#'i'm learning japanese' is honestly the biggest bullshit excuse

[isekyaaa]

Why do English speakers insist on listening to Japanese audio when playing a Chinese game? I don't get it. Why always Japanese? Why is Japanese the default? Obviously you're the kind of person that feels English just sounds too terrible for your cultured ears, so that's out of the picture. But why is Chinese, the native language, never your first choice? "I like the way Japanese sounds." So Chinese sounds bad to you? "I'm learning Japanese." Like hell you are learning anything playing a game with Japanese dialogue with English text. So what is it? Is Chinese just lesser to you or something?

[quoigenicfromhell]

will confess, it's incredibly tiring to keep seeing people just defending sophie because she's "The pro-endo blog" when she's frankly incredibly racist. like. i am an endogenic system, but i'm also a system of colour, and people just ignore how sophie has posted such bangers (/s) as "i don't agree with the transracial terminology […] however i know many other headmates in other systems that identify as different ethnicities for exomemory reasons, i think it would be hypocritical to try to police how others identify.", along with defending being transintersex, literally saying it'd be cool for her to be described as a radqueer god, along with many other instances of being blatently fine with radqueers, which is a racist ass community.

like. yeah. way to make systems of colour feel welcome in the pro-endo community, by having one of the biggest blogs be a blatant racist. i'm begging people to actually be critical of her and think about what else she's saying outside of just "endogenics are real!", because she's spreading a lot of bullshit and i have been blocking every single blog i see supporting her, even if that leaves me with a lot quieter community

Transracial and transID stuff honestly makes us angry, and yeah, that's one of the reasons we don't support her. KIND OF A RANT INCOMING.

The wild thing is, we're one of the systems she uses an excuse in this example. We have collective members from various non-USian cultures. Given our predilection towards spiritual explanations for our plurality and the fact that we have lives outside of the body, we don't make everyone 'admit they're actually white' or whatever, but we are also not saying these people have any special connection with any cultures on this earth. One of these people, let's call him Orpheus; transracial stuff makes him fucking *livid*. He is disgusted by the fetishization from people who have not shown an ounce of respect towards various cultures, and seemingly do not intend to respectfully learn about them or integrate open practices into their own life. The culture we're most familiar with is Japanese; if you genuinely felt something for that culture you could do things like learn the language, practice more humility, learn how to make Japanese cuisine, purchase a futon from Japan, take your shoes off in the house, etc. How many people actually do this? How many of these people are familiar with any Japanese people? It just feels like a white person really liking a culture from media consumption (without actually knowing anything about it), and then saying they want to be a part of that culture and pretending that denouncing their whiteness makes them any less privileged in a society where white supremacy is the dominant mode of hierarchy.

(All this is to say: none of us would ever ID as 'transracial', no matter what we look like or what our memories are, because we understand that the reality of our body's race and our Collective upbringing are what determines every interaction we have; pretending otherwise and fetishizing a race you have no connection with is really disgusting.)

God. Don't get us started with the radqueer stuff, we'll be here all day. I have sympathy for people who identify as 'transdisabled' or whatever because they can't admit they are actually disabled or feel like they're not allowed to call themselves that despite having actual disabilities, but the rest of it is just privileged people cosplaying social inequality. It's so fucking gross, and sort of emblematic of Sophie's seeming inability to hold people to account if they agree with her or like her.

ETA: I don't see stuff like 'mspec lesbians' or any other weird/nontraditional gender or sexuality labels to be part of radqueer stuff. Gender and sexuality are finger paints, you can do literally whatever you want with them. Idk if those are still under that umbrella but regardless, go nuts