went to a brand new salon and i was nervous. it was nice we were talking about why biracial children with white moms are so maladjusted, then we started talking about why so many black men date white women who dont do the work to educated themsleves on raising a black child, THEN (im getting to it) i pulled out a quote from the book (i was finishing it for tomorrow) about how the colonized man desires the colonizer position in society his job his house his wife, ect. we ended up talking about the book for a good bit before we went back to shit talking white people. it was fun, they all kept telling my what job they thought I should have.they were very nice, they want me to run for public office. I told them I used to want that too but id prefer to do labor organizing to put power directly in the hands of the people and i got a chorus of agreement. the absolutely did try to convert me to christianity but they were nice about it. and its not a salon experience if someone doesn't try to convert me. i even mention ive dated a white woman when we were talking about how crazy they were and no one batted an eye. no one even tried to make me get a more feminine hairstyle too. they were being mean to this autistic women, so that sucked so i talked with her until they separated us but i got her number, she a lot younger (not a minor) but seems nice. I told them i was autistic too and they tried to tell me i had Aspergers but i explained all of that to them and they got it. so all in all a lot better than the transphobe who made me feel unsafe last time.
ended up talking about the wretched of the earth with five ladies while getting my hair done.
We have the coolest userbase, don't we folks?!
we talked about niger too that was fun. i got them to critically support the coup. after explaining what critical support meant lol.
i will say one woman from togo did not say anything so hopefully i didnt say anything wrong. she was really focused on her work though. she saw the book and said "i know that book" and didnt talk too much after. could be a cultural difference. she did laugh at my joke about the french!!
Glad you found a cool hair place! I remember you weren't thrilled with the last person
yeah im definitely coming back, even if i have to hear a bit of Jesus talk. the owner also a christian "motivational speaker" so you know. maybe ill just let her think she converted me lol. who cares shes nice and is fine with queer people.
the short version is i explained that the term was outdated and had nazi origins and where it came from, and that autism just looks really different and ect.
had Nazi origins
Holy shit, I had no idea! Stopped using the term a long ago because I knew it was outdated, but now I'll have this in my back pocket if it ever comes up in conversation.
im no the autism authority but 1, yes Aspergers just mean autistic, everyone still using aspergers is either innocently misinformed or is an elon musk type aspie supremacist imo. and most people still say the autism spectrum some people on tic tok dont like it but idk.
Asperger's is generally considered a deprecated term because lots of countries and the classification standards have abandoned it in favour of just being under the umbrella term of autism (since Asperger's isn't actually a seperate condition anyway.)
Asperger's often gets applied in a really oppressive way and/or in a self-stigmatising way because it signifies that you're one of the "good ones" or you're "normal enough" to pass or other gross things like that.
Hans Asperger, whom Asperger's is named after despite being the second person to describe autism (the first being Grunya Sukhareva but she was a woman and a Soviet citizen so—double ick!! Best to award the namesake of the condition to the Nazi collaborationist instead. Oh, uh, spoiler alert...) and Hans Asperger was a Nazi collaborationist who used the term Asperger's to define autistic children who were "capable" of integrating into mainstream society and being productive so he "saved" those children while consigning the others to eugenics.
See Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Sheffer for further reading.
That sounds like a wild ride, I could never imagine talking any sort of politics openly at a salon, besides with my hairdresser. I am white though so idk if the salon culture is different, no one really talks to one another period
thats crazy, you have to talk at a black salon. and barbershop/salons have been THE place to talk politics. its a well established concept.
Oh for sure, I know at least that its a way more communal environment than what Im used to, I just figure now with how polarized shit is, especially when it comes to communist ideology that it could get really intense. But I guess part of it might be how you present it to people
oh i didnt use the c word. yeah, you can get people to agree with communist stuff if you dont use the word. if i feel like I cant go full commie i say im a socialist. much easier sell.
