"ppl in the replies" okay its like 2 or 3, maybe i overreacted

Anyway "the first cis guy to get hit with hot allostatic load" is grotesque beyond words.

to argue in the abstract, the numbers are lower than with heterosexual people etc etc, but it requires a lot of nuance in the concrete, and that's not a contradiction.

gay people were called pedophiles too etc, I have to wonder if they believe that gay people were called pedophiles without anyone ever actually accusing a concrete, actual gay person of pedophilia and how they reconcile that with the fact that there are actual sexual abusers who are gay. It's easy

is clearly rape apologia. As is acknowledging that marginalized people are vulnerable to marginalization and more vulnerable to justified collective violence than someone less marginalized. It's never not being justified.

Like when people say transphobia today is just like homophobia back when,

protect survivors?

Or, to draw an oversimplified analogy, does the fact that men of color are more likely to be believed to be sexual abusers (and as a consequence likely to suffer from racist violence) than white men mean that we should not believe victims?

But anyway clearly hot allostatic load

A cis person referencing it to defend themselves against allegations of sexual abuse is grotesque.

But what if the perpetrator actually is a trans woman? Isn't the gist of it to not believe survivors then?
What does it mean to believe survivors? Do you believe in punitive justice? How does one

who am i kidding

misremembered the name btw this has been bugging me for months. years possibly whatever

suspicions hidden inside me, while I put on a brave outward show; looking back, I count myself lucky not to have been drowned or burned. Shall I ever dare to go near water and fire again?'"
- The Book of Lieh-tzu, translates by A. C. Graham

acting on it. I forgot where my body was going, I forgot which things benefit and which things harm me. It is simply that I was single­ minded; that is the only reason why no thing stood in my way.
But now that I know for the first time that you were all making fun of me, I have worries and

Tzu-hua, who can save or ruin, enrich or impoverish, anyone he pleases. I believed you with all my heart, and that is why I came here, and the long journey seemed short to me.
When I arrived, I thought that everything you people said was true; I feared only that I might fall short in believing and

Permit us to ask you about this Way.'
'I do not possess the Way, said Shang-ch'iu K'ai. 'Even in my own heart I don't know how I did it. However, there is one thing I can try to tell you about. Not long ago I heard two of you, who were spending the night in my hut, praising the fame and power of

body was not scorched. Tzu-hua's band were convinced that he possessed the Way, and they all apologised to him together.
'We played tricks on you, not knowing that you possessed the Way; we humiliated you, not knowing that you were a Divine Man. How stupid, how deaf, how blind you must think us!