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The ‘I’ in LGBTQIA stand for intersex. We are really common—hi, hello! Precise stats are difficult because definitions are completely arbitrary. But around 1% of the population is a commonly kicked around feature. As common as redheads.
There is a LOT of misunderstanding about what intersex is. It literally means ‘between sex’ – someone who falls between the arbitrary definition of male and female. Notice that word ‘arbitrary’.
Intersex people can identify a male, female, neither, both or somewhere inbetween. The part of the brain that tells you what you are is the ‘gender identity’ you probably hear a lot of. It is that innate sense of who you are.
Intersex people can have a range of chromosome types. Xy, xx, xxy, xxxxxxxx, xo and so forth, however it isn’t always chromosomes that make you intersex. You may appear female, with a vagina and have XY chromosomes and internal testes (as with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome)
other of us develop traits later in life – for example, congenital adrenal hyperplasia occurs when your body doesn’t produce an enzyme. There are many variations in what it means to be intersex.
Some of us, as in my case, had the chain reaction in our development affected when our hormones were disrupted by external influences such as medicines and pesticides.
People need to understand that intersex people commonly exist, as it breaks a lot of societal issues. When we muddy the waters defining what it means to be a man or a woman, patriarchal constructs fall apart.
Most arguments of transgender critics simply fall apart when you factor in intersex people. Gender roles fall apart. Exclusion based on sex falls apart. It is impossible to oppress women if you cannot define woman as a state.
For example, I am intersex. I have boobs. Can I show you a picture of my boobs on facebook? Men can. Women can’t. Why? Because women’s bodies are sexualised and commodified. Is mine? If not, why not? Where do you draw the line? It falls apart.
What toilet should I use? How can you stop transgender women using women’s toilets but let intersex people use them. How do you check? Blood tests? That won’t work on us. Birth certificates? Again, most of us have the wrong birth certificate information. It is bullshit.
Genitals? Well, some of us have ambiguous genitals. Some do not. Where do you draw the line? We make ridiculou gender rules look ridiculous. That makes people trying to enforce them angry. At best we get erased. Hell, watch how often the ‘I’ gets missed off LGBTQ.
Type @ then LGBTQ to see how often we are excluded from LGBTQIA organisations. Remember, we are around 1% of the population.
If you would like to know more, there is a great doco on us here: youtu.be/XPY28QW4T4E
People alo try to actively exclude intersex from LGBT spaces as “one is sexuality” one is “gender”. Think about it. If you are somewhere between male and female and you are attracted to LITERALLY ANYONE ON THE PLANET you are technically at least partially gay :p
Any questions? Feel free – I have to get on a coach in a few hours.
Malta is the only place that has outlawed surgery on babies who are intersex. Australia does it – about 1 in 1000. This renders the child infertile, damages sexual function and can lead to gender dysphoria if they pick the wrong direction.
Steven being conflicted about his mum killing Pink Diamond was never just about the act itself. Shattering a gem, that’s certainly bad in it’s own right, and I’m sure that Steven was upset about it. But overall, the fact that one (presumably evil) gem was shattered wasn’t what really affected him, it was all the stuff that happened to everyone else as a result of it. Jasper‘s suffering, Blue’s mourning, the corruption of the Crystal Gems, all of this stuff happened because of what his mum did.
Notice all of the times that Pink’s shattering has been brought up since this arc began. When Jasper was shouting about all the fighting she’s been through, Eyeball bemoaning how terrible the war was, the hallucination scene with Bismuth, Jasper and Eyeball, Blue mourning at her palanquin, “What’s the use of feeling blue”, ‘The Trial’. None of those scene’s were about Pink herself, they were all about how the other characters were affected by her death, and whether or not her death was staged doesn’t change that. Even in ‘Storm in the Room’, when Steven confronts his mum, he doesn’t give her a “killing is never the way” speech, he lectures her on all the people who’ve suffered because of her actions. Steven does not care that his mum murdered a dictator, he cares that she did something that caused all these bad things to happen.
So the fact that Pink Diamond was never actually shattered, and that Rose herself actually was her, doesn’t make anything better. Instead it makes everything worse, because now she not only took away someone who was needed by many, but actually was that someone, and abandoned those that needed her. And that’s what the montage of Steven leaving Pearl’s gem really emphasised, Rose abandoning Homeworld by faking her death, then abandoning the Crystal Gems by having Steven, she became an important figure in the lives of so many, only to abandon them, leaving her problems for them to deal with.
Steven cares a great deal about family, and about helping them with their problems, he even cares about helping his enemies with their problems. So much of his character arc throughout the first three seasons was about him wanting to be useful to the people and gems he loves, and for him to see that his mum had such little regard for those who would’ve done anything for her is really devastating to him.
I remember when The Darling characters came out, and I immediately found kokoro and mitsuru’s character design the cutest, like they made a very gorgeous esthetically couple to me
But they were in different pairs
Some interactions and them bam, they switch partners. They even feel special, since in the opening they are the only couple that seek for each-other
Few episodes later and Bam the damn kiss that made us all fangirl as an idiot
Then bam THEY DO THE THING. I MEAN EVEN BEFORE THE MAIN COUPLE DAMN
AND NOW THEY ARE FUCKING MARRIED OMG. I CAN DIE HAPPILY
Well It’been quite a bit since the last time I actually shiped this much a pair
“…I am the golden one Who burns just like the sun Next time we meet is your disaster I’ll bring the punishment Your song will be lament Revenge, my happy ever after..”
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