~Rabbit Rabbit White Rabbit!~

[harp]

I'm so happy October is here! Best month ever! Iunno what I like about it, but I have a feeling it has a lot to do with the moving or the letter O or the creeeeeeepy or the Halloween. Or the Scorpio, the pumpkins, the Orange, or the pretty fall colors. Either way I'm gonna...

~ Finally mail out the October Surprise (wish me luck, loves)
~ Continue learning ASL (I can do yes, no, name, like, dislike, and most of the letters)
~ Mooooooooooooove
~ Meme this journal, meme it inside out
~ Visit ontdcreepy a lot more
~ Get fearless


Some old art that I drew with a pencil in 2007, re-found, and colored digitally but forgot to put up. Art with pencil first + Scan + digi color = <3

In the meantime, you want to be the second commenter on my journal. You do.

Oh- and who wants to pick an episode of the 1995/2000 remake of The Outer Limits, watch it on Hulu with me and discuss it?
(I love the episode "First Anniversary" so much)

Edit:
Unexpected accidents and deaths having occurred during the test, the Ebonites—who are, actually, a peaceful and honorable alien civilization—eventually ask for such an immoral and inhuman experimentation to end at once, but nonetheless fail in preventing one last man to be fatally killed...
-Wiki synopsis of the episode Nightmare

I was killed once! But it wasn't fatally.

Comments

[alacricity.livejournal.com]

Why ASL?

And it's not october. O_O friday is.

[harpsi-fizz.livejournal.com]

...

Oh.

[alacricity.livejournal.com]

lol!

[harpsi-fizz.livejournal.com]

I was f**king hyped for October, okay?! I love October!

And I'm learning ASL because I want to hang out with deaf people so I can see both sides of the equation. So far, I've been the one without "power" and have had to hang out with the whiny whiners on the transgender comms. With all of the annoyance with their butthurt, I figure I should hang out with people to whom I am "privileged" so I can know what people feel when they hang out with me and are cis/straight/white/wutevs.

(And those whiny BAWers can suck it)

[alacricity.livejournal.com]

xD I like october durr.

For the record, deaf people don't think that you're privileged. They don't feel they are at a disadvantage in most cases, and they simply consider that they have a different language than you or I. They'd... probably be kind of offended lol.

[harpsi-fizz.livejournal.com]

Well it's not like I'm gonna tell them that! ... I don't know how to sign it! XD

No but seriously? 8/10 times, I don't feel like cis/white/straight people are privileged over me either. But you say any of this to the WAH police, and they'll tell you way different. And they'll tell me why I'm s different and why life sucks and I'll get hate crimed tomorrow. You know them. Can't be happy. That's why iFail at TransBeing 101.

[alacricity.livejournal.com]

xDDD!

Yeah. I believe it was on WTF Inc or Booju Nooju or whatthefuckever but there was some kind of discussion on how a deaf person would want their child to be deaf too. Which I found to be fucking disgusting and selfish, and pretty much as bad as saying OH AUTISM ISN'T AN ILLNESS IT'S A SHINEY SPESHUL GIFT 8D

[alacricity.livejournal.com]

Also I should add- privilege is what you make of it. Yes, cisgender folk are lucky in that they identify with the sex they were born with, white guy might get a job sooner than black guy if every person hiring anyone ever is fucking racist (seriously there's a reason why I hate the assumption of privilege in every situation ever zomg).

If you don't let privilege effect you, you are more privileged than anyone else!

[harpsi-fizz.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I do what the hell I please and I have found that if you're nice to people, the system works for you. And if it doesn't, there are ways around it. There's always a way to get what you want, even if you have to haggle and fenangle a little to do it. I discovered that and I don't know how their sitting around and bitching helps them. Alright, some of their stuff is seriously legit, but the regular BAWers? They really just want stuff handed to them it looks like. "Just deal" is not an option.

I don't know what they think others have that they don't, but I'm sure half of it doesn't exist.

As Noland (another transman) said "don't those people ever want to feel normal? I thought that was the point."

[alacricity.livejournal.com]

Yep.

The thing is, you, as a transperson, are not required to announce your gender status to the world. You are male, and that's the only thing anyone needs to know. You are not shaming yourself by not bringing up the fact that you are transgendered, by not saying "SO YEAH I WASN'T BORN THIS WAY" etc etc. You are just accepting who you TRULY are.

