There are only two genderS: GAMERS and NORMIES
GET OVER IT SNOWFLAKeS
but even the raddest of radfems would have to concede that women being able to legally marry other women doesn’t bolster the Patriarchy, or so I would have assumed before today.
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The best part is it works no matter who posts it, even Enemy Politics Blog.
Welllll, there is an argument to be made about how marriage’s validity as an institution is fortified by every new marriage, no matter between whom, and the institution of marriage is a tool of the patriarchy in many respects. Hence many gay rights activists arguing that the focus on gay marriage as the be-all end-all of gay rights not only distracts from other important issues, but also at this point often just feels like a successful assimilation into the institutions one should be trying to dismantle.
“if you’re so gay, why aren’t you married??”
Yeeesssssss, assimilate all the gays into normal society without them even realizing it…
*various hissing sounds*
Anonymous asked:
so let me get this straight. you physically have the dna of two white lesbians yet you still somehow think you're genetically asian?
silver-and-ivory answered:
hon, i’m adopted. from china. it’s. not that hard to figure out.
both lesbians are also cis, i’m pretty sure i’ve said that in the past
Also like, ‘my parents are both lesbians’ should probably have a bigger prior of ‘adopted’ rather than ‘test tube baby that didn’t require sperm which is theoretically possible but hasn’t ever actually happened yet’.
The silver lining is that we’ve staffed this corner of Tumblr with so many transhumanists that someone’s brain ACTUALLY supplies “near/mid-future gene-editing technique” before “adoption.”
I mean I’m pretty sure that anon thought that I was Rachel Dolezal: Part Two, Asian Boogaloo; but this is a far more pleasing interpretation. @mitigatedchaos would approve.
Obviously you’re just not signalling being Chinese hard enough.
You’re gonna need to wear a qipao, while putting your hair in a bun and putting two chopsticks through it, while appearing in a kung fu movie set in Hong Kong, while speaking with a heavy Cantonese accent.
This should make it clear to all readers that you are definitely Chinese, despite growing up in America to the point that you tag things as “#half-remembered” and probably having almost no familiarity with speaking Cantonese in your life.
Now I know what you’re thinking. “But wait, don’t many overseas Chinese students these days speak with an accent almost indistinguishable from American English as spoken by a second-generation immigrant?” But this is about Tumblr theater for Americans who project their own terrible race politics on every other country, regardless of whether it’s remotely applicable, so spoon feeding is required.
As for the kung fu, that’s merely a point of disagreement between me and the current government on whether learning a martial art should be mandatory for all able-bodied adult citizens as part of a broad-based, multi-layered civil defense strategy. The good news is that the same viewers don’t know what real martial arts looks like, so you don’t actually have to learn kung fu, at least while the government and I hash out our differences over what qualifies as “an essential obligation of citizenship” and a “necessary sovereign service to be yielded by the state.”
Anime Girls (& boys, but mostly girls because we’re trying to sell manga here) of Rationalist/ Adjacent Tumblr
Discourse Suit Aries: Fires of Orion
@ranma-official: Argumentative girl thought to be flirting with protagonist in comedy filler episode 17, actually interested in protagonist’s love interest. Side plot is dropped entirely once she becomes member of ship’s crew.
@isaacsapphire: The ship’s no-nonsense mechanic.
@mitigatedchaos: Loyal officer of the season 1 main antagonist and mobile suit knightmare frame mech pilot. Actually believes in main antagonist’s plans to bring about World Revolution, and the Hard Choices this requires. Thought to have been defeated and killed by the protagonist ¾ through season 1, returns to investigate/fight the Mysterious Organization behind the World State in season 2.
@slartibartfastibast: Ship’s lab-coated biologist. Secretly working against the Mysterious Organization, as hinted in season 1.
@the-grey-tribe: Ship’s engineer. Keeps the protagonist’s Super Prototype Mech Discourse Suit functioning in between combat engagements.
@collapsedsquid: Journalist investigating the true motives of the season 1 main antagonist, thought to have been killed by the Mysterious Organization near the end of season 1, but revealed to be alive in season 2.
