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I no longer teach Medieval English lang/lit, but if I did, I would be asking to borrow your child’s excellent list next time I did “intro to: formal spelling rules do not exist, accents and dialect affect spelling, and and sometimes the scribe is making it up”.

I’m obsessed by his poor diving form. Almost a belly-flop!

Apparently it’s CATS, but i expected South Pacific.

better options down the line.

Oh, your take is also completely plausible to me - but I don’t think that’s a necessary belief in order to believe that a, something has gone wrong and/or b, we need to actively aspire to a system that can provide SUCH a person - not necessarily this one, but she’s hardly alone -

history of commitment to radical politics. And i HOPE create fewer people stuck in antagonistic false binaries, but who knows.

threshold for “what care and options should be available to detransitioners” to ~ well many Clearly Trans people go back into the closet ~ with a side of “it’s great for cis people to Explore Their Gender, that system would barely accommodate Ky Schevers.

Put it another way: i don’t know the Israeli detransitioner, although i have heard enough to believe she has been subject to conversion therapy and to believe she is prone to wildly binaristict thinking. I have no investment in her PERSONALLY. But i do believe that if we set our

aspiration for ALL people with a track record of trying various gender modalities including reactionary ones - is entitled to a *range* of transition options. Or indeed a range of better detransition options, I should have added!

I’m not sure they were necessarily wrong. What reads to rightfully cheesed off peers in hindsight as “correctly gatekept” might have been a quite reasonable response to someone who wasn’t sure what was right for them. Which is why I said this person - and this is my goal and

work through their bullshit with them, but that’s a separate problem.

Correct. This person is quite clearly still experiencing gender dysphoria, and if they ever get a grip, they SHOULD have access to a range of transition options, and a shit ton of affirming therapy - quite understandably they’re not going to find many trans people willing to

Same in Australia. Not just supermarkets: i worked in a stationery stop and heaven help you if you were found leaning, or propping your foot up on a box under the desk, while on registers

stuff but there are definitely more routes. And it’s more complicated than just “racist origin? Cancelled!” I think what I’ve concluded here is that I want to see @DrAllyLouks cameo on @badgayspod

Sometimes things that are extremely “paging Edmund Saïd” turn up in weird “this seems fetishising??” places that certainly don’t involve the Arab sphere and might not in the immediate context involve race. I can sketch out why for Historical Gay (and sometimes lesbian or trans)

You have to poke at the exact time period and context (including racial) of a “this scent is luxurious - positive”, that’s a job for a real olfactory ethicist. *doffs hat to @DrAllyLouks *

If you’re seeing it associated with luxury in a GOOD way, that’s not incompatible with what I just reeled off - same reason Europeans & white Americans were buying shiploads of cloth from the “east” to decorate their homes while being weird about the culture of origin.

the commentary probably connected to the seduction / over-indulgent implication (but I don’t think the actual scents were/are all that gender-linked except to European eyes - certainly not musk).

manly enough (lacking strategy, restraint, coherence). If it’s related to heterosexual men then it might imply too luxurious as in likely to over-indulge in sex and other vices; if there’s a possibility of homosexuality it connotes emasculation. If the use is related to *women*