The fact is, I'm fucking tired of people assuming that because I am not _________ I am obviously bigoted against it. I just want to smack people like that, who assume that if you are white you are inherently racist, if you are monosexual, you are obviously bigoted against bisexuals/pansexuals, if you are gay, you MUST hate the dirty breeders, etc etc etc. :/ It's just... are you LOOKING for people to hate you? do you WANT to be discriminated against? Not everyone hates you for the sake of hate, promise.

[blackbird-xiii.livejournal.com]

Pretty picture!

I use to know a lot more ASL when I was little than I do now. One of my best friends in high school has a mother who is deaf and I still know just enough to carry on a few sentences with her. I'm still super slow and have to spell out things though. Once you have the alphabet down, it'll be easy.

Yay October! :D I love the month too (and I thought today was the first too...)

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Ash and I were doing drag songs in our living room last night and Ash said, "We can replace anyone but Pan. Pan is irreplaceable." We've started looking at theaters to rent for drag practices. You need to come down to Austin!

[kattidya.livejournal.com]

What I like about October is the autumn colours and Halloween, except it is not celebrated here in Finland :C But, may yours be happy!

[alacricity.livejournal.com]

I AIM TO PLEASE :D

[icanhaspancake.livejournal.com]

I just have to butt in here in regards to the ASL thing. I'm pretty sure you didn't mean it this way, but it comes across as pretty offensive to paint deaf people as these underprivileged losers who you're going to step down off your pedestal to "hang out" with. As someone who is damn near fluent in sign language and has several deaf/hearing impaired friends, I can tell you that not only are they not underprivileged, but often times they have an easier time with things than people who can hear.

So if you're looking for a group of people to feel "privileged" around (which I think is a pretty icky thing to do with any group of people; why not just hang out with people because you like them, rather than dehumanizing them and making a social experiment out of it?), I think you're going in the way wrong direction. To be perfectly honest, a lot of the deaf people I know are perfectly happy with how they are and they usually don't care one way or the other if a special shiny ~hearing person decides to hang out with them.

ASL is just like any other language. You might as well be posting, "Hey, I'm going to go learn Spanish so I can feel privileged," because it's just that level of bizarre. Just because they might not be able to understand you doesn't mean they live lives of hardship and woe.
(on that note, deaf people do use the internet, you know. i hope you made sure that no one on your flist is hearing impaired before you started putting them down.)

Maybe you just have some misconceptions about the deaf community in general? One of my deaf friends from high school was one of the most popular boys there. He was on the football and basketball team, and made some of the best grades. He could read lips and communicate so well that most people forgot that he couldn't hear. The point is that it didn't matter that he was deaf, because we all saw him as a person first and foremost. And I can tell you for certain that not a single one of us was sitting around feeling all privileged in his presence; if nothing else, a lot of us were wishing we could be more like him.

TL;DR, I'm pretty sure you have good intentions, but this came off as a little insensitive and extremely judgmental, and I just couldn't ignore it anymore.

[harpsi-fizz.livejournal.com]

That's fine if it's how you felt. If that's how you understood it, then that's how it would look to you.

[icanhaspancake.livejournal.com]

That is how I understood it, but since I know you and know that more than likely you didn't mean any harm, I was hoping for a little clarification? I'm not saying you need to explain yourself to me, I'm just genuinely curious about your train of thought here.

[icanhaspancake.livejournal.com]

Acknowledging that he had good intentions was my way of showing that I was not trying to pass judgment on him. As I said in my above comment, I'm curious about his train of thought with this, since deaf people are not an underprivileged group.

The "cool kid" thing was merely an example, and you've totally missed my point by fixating on that one little thing. I never said, "Oh yay, they needed a champion, and now they have one!" It was more along the lines of that they're a mixed group, with people who do perfectly well for themselves and even outshining "normal" people, and they also have their individuals who struggle. But that said, I don't see how lowly and underprivileged fits in.

And I'm not sure where you're even coming from with the racist thing, since I didn't say anything like that and that's not even related to the topic at hand.

At any rate, I don't appreciate your hostile tone when I was simply trying to start a discussion. Even if you misunderstood my comment, I would assume that harpsi_fizz knows me well enough by now to know whether I'm attacking him or not, and that's really my only concern here.

[harpsi-fizz.livejournal.com]

Sure thing. I'll PM you, ok?