Dr Daskalakis and I will probably never meet, but despite that he made me feel like a person for a few moments and I'm thankful.
Dr Daskalakis and I will probably never meet, but despite that he made me feel like a person for a few moments and I'm thankful.
You don’t feel like a person? That’s what I don’t understand. I’m not being snarky. But I don’t get it. You’re a living breathing communicative entity walking the Earth. How can you not feel like a person”? What else is there to feel like?
Dehumanizing is a thing for a reason: the constant grind of hearing that you don't or shouldn't exist takes its psychic toll on everyone exposed to it.
dehumanizing rhetoric and policies towards a group of people can make members of that group feel dehumanized. it’s not exactly difficult to understand.
I’ve been called all sorts of names in my 55 years. How I choose to see myself as my choice. Not dictated by others. Stop letting them win.
you seem a bit self absorbed
You’re making this about you
Then you don’t understand what trans people are going through. On his first day in office, chump ordered all fed agencies to stop recognizing the existence of trans people. Republikkkans have 658 anti-trans bills circulating through the country. Texass is trying to pass a bill that makes being trans
I literally said I don’t understand it. I cannot put myself in the shoes of a trans person and feel it. I am a woman, so I’ve had my fill of having to work twice as hard to be ignored twice as often as my white male peers. So I get that. But I don’t feel dehumanized. I’m not unseen or a victim.
Until then, shhhh
When you’re government says don’t recognize YOUR existence, then you’ll understand 🙄
transgender a FELONY. The constant hate especially towards trans women is dehumanizing.
When you are literally called a “creature” by a graduate level professor, are told by the government that you literally do not exist, are called, “defective” and “deformed” consistently…. Yeah. , and told constantly that your only worth is in being a servant….. yeah, that takes a toll.
Oh you mean like women? Girls? Our whole lives? At some point, you have to stop being the victim, and toughen up, and stop letting other people dictate how you see yourself. And how others see you. Victimhood emboldens them. Stop letting them win.
Um…. No. However, being called an “earthen vessel,” and being told, “women aren’t people,” and, “your only purposes for existing is to have babies and be a slave for a husband,”— you get the idea that men do not see women as actual human beings. And unfortunately, many of these men are in
Charge of our government. And they are doing things like refusing to allow a dead woman (whose death they CAUSED, btw) to be buried with dignity. They are taking away birth control. They are forcing 10-year-olds to marry. They are taking away the ability for women to divorce, and to vote. And to
Have a job. They USED that woman’s dead corpse to grow an embryo. Against her will. You DO realize that DNRs are invalid if you’re pregnant? You can’t divorce while pregnant Yeah, those things impact women. Daily. And are yet more ways women are told they aren’t human beings and men despise them
You are completely ignoring that when people who have legal authority are telling you these things, it’s not about “how you see yourself.” It’s about how you are ALLOWED to exist in the world, and being punished, often legally, often physically, and even killed for it.
This feels like you may be having main character syndrome
Are you telling everyone how to feel?
Who is the “you” that you’re referring to? Are you saying that to all trans ppl? The language we use isn’t always about ourselves, sometimes it’s a way to shift the world to seeing an othered person as well, a person
The “you“ I was referring to was the person who I responded to. The specific person who said those words.
Sometimes the othering, dehumanization, delegitimization, etc. makes me feel disconnected from people. I'll feel more like a ghost, or a non-human animal, or an intellectual exercise, to name a few. It's been especially difficult since the shooting.
MsEvelyn, I’m truly sorry you feel this way. Pls know that there are many of us who have your back and would gladly give our own lives to save your skin (no hyperbole, I totally mean it!).
I’m tired of ppl living in fear or not feeling they are worthy while these dickheads & racists mfers think they can prance around dictating who can live w/ peace & who needs to go into hiding. Well f*ck them. I’m over these f’ing bullies. The best way to deal w/ bullies is to punch them in the face
Agree 100%
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Yes yes yes
I'm sorry.
terfs like tots are incapable of empathizing with this
Sending a virtual hug from an aunty in Canada.