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RantEveryone but them needs to accept their lot in life
Look.
I'm disabled. This means there are some places I cannot go and things I cannot do.
Society can make every reasonable accommodation for us and make it as safe and accessible as possible to enter buildings and such. But what about forests? Beaches? Unpaved roads? It absolutely sucks to not be able to go out in nature without a big fuss and a lot of help, but that's not going away.
There is a basic incompatibility with the body I'm in and the places I want to be.
AND I FUCKING ACCEPT IT.
God damn, can you even imagine if disabled women were terrorizing people into calling them (remember this one?) "handy-capable" and demanding to be given piggyback rides through nature to atone for their abled privilege, Yoda-style?
What about trying to convince everyone else they are dysphoric and celebrating when their limbs get cut off?
For these kinds of incompatibilities, acceptance of your lot in life used to just be something you DO. Continues to be, for people who have not lost their minds.
Stay out of our spaces. Work with what you've got. Campaign for change without depending on another movement with its own goals to do the hard lifting for you. If it was a matter of life and death, truly, you would accept third spaces as welcome compromises to run to. There would be no time or privilege to turn your nose up at it and demand other people bring you a better option.
What more can I say but 😤
I have the original that was published in 1999 and downloaded the 2014. This chapter is like night and day between the two books.
I really hate how Gender Ideology has seeped into the things I love best: books.
So far the Mystery genre umbrella hasn't been effected, yet. But Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror definitely has because it's speculative fiction. It's malleable enough for the insertion. There has been a certain amount of frequency of writers going into Trans subs asking for information.
Interesting, what are some of the differences (seems like a lot!) between the two versions?
I agree. Talking about intersex people or people with AIS in the context of gender is harmful and cruel. Now that I've read this chapter, I have the language for participating in conversations about intersex people. I won't though, because the LGBT cult doesn't allow conversation, but I would be ready.
I haven't looked, but I wonder if that later materials at the end of this edition talk about "lady brains" and our wider brain diversity in genes expressed from the X chromosome. The research was just beginning. We need more research into the female body, but I guess anyone reading this book already knows that.
I appreciate how she started this chapter with an argument between a man and a woman, then revealed that it was about her parents, and the effect it had on her. She's very good at balancing dialogue, interviews, and expository passages.
It's really a shame how so much of the inclusivity movement has started with good intentions (body positivity,
intersexVSD* language, mental and sexual health awareness) and it's all become something so stifling and unproductive.*Variations of Sexual Development