""You cannot piss in a cup or pull a sword from a stone or anything else in order to tell if you're trans or not. You are if you want to be. You're not if you don't."
This is what I say. No one listens.
"Look. I define transgendered literally; it's a way of crossing. Crossing into a different gender. Not the opposite, there are so many, just a different one. Or crossing out of the gender that theoretically goes, in that there heterosexual matrix we keep talking about, with your biological sex.
"Being a transsexual is a different animal. That's a matter of medical things or the intention of medical things, changing your sex you know? The sex parts: genitals, reproductive organs, hormones, secondary sexual characteristics. Or living full-time as a person of a certain culturally aligned sex and gender, whether you do medical things or not, because some people can't and it isn't fair to punish that. So them, too. But transgendered is wide open. And butch is a nonnormative gender yes? We can agree on that, anyway? So if you want to claim transgendered, great as far as I'm concerned."
People sign at me. They roll their eyes, They shake their heads. They want me to make ruling, they want me to tell them if they can call themselves transgendered, or alternative if they can still call themselves butch. As though I somehow have the power to confer or deny whatever label they want, or as though I can be relied upon to make an impartial decision int he case of an argument, whether it is internal or among individuals."
"Border Wars” Butch is a Noun essays by S. Bear Bergman (2006)
A list of some names for 13,022 Palestinian children who were killed by Israel in #Gaza in just 111 days.
If this is not genocide then what!!
(starts raising his hand before everyone else, just less confident about it than his classmates)
(remembers nearly all of the gibberish password that was told to him in a rush, only forgets the last two characters)
(replicates moves that he's only seen once (yes he also replicated RIPeter's move but I'm not screenshotting that bc it's long and complicated))
(figures out how to immobilize a guy that could escape any enclosure/trap)
(notices something is up/off with Gwen immediately, politely follows her lead and doesn't dig into it)
(continuation of above: realizes she's hiding something about her mission from him, decides to spy on her to figure out what)
(has information the Spider Society doesn't; figures out what the Spot is doing before any of them do)
(action plan made in 0.2 seconds)
(keeps up with what Miguel (a scientist from the future who has at least a year and a half of hands-on experience with the multiverse) is talking about)
(mentally calculates the timing of a giant spinning machine so that he can pass through safely and none of the Spiders can follow him)
(lmaooo you cannot do the same move twice on him, he learns too fast)
(this one speaks for itself. he really did have a plan)
(remembers how to use the Go Home Machine after seeing it be used once)
(immediately figures out why he's in the wrong dimension)
in conclusion, please never say/imply that:
Miles is not on the same academic level as other Spider-nerds
Miles is less capable in fighting/combat than other Spider-people
Miles is not as good at strategy than other Spider-people
Miles is too naive/childish/optimistic to have practical intelligence or pick up on when something bad is going on under the surface
Miles's smaller amount of experience means he is generally less competent/capable than other Spider-people
EVER again ok thank you!!!!
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