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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Sly's WTF Wednesday: More TRA Co-Opting of LGB Organizations
This one identifies as a rosebush. It prefers the pronouns rosebud and roseself
First, read the post from Transgender Trend.
Holy cow!
Wait...is it transphobic to say "holy cow" these days? How do I know the cow doesn't identify as a bull, or maybe even a horse?
When did things start getting so convoluted? Whatever happened to just not being a dick?
I think I first noticed this sort of rhetoric creeping in about 10-12 years ago. I knew a handful of trans people. I didn't have a problem with them. They were just trying to get along and live their life. I couldn't imagine how hard it must be to feel like you were born as the wrong sex and to be misunderstood by everyone. I thought, why make their lives even harder by being awful to them? They don't deserve that.
Now there's a big push towards transing gender nonconforming (I kind of hate that term but can't think of a better one) youth. When I was a youngster, I got branded a "tomboy" and hated that word. I would tell people "my name isn't Tom, and I'm not a boy." I was a girl who liked running and climbing trees, and I liked playing with trucks and dolls equally well. When I did wear dresses, I always wore shorts under them so I could still run and play.
These days, I feel like groups like the ones mentioned in the Transgender Trend post would try to push a girl like me to accept that she's "really a boy" and needs to transition, thus creating a lifelong medical patient.
Transitioning should not be encouraged right out of the gate, or, at all, really.
Another difference these days is that people seem to believe that a person can actually change their sex. In the past, people understood that surgery and hormones were used to make a person's appearance more masculine or more feminine, but nobody believed that people could actually change sex.
While I am compassionate towards people who have gender dysphoria and I prefer to treat people respectfully with regards to their chosen pronouns, at this point the trans rights activists sound a lot like flat earthers.
"The earth is flat. It is!"
"Trans women are women! I mean like, actual biological women. How dare you give me the side-eye, you TERF!"
What a mess.
~Sly Has Spoken~
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Monday, May 18, 2020
Sly Likes: Feminist Poetry from H. Hennenburg
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The statue depicts Dame Millicent Fawcett (11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929), an iconic British feminist.
Today I encountered a thought-provoking poem entitled The Shape of Water. It was written by H. Hennenburg in 1998.
"But do you know that a woman's voice will change the world slowly? Light will creep in where she unburdens her heart."
This poem inspired a train of thought for me.
It makes me think of a line from the song by Ten Years After.
"I'd love to change the world but I don't know what to do. So I leave it up to you."
Then there's another song that comes to mind, this one by Ani DiFranco.
"I am not a pretty girl, that is not what I do."
Here I am, a woman who sees the ways in which we could be kinder to one another and make the world a better place. But since I am a strange old bird and not pretty at all, I have a hard time making myself heard. The world doesn't tend to listen to women who look like me.
Then again, they don't tend to listen to the women that men fall all over themselves to get next to either.
~Sly Has Spoken~
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Thursday, May 7, 2020
Lesser-Known Symptoms of PTSD, and Why the Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis is Crap
It doesn't, actually. it creates scar tissue.
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This is a good post. One of the things I like to talk about is the theory (which I believe is correct) that "borderline personality disorder," a label that is applied disproportionately to girls and women, is a subtype of PTSD. Everyone labeled with "borderline personality disorder" has a history of trauma. Their behavior doesn't come out of nowhere.
It took me forty years to realize that the main reason behind a lot of the acting out I did in high school was the fact that I had been assaulted by a creepy guy that I agreed to go on a date with. This was 1980, and back then, it wasn't considered sexual assault if there was no intercourse. Without going into details, what this 19-year-old guy did to my 15-year-old self was clearly sexual assault. I kept it hidden and blamed myself for not fighting back harder and for being stupid enough to go out with him in the first place. I knew nobody would take my side and would blame me.
I started cutting class, cutting myself, and doing a lot of drugs. Rather than anyone asking me if anything had happened to me, all I ever heard was "you used to be a good kid and now you're a bad kid. You need to straighten up and fly right." Surprise, surprise, at sixteen I was labeled a "hysterical neurotic" by one of the most inept clowns of a psychiatrist that I've ever had the displeasure of meeting. I was later given the equally useless label "borderline personality disorder."
"Borderline personality disorder" is the modern "hysterical neurotic." It is a way of writing off girls and women who are acting out because of trauma. It is a label that needs to be retired.
If you're interested in reading the piece that I wrote about the traumatic incident, the link will follow. Fair warning that it isn't pretty and it doesn't have a happy ending.
Ornery and Sly
Telling it Like it Is
Ornery Owl
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Sly Fawkes
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