@kontextmaschine: Esoteric ‘hipster’ gets little screen-time, revealed as former member of the Mysterious Organization currently in hiding in season 2, annoying viewers as an underwhelming use of foreshadowing in season 1.
@xhxhxhx: Reasonable Authority Figure of World State District 11, origin point of the protagonist’s ship.
@wrathofgnon: Even more war-hawkish general of the main antagonist.
@silver-and-ivory: Handsome Mech Discourse Suit pilot from other battlegroup rescues protagonist twice in season 1, once in season 2. A fan favorite but doesn’t get much screentime.
@theunitofcaring: Peace activist focused on by plot but brushed aside by ludicrously destructive Discourse Suit war. Finally achieves goal in end of season 2.
@yudkowsky: Thought to be the secret identity of the main antagonist, turns out to be just a philosopher in one of the space colonies.
@bambamramfan: Additional philosopher on Earth. Encountered by the protagonist in season 1 to impart some wisdom with a few other philosophers before departing.
@wirehead-wannabe: Bridge bunny. (Sorry.)
@slatestarscratchpad: Another space colony philosopher. Explains the goals of the Mysterious Organization in season 2 when Yudkowsky is found, but not actually a member of the Mysterious Organization.
@argumate: Generic owl-themed harem protagonist of the spin-off series.
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SSC’s latest seems like a classic case of letting gender politics obfuscate power and class issues that cut across gender.
He quotes some PUA:
Polyamory — multiple and simultaneous sexual relationships — means, in practice, a few high value dudes hording all the pussy.
And then he uses both his intuitive experience and his LW survey data to show that men and women in polyamory date about the same number of people. There’s at least no clear cut numerical advantage to men. My experience also agrees.
But what if we neuter that sentence, and look at it again:
Polyamory — multiple and simultaneous sexual relationships — means, in practice, a few high value people dudes hording all the dates.
Which is to say, charismatic and confident people of either gender, dating a lot of people, and awkward and introverted people of both genders dating no one, only one person, or being a hanger on in a larger polycule that doesn’t get a lot of attention from the partner regardless.
That sounds… less implausible. It doesn’t exactly match my observed experience, but it’s not super far from it either. I’ve certainly seen in nerdy groups a Queen Bee that is dating half the men, in a way that seems parallel to the alpha-males that PUA’s fear/worship.
It’s not at all clear that this is bad. This seems just as likely to be the result of “some people want more partners, and are more socially outgoing to find them, while some people want less or are less willing to put themselves out there to meet them,” which would be fine. Or it could be this high-value thing. (I detest rat-tumb’s focus on high-status-males as the evil beneficiary of social engineering, which seems both empirically and ontologically unsound, but from a capitalist-critical perspective, “liberalizing trade regimes” often means “the rich people get more stuff and poor people somehow have less.”)
But, I’m also not going to be surprised by the subjective perspective of people low on the social totem pole. Before, they had hope in this pigeon-hole thing, where each person could get at most one partner, so eventually the people as attractive as them would realize their best chance for a life long relationship was with fellow low-class dates like themselves. It was a bad model, but I’m aware people believed in it. Now they worry no one will be left waiting for them, and they’ll be entirely alone forever. So there’s some people who seem to be having a lot of sex (stealing their jouissance) and they aren’t reaping the benefits.
The answers they come up with are usually dumb, but they are at least seeing/feeling a thing.
Bambam honey darling kun, and also @slatestarscratchpad friend,
I love weird nerds but weird nerds aren’t a representative sample for the behavior of typical relationship norms.
A better example for normies applying this would be all the other countries, territories and communities where polygamy is practiced, as well as communities within the US where one man will have 11 kids by 8 different women.
No full poly until Tranhumanism makes it possible to ‘defect’ from both your sex and sexual orientation, pls.
Anonymous asked:
Can you read all your posts under “gender politics” tag and truthfully say that you want to live when the life is like that? I couldn't.
Dearest Anon-kun,
My representation is a bit more dire than how I actually interpret the situation, in part because it’s intended as a counter-balance to mainstream feminism, which strips women of their agency and refuses to critically examine their role in the social dynamics which create these situations.
