When Santana was great!

I agree with everything in your other post and you have a much better handle on the UK situation than most (non-terf) UK progressives

I am doubtful about the claim that being this nice - or having to be this nice - is a product of privilege though

the main reason I'm doubtful is that I've seen the nicest people ever turn the other cheek towards their abusers over and over and it looks more like a survival strategy (not necessarily a healthy or successful or sustainable one) than a luxury to me

and given as you noted how much of a generational marker this has become in britain the dynamics of familial abuse are central to this movement and how it operates

Alice Cooper and the assholes from Aerosmith have been open about being Republicans for many years. They’re really in the same camp as Ted Nugent

I agree with everything in your other post and you have a much better handle on the UK situation than most (non-terf) UK progressives

I am doubtful about the claim that being this nice - or having to be this nice - is a product of privilege though

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i don't have to post in as kind and conciliatory manner as i have tried to do in responding to thus sang froid! i made a conscious decision to do so. i'm in a position to assume good faith! that's where the privilege comes in. in the uk, quite honestly, i don't think i could do that. in the uk, i think that the most effective means y'all have to oppose entrenched transphobia is through radical direct action, stuff that draws from things like Zaps, ACT UP, that part of queer history.

for most of my life, for decades, my life was about survival. that's the most important thing, being trans, you have to survive, you have to keep yourself safe, by any means necessary. that's still the situation for most trans people today. that's another way the privilege manifests itself. transphobia affects all of us, is a threat to all of us, but it doesn't present an imminent threat to me. i can focus on other things.

i do _need_ allies, we all _need_ allies, and i guess not having to seek out allies is a privilege i don't have, but goddamn, i like the work. i really fucking enjoy doing it. i wish i could do this kind of thing full time, do outreach full time, instead of running these stupid useless reports at the bullshit job i'm paid to do. i fucking love this. i love talking to other people about my life, about my experiences. my career goal is to one day get to be gay for pay.

wait. what. there's another meaning to that term?

as far as being "christian", i consider this to be a very serious allegation. :) in my defense i would like to point out that immediately upon waking up yesterday, i posted "hail satan. baphomet is goals." to ilx... i would like to give you my personal assurance that i have not been born again since that time!

having to choose between satan and jesus is just another cis imposition as far as i'm concerned

more seriously thank you forever for being you and doing what you do - in this bubble it can be too easy to forget that being trans is actually possible in practice and having living examples to the contrary is so so important right now

awwww, my pleasure... seriously, that i am a positive role model to so many people just by, like, existing has been consistently pretty mind-blowing and awesome.