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Aug. 21st, 2024 05:15 amA mental trap: asserting that human-created meaning exists outside of humans. For instance, wavelengths of light exist, but humans are the ones who categorize some wavelengths as “yellow.” If you talk about yellow as an objective property and philosophize about the true nature of yellow, you’re overprivileging the human perspective.
Also a mental trap: thinking that someone is asserting human-created meaning when they’re not. Someone talks about the wavelengths of light that are commonly considered “yellow,” and you get mad and lecture them about how yellow isn’t real. They weren’t trying to assert yellow as real; they were just trying to talk about the properties of light in a concise and easy to understand way.
Both mental traps constantly snap shut when people talk about sex chromosomes.
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May. 29th, 2024 12:05 amTrans people offline: “It’s fine if you don’t want to have sex with us. We just hate how you talk about how fuckable or not fuckable we are every single time you see us. We exist for more reasons than to have sex with you.”
Trans people on AO3: “you’re transphobic if you can’t masturbate to trans porn.”
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May. 26th, 2024 03:13 pmSomeone on social media said that wearing COVID masks made children forget how to smile. People asked her where she was getting this from, and she said she looked and saw it. It was bizarre, but it was her observation, and she wouldn't be dissuaded.
The Pure are the ultimate triumph of her way of looking at the world. The Pure are the treatment of one's subjective view as the true objective, rational view, with no room to doubt or reconsider. Whatever you know must be true, that's what you perceive, and because you perceive it, you know it must be true. Anything outside what you can imagine simply doesn't exist, and if it persists, you make it not exist. Any person who isn't part of your social order will be killed and forgotten, and it will be like they were never there.
When people use a cherry-picked study to argue that gay men are proven to be bad fathers, that's the Pure. When someone said trans women rape cis women all the time, but the mainstream media covers it up, that's the Pure. Hell, that RWBY fan who said it's morally bad to ship Yang and Blake, because it's obvious two people traumatized by the same abuser will inevitably retraumatize each other? They're small-scale, but they're still the Pure. The Pure are in every conspiracy theory, and every attempt to make the world "make sense" that pretends the world has an obligation to make sense to you.
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Mar. 12th, 2024 03:18 pmFor the sake of honesty, “transmisandry doesn’t exist” should be followed by “so I’m creating it.”
A comparison: when someone argues that it’s an exaggeration to say that women who accuse men of rape have their reputations destroyed. The inevitable followup is to attempt to destroy women’s reputations.