beckyb | 5 years ago | on: IBM to name infrastructure services business 'Kyndryl' after spinoff
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Also, installing dos stuff in C:\DOS is what people generally did. I'm pretty sure it could be anywhere in the path.
beckyb | 5 years ago | on: Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac
If they don't, then the old hardware is still good.
beckyb | 5 years ago | on: Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
(edit) - and just to reflect on what happened to this child, in addition to the physical changes & social problems, this "treatment" would have surely induced gender dysphoria, which any trans person can tell you is awful as hell.
beckyb | 5 years ago | on: A Letter on Justice and Open Debate
beckyb | 5 years ago | on: A Letter on Justice and Open Debate
Because of who she is, and her massive audience, this does real damage.
A person's right to even exist in society shouldn't be up for debate.
beckyb | 5 years ago | on: The Lives of Others: When does imagination become appropriation?
With that said, a lot of the problem stems from the fact that a popular author from the "outside" culture is going to have a lot more influence on what others in the outside culture believe/understand about the "inside" culture.
As an example from my community, just about every movie written about transgender people by a cisgender person spends a lot of time showing the subject putting on makeup or wearing heels, implying that the essence of what it means to be a trans woman is wearing makeup or high heeled shoes... But it isn't the case.
That would almost be ok, but the popular movie is going to get a lot more airtime than an indie movie made by a trans person which shows what our real lives are like. In fact, that movie may not get made at all.
So it's worse having the popular movie out there, making money off of our lives, but misrepresenting them at the same time. (And this is all assuming that no harm was intended... it's still harmful, and it happens all the time.)
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