#bioessentialism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bioessentialism, aggregated by home.social.
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[P] It makes me want to grab other writers and rub their noses in it. "This! Why not this??? Why do you have to rely on bioessentialism? Why are you typecasting groups based on how they look?? Why are you making deterministic assumptions about everyone in an entire species??? Read these books meant for children and DO BETTER." Tui has given me a taste of how much better things could be, I can't go back from that.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #bioessentialism #writing #wingsoffire
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[P] Having read The Hybrid Prince recently and seeing how beyond excellent Tui always is at never, ever just typecasting a group based upon how they look? The complete, total, and utter absence of bioessentialism in her works makes me even more sensitive to how insidiously ubiquitous it is in other media. It's impossible to typecast any group in Wings of Fire due the variety of personalities and intents in each group.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #bioessentialism #writing #wingsoffire
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[P] Metallic dragons are Universally good. Chromatic dragons are Universally evil. Bam. Instant other. And the human wants them to be punished, they want to enjoy the horrible suffering of the other. As a writer, I think you have a constant responsibility to challenge that. The reason I keep putting Tui on a pedestal is because she DOES challenge it, and by doing so I find her works more intelligent and clever than most.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #bioessentialism #writing
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[P] In Wings of Fire, there can't exist othering because with every species or culture, there are both good and bad examples. Darkstalker is evil, sure. So are all NightWings an evil other? Nope. Starflight, Fatespeaker, the ironically nmaed Deathbringer, and many others are kind, decent, and just. Tui diesn't allow the reader to signify a group as other. Now, compare this with how dragons are handled in D&D.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #bioessentialism #writing
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[P] And like I said, the Red Scare proves me right. Propaganda was able to use goblins to suggest horrible punishments for Chinese people, as both the goblns and the Chinese immigrants are other. This is how the human mind works. But again, it's also why I praise the work of Tui T. Sutherland. In Wings of Firw she's careful to never use othering, she avoids it in every story. Please learn from that, it's important.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #bioessentialism #writing
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[P] The more you differentiate between the similar vs. thr other in your works, the more aggression the reader feels over time toward otherness because you—the writer—are codifying that what one does with otherness is punish it. It you're punishing orcs in a work for not being human? The human takes that sense of punishment for otherness and applies it to immigrants and refugeees. You did that. Your work.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #bioessentialism #writing
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[P] Any time you signify otherness in fiction, then dole out a punishment for that otherness? It blossoms into this acceptance of punishing all otherness this way. It doesn't matter whether it's a "monster" or a person, if your writing is poisonous enough to create a separation? You've now normalised whatever punishment you used in the mind of the reader, it's now a valid punishment for otherness. It's how humans work.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #bioessentialism #writing
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[P] I love this video because it illustrates what I was talking about the other day.
How all of the following is true for most people: otherness is a kludge; all otherness is otherness; and all otherness deserves suffering. And fuck anyone who doesn't believe this, because it's real. Tbe majority can be entertained by suffering if that suffering is an other. It makes it acceptable, palatable.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #bioessentialism #writing
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[P] I think what writers need to understand is that neurotypicals categlrise ALL other as orher, then they sort by simplistic trait, not full appearance. For example, the "greedy" dragon can lay structural hate for similar assumed traits of Jewish people. America used rhis for propaganda, depicting Chinese people as invading goblins in pointy hats. All other is other, and punishment is accorded by trait.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #bioessentialism #writing
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[P] Oh, haha. I just learned about David Livingstone's Less Than Human, where he lays exactly my thoughts out. That before any atrocity or genocide, the group being targeted is often depicted as aliens, monsters, or some other foreign, very inhuman threat. So I feel somewhat vindicated here as I've seen EXACTLY this pattern. If something happens to "monsters" in fiction, it'll happen to real humans soon too.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #bioessentialism #writing
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[P] I wish this was trolling hyperbole, but I've always seen disturbing parallels between fiction & reality. So if fiction is doing something new and awful, I pay attention. I just have no faith in neurotypicals anymore. Gaza took that away. I think that depicting violence against ANYTHING, no matter how different, normalises neurotypicals to human atrocity and desensitises them. I know this is true, and science has my back.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #bioessentialism #writing
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anyway any #punk or #anarchist or #alternative who makes jokes about killing assaulting raping #men, yeah even the ones that aren’t queer or trans, isn’t a real punk. because #punks are better then that, real punks don’t fuck around with #bioessentialism. real punks aren’t #radfems. #Radfeminism is #fascist. Bioessentialism is fascist.
