Posts made by Rinel

@saosmash said in MU Things I Love:

aggressive honesty

Wait I've been doing something thematically???

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Rinel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

See, this is the shifty attitude I'm talking about. I'm legitimately trying to give you the benefit of the doubt because I prefer to think people aren't raging bigot, but what you're writing over and over just sounds like transphobia without a spine.

I don't hate or fear anyone for having gender dysphoria.

There are two responses that are warring in my head right now.

The first is, "You know, the fact that a lesbian could actually type this sentence without being so embarrassed she promptly cancelled her internet subscription is really something."

The second is "shut the fuck up, TERF."

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Roz said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

I think Rinel's point was more that some people raised with male socialization are actually lesbians themselves (because they are trans women).

As I said, I don't police what people call themselves. I take Cirno at face-value that Cirno is black; it doesn't mean I think every black character Cirno plays is going to be great for black representation just because they say so.

See, this is the shifty attitude I'm talking about. I'm legitimately trying to give you the benefit of the doubt because I prefer to think people aren't raging bigots, but what you're writing over and over just sounds like transphobia without a spine.

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Rinel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

My point is that "male socialized" people playing lesbians isn't necessarily a cause of poor lesbian representation, since lesbians with that alleged quality exist. It's like saying "a lot of redheads play lesbians; lesbian representation isn't great."

I'm not going to lie and start saying that men playing lesbians hasn't been terrible for lesbian representation because it's now not PC to say something that's been true forever and will continue to be true forever. If it doesn't apply to you/someone you know/someone you've heard of, that's great and I'm not debating it.

1. not a man
2. the phrase "male socialization" is frequently used by TERFs to claim that trans women aren't women because we presented as male growing up
3. trans women are women
4. some trans women are lesbians
5. trans lesbians playing lesbians is not bad for lesbian representation

This isn't about men; it's about you using a phrase in a particular way and continuing to be really shifty about it. The fact that you seem to think "male socialization" makes someone a man is pretty worrying, as is your random protestation about eternal truths no longer being "PC."

ETA: ty @Roz that was it precisely

I just realized the reason I'm not getting out of bed is that I'm hyperfocusing on my daydreams

And that I've got depression

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Rinel I'm not the thought police; I don't care what people call themselves.

...right.

My point is that "male socialized" people playing lesbians isn't necessarily a cause of poor lesbian representation, since lesbians with that alleged quality exist. It's like saying "a lot of redheads play lesbians; lesbian representation isn't great."

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

A lot of people with male socialization play lesbians.

...a decent number of people with "male socialization" are lesbians. Unless you're using that phrase in a different way than most people do (i.e. a TERFy "not real women" way).

@TNP said in Good TV:

Umbrella Academy. 7/31.

Hunting high and low to seek revenge
Brand new moral code got made reluctant renegade
Leaving empty souls when he avenged
Evil spirits flowed he drank the blood like lemonade

@GreenFlashlight said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

Wait, is that actually a stereotype? God, I've lived a sheltered life.

It was almost inescapable ten to twenty years ago. I haven't seen it as much recently, but I'm also white, so...

ETA: Dave Chappelle did a bit on the stereotype in particular. Slurs, obviously.

@ZombieGenesis said in Good TV:

If I'm being honest, however, I don't see how either can exist in the modern world.

Definitely don't think people would respond well to Gandhi teaching George Washington Carver to say "say what," but I think the core is pretty easily kept.

Idk how good I would call this, but

Clone High is coming back

@Kestrel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Nah we definitely went over the genocide in school, and the part where God commands his best boi to kill his own son because ‘you’d do it if you really loved me’. (Years later my first sexual partner said this to me about anal and you know, it wasn’t cool then either.) And him fucking with Job, and killing all the Egyptian kids to prove a point.

That's Genesis and Exodus tho. They're bangers. Leviticus and Numbers are the Mosaic law and wandering in the desert and Israel complaining. There are a few exciting bits where God kills a bunch of people but mostly it's God telling Moses that the Israelites are stiff necked and Moses telling God "well you chose them you can't unchoose them" and God saying "fair enough" and killing a couple of people to make a point

ETA: The best interpretation of the binding of Isaac that I ever heard came from a reform rabbi who told me that it wasn't God testing Abraham but Abraham testing God. She said there's a tradition of thought that held that Abraham had no intention of killing Isaac and was bluffing to see if God would stop him and thereby be worthy of worship. I have no idea whether or not such a tradition exists but it is excellent regardless.

@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Rinel BEGAT

I mean at least we know exactly how to build the Tabernacle.

e x a c t l y

if pantone had been around in the exilic period we'd see those numbers too

ETA: @Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Kestrel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

great world-building

Eh, it was a little provincial for me.

Should have read the Revelation to John

@Kestrel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I thought it was a fun story full of action, adventure and great world-building

Having just read through Leviticus and Numbers I think you've repressed a few memories. x_x

@GreenFlashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

The version of the Bible I grew up with did not portray the Ten Commandments as single sentences.

Depends on what book you're in. You see short descriptions in Exodus. Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy go over them again in greater detail.

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@saosmash said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Rinel Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who.

Hey, just because I killed someone it doesn't mean I'm guilty!

This is technically correct, which is the best kind of correct the sort of thing I use all the time to piss off the government

Stupid media getting involved in my clients' cases stop it you're making them look bad just because they allegedly shot somebody to death

@Aria

Thanks! I'll look into it in a couple weeks since I kindaaaa just dropped all my discretionary income on terrestrial clothes.

Was that wise? No

But am I going to rock the hell out of this adorable top?

Also probably no

@faraday is SUPER nice and even after I badmouthed Ares out of ignorance took tons of time to explain and help me out when I sheepishly asked her for assistance with an Ares project.

So, basically, yeah. Smart and nice.

I miss dancing so much but even when coronavirus ends I don't think I'm going to be welcome at the American Legion ballroom sessions anymore