@saraislet The thing I have seen the best parents do is to inform the child appropriately to their stage of development, being careful to try not to propagate their trauma. (e.g. the pattern of frightening kids to keep them "safe").
Born too late to have been root on systems with binaries in /etc. Born too early to have any patience with binaries in /usr/libexec. Born just in time to litter a bunch of garbage in /usr/local.
Nothing quite taught me the deadly seriousness of forgetting history like the first time I read @cstross 's _Glasshouse_, which has the quote "Who still talks nowadays about the Armenians?" (Hitler, 1939) right before the novel starts.
It seems that evolution didn't grant us much ability to innately see events across time and space as equivalent to events in our current lives. We're forced, as a society, to develop external aids to defend against these insufficiencies, because when we don't, fascist movements will exploit them.
Feeling impossibly old when I see cheap modern LED christmas lights and remembering that high-intensity monochrome light sources were pretty scarce when I was a little kid: probably the only ones I'd seen by age 5 were low-pressure sodium vapor lights and HeNe laser barcode scanners.
I was maybe 10 or so when high-efficiency red LEDs became widely commercially available.
Hey, if you are looking to make a (US) tax-deductible donation before the end of the year, Trans Lifeline could really use it, as they're having to pause operations right when a lot of people probably need them most.
@inthehands@ian I think an awesome thing about this is that he basically tried some of the major historical approaches, discarded them as impractical and kept trying.
@eris I was specifically talking about how experiences change with coming out and *being publicly visible as a trans person*, and you're acting as if I'm denying our oppression overall? WTF?
@eris I'm sorry you've experienced those things. Perhaps my statement does not apply to you at all. Or you're deliberately misreading what I wrote.
What I've seen is that a number of folks with experiences like myself suddenly notice that it's hard to be visibly different in the world where they were largely invisible before and some of them go and act like they're the most oppressed group. I'm merely asking them to think before they do that.
As a white transfem, I would like other white transfems to remember that even though our oppression seems so big, some of that may be that you're new to your oppression being a publicly-acknowledged phenomenon. We were oppressed in the closet, but being able to talk about it in a thoughtful and compassionate way with other oppressed people takes learning and practice. There are those in society who have been experiencing that for a long time. (edited)
I guess dangerous power "laser pointers" (actually much higher power laser diodes in a handle with a battery) are becoming so common you should now generally assume fools pointing random lasers at people are an actual danger and you should always look away. :(
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