Océane
@oceane  ·  activity timestamp 3 years ago

Re: Transphobia? Problematic contents?

But I’ve never been assaulted verbally or physically, I haven’t experienced real transphobia, I’m surrounded by safe, inclusive people so I’m probably being picky here and this isn’t nice towards either other trans people or these allies who are doing their best. Questions of economic and demographic privilege (being white) play a role here, so umm, I’m not trans people’s voice or anything, it’s much more complex than I could account for at the moment, in my humble opinion
Océane
@oceane  ·  activity timestamp 3 years ago

⁂ Article

Rant about an interesting lecture at my university

The issue with free speech online isn’t that it’s too broad but that online platforms don’t respect it when they encourage their users to shorten their messages (e.g. Twitter characters limit for merely sending a message or the Facebook one to display larger text on a silly background).


The teacher has said a lot of interesting stuff e.g. that users constructed their own bubble filters (which IMHO is due to both trolling and more generally the appearance of conflicting values, which I don’t perceive either as a trans woman or while tracting – we can always discuss a bit – and leads to total institutions, which means that in order to spare marginalized people we need to foster actual conversation and to positively show that we don’t advocate for conflicting values, to listen to our correspondants’) but this "solutions" part was really fucked up; I’ve literally mentioned Lessig’s four cardinal points for activism and he comes up with a sort of GDPR on free speech (which was, on personal data, bullshit, btw, except for the spam because the problem was that it was unexpensive, Hashcoin was meant to solve this and has lead to Bitcoin unfortunately).
Océane
@oceane  ·  activity timestamp 3 years ago

I don't know if speech should be regulated (I don't think so, e.g. calling out a public servant's racism is illegal in France) but a specific form of so-called "hate speech" is the only form that an agonistic perspective on communications and information deprived of cognitive resources (because the marketing competences that make capitalistic social media successful are used to typify both the public and the people who've signed their TOS and target... woopsie, marginalized teenagers) can take, so I'm writing that down in my list of bullshit excuses to control our interactions.
Océane
@oceane  ·  activity timestamp 3 years ago

I.e. knowing that political struggles exist without knowing between which group and resorting to a brainless rage that either becomes oppressive, or completely sterile against oppressors. White I was in the closet I'd feel attacked in my masculinity but only in that I was disabled; it was culturally my autism that was wrong and to be fixed, not my behaviour as a "man". Similarly it's probably made me stay in the closet as a trans woman for an unknown number of years, because I had to carry the burden of my disability-"masculinity".
Océane
@oceane  ·  activity timestamp 3 years ago

R*pe mention, TW politics (I believe it may trigger panic attacks)

Of course pulling that under the rug to strenghten an authoritarian narrative can only strenghten or legitimize the oppressions happening on capitalistic social media, between mostly abused people, because of this mechanism. It also undeniably exposes these people to real-life abuse. But the authoritarian politicians serving this narrative also happen to be predators and rapists – maybe the smartest, relatively speaking, and probably the most successful ones.
Océane
@oceane  ·  activity timestamp 3 years ago

Transphobia? Problematic contents?

Btw someone at the coop asked me "Antoine, what do you want?

  • Hi, I’d like a banana, my name’s Océane btw, I’m transitioning!
  • God, it’s 8am"

Which might have been transphobic idk but it could also be a pretty decent, natural reaction, honestly more appreciated than allies believing that I’d live in a sort of misery and that I’d really need to be told that I’m beautiful at the first meeting
Océane
@oceane  ·  activity timestamp 3 years ago

Re: Transphobia? Problematic contents?

But I’ve never been assaulted verbally or physically, I haven’t experienced real transphobia, I’m surrounded by safe, inclusive people so I’m probably being picky here and this isn’t nice towards either other trans people or these allies who are doing their best. Questions of economic and demographic privilege (being white) play a role here, so umm, I’m not trans people’s voice or anything, it’s much more complex than I could account for at the moment, in my humble opinion