As the public begins to embrace people who identify as transgender, the trans people within the disability movement are also seeking their due, or at very least a bit of understanding in a public that cannot fathom why anyone would want to be anything other than healthy and mobile.
But this has been met with great resistance in both the disability activist community and in transgender circles, argues Baril, a visiting scholar of feminist, gender and sexuality studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
“They tend to see transabled people as dishonest people, people who try to steal resources from the community, people who would be disrespectful by denying or fetishizing or romanticizing disability reality,” Baril says, adding people in both transgender and disabled circles tend to make judgmental or prejudicial statements about transabled people. “Each try to distance themselves.”.
Anyone who seriously labors under this notion suffers from severe social and personal alienation that would not be cured by derisively denouncing them as mentally ill ticking time bombs. Such treatment reproduces the conditions of despair and loneliness that gives rise to these compensatory fixations in the first place. If you honestly want people to avoid self-destruction , you have to do your part to educate them into taking pride in themselves by treating them with the compassion and dignity that you would want people to show to you. And to do that, we actually have to make a point of being good comrades to one another in everyday life, creating wherever we can social settings which foster rather than impede mutual respect and reciprocity.
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Sublimation is underrated.
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c_man posted:something something stigmata something
I will only warn you that, when you learn or hear that God is granting souls these graces, you must never beg or desire Him to lead you by this road.....There are many holy people who have never known what it is to receive a favor of this sort, and there are others who receive such favors even though they are not holy.
-From The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila
Supernatural works and miracles merit little or no rejoicing on the part of the soul; for, without the second kind of benefit (increased love of God and neighbor), they are of little or no importance to man, since they are not in themselves a means for uniting the soul with God, as charity is. And these supernatural works and graces may be performed by those who are not in a state of grace and charity, whether they truly give thanks and attribute their gifts to God, as did the wicked prophet Balaam, and Solomon, or whether they perform them falsely, through the agency of the devil, as did Simon Magus, or by means of other secrets of nature....
It is not the will of God that miracles should be wrought: when He
works them, He does so, as it were, because He cannot do otherwise. And for this cause He reproved the Pharisees because they believed not save through signs, saying: 'Unless ye see marvels and signs, ye believe not.' Those, then, who love to rejoice in these supernatural works lose much in the matter of faith.
-From The Ascent of Mount Carmel by St.John of the Cross
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RedMaistre posted:I assume you are talking about this, OP?
As the public begins to embrace people who identify as transgender, the trans people within the disability movement are also seeking their due, or at very least a bit of understanding in a public that cannot fathom why anyone would want to be anything other than healthy and mobile.
But this has been met with great resistance in both the disability activist community and in transgender circles, argues Baril, a visiting scholar of feminist, gender and sexuality studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
“They tend to see transabled people as dishonest people, people who try to steal resources from the community, people who would be disrespectful by denying or fetishizing or romanticizing disability reality,” Baril says, adding people in both transgender and disabled circles tend to make judgmental or prejudicial statements about transabled people. “Each try to distance themselves.”.
Anyone who seriously labors under this notion suffers from severe social and personal alienation that would not be cured by derisively denouncing them as mentally ill ticking time bombs. Such treatment reproduces the conditions of despair and loneliness that gives rise to these compensatory fixations in the first place. If you honestly want people to avoid self-destruction , you have to do your part to educate them into taking pride in themselves by treating them with the compassion and dignity that you would want people to show to you. And to do that, we actually have to make a point of being good comrades to one another in everyday life, creating wherever we can social settings which foster rather than impede mutual respect and reciprocity.
actually the solution is to put so much lithium in them they could jumpstart a Honda
Keven posted:Whats up everyone.
Le Mandela, like Xerxes, is trying to keep down the waters with whip and bridle. Nihil sub sole novum,
RedMaistre posted:Keven posted:Whats up everyone.
Le Mandela, like Xerxes, is trying to keep down the waters with whip and bridle. Nihil sub sole novum,
but according to 300 Xerxes was kind of an androgynous drag queen. what does it all mean
discipline posted:I'm also relaxing keven
Good on ya!
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:RedMaistre posted:Keven posted:Whats up everyone.
Le Mandela, like Xerxes, is trying to keep down the waters with whip and bridle. Nihil sub sole novum,
but according to 300 Xerxes was kind of an androgynous drag queen. what does it all mean
Keven posted:Whats up everyone... it's me Keven. I'm relaxing
nice
discipline posted:I'm also relaxing keven
nice
Cyrus was now reduced to great perplexity, as time went on and he made no progress against the place. In this distress either some one made the suggestion to him, or he bethought himself of a plan, which he proceeded to put in execution. He placed a portion of his army at the point where the river enters the city, and another body at the back of the place where it issues forth, with orders to march into the town by the bed of the stream, as soon as the water became shallow enough: he then himself drew off with the unwarlike portion of his host, and made for the place where Nitocris dug the basin for the river, where he did exactly what she had done formerly: he turned the Euphrates by a canal into the basin, which was then a marsh, on which the river sank to such an extent that the natural bed of the stream became fordable.
Hereupon the Persians who had been left for the purpose at Babylon by the, river-side, entered the stream, which had now sunk so as to reach about midway up a man's thigh, and thus got into the town. Had the Babylonians been apprised of what Cyrus was about, or had they noticed their danger, they would never have allowed the Persians to enter the city, but would have destroyed them utterly; for they would have made fast all the street gates which gave access to the river, and mounting upon the walls along both sides of the stream, would so have caught the enemy, as it were, in a trap. But, as it was, the Persians came upon them by surprise and so took the city. Owing to the vast size of the place, the inhabitants of the central parts (as the residents at Babylon declare) long after the outer portions of the town were taken, knew nothing of what had chanced, but as they were engaged in a festival, continued dancing and reveling until they learnt about the capture. Such, then, were the circumstances of the first taking of Babylon.
http://www.livius.org/ct-cz/cyrus_I/babylon07.html
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