art imitates life

@sierra there's a dwarf fortress joke here but i'm having trouble putting it together

@winterklaus let's read foucault together

@Erato_Heti @winterklaus well . when people want an abortion . people call it feminism . so

repressive, libertine, it's all different intensities of the same flow of desire. repression wouldn't exist if there wasn't something pleasurable about it, a sort of abstract bondage. people who are the most loudly repressed and brainwormed are really the most pathetic exhibitionist perverts but never expect anyone to figure out that's what they're doing; in fact, they don't even expect themselves to figure it out

@Erato_Heti @winterklaus my opinion on the ideological status of transgenderism is that a system's purpose is what it does, if something has ideological function it is ideology . denying it is a fine defense mechanism in a liberal assimilationist framework but as a rule i think we should be more radical and less assimilationist , promoting assimilationism has continually undermined radical change and locks us into straight time (see jose muñoz' cruising utopia, 2009)

@winterklaus let's read foucault together

@Erato_Heti @winterklaus ohhhhh okay i see. ok im back on board

@Erato_Heti @winterklaus i'm not really following your argument here, sorry. this is the function of "transgenderism" as a talking point? or the denial thereof?

@Erato_Heti @winterklaus this is all true! but also the fact there is a liberal starting point of trans ideology and trans positivity and whatnot is a fact that exists and i think denying its existence is generally counterproductive

@winterklaus mmm true i agree . like i said this is a very sketchy concept i haven't fully thought through

@winterklaus maybe my perspective is a little simplistic . you seem a little better read about this than me lol

@winterklaus i'll have to think harder about this . to me at least immediately transgenderism as an ideology is in its simplest form the ideal that trans rights are human rights , that on no grounds should transition be barred to any individual , and that transition is good . being transgender is good . this is a distinct ideological direction to me . and then this foundational transgenderist ideology expands outwards into more radical variants : transfeminine positivity , gender acceleration , trans supremacy , etc . i think this is what conservatives refer to when they refer to transgenderism and i think they have correctly diagnosed an extant form of ideology . but it also is still in its infancy

denying it does provide inroads to guerilla activism though so we take those

transgenderism is a real thing and to deny it is to undermine the project of trans rights and queer futurity

one of liberals' and even leftists' biggest mistakes in the discursive space is the denial of transgenderism as an ideology

it's good when men have a continuous and passive sense of shame

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@bfdifan2763 @FBI it's not quite hittin sorry

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