Notices by Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social), page 3

JK Rowling went from zero to super villain because a stupid children's book series gave her enough money and influence to destroy people's lives for fun.

One of the funny things about the cyberpunk genre and which I kind of blame on Aldous Huxley is how wrongly it interprets power and the way powerful people behave.

Like, in a dystopian society controlled by mega-corporations, no one is spying on you. They don't care. You can have whatever sex, drugs, porn, guns, or whatever you want as long as you can afford it. It's all good.

Whereas in the real world, power means imposing your prejudices and hang-ups on the entire world.

There has never been a libertine authoritarian state.

Even if it would be easier to control the population, no one ever goes that route because controlling the minutiae of people's lives is the entire point of having power as far as the powerful are concerned.

It's a bit suspicious, yes, that every western government, log jammed in every other respect, can suddenly ram through anti-trans, age verification, and other legislation almost simultaneously and with minimal resistance.

Trying to create the English equivalent of German compound words to express how I feel and it's like depressggravation.

Individual responsibility is bollocks. The point of society is organizing to solve problems bigger than us, and if our governments won't cooperate, they should be destroyed and replaced.

The profound lack of sociological imagination to believe most of us have a choice about whether we own a car or use fossil fuels when our entire society is structured so there are literally no alternatives if you want to work, etc.

"No one is making you own a car!" Well, I'm not walking 20 miles to work in 107F weather with only 8 lanes of burning asphalt highway between me and where I'm going.

Navigator is hard to explain to people who haven't read it, which is why I emphasize the humor, but the genre shift between each book probably doesn't help. 😅

Ugh. I hate how quickly I get tired now.

I was like a kid in a candy store at the Indian place but after 15 minutes, I was out of breath and starting to stumble.

RE: https://masto.ai/@transworld/116929445859848335

Screaming: "We told you! We fucking told you!" As I'm dragged down the hall and thrown in a cell.

The thing about the standard cyberpunk future is that in order to get there, i.e., in order to have the "good" aspects of the setting instead of just the bad, you have to kill all the fucking prudes first.

There's a common misconception that climate change will simply move farmland north of its current location. A lot of Americans were banking on Canada. And look, Canada is on fire.

Boreal forest doesn't become arable farmland easily. The more likely outcome is a lot of places become deserts and there is no arable land at all.

I think a lot of people trip over this because they assume humans can be strictly categorized.

For example, many cis-het men see women as threatening; she is his antithesis and his attraction makes him feel vulnerable. She has power over him in his imagination, which he can only correct by (violently) subordinating her.

The same guy might jerk off to femboys without seeing it as gay.

Outside of (coercive) reproduction, sexual politics under patriarchy are rarely about "biology" or even orientation so much as power and domination.

These cis women are aware they occupy a subordinate social position compared to men, but they also know sex and reproduction gives them value to men under patriarchy and that they occupy a higher social strata than we do.

And they want to keep it that way.

This is true of cis women transphobes as well. TERFs don't feel threatened by trans women. They know we're not physically dangerous, to them or anyone, really, and that they can harass, abuse, and direct violence at us with impunity.

They would prefer to push us back down into the societal underworld, back into gay subcultures or as powerless third gender sex objects for men.

Again, it's the assertion of our womanhood that angers them because we're claiming to be their equals.

The femboy is a feminized sex object, a toy, an approximation of femininity which has no power over him.

In a lot of cultures, cis-het men frequent gay and trans sex workers. It's considered no big deal. They can't get pregnant and they have no power, either over them as individuals or in society at large.

Trans women who assert our femaleness are breaching containment as far as these men are concerned.

That's part of where their transphobia comes from.

Basically, whenever Democrats insist they have to craft their message to appeal to white conservative men and head off the inevitable Republican attack ads -- that's the stuff they really believe.

Democrats don't run campaigns about how they're a tough as nails cop who will clean up the city and kill criminals with their own shoelaces or whatever because it actually wins elections but because that's how they think poor people should be treated as a general rule.

We also need more vicious parodies of "Harry Potter" to shame everyone who still likes that garbage.