“Women are powerless” is really quite deeply normalized almost everywhere! It’s very insidious.
Comments regarding even cishet neurotypical women should be regarded as generalizations that do not uniformly apply to the population, and many subgroups don’t necessarily fit them. Additionally, low-status women also exist. In fact, women that don’t fit this mold are more common in my subcultures!
Additionally,
1) I have a reasonable shot at making it to the Transhuman era.
2) I have a close relationship to my ex WRT expressed vulnerability & female companionship, though not sexually.
3) Have you observed the number of self-identified “traps” and other such individuals among the Alt Right? I believe this represents a sign of an impending Male Gender Meltdown, the consequences of which are hard to predict. Overall, I do think progress is being made, as indicated by the appearance of multiple male gender movements.
Also,
All my exes are bisexual (and therefore have no set reason to behave in a certain pattern of attraction), and this blog will continue to not disclose my sex/gender.
Kind Regards,
Miti
P.S. If you are secretly the tumblr user known as BA, this blog hopes for your swift recovery regardless of whether that is low in probability. If you are secretly tumblr user RO, this blog hopes for an increase in your available useful energy.
neurocybernetics asked:
have you considered getting laid perhaps
ranma-official answered:
I can easily do so thanks to Tinder, but it makes my dysphoria worse.
I don’t understand what you’re getting at. What framework are you operating under where men prove their value via sexual conquests?
Could it be…
… the patriarchy?
What? No. Proving your worth through “sexual conquest” is a sad weird modern phenomenon that emerged after proper marriage shat the bed. If anything, the patriarchy would have actively shunned manwhores.
Or is patriarchy supposed to be what happened after feminism? I’m confused. Antibiotics and birth control are very recent things.
You must acknowledge the dominance of sexual manquest throughout history! High-status men and their behaviors are all that matters…
Women At Google Face ‘Extreme, Systemic’ Wage Gap, According To Labor Dept. Suit
Read Me –>The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap (Updated Spring 2017)
I mean, it’s even more than that. They’re an advertising/data company. That’s basically their entire business model.
GOOGLE: We take pride in our business of knowing everyone’s approximate salary, age, gender, interests, browsing habits, media habits, driving/walking habits, search history, and a rough social network, and regularly do analyses and optimizations across all that data to best direct advertisements to where they will have the strongest effect.
GOVERNMENT: So. Um. How about some statistics on how much you pay female employees, then?
GOOGLE: uuuuuhhhhrrrrrrrrrrhhhh…………… data machine broek…………………?.. .
I smell a troll concept: Argue that it’s capitalism’s fault, because paying men more on average maximises shareholder value, as men are better at programming under this system, and only under full communism, women and men can afford to be equally bad at programming.
Comrade Bernov will herd the women into STEM, just as the ideology says must be done for the sake of justice.
I’m a male feminist, I own a “male tears” mug just to cry into it
Well duh, they’re a crafting component. It would be stupid to waste them.
buying a dozen “this is what a feminist looks like” t-shirts and forcibly putting them on men you pass on the street
feminist alchemists ending every youtube video with “don’t forget to like and subscribe” because every like can be used in a Potion of Intersectionality +2
SAN FRANCISCO—In an effort to reduce the number of unprovoked hostile communications on the social media platform, Twitter announced Monday that it had added a red X-mark feature verifying users who are in fact perfectly okay to harass. “This new verification system offers users a simple, efficient way to determine which accounts belong to total pieces of shit whom you should have no qualms about tormenting to your heart’s desire,” said spokesperson Elizabeth James, adding that the small red symbol signifies that Twitter has officially confirmed the identity of a loathsome person who deserves the worst abuse imaginable and who will deliberately have their Mute, Block, and Report options disabled. “When a user sees this symbol, they know they’re dealing with a real asshole who has richly earned whatever mistreatment they receive, including profanity, body-shaming, leaking of personal information, and relentless goading to commit suicide. It’s really just a helpful way of saying to our users, ‘This fuck has it coming, so do your worst with a clear conscience and without fear of having your account suspended.’” At press time, Twitter reassuredly clarified that the red X was just a suggestion and that all users could still be bullied with as little recourse as they are now.