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Casual cruelty has become so ingrained in a lot of people because we live in a society that is structured in a cruel way. To be quite honest you are obligated to consider the harm of your words and actions no matter your personal hardships.

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“This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We’ve got extra pronouns here.”

GNU Terry Pratchett

The full quote is fascinating though, and adds an interesting context as it’s Angua (a werewolf) and Carrot (human, but raised by dwarves) discussing a dwarf colleague, Cheery.

“Female? He told you he was female?”

“She,” Angua corrected. “This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We’ve got extra pronouns here.”

She could smell his bewilderment…

“Well, I would have though she’d have the decency to keep it to herself,” Carrot said finally. “I don’t think it’s very clever, you know, to go around drawing attention to the fact.”

“Carrot, I think you might have something wrong with your head,” said Angua.

“What?”

“I think you might have it stuck up your bum.”

Sir Terry Pratchett - “Feet of Clay”

This is CARROT being the asshole. Carrot who has, throughout all the prior books, been depicted as basically the best of all possible people. He is noble, brave, considerate, kind. He is the good guy in the entire City…

… and yet, he grew up dwarf, and has picked up their more conservative views on gender identity.

Discworld dwarves start out in the books as basically a people without visible gender differences (thanks to the woman growing beards just like the men) and using “he/him” pronouns as their default. Anything else is seen as breaking the most basic of social conventions. (Dwarf dating is described early on as being two dwarves who like each other spending an inordinately long time trying to find out, as tactfully as possible, what gender the other dwarf is)

Carrot does immediately adopt the “she” pronoun for Cheery, which is but wishes she didn’t make such a fuss about it. He’s prepared to tolerate her choices, but he doesn’t APPROVE of them, and thinks that that is enough.

Carrot, because he IS Carrot, does learn to open his mind on this subject, perhaps his final frontier of bias, but I do love that it’s addressed as something he has to work on, and succeed.

And to Terry Pratchett’s credit what started out as a throwaway joke about dwarf sex, gradually becomes a multi-volume subplot which is a fascinating exploration of gender and social identity as more dwarves start to “come out” as being female, and not just identifying as female, but changing their form of dress to something which matches who they are (they keep their beards though, because to a dwarf, that has nothing to do with gender, and everything to do with being a dwarf) and how their society has to adjust, with differing levels of comfort, to this new reality.

Carrot was also prejudiced against the undead early on as well. And the fact that he unlearns these views is a good example of a common theme in Pratchett’s work

The overwhelming theme of Pratchett’s work is change. Not good vs evil but progress vs stasis/going backwards. The protagonists of Pratchett’s stories are people who can take on board new ideas and change and grow and adapt. Some of them start out as very stupid people with very stupid views in fact until they learn and grow and improve. The villains on the other hand are people who desperately want things to either stay the same or regress back to some imagined “Good old days” that they prefer.

While we’re talking about Terry Pratchett gender, there’s also golems, who are basically lumps of clay that have been brought to life but don’t actually have any gender or secondary sexual characteristics so everyone defaults to male and he/him. As the books story goes on some of them decide to try being women just because.

Feet of Clay came out in 1996. I cannot overstate how pronoun discourse wasn’t anywhere on the radar then. I’m fairly terminally online, active in fandom, and the first I can remember is some timid discussion of neopronouns in the mid-2000s, where “how could you tell other people to use them for you” was a major puzzle. (I still love neopronouns - zie/hir appeals to me in a way they distinctly doesn’t, genderfluid though I am.)

ALSO also also

1) I don’t have the book to hand, but when Cheery comes out she changes her name to Cheri, because “sometimes, when you shout who you are to the whole world, you need to do it quietly.” It’s such a beautiful expression of coming out being a process, and one that needn’t be undertaken all at once.

2) Pterry had the best goyische take I’ve ever seen on golems, and I will die on that hill. It’s not perfect, but it is really well-done, and it was done with respect, and to me that might be even more important than perfection.

I had the book to hand because I reread it recently. The quote goes:

When you’ve made up your mind to shout out who you are to the world, it’s a relief to know that you can do it in a whisper.

THERE we go.

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frogus-deactivated20231111:

the entire point of life is to be silly, kind, and really weird btw.

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pocket-deer-boy:

(through gritted teeth) sometimes what’s good for your mental health isn’t another do nothing day or a little treat sometimes what’s good for you is putting in some of the work. Not all of it at once but sometimes you have to finish that essay or at least take the next step or you have to clean your room or at least dust the shelves or you gotta do the laundry or at least put it all in the hamper and it’s not fun and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks but you have to because i read a post on the internet that told me that’s what being nice to yourself is sometimes

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yinza:

I had a dream the other week about these people fighting back against an assault from another world. Most of them weren’t experienced fighters, but average people who banded together (although Gimli was there because dreams).

This particular woman’s job was to throw a javelin through a dimensional portal, tethering the two worlds together and allowing the defenders to control where the fight happened. They later built a statue of her. In her day-to-day life, I think she owned a fabric shop.

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[Image Description: A digital illustration of a woman preparing to throw a javelin through a portal. She is a fat, dark-skinned South Asian woman with long dark hair in a braid. She wears a navy blue crop top and dark reddish dhoti. We see her from behind, her left arm extended towards the portal while her right arm is reared back, holding a glowing white javelin which trails a tether on the ground behind her. The sky is mostly overcast with dark blue-grey clouds, but an intense sunset orange breaks through closer to the horizon. Through the glowing portal, the blue curve of another planet is visible. /end ID]

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wutheringheightsfilm:

i’m going to say something that some people might not like. but many, many things they’re doing to trans people they did first to migrants. banning/refusing visas is just one of those things. to act like these things have never happened to anyone before is at best disingenuous and at worst outright racist.

not to hijack your post but it’s also very disingenuous the way people are acting like government-enacted transphobia triggers this domino effect of bigotry when people of color in this country have been targeted since its very conception… and it goes without saying that trans poc (especially black transfems) always receive the brunt of it, even from their own community, by not conforming to white beauty standards and performing gender the way white q***rs do.

white people always divorce race from these conversations, and then won’t even sound the alarm until the target is on their backs.

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My favourite thing in the world is seeing folks act like real human beings around big celebrity personalities

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