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Activism ReportSent my alma mater an email
After I got tired of deleting their pleas for money, I sent this (no idea if it will have an impact, but it felt good to finally complain):
Dear university development,
Whenever I receive an email requesting donations, I scroll to the bottom. If I see a pronoun designation, I immediately delete the email. Why? The belief in a gendered soul that requires everyone to go around stating pronouns is just that, a belief. A state-funded university should not be in the business of promoting any belief system. I would also delete any emails pronouncing that “Jesus saves” or “Allah is great.” You should be in the business of providing educational resources to students, not endorsing fringe beliefs that celebrate narcissism and disproportionately harm women, children, and vulnerable populations. You have only to look at your own house—[omitting here the specific incident but complained about] A man...for whom special exceptions were made not because he has some kind of magical lady soul, but because male privilege is the backbone of this quasi-religion. Until academia drags itself out of the quagmire of post-modern muck it's been wallowing in, you won't be getting a cent from me.
Please remove me from all outreach email lists.
Okay but their thinking here is understandable.
We're all used to the straight TIMs but the very few who get undicked are almost exclusively HSTS.
The same way broke people like me can't tell a Tiffany lamp from one that cost $35 at a Greek sells-everything shop, people who've never seen a vulva in person probably just think "huh, hole down here, lil nub right there, totally indistinguishable from the real thing."
I think these ones might actually be teachable- straight guys know they'll never be women and don't care to be women. They just get off on intruding in our spaces. A lot of the gay ones seem like they've just been gaslit into thinking it's actually a possibility. With enough "that is not what it's supposed to look like" and "ladies don't do that" I think the majority would actually chill and recognize reality.
Not defending them at all, but i think it's almost refreshing seeing posts from the gay ones who want to go dickless instead of the creepy straight ones who get erect from making lesbians queasy with bulge pics.
I have to disagree: I know or know of plenty of classic AGPs who have had or would like to go for the inversion. I've had one writhing around on my very own living room floor waxing perverted about it.