robinxbird.bsky.social
Pronouns em/em/eir (they're singular, nice and easy)
I do stuff. I have cats. And Opinions
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This is cartoonish. Proper Warner Bros ACME Co. shenangigans
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4:30
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then the relationship could continue and grow appropriately. But when the disordered parent DEMANDS, based solely on the filial relation, that the child adopt certain attitudes and behaviors, that is where we run into the problem and create estrangement.
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Ooooh OK that makes some sense compared to:
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I have literally never heard Fredo as a word used outside of the context of alarmingly price chocolate caramel frogs (UK) so this whole thing is especially confusing.
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Thank you that's really kind
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Others might dig deeper and find something else. They might find a strong sense of "woman" or other factors that shape their gender. it's complex. Your experience is different to mine.
I can find community and solidarity in my experience of sexist oppression, but I don't find gender. 🧵7
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But once I looked beyond that, beyond an identity which was crafted on and relied on patriarchy (though I didn't think of it in that way at the time) once I looked deeper into "ok but what else is there to this gender stuff". Personally I find nothing. That's why I describe myself as agender.🧵6
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Because otherwise what does it mean to be a woman?
The thing is I'm nonbinary right. And one of the things that stopped me coming out for a long time was because that was my strong connection to "being a woman". I had those shared experiences of sexism and misogyny and it ties me to other women. 🧵5
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To define yourself based on your experience of oppression and discrimination doesn't challenge it. It wraps it around us. It embodies it. It holds onto that system tightly because without it we have no sense of self. Even as we decry it and curse it's name we have to hold onto it ... 🧵4
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But the point is. I find this a terribly sad way of defining one's gender and identity. Your sense of self defined by how others oppress you. I could use words like reductive, limiting, frustrating. But my overwhelming feeling is sad. Sad that that's such a core part of some people's identity 🧵3
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This extends to transphobia: "you *can't* be a woman because you haven't experienced sexism". Except of course this ignores the fact that tabs women do actually experience misogyny and oppression under patriarchy *even before coming out*. 🧵2
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All the things they talk about, whether it's "LGB" rights, or "protecting women and girls", or "protecting women's sports", it's all a smoke screen to cover for the fact that they want to run around interrogating trans women.
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Slowly and with malicious intent backing up to a human baby (who was for narrative reasons unattended and on the ground)
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I would love to know the scenario in which a wombat is trying to kill a human baby. That's some very messed up Australian folk horror shit that I can imagine @tkingfisher.com writing
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Alt text descriptions of people cats are the best thing.
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Ahh this was my dad.
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Ooh Harehills gets a cameo!
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Writing is not the stringing together of words.
It is the communication of ideas.
AI doesn't have any ideas of its own.
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I am deadly with a vegan croissant
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I sometimes put a book down that I'm really enjoying and gently pat the cover. Then pick it up and keep reading.
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Urgh this is all so 1980s
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Or dye your hair