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highlyeccentricSome backdated, some more recent:
1. Man on bus, wearing a tophat which had a glittery dollar sign attached to it. Fascinatingly, when I was elbowed and directed to observe him, I thought "oh, him again" without at all remebering WHY I THOUGHT I KNEW HIM.
2. Yoof in elevator making pterodactl screeches. A minimum number of fellow commuters entered the elevator. I did not see it expel its voyagers; hence, I cannot know if M. Pterodactyl was soothed.
3. Man on street in Parammata who aggress-bro'd me and my partner with "hey fellas". I had noticed him yell-interacting with some women across the pavement (unable to tell how unwelcome this was). I did NOT realise until we had passed him that, a, we had both been gendered m, and b, that warranted a different kind of Street Engagement.
I was prepared for item a. I was prepared for having to INTERVENE in unpleasant scenes (which I would have also, where I noticed, as either dyke or misc f). I was NOT prepared for a m-specific type of hail-across-street. I THINK it was friendly, maybe (consciously or not) serving to deflect from his interactions with the womene who'd been there before us. But if so it wasn't sharply CLEAR so. Hence: confusion.
4. More than a month ago: woman sitting on council bench at bus stop singing Alanis Morisette classics. I opened my mouth to join in, but realised I did not know what to do with my mouth muscles vis a vis that particular song. When I got back from the supermarket, a bald man had joined her and they were singing together.
5. Man behind me, on the travelator, to his friend: "people go to therapy to become better people. She went to therapy and became MORE OF A CUNT":
And that my friends is why both existing in public and Gender (TM) are BAD, THANKS.
1. Man on bus, wearing a tophat which had a glittery dollar sign attached to it. Fascinatingly, when I was elbowed and directed to observe him, I thought "oh, him again" without at all remebering WHY I THOUGHT I KNEW HIM.
2. Yoof in elevator making pterodactl screeches. A minimum number of fellow commuters entered the elevator. I did not see it expel its voyagers; hence, I cannot know if M. Pterodactyl was soothed.
3. Man on street in Parammata who aggress-bro'd me and my partner with "hey fellas". I had noticed him yell-interacting with some women across the pavement (unable to tell how unwelcome this was). I did NOT realise until we had passed him that, a, we had both been gendered m, and b, that warranted a different kind of Street Engagement.
I was prepared for item a. I was prepared for having to INTERVENE in unpleasant scenes (which I would have also, where I noticed, as either dyke or misc f). I was NOT prepared for a m-specific type of hail-across-street. I THINK it was friendly, maybe (consciously or not) serving to deflect from his interactions with the womene who'd been there before us. But if so it wasn't sharply CLEAR so. Hence: confusion.
4. More than a month ago: woman sitting on council bench at bus stop singing Alanis Morisette classics. I opened my mouth to join in, but realised I did not know what to do with my mouth muscles vis a vis that particular song. When I got back from the supermarket, a bald man had joined her and they were singing together.
5. Man behind me, on the travelator, to his friend: "people go to therapy to become better people. She went to therapy and became MORE OF A CUNT":
And that my friends is why both existing in public and Gender (TM) are BAD, THANKS.
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Date: 2023-08-19 03:28 am (UTC):D
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Date: 2023-08-19 04:17 am (UTC)Friend of mine's younger sibling has come out trans (that's trans kid number two in the family) resulting in their mother, who has been more balanced since going to therapy, simply announcing she accepts this choice but the sibling has to move out therefore because all this trans stuff is "bad for my mental health". Who knows what the therapist said, or if the therapist agrees with her, but therapy sure has made her a more efficient ... unpleasant person (i will not dignify her with the term cunt, she lacks the depth, warmth and indeed flexibility).