Oh, so it’s about teaching the neurotypicals magic? I’m not sure that’s a good thing, neurotypicals are already dangerous enough. Sure, there are some forms of magic that can only be used with a progressive mind, but there’s also magic that’s easy to turn hateful.
Misogynists have historically held more institutional power than women. We had a time when women knew how to speak inclusively and misogynists didn’t, it was called the 1960s. It sucked.
Correcting a misogynist is more likely to provoke a visible reaction than ignoring problematic speech. If it isn’t corrected, it becomes normal.
I don’t understand how N’aton is different from the present
Not gonna lie tho she was really fun. She got me into pet play and I do not regret it. I was always trying to convince her to become a communist.
My ex girlfriend says the Jews conducted a genocide of the Slavs in the USSR with Stalin’s help. I deny that genocide, because it’s made up. And I broke up with her for saying Jews control the media
WTF, the eco-anarchist instance defederated because the bears want to take down imperialism? Not very solarpunk.
Well, I had to figure out my gender all on my own. It took years, after I had already become an expert on queer theory. But here, this might help:
There is no academic literature, because the culture responsible for producing academic literature ever since the Enlightenment has historically been transphobic, and only took gender dysphoria out of the DSM in 2013. You think there’s a book out there explaining every single nonbinary gender identity? No, there are thousands of nonbinary gender identities. What field of academia do you even want to hear from? Biology? We’re a gender, not a sex. History? We don’t have any, there aren’t enough of us. Physics? Math? Not relevant. Anthropology? There aren’t any established populations of us because we’re born at random at a very low frequency within a transphobic society. Psychiatry? Being swarmgender isn’t an illness.
I’m OP. You fuck off, and maybe make it clear whether you think my gender is valid first.
There’s another person in my head and its identity is based on the character Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager. It couldn’t watch the episode Unimatrix 0 because of all the she/hers directed at its source in the episode. I couldn’t watch it either because I’m sharing my head.
hivemind status is orthogonal to gender
That’s an exclusionary thing to say with a swarmgender not-person in the room.
Meanwhile Jeri Ryan, the actor, destroyed America’s tradition of only electing white presidents
I couldn’t watch that episode because my 7/9 headmate was too upset by all the misgendering. It would have been too upsetting for us to force ourselves through that.
Something just feels gross to me about that kind of manifest destiny thinking. Starfleet’s reasoning on the subject is that if you don’t allow cultures to develop independently, you end up with less diversity, which can have terrible consequences down the line if the One Way your civilisation does things can’t cope with a novel situation. We actually have that going on on Earth. Every country is pressured to do things the capitalist way, and that’s why none of them is taking appropriate action on the climate crisis. There aren’t any countries left that have novel solutions to offer. In Australia, the white people took over the running of things from the indigenous by force and it didn’t go well. They suck at it.
Picard Season 2 established that Starfleet (not the Federation, oops) rejected Seven specifically because of the implants
Oof. That sucks.
and I don’t believe there’s a sound reason to force people to go through the misery of historical development by themselves
Because if you let capitalist species climate change themselves back into the stone age then you limit the number of fascist empires running around in space making problems for everyone else. Gene Roddenberry was a big believer in the idea that a closed minded people does not deserve to go into space and meet the diversity that is out there. Honestly, I wouldn’t want the humans of the real world going into space either. They’d fuck everything up. Aliens, if you’re spying on us right now: please go away. We’re not ready to meet you.
The Federation initially rejected Seven’s attempt to officially join because of their Borg implants
I’ve never heard of that, source? It sounds like you might be misremembering “you can’t become a starfleet officer based on information you downloaded from the internet, you have to actually go to class”.
Also, the Prime Directive is sus. “Oh, you can only access post-scarcity once you achieve warp travel.” What the fuck?
Warp drives and replicators are not a prerequisite to post-scarcity, nor are they a solution to scarcity. As we all know on this site, capitalism manufactures scarcity. Earth became post scarcity when it transitioned to communism, not when it invented the replicator or the warp drive. If you are talking about giving post-scarcity to primitive planets, then what you are talking about is invading their planet, dismantling their government, and setting up a socialist state. That’s what the Borg do. If you want to discuss whether the Federation ought to move over to the Borg way of doing things, then I’m happy to have that conversation.
The entire point of the Borg is that they’re what the federation would be without the prime directive and a value placed on consent. If the Borg asked nicely, they’d be the Federation.
That’s okay, you’re not swarmgender, so you don’t have to be represented by 7/9. This is why we have more than one nonbinary gender.
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