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  • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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    8 months ago

    This is not good.

    If a fascist is threatening violence, it will likely be used against other people, such as tran folk, Autistic comrades, BIPOC peoples, etc.

    • reverendz [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      Exactly. I wish folks would stop with the memes.

      When Trump won last time, there were multiple raids in my neighborhood within a couple months of him winning. My part of town has a large population of immigrants (I am one myself) and ICE was everywhere. A couple on Next Door, from the Middle East, was freaking out because while they're here legally, it didn't stop ICE from harassing them and threatening to take their daughter away.

      This shit is not funny.

    • DayOfDoom [any, any]
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      8 months ago

      Yeah, Biden's just a vessel they pour every human they hate into.

      • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Exactly. He's an "avatar," of sorts. What they pour their hate into. But he won't be hurt.

        • taiphlosion@lemmygrad.ml
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          8 months ago

          maybe

          Lol I get that, I didn't realize I wasn't cis till my mid-20s and even then I didn't settle on nonbinary til after tons of introspection

          • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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            8 months ago

            I at least may be non-binary.

            I don't really think of myself as a man, you know?

            • jaywalker [they/them, any]
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              8 months ago

              This might be ridiculous, but I often wonder about autism and gender and if they're connected in some way. I say that because I'm autistic and often think about how I don't view myself as a man or have any attachment to gender. I think it's something to do with gender being at least partially (almost entirely imo) a social construct and having trouble understanding that aspect of gender creates a kind of agender feeling for me.

              I didn't quite understand this feeling until my late 30s and I'm not sure what it means, but like I gotta work tomorrow and shit so I just try to not think too hard about it ya know? I think if I had a better childhood with a support system and knew about the autism earlier, I might have spent more time thinking about gender in my youth

                • jaywalker [they/them, any]
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                  8 months ago

                  Yeah, autigender seems to encapsulate what I'm talking about. Also neuroqueering explains some of it for me as I think some of my "rebellious" behaviors like wearing dresses, makeup, etc when I was a teenager in rural Alabama might have really been driven by a demand for autonomy and resistance to gender norms. Although I didn't read a lot about it yet and might be misinterpreting the meaning

                    • jaywalker [they/them, any]
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                      8 months ago

                      I'm not the one to explain this because I literally read about it for the first time today. This is what I read, and then the blog in the comments too because I like a lot of perspectives and wanted a blatant example. https://neuroclastic.com/an-introduction-to-neuroqueer-theory/

            • taiphlosion@lemmygrad.ml
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              8 months ago

              Yes, actually that's the exact line of thinking that led me to discovering it. After being told for years that I was a man, how you're supposed to think and talk and act like a man...I just didn't get it at all. Then came the thought "well maybe you're not a man?" and I was like 🤯