Notices by Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social), page 2

@futurebird Absolutely.

No one is a bigot in one way only; they're almost all white supremacists and other things besides and they say so constantly with a conception of womanhood that is exclusively white and stereotypical.

We see the way they attack non-white women athletes!

That they can find a few others willing to spout hate with them is neither surprising nor new. There are terrible trans people, too. Sellouts, unfortunately, are not hard to come by.

TERFs are almost always misogynists.

They typically agree with male misogynists, tacitly or explicitly, that women are trivial and only exist to make babies and being a woman is a miserable experience that no one would possibly choose given the alternative.

They smear their entire gender on a regular basis.

@hellomiakoda Oh, I drop them from time to time, but even I don't find me very interesting on that basis.

@hellomiakoda Books and short stories. I don't think anyone is that interested in my life. LOL.

I have multiple stories sitting on a mental shelf waiting for me to have enough oomph to tackle them.

I don't want to "talk" to my browser. I don't want my browser to "summarize" things. I don't want my browser to "help" me with things. I don't want my browser to do anything except show me web pages and shut the fuck up and get out of the way.

I'm feeling burned out on everything: work, writing, games, hobbies, politics, you name it.

There's a sick feeling that the best years of my life are over and even as everything around me is going to hell, I still have to go to work and pay the bills.

I felt almost good yesterday but today the Sartre levels are very high.

"We're just living in a fundamentally different world from the guys who say 'the economy is good, so it doesn't matter that everything is expensive and nobody can make rent.' I'm frankly sick of sharing a space with these guys when all they've ever done is force loser career politicians on us"

https://bsky.app/profile/beanwalrus.bsky.social/post/3lpkdqchagc2b

If you're platforming Nazis the same as a centrist piece of shit like Gavin Newsom then you are not, in fact, progressive or leftist or a good person.

It would be fucking amazing if people developed a coherent moral framework instead of letting individual issues be their Trojan Horse.

At least develop a healthy, anarchist critique of power for fuck's sake, if not some basic human empathy.

Progressives are suckered into supporting Nazis because of fake "anti-war" shit and protectionism.

Liberals are suckered into supporting Nazis because of defending Israel.

Centrists are suckered into supporting Nazis because of transphobia.

One of the things Americans fail to understand, because nobody tells them and politicians don't want them to know, is that the government can spend $10k on someone or something now (e.g., UBI, healthcare) and save itself hundreds of thousands in the future -- or even "profit" in the sense of higher productivity and tax revenues.

Instead, we live in a country that insists on spending $150 million on cops to prevent $104,000 in lost subway fares.

But the fundamental flaw of the American liberal, especially those who identify with the Democratic Party, is:

"I believe we should improve society, but not if it significantly changes the social hierarchy, or costs me anything, or affects my property values, or benefits the 'undeserving,' or offends my puritanical squeamishness, or goes against Israel, or gets in the way of successful businesses, or, or, or..."

The same is true of some white leftists, of course, who went MAGA when they realized that's where the money was.

Although some of those were always studiously libertarian or some secret third thing (i.e., fascists) like Glenn Greenwald, who were only mistaken for progressives by cherry-picking their opposition to certain US policies.

There's two kinds of liberals, I think: the kind who become leftists when they realize liberalism is full of bigoted hypocrisy, and the ones who become right-wingers when they decide that's good, actually.

I really wanted to play "Vampire: The Masquerade." I played "Werewolf" once but it didn't click. I wanted to be a femme fatale, you know?

But he suggested I play a Gangrel, the animalistic vampires. He thought that might be more of a stretch? I might learn something!

I was like, "Okay, sure, LOL."

So I created a character which, if you've read my stories, you might know as Katherine Ducote from "You Only Die Twice" and "Shadow Play."

And so much pain and rage gushed out of me like blood.

When I was first transitioning, I wanted to be a head-turner. You know? Just beautiful and delicate. Someone people could love.

(And I still do.)

But my not yet boyfriend recognized I had a lot of unprocessed anger at the way I'd been treated by my family and society.

My first TTRPG character, my namesake, Gwynnion, was -- if not virtue incarnate then at least a soft touch, someone who was willing to sacrifice herself to do the right thing.

But he suggested I dig deeper.

Katherine got better eventually, too.

I have a distinct mental image of her lying on a slab and giving a thumb's up for someone to chop her head off.

For science! The version of her that came back was like: "Okay, I think that's out of my system. Good job. Thanks."

One of the funniest things about that game was -- because Katherine had turned into something they didn't recognize or accept, almost all of her friends hated her and wanted to kill her.

Even the ones who were also vampires!

So metaphors. Yeah. Irony can pretty ironic sometimes.

I eventually found my level, I found that voice that's capable of speaking rage and righteous anger even as I still want to be Little Miss Princess, and I'm a saner person for it, I think.