Up late doing some pretty depressing research.
Human beings can do such wonderful things.
We have created so much that improves life for all.
And yet... we also have *such* a history of doing harm, then rationalizing the harm we do with claims to upholding "sacred" traditions.
The history of things done to feminized bodies is truly the stuff of nightmares.
We've come a long way out of superstition in a *very* brief period of time.
And we're always closer to backsliding than we might think.
Agreed.
Though I'd go further.
I think we saw a lot of masc people admit what they really think of feminized people in 2016. We've been bracing ourselves for the consequences of that emboldened attitude ever since.
Thatโs a really good observation, I would not have been able to summarize it like that.
My goodness you are so good.
โฅ๏ธ @MLClark
And you, so generous and so kind. Thank you, Kat. I was in tears after reading the last medical journal article that I did. ๐ I'm so grateful to have had such a warm heart in your presence here. May you always feel so supported in moments of your own.
โฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธ I feel you, I know, and thank you!! ๐โฅ๏ธ @MLClark
The reason itโs so good to hear it summarize like that is because it helps me (and other readers of your work) have perspective to manage whatโs happening Better in my mind. without structure it just feels like confusing chaos.
Thank you, seriously thank you so much. What youโre doing is so valuable and Iโm sorry itโs so โฆhurtful or scary or nauseating to do the research for it, @MLClark
Very well said and nicely summarized. โจ ๐
ps. *Offering hugs* โฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธ @MLClark
Right back atcha, Kat. โค๏ธ
Culture is a semi-ratchet.
It continues to turn, and is hard to go backward. Yes with enough force, it can. Yet this force is observable long before it has any effect, so we can counter it.
That is the one gift and tool with which we can arm ourselves: foreknowledge of what's to come, if we but falter in our pursuit of change.
Thank you, Corlin.
I'm elder Gen Y. My generation invented the gender reveal party and the genocide-facilitating Facebook, among other modern nightmares. I'm ashamed of what we've created, too.
There was a moment when we were considered the "fluid" generation - before the Great Recession made small-c conservatives of us, and we leaned into neoliberal forms of activism instead of deeper transformations.
So - solidarity across the decades. ๐ I wish my nephews were growing into a better world, too.
for some women this past year, the back sliding has already started, @MLClark