5 hours sleep

Oct 20, 2022 04:36

I don't track my sleep, but it seems 5 hours is a typical amount for me if I don't take sleeping pills.  Sometimes I also take afternoon naps, sometimes I go back to sleep before the day begins.  I feel better than I did last night -- was happy to speak with K before I fell asleep ( Read more... )

transgressive, the trouble with diversity, agender, gender is fake, sexism

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matrixmann October 20 2022, 10:07:15 UTC
The modern pronoun wars seem to me like a Sisyphean challenge because meanwhile people begin to enforce pronouns that even have no base or pre-history in the English language. That are, plain to say, personal "fantasy pronouns". Sometimes you even wonder how to speak them correctly. (I don't think this is not much different for English natives.)
This is different from getting to call people you "he" or "she", which are pronouns that have a broad social base and which are longstandingly established. Where it is not really a difficult thing to just switch to the other if someone demands it for their persona. You work with established customs.

From my emotional stance, this is a thing I do not understand - what's so difficult about that if someone openly demands you to switch, especially if that person socially also doesn't live or act a living image of their biological sex, and talks about itself only using masculine linguistic forms (that's what I do all the time)? I think it's a matter of acting blind, whether involuntarily or ( ... )

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kanzeon_2040 October 23 2022, 12:38:17 UTC

all reasonable points :-)

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