Re: Who's gonna shoot themself in the foot? Trump or Clinton
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 1:20 am
It's so funny seeing this video again, because i remember my friend sending me this video over a decade ago when another friend and i were super into Atom And His Package. We were all also into ska. It was a bad/weird/bleak time. I must have seen Dan Deacon a million times in the three year period between like 2004 and 2007. Oh well.
Rusty: I trust that you are a fine person who wants to do right. My contention is not with persons most of the time. And i think you understand that women or gay people or black people or whoever have a lot of shit experiences. Other people have chimed in, but the reality is, even if you understand it in an academic, or even more experiential way, it's different when it's every day, getting denied employment or fired because of who you are, people throwing shit out of moving cars at you when you're just walking to the grocery store, getting beat up, all the way down to the small things that are basically invisible to our peers. And the thing is that i don't want to turn it into a pity party. Not interested in that. Just interested in providing remembering that the world is different for different people, and plenty of factors play into that, but for many people race or gender are much bigger parts of those experiences than others might realize. I don't really know where else to go with this anymore.
When that person doominchains was hanging around, i received some wonderful PMs from him to the tune of "kill yourself you spoiled tranny freak lolzlolz..." (i cut off some of the "lolz" at the end). And, i didn't really mention it here for a bunch of reasons; in isolation plenty of people are spoken to like this every day, and we're supposed to be strong and ignore this shit, because that's what people (mostly white men, please, lets be real here) do. But that's like, an every day thing in my life. And the lives of basically every visibly trans woman i know. And the suicide rates amount trans women are astronomical, so this insult is not just a generalized "I dislike you and think you suck" but a very specific attack that takes place within a context that i live, but how do i explain that to anyone?
I'm losing track of myself. It's late. And i'm fortunate enough to have busted my ass to afford a really nice sampler. And i love it, and i'm going to go play with it. But life is still often shit. I hope no one gets elected and we all get the hell out of this mess.
Rusty: I trust that you are a fine person who wants to do right. My contention is not with persons most of the time. And i think you understand that women or gay people or black people or whoever have a lot of shit experiences. Other people have chimed in, but the reality is, even if you understand it in an academic, or even more experiential way, it's different when it's every day, getting denied employment or fired because of who you are, people throwing shit out of moving cars at you when you're just walking to the grocery store, getting beat up, all the way down to the small things that are basically invisible to our peers. And the thing is that i don't want to turn it into a pity party. Not interested in that. Just interested in providing remembering that the world is different for different people, and plenty of factors play into that, but for many people race or gender are much bigger parts of those experiences than others might realize. I don't really know where else to go with this anymore.
When that person doominchains was hanging around, i received some wonderful PMs from him to the tune of "kill yourself you spoiled tranny freak lolzlolz..." (i cut off some of the "lolz" at the end). And, i didn't really mention it here for a bunch of reasons; in isolation plenty of people are spoken to like this every day, and we're supposed to be strong and ignore this shit, because that's what people (mostly white men, please, lets be real here) do. But that's like, an every day thing in my life. And the lives of basically every visibly trans woman i know. And the suicide rates amount trans women are astronomical, so this insult is not just a generalized "I dislike you and think you suck" but a very specific attack that takes place within a context that i live, but how do i explain that to anyone?
I'm losing track of myself. It's late. And i'm fortunate enough to have busted my ass to afford a really nice sampler. And i love it, and i'm going to go play with it. But life is still often shit. I hope no one gets elected and we all get the hell out of this mess.
