Gideon: Gay Anger.

Gideon: Gay anger.

Harrow: I only feel one emotion and it’s anger.

Gideon: Last night you got drunk and texted me a thousand heart emojis.

Harrow: Out of anger.

“people deserve respect regardless if they find you fuckable” 

Okay so I think the “people deserve respect regardless if you find them fuckable” changed to “you need to find someone fuckable if you think they deserve dignity and respect” partly developed because of the “body positivity” movement. The body positivity movement should’ve been about saying bodies have inherent value regardless of being attracted to them and instead it’s about how everyone is fuckable and you need to expand your definition of fuckable or you’re a bigot who hates people who are different

And then that narrative combined with good old fashioned homophobia and misogyny, led to homosexuals (esp lesbians) needing to change their sexuality or they want people dead

Imagine this:

White people who claim that they are actually trans ethnic. That they feel as if they were born into the wrong skin, that deep down inside they just ‘feel’ African American.  When asked to elaborate on said ‘feeling’ they talk about how much they’ve always loved Beyonce and Kanye West, and how they could dance better than other white people and it made them feel alienated. How they always loved fried chicken and watermelon, how they loved playing doubledutch. 

They begin to transition, by wearing snapbacks and Nike slip-ons. They learn how to play basketball. They start wearing crochet braids and getting weaves as a part of their transition. 

They start telling Black people that we need to check our privilege. They had to grow up listening to pop and wearing khaki shorts because their moms wouldn’t let them watch BET or listen to rap music, THEY didn’t get to go to Baptist church and hear the choir sing. THEY didn’t get to go to an intercity school, their Blackness wasn’t handed to them on a silver platter. THEY didn’t get to wear a bonnet to bed at night. THEY didn’t get to experience racism-experiencing racism is a validating part of their transition, because it means that they’re passing as Black. 

Then they start demanding access to Black spaces. Every conversation on natural hair and melanin must now be inclusive for trans ethnic white people and you’re bigoted for talking about your experiences growing up with natural hair- it’s triggering and rude.

Trans ethnic people are now telling Black people what it means to REALLY be Black, that there is no such thing as ‘race-based oppression’ because race doesn’t exist, that there is only oppression for LIKING things associated with Black people. That Black people are REALLY oppressed for liking rap music, speaking AAVE, and liking snapbacks, that’s all. 

Then they start telling weird Black kids that they’re actually white for liking punk music. They start encouraging Black scene kids to start their transition as early as possible and to beg their parents for skin-lightening treatments and nose surgery as soon as possible. Any child who doesn’t like fried chicken or hot sauce or watermelon might actually be trans ethnic. Don’t abuse your kids by forcing them to eat traditional Black foods- take them to Whole Foods and those gentrified vegan cupcake shops, and encourage their racial identity. 

Race is really a spectrum, you know. Don’t let anyone invalidate your racial identity. 

Raceless people exist. You have to ask for someones preferred racial identity before addressing them. 

Black people who don’t accept trans ethnic white people just because they weren’t ‘born Black’ are bigots. Just because white people didn’t grow up experiencing racism, getting spit on or beat up by cops, being denied jobs because of their Black names, didn’t live in ghettos, didn’t have to go through summers with no air, DOESN’T MEAN THEY AREN’T BLACK BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T EXPERIENCE WHAT YOU THINK BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD EXPERIENCE. Trans ethnic white peoples experiences with unseasoned chicken and no washcloths are valid too, and their past doesn’t make them any less Black.

This is how stupid trans activists sound to me, a Black woman. 

“but you privately see your idealized gender goals as “has a sword and a sense of dignity and a Quest””

... is that not how idealized gender goals are supposed to work? Because that sounds amazing.

[hand hovers over crystal ball] when you were a tween you got really into Arthuriana and you thought the aesthetic idea of questing knights was really cool but the religious and patriarchal aspects of medieval chivalry bothered you so you coped through swords and sorcery fantasy fiction and went through an obligatory phase where you looked into Wicca but discovered that it had no appeal to you and for a while you wanted to change your name to Rowan because it was earthy and gender-neutral but when you got older you decided against it and either kept your original name or switched to something ambiguous or masculine of center and maybe you described yourself as butch or non-binary or trans but you privately see your idealized gender goals as “has a sword and a sense of dignity and a Quest” which doesn’t make any sense really but as an adult you channeled your misplaced knight errant fantasies into a passion for environmental justice or ecology or wildlife conservation and picked up a diagnosis or two that explains why you are weird at parties

So I was taught a lesson in how to get rid of a migraine in 30 seconds and omfg listen my migraines don’t go away ever but I was shown what part of my body to touch and like???????????????

It’s witchcraft????????? Like I would be burned at the stake if I lived in ye olde days knowing that information?????

What the fuck??????

Humans Are Weird

So there has been a bit of “what if humans were the weird ones?” going around tumblr at the moment and Earth Day got me thinking. Earth is a wonky place, the axis tilts, the orbit wobbles, and the ground spews molten rock for goodness sakes. What if what makes humans weird is just our capacity to survive? What if all the other life bearing planets are these mild, Mediterranean climates with no seasons, no tectonic plates, and no intense weather? 

What if several species (including humans) land on a world and the humans are all “SCORE! Earth like world! Let’s get exploring before we get out competed!” And the planet starts offing the other aliens right and left, electric storms, hypothermia, tornadoes and the humans are just … there… counting seconds between flashes, having snowball fights, and just surviving.