what we actually need to talk about is the shift in loki's behavior with sylvie. after the last ep where she left and they STAYED (for mobius) their behavior is completely different. it's like they genuinely let her go. they didn't get emotional or freeze when they saw sylvie, nor did they try to reason with her thru emotions. they literally repeated what mobius said to reassure them and it was just completely different on how they would've done it before this ep. they genuinely seem to have let sylvie go like they didn't try to actively seek her out or talk to her, they barely talked to her more than necessary and most importantly, they left without looking back. that was such an important moment bc even last ep they looked back to make sure sylvie was following them but now they didn't talk to her or even look at her really before completely walking away from the situation. because, like last season, they choose a side and this time they choose mobius. they said it's harder to say yet they still stayed with mobius and they're NOT changing their mind. like i don't want to be too hopeful but it really seems to me that loki let sylvie go or at least begun letting her go and i'm so fucking happy that's finally happening.
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Have you seen the people on Twitter making 50 thousand look Tweet threads about how being altersex “fetishizes” being intersex 😭 God forbid you don’t want a traditional transition
I haven't seen those specifically because I rarely use Twitter but I know what you're talking about lmao
For one it shouldn't matter whether or not someone wants to transition for a fetish. But also the way people think that "no one could possibly want non-traditional genitalia for Good and Pure reasons, it's a curse you most be born with" is good for intersex people. Hell intersex people CAN BE ALTERSEX, especially people who want to return to genitalia they had at birth that was changed against their will as infants. There absolutely are intersexist altersex people but to call an entire group fetishizers for simply having genital dysphoria/euphoria is so unhelpful to intersex people. Like there are far bigger issues than salmacians just existing (also, people can work on unlearning intersexism, whereas these people want salmacians to either stop existing/be dysphoric forever because of their discourse-poisoned idea of what "fetishization" means)
It's also fucked up because I know that a LOT of salmacians felt guilty for years for wanting a salmacians body because it is so heavily sexualized, and the only place they ever saw it was in porn. r/salmacian has a ton of posts from people saying "I thought I was a weird freak for wanting this & that it could only exist in hentai but now I realize it's actually normal and attainable". It's so deeply fucked up to shame people away from transition that could radically improve their life for some bullshit identity politic "activism".
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the idea that non-traditional genitalia is not only natural, but can be desirable to possess, is only good for intersex people. The idea that non-traditional genitalia can ONLY be for people who were born with it is just. stupid. It creates this vibe that it's like, a burden you must carry rather than something you can choose to have or keep because it's normal and can be just as nice as traditional genitalia. Intersex people and altersex people can and should be friends & allies.
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everyone spiritual person who says smth like "masculine and feminine energy doesnt ACTUALLY correspond to gender, it's just the names!!" owes me five hundred dollars.
why are those the names, huh? why do you call these things by gendered terms?
because "feminine" energy tends to be described as nurturing, soft, caring, vulnerable, fluid, dynamic, emotional, empathetic, compassionate, sensual, etc.
and "masculine" energy tends to be described as focused, stable, protective, logical, clear, strong, independent, energetic, determined, firm, reasonable,
and oh, would you look! at! that! they just so happen to fit EXACTLY!! into gender roles!!! would you fucking look at that!! wonder why THAT is!!!!!!
the thing is, a LOT of common parts of this sort of generic spirituality comes from stuff from like, the 50s-90s, mostly made by white cis men and women. And a lot of it gets repeated uncritically by those same people as some sort of ~sacred truth we shan't dare question~ instead of something humans developed. Which doesn't make it less legitimate! But you can't just recycle some 1950s gender essentialism and insist it actually IS friendly to nonbinary people because you've decided that gender essentialism isn't gender essentialism if you say it isn't. Calling being soft, nurturing, caring, artistic, etc. "feminine" is gender essentialism. Calling being hard, decisive, materialistic, etc. "masculine" is gender essentialism. There's no reason they need gendered names!
A man who is soft and nurturing and emotional and mystical isn't necessarily feminine. You can be all those things and be a very masculine person, and saying that that man has "strong feminine energy" is just so fucking weird? Those aren't feminine traits, those are human traits. And a woman who has a clear focus, who knows what she wants and is logical and determined doesn't inherently have "masculine energy" for being a normal human being with some specific traits.
If these words describe spiritual energies present in everything that are meant to have 0 connection with gender, and everyone regardless of gender has them... then why do we need to assign them gendered names? Why not just call them anything else and stop making everything spiritual so intensely gendered? You could call them solar and lunar energy, or material and spiritual energy, or fluid and solid energy, or literally anything!! else!!
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