Notices by Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 04:23:38 JST Sir Inge
1st-year fine arts students explaining the GNU Manifesto or A Thousand Plateaus is painful -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 04:20:18 JST Sir Inge
Fediverse mentioned (not by me) -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 04:11:47 JST Sir Inge
Student-led seminar format for intro classes should be considered a war crime -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 04:11:46 JST Sir Inge
Guy presenting the GNU Manifesto keeps pronouncing it as the letters -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 15:25:38 JST Sir Inge
Be safe, be smart -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:26:53 JST Sir Inge
Could transition have saved Richard Stallman? -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 04:27:03 JST Sir Inge
@dequbed I prefer to think of academia as behind the curve, really -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 04:26:54 JST Sir Inge
I always forget that transfeminist cyberculture isn't a known thing in normie academia -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 15:45:27 JST Sir Inge
If forcefem jokes are so evil to trans men, why do I, a trans man, keep trying to forcefem my cis husband? Checkmate, transmisandry truthers -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 06:00:33 JST Sir Inge
One more thing before I go do what I'm supposed to be doing:
I also think, specifically in terms of forcefem or egg shitposting, it's totally fine to be uncomfortable with something without viewing it as an attack or a moral evil. I don't really like forcefem stuff in most contexts (specifically when applied to me, for obvious reasons), but I understand the context it exists in here. I simply just don't engage and tell myself "this isn't about me." Demanding clarification that you're not the subject/target of something instead of being able to be comfortable enough in yourself and the women around you to trust that something is a generalization of dynamics under patriarchy or a joke is the same shit as going "but what about me? NotAllMen" to women posting about men sucking. It's literally the same thing!
Actually, engaging with the dynamics of transfem subcultures and experiences empathetically is more productive. I've seen it taken a bit too far in my eyes (on Tumblr, not on here), with people saying that trans men are never forced into a gender that's not theirs and that any equivalent attempts at jokes or kinks around this are actually just transfem experiences; I think that comes from these communities just talking past each other instead of finding what experiences ARE common (like being forced into your assigned gender or being closeted). But that can't happen if you approach transfems as inherently hostile and ignore the privilege you have over them as a transmasc/someone TME. -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 04:12:51 JST Sir Inge
The corner of fedi that's anti-KKKhri$$tian but full of devout and loving Christians, "transmisandrist" but has at least one semi-popular trans man posting about trans manhood, anti-quebecois with many beloved quebecois users, etc. -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 03:37:30 JST Sir Inge
I dunno, I guess I'm just an ashke trans man who is screaming into the void, but the parallels are enormous and it's always disheartening to see the actual problems I face ignored (because they're complicated and inherently deal with oppression not being a binary oppressor/oppressed dynamic) in favour of vilifying and hurting someone more vulnerable -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 03:33:55 JST Sir Inge
I especially love being on xnfm with the "nothing male makes it out of the near-future alive" and "anti-OGU" and then looking inside to find Necromanhood and Christianposting (the secret is trans men are dead maleness and approaching monotheistic faiths from an opposition to hierarchy eschatonics) -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 05:49:51 JST Sir Inge
I liken these things because
1. They're both super relevant, always, but especially now
2. As a Jewish trans man, I can see the parallels. There's a lot of them!
3. I think if you can wrap your head around the dynamics of zionism and Jewish oppression interplaying with privilege, you can understand how TME oppression and privilege interplay, and vice-versa -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 05:36:52 JST Sir Inge
I will never accept Jewish safety that comes at the expense of Palestinians. And I will never accept trans men’s/transmasc safety that comes at the expense of trans women. -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 05:36:46 JST Sir Inge
Also, aside from the obvious and important matters of you should care about Palestinians and you should care about trans women and there's an active genocide against the former and increasing violence and genocidal rhetoric towards the latter...
From a purely self-interested point of view, zionism won't save Jews and transmisogyny won't save trans men. Do you really, honestly, think that punching down will make you a Good One in the eyes of Christian whiteness/patriarchal gender? It's unacceptable to get blood on your hands to be "one of the good ones," but also counterproductive--Jews are called increasingly insular and warmongering, TME trans people become the centre of "trans people eat their own," and Doing A Genocide isn't going to stop white Christian supremacy or the removal of trans people and medical transition from public life. You should never commit evil in the name of safety in the first place, but these evils aren't even making you safer!!!
Israel's existence has made me less safe as a Jew, and transmisogyny has made me less safe as a trans man, but some people would rather cry that their oppression comes from the people they're (metaphorically or LITERALLY) killing in the hopes of some sort of dumbass conformist/insular "safety" than actually combat where antisemitism and transphobia are coming from -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 15:43:42 JST Sir Inge
I do believe that it's better to assume ignorance than malice; to assume that people can be taught. So I'm going to talk a bit about my experiences, so it's clear why I got so set off.
