknowledgement that there are exceptions to every gender rule and stereotype" and then just write about estrogen being female. How cam you be so uncritical of cisnormativity as to use its language when writing all of this?? I mean, the text outright states that testosterone makes a "male" body and estrogen makes a "female" body.

This also makes me realise, if there's a specific piece of theory that lays out the destruction of cisnormativity regarding bodies, hormones, etc I haven't seen it. That one is to me homespun on forums and chatrooms.

[-] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

yeah, it's only recently that i feel like i'm starting to understand the text's shortcomings, this is definitely one of them

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

I will cancel Julia Serano on twitter for her crimes smh. There is NO statute of limitations on the crime of cisnormativity meow-knife-trans

In seriousness it just baffles me Idk, like whyyy.

[-] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeah, 2008 was a long time ago, it is always surprising to me just how recent some of this theory is (GAM is 2021?). I'm glad we have it now, even Bornstein had to release a second ed. of Gender Outlaw

but i agree

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

There are updated editions of Whipping Girl but none of them try to rectify this literal find-and-replace issue, or straighten out its bizarre assortment of trans related terms... again why...

[-] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

wait, really?? why indeed!! you think Serano would have an enby arc or wake up one day and be like "wait gender is made up"

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

I mean you would desperately hope, but despite reading Bornstein and Feinberg that didn't really seem to click, or the terms weren't there yet Idk.

[-] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago

oh she read both of them ig?

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

She says as much in Whipping Girl, which is like " brow Did you, Julia? Did you really...?"

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago

It's weird how much the book explicitly quotes sources, but the whole book seems to push the idea of "NBs are the real oppressors" without nearly as much direct quotes and I wonder if it's an argument against those texts, but I've yet to read those so feel unqualified to say. Enjoyed a lot of the book overall, but the anti-"unique snowflake" messaging throughout seems a little too truscummy for me to want to give it an uncritical recommendation.

[-] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

wow, that is super fascinating, but agree... did she??! i'd love to hear more of your thoughts tomorrow but i gotta sleep soon ...

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

Go to bed niko-yawn I will probably repost this in the new mega come tomorrow since nobody DEBATED ME

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[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago

The next mega is loaded. Sitting in the chamber... Ready to fire.

Hold... Hold for the right moment... Until the news mega is in sight...

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

I tired to help with the fucked up in the crib thread sadness

[-] Luna@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

popuko-gun

...

I'm excited to see what you've whipped up doggirl-happy

[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

It's nerdy and pretty short. It's no fire emblem mega emilie-shrug

[-] Luna@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

Doesn't matter, I get excited anyway 😁

[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

Oh, so you agree that it's not as good as yours? hentai-free

[-] Luna@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

We'll have to wait and see

[-] Josephine_Spiro@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

What if I bought a set of cat thigh highs and cat ears... haha.... unless :3

[-] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

Catgirls using pup/pup's because catgirls have went out of style and puppygirls are the new hot thing... it's me garf-chan

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

That would be scandalous! thats-disgusting-where

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

::: spoiler I'm not a catgirl but...

~Getting~ ~the~ ~cat~ ~thigh~ ~highs~ ~was~ ~one~ ~of~ ~my~ ~first~ ~post-eggcrack~ ~clothing~ ~acquisitions~

biblically-accurate-kitty

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 7 points 6 days ago

I'm surprised I still haven't done that, if for no other reason than the meme. I did get thigh highs for the meme pretty much immediately though... Just not cat ones.

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

🐈‍⬛♀️

They don't fit right because I have Buff Legs kitty-cri-texas

Although that made them a little ripped which is Kinda Slutty sicko-fem

[-] sisatici@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

Gender and sex are not same because sex isn't real.

[-] Eco@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

factorio expansion dropped big-cool

[-] DeathToBritain@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

like 4 hours until factorio expansion drops. gonna be jover for my brain functionality this evening when my gf gets back from work

[-] Luna@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

I love the bit where Jerboa will just randomly crash while scrolling through trans mega, as if telling me to log off. Good bit Jerboa devs, I still open the app again 90% of the time 😅

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