Comments on: Turning the Friggin’ Frogs Gay in Three Easy Steps

By: Clinton

Clinton — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 01:47:51 +0000

In reply to Eva. The internet was certainly way different when I was using it as a teenager in 2003-2006—and even *then* I felt like I had missed out on something. MUDs would have been crazy!

By: Clinton

Clinton — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 01:46:55 +0000

In reply to Erik Van Till.

Do it for science! 🥽🧪

I'm not considering this as a matter of gender identity in any cut-and-dry sense. Queerness in its modern usage entails a far broader spectrum of traits and is, I think, more amenable to understanding as related to early childhood and teenage development.

By: Eva

Eva — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 20:11:40 +0000

My own personal experience differs from this interpretation, in that in transitioning I mostly gave up on virtual interaction and stopped “seeing” cyberspace. Maybe it’s just being old, but I sometimes feel like how dogs must feel when they see people looking at screens. Ironically though, my entire healthcare experience w/gender-affirming docs and such was conducted entirely through websites and video chats with disembodied heads. So I’m on the fence about the truthiness of this proposition, but I’m going to let your writing percolate in me for a bit and see how it goes. Subscribed to ur substack, really love ur work; I really grieve over how shite our cyberspace is compared to those writers’ vision of it

By: Erik Van Till

Erik Van Till — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 20:07:46 +0000

Idk, but i’m gonna try not projecting invisible structures that are encoded in signs and see if that makes me any less trans. Then I’ll try the opposite for good measure.