I went to a Jewish school from preschool through second grade. My school semi-regularly received bomb threats, enough so that the procedure was known to me and it was never that surprising. We evacuated and got picked up by our parents. I didn't really notice until I was a bit older that the secular school I switched to in third grade never received bomb threats. It wasn't an Israeli school or anything--just a bunch of children having our lives threatened simply because we were Jewish.
I don't have large family reunions or events, because a lot of my family died during the Holocaust. My grandparents were orphaned. One of my few living relatives of that generation never had any kids, because she was beaten so badly in the camps that she became infertile. I didn't get to visit where my grandfather grew up until I was in my 20s, because there were always safety fears. When I did, we toured the "Jewish neighborhood," which hadn't been a bustling centre of Jewish life in decades, since most of the Jews were either killed or fled overseas to North amerikkka. And it was the Jewish neighborhood because Jews weren't allowed to live elsewhere. It was a ghetto.
Even in my adulthood, I've dealt with the belittling of my culture and history by others who are well-intentioned and would never view themselves as antisemitic, having it denigrated as backwards or selfish and not necessary in today's world. My sister has had her mezuzah stolen from her door. And none of this has had anything to do with Israel, or wealth. I've never been to Israel, and refused to go when my family surfaced the idea. I also have no relation to any Jewish media figures or billionaires, any more than any gentile on this site is tied to Donald Trump or Elon Musk or Tucker Carlson. There are so many poor Jews, and so many Jews who have lived before Israel was established and had never dreamed of tying their culture and religion to a colonial state, and anti-zionist Jews after.
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Seeing mutuals and other posters I like on here brush off antisemitism is distressing. So many people I otherwise like and trust treat it as a difference of opinion, or an annoying position to just roll your eyes at and ignore. Even I didn't say anything for a while!
But at a certain point, you see people that are in your circle being casually chatted with between posts about how they hate Jews. You see your mutuals and friends go "[x] isn't that bad, just edgy" or "they're just opposed to Zionism and Israel" or "I haven't seen them say anything actually antisemitic," and then you check their posts and they're going on about how Jews are allowed to commit genocide and nobody else is, or about reading the name etymology and Early Life Wikipedia sections of billionaires or media company owners (looking for a Jewish gotcha), or downplaying how bad Hitler was, or saying how they don't want to hate all Jews but every one they meet is annoying or evil, or how Jews keep proving antisemitic conspiracy theories right and we're just going "mask off."
This isn't a tolerable difference of opinion, or getting angry about "guilt by association." This is discomfort and distress about supposed friends and allies either ignoring, missing, or condoning blatant hate for Jews, and treating it as something that's just cringe and annoying, or even something you kind of agree with but think was worded poorly.
Antisemitism is real. Elon Musk is using his platform to agree with the idea that Jews are trying to replace white people. My family is dead and I have received death threats as a CHILD for being Jewish. There are streets in Europe paved with Jewish gravestones. There are universities that I would've been barred from in my grandparents' or even parents' lifetime.
So treating me getting angry about it as petty internet drama that we just need to log off and settle down from disgusts me. Saying "I find the drama dumb" as if it's a difference in opinions on fedi moderation or media, and not about openly saying you hate Jews, is disgusting.
Please think about actual fucking Jewish lives, and don't treat an actual form of bigotry with a death count as just petty online discourse. -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2023 11:27:18 JST Sir Inge
A clarification on death threats, death wishes, etc:
I did say I wish Maija would die. I will not deny that. I don’t actually believe it, and very rarely actually wish death on anyone. I shouldn’t have said it.
There is a little bit of context: I was drunk and home alone, with nobody to mediate my worst tendencies. I have also been dealing with a lot of family “drama,” which put me on the verge of being cut off, so I’ve been particularly vulnerable.
I had been complaining about both Maija and Adiz in private for a while, but didn’t say anything on fedi because I didn’t want to cause a fuss. So many of my mutuals and other accounts I follow were following or even friends with one or both of them, not to mention others who started pulling antisemitic tropes and rhetoric later. It’s very distressing seeing such antisemitism treated as no big deal by people you otherwise respect. I had attempted to mute accounts that replied to or reposted either or both of Maija and Adiz, but things kept popping up.
I should not have told anyone that I hope they die or should die. But I didn’t do so from a stable place; I was lashing out after repressing discomfort and pain for a very long time.
If you think telling someone to die is worse than openly being antisemitic and refusing to change that, then I think we both don’t want to be around each other. -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 09:42:55 JST Sir Inge
@eris Your "friends" love talking about Jewish media control and how they're antisemites and I'm kinda fucking sick of it -
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Sir Inge (ildottore@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 09:31:01 JST Sir Inge
@nemesis @mja @allison >as a monarchist
Oh my god. Holy fuck. You're beyond fucking parody.
Whining about Jews having power over the West and accusing me of being an authoritarian while literally believing in fucking royal families
Grow some fucking brain cells, or drink bleach, whichever works