Dream vacation spots - for trans women

[LDoBe]

I mean, a nightmare is a kind of dream…

[tinoesroho]

@GulliverFoyle

Moreover, although the American Civil War was necessary to begin the long process of freeing approximately three million Americans from slavery, the fact that six generations and two World Wars later we’re still incrementally working on the two steps forward one step back on that process proves that while war is sometimes unavoidable, it isn’t really a solution to the problems that made it so. And it’s a poor last resort for instituting or restoring the rule of law (as opposed to the rule of the gun masquerading as the the rule of law), not least of all because the “good guys” aren’t guaranteed to prevail in a violent conflict.

Add to this the fact that assholes always rise after a revolution, usually in the clothing of “the good guys”. Those who seek power are those who tend to wield it against the poor and weakest.

[Mindysan33]

My point is that we can figure out ways to head it off. We have choices and agency. We don’t have to pretend like it’s inevitable, when we can make different choices…

[GulliverFoyle]

@Mindysan33

We don’t have to pretend like it’s inevitable

Exactly! I do understand why despair at the inequities of the world can lead people to believe there’s no other way, but I also recognize fatalism for the self-fulfilling prophecy it is.

[Melizmatic]

@Mindysan33

We don’t have to pretend like it’s inevitable, when we can make different choices…

Obligatory:

Governor Nix's Speech - Tomorrowland

_{"How do you think people have responded to the prospect of imminent doom? They gobbled it up like a chocolate eclair! They didn’t fear their demise, they repackaged it! It can be enjoyed as video games, as TV shows, books, movies – the entire world has wholeheartedly embraced the apocalypse, and is sprinting toward it with gleeful abandon.}

_{Meanwhile, your Earth is crumbling all around you. You’ve got simultaneous epidemics of obesity and starvation. Explain that one! Bees and butterflies start to disappear, the glaciers melt, algae blooms - all around you the coal mine canaries are dropping dead and you won’t take the hint!}

_{In every moment there is the possibility of a better future, but you people won’t believe it. And because you won’t believe it, you won’t do what is necessary to make it a reality.}

_{So you dwell on this oh-so-terrible future, you resign yourselves to it, for one reason – because that future doesn’t ask anything of you, TODAY. So, yes, you saw the iceberg, warned the Titanic, but you all just steered for it anyway, full steam ahead. Why? Because you want to sink. You gave up."}

A bit peachy perhaps, but the soliloquy is still spot on.

[LapsedPacifist]

Agreed. It’s best that it never comes to war, and all effort should be made to head off that outcome.

[KathyPartdeux]

A useful thread on the huge anti trans backlash happening over the last few years.

Julia Serano (JuliaSerano)

[Mindysan33]

That’s so depressing… how can people not see what’s happening?

Her article here (which she links to in her thread there) is very good:

Transgender People and “Biological Sex” Myths