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anyway any #punk or #anarchist or #alternative who makes jokes about killing assaulting raping #men, yeah even the ones that aren’t queer or trans, isn’t a real punk. because #punks are better then that, real punks don’t fuck around with #bioessentialism. real punks aren’t #radfems. #Radfeminism is #fascist. Bioessentialism is fascist.
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anyway any #punk or #anarchist or #alternative who makes jokes about killing assaulting raping #men, yeah even the ones that aren’t queer or trans, isn’t a real punk. because #punks are better then that, real punks don’t fuck around with #bioessentialism. real punks aren’t #radfems. #Radfeminism is #fascist. Bioessentialism is fascist.
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anyway any #punk or #anarchist or #alternative who makes jokes about killing assaulting raping #men, yeah even the ones that aren’t queer or trans, isn’t a real punk. because #punks are better then that, real punks don’t fuck around with #bioessentialism. real punks aren’t #radfems. #Radfeminism is #fascist. Bioessentialism is fascist.
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anyway any #punk or #anarchist or #alternative who makes jokes about killing assaulting raping #men, yeah even the ones that aren’t queer or trans, isn’t a real punk. because #punks are better then that, real punks don’t fuck around with #bioessentialism. real punks aren’t #radfems. #Radfeminism is #fascist. Bioessentialism is fascist.
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CW: Bioessentialism
#Bioessentialism is a flawed take down to its very premise that anything in your body serves any kind of purpose.
Look at #evolution. Look at it! It's an endless bumper car ride, and it's save to assume that every bit and bob in your body down to cell structures at some point along the way was repurposed, McGyvered, modified, and outrageously awfully misutilized from any kind of "purpose" a scientist could hypothetically have deducted at the time. Nothing in your body "was made to fulfill its role". It just turned out that it could fulfill some function marginally better than something else. Your body is a hodgepodge of race conditions with the skin under your toes in rivalry with your eyes for better sight, and at any given point mutations might accumulate so that in a 100.000 years human ears become vital to breathing. -
Why genetic testing can't always reveal the sex of a baby | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/why-genetic-testing-cant-always-reveal-the-sex-of-a-baby#Genetics
#Intersex
#Sex
#Gender
#Trans
#SurgeryOnBabies
#Trans
#NonBinary
#Bioessentialism
#SocialConfinements
#CelebrateTheBabyLetsJustHaveACake
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Why genetic testing can't always reveal the sex of a baby | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/why-genetic-testing-cant-always-reveal-the-sex-of-a-baby#Genetics
#Intersex
#Sex
#Gender
#Trans
#SurgeryOnBabies
#Trans
#NonBinary
#Bioessentialism
#SocialConfinements
#CelebrateTheBabyLetsJustHaveACake
#Gender
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Why genetic testing can't always reveal the sex of a baby | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/why-genetic-testing-cant-always-reveal-the-sex-of-a-baby#Genetics
#Intersex
#Sex
#Gender
#Trans
#SurgeryOnBabies
#Trans
#NonBinary
#Bioessentialism
#SocialConfinements
#CelebrateTheBabyLetsJustHaveACake
#Gender
#GenderRevealParties -
Why genetic testing can't always reveal the sex of a baby | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/why-genetic-testing-cant-always-reveal-the-sex-of-a-baby#Genetics
#Intersex
#Sex
#Gender
#Trans
#SurgeryOnBabies
#Trans
#NonBinary
#Bioessentialism
#SocialConfinements
#CelebrateTheBabyLetsJustHaveACake
#Gender
#GenderRevealParties -
Why genetic testing can't always reveal the sex of a baby | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/why-genetic-testing-cant-always-reveal-the-sex-of-a-baby#Genetics
#Intersex
#Sex
#Gender
#Trans
#SurgeryOnBabies
#Trans
#NonBinary
#Bioessentialism
#SocialConfinements
#CelebrateTheBabyLetsJustHaveACake
#Gender
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Quick reminder: as recently as the 90s, Irish people were seen as of subnormal intelligence. I grew up thinking I couldn't be Irish because I didn't recognise anyone in all the Irishman jokes I heard.
Race science and IQ, not even once.
Alas, it still has modern day, suspiciously well-funded proponents.
https://medium.com/@Keira_Havens/box-of-rocks-7-ouroboros-3cc530d7782e
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Damn straight. Reified social constructs cause a lot of problems.