While the stance against the weapons companies and stonewall cuddling with them is necessary in the context of the Palestinian genocide, one core point missing on that text was criticism for queer people working for those companies.

This may be because there starts the really complex discussion.

Queer people aren’t a political block. While most lean socially to the left because the right seems hellbent on dehumanizing queer people, not all queer are socially left and most importantly, many queer economically lean right.

So here comes the hard point. If queer people want to work on those companies, isn’t it good that those companies treat them with respect?

Is it the expectation that those companies should treat their queer employees bad so no queer people wants to work there?

What is the position of the protesters on queer people working for those companies?

Look. As a gender fluid it dawned on me that one can be trans and still gender fluid.

At some point recently, when feeling very fem. I wondered if it would be better for me to transition and be gwnderfluid from the fem side instead of from the masc side.

I think what you describe has to do with hanging too tight to the gender binary. Once you realize gender isn’t binary, you realize it’s natural and normal feeling how you are feeling at any particular point. This is, you don’t need to chose a static gender.

Plus, présentation doesn’t need to match societal expectations for the gender you feel. You can chose a presentation for the “occasion” or as a matter of style.

You can wear a skirt when feeling masc or a tuxedo when feeling fem. I am now so used to mixing and matching that I wear what I think looks good regardless of which side of the store it came.

In mexico there are also accepted transgender identities in indigenous societies. Like the muxe in Oaxaca.

Erasing history is a way for people to think that being trans is a “new thing”.

To keep the weeds out and not having to collect the clippings. It actually takes less time overall. It wasn’t a large area, though.

All the possible signals. Really. I’ll give you two of my own experience (or inexperience)

• Teenagers in a school trip. She tells me, do you want to come with me, I forgot my key in the room. “Sure” I say. I proceed to walk with her and wait for her to go to her room while I held the elevator.

• Me in a quite alternative bar. She “why don’t you stay longer, I can take you home after”. Me “I have early class tomorrow”.

Both were drop dead gorgeous (the first one was fairly wealthy)

Those are just two examples. My life is full of them. Apparently I’m more attractive than smart.

Of course, there have been some super direct where I clued in but it was impossible not to.

Less work? 🤣

I had a garden with wild flowers, it was planted by the previous owner. An horticulturist.

It was beautiful but required a lot of work. Way more than mowing a couple of days a week.

I still tried to keep up, though.

But we have so many “quotes” from Einstein. It would be fun to go one by one asking if he really said that.