Showing posts with label 1990. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1990. Show all posts

Saturday 6 November 2021

They SHOWED Me How IT Appeared to THEM



The View from 1990 :
Transsexuals are very passive.

THEREFORE,
if someone going around Killing Women 
and Harvesting Their SKINS 
to stitch together 
A Woman Suit —

Then, Lecter Says :

Billy isn't a real Transexual :

But he THINKS he is --
He tries to be.  

The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

You see, Memory's The Thing.


It's The Key.


It's The Key to Everything.


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

If It really does want us back here, don't you think the smartest thing we can do is just get the hell out of Derry?


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

No, no, no. It does want us back.

Of course It does!

But It doesn't know I know What I Know.


What do you know?


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

How to kill the shit out of It!

I've read every book.

I've talked to every person in this godforsaken town, everybody that would talk to me, anyway, 

and that's not a long list.


But it wasn't enough.


I had to know how this all started.

How IT started.

And IT started here


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

Whoa.

What am I looking at, Mike? 


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

It's an artifact.

Early 18th century Shokopiwah.


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

Shoko... How'd you get it?


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

I found it, in the...

No, no, they gave it to me --

I stole it.


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

You stole it?!

From Native Americans?!? 



The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

Uh... It's complicated. 


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

Yeah, it is......!!


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

They helped me on my journey.


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

So beautiful.


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

They showed me things. 

A Vision.


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

Ow.

Holy fuck.

I feel kind of funky.

Hot.

Am I sweating?


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

I need you to see what they showed me, Bill.

Bill. They live outside of Derry.

Beyond It's reach.


They moved there many years ago.

Their Holy man, Their Holy of Holies, he took me in.

Fed me their sacred Maturin.


I started to...  To react.


All living things must abide 

by the laws of the shape they inhabit.


While I sat there, looking out over the valley, I saw It arrive.

I knew that one day, I would have to make you all see.


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

Mike, did you put something in my drink?


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

It's, uh... It's a root.


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

You...

You drugged me? You drugged me?


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

No, it's a root, with properties.

It's just a micro-dose of what 

the Shokopiwah gave me...


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

Why would you do that?


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

...to open my eyes.


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

I don't feel real good.


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

I need you to look, and you'll see.


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

I don't feel good.


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

Open your eyes.

Open your eyes.


They showed Me The Past.

Showed Me the way It appeared to Them.

They showed Me Their Pain.


They showed Me How to Stop It!


It's over.

It's over. You're okay. You're okay. 

Did you see it?

The ritual?


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

The Ritual of Chud? 


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

Yeah, I knew you...

I knew you would see it.


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

I saw the whole fucking thing, Mike.


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

That's How We Kill It.


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

How are we going to do it?

Everybody already said no.


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

But with YouThey'll Listen.


This won't work without All of Us.


The Richie 'Trashmouth' Tozier of 2016/9 :

Okay. So, what do you mean that you've seen us all die?

Yeah, 'cause I gotta be honest.

That's a fucked-up thing to just drop on somebody.



The Beverley Marsh of 2016/9 :

Every night since Derry,

I've been having these nightmares.

People in Pain. People Dying.

People...


So, you have nightmares.

I have nightmares. People, they have nightmares.

But that doesn't mean that your visions are true.


I've watched every single one of us...


You've seen every single one of us what?


At the place that Stanley wound up.

That's How We End.


Okay, how come the rest of us aren't seeing that shit?

I mean, what makes her so different?


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

The Deadlights.


The Deadlights.


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

She was the only one of us that got caught in 

The Deadlights that day.


We were all touched by It.

ChangedDeep down. 

Like An Infection. Or A Virus.


A Virus. You understand.

Slowly growing.


That Virus, it's been growing for 27 years.

This whole time, metastasizing.

It just got to Stan first, because...


The Richie 'Trashmouth' Tozier of 2016/9 :

He was The Weakest.


Jesus Christ, Rich.


The Richie 'Trashmouth' Tozier of 2016/9 :

Just Saying What Everyone Else is Thinking, man.



I mean, Rich, come on.


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

What Beverly sees, it will come to pass.

It's What'll Happen to All of Us

eventually, unless we stop It.


How the hell are we supposed to do that?


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

The Ritual of Chud.


The Shokopiwah.

The first ones who fought IT, They have A Saying.


"All Living Things 

must abide by The Laws 

of The Shape They Inhabit."


The Richie 'Trashmouth' Tozier of 2016/9 :

A tribal ritual?

Are you fucking kidding me, man?


All right, there's gotta be another way.

Okay? This thing comes back, what, every 27 years?

Let's just kick the can down the road and do it then.


The Richie 'Trashmouth' Tozier of 2016/9 :

Wait, we'll be 70 years old, asshole.


The Beverley Marsh of 2016/9 :

It doesn't work that way.

None of Us make it another 20 years, 

and the way it happens...


So, if We don't beat It this cycle, 

then... We die.


Horribly.


Yeah, I don't need the "horribly" part.


The Richie 'Trashmouth' Tozier of 2016/9 :

I didn't say it. She said it. Not me.


The Bill Denbrough of 2016/9 :

All right, guys. Look.

I've seen What He's Talking About, and it's all True.

It's the only way.


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

If we want this ritual to work...

We have to remember.


Remember what?


The Mike Hanlon of 2016/9 :

It's better if I show you.

We don't have much time.


His cycle will end soon.

And once it does...


We're fucked.


The Barrens.


This is where we came.

After The Rock Fight.


The Clubhouse.






Little Bo Peep :

Sir, I told you this is just a routine

follow-up on the Raspail case.


Dr. Chilton :

He is My Patient. I have rights.


Little Bo Peep :

I understand that, sir.


Dr. Chilton :

Look, I am not just some turnkey,

Miss Starling.


Little Bo Peep :

This is the number for the US Attorney's office.


Please, either you discuss this with him

or you let me do my job.


Do you understand?


*****


Little Bo Peep :

If your profile helps us catch Buffalo Bill

in time to save Catherine Martin...

the senator promises you a transfer

to the VA hospital at Oneida Park, New York,

with a view of the woods nearby.


Maximum security still applies, of course.

You'd have reasonable access to books.


Best of all though,

one week of the year, you get to leave the hospital

and go here -- Plum Island.


Every day of that week, you may walk on the beach,

you may swim in the ocean, for up to one hour --

under SWAT team surveillance, of course.


--And there you have it.

A copy of the Buffalo Bill case file.

Copy of the senator's offer.

This offer is non-negotiable and final.

Catherine Martin dies, you get nothing.


"Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center."

Sounds charming.


Little Bo Peep :

That's only part of the island.

There's a very, very nice beach.


Terns nest there. It's beautiful.


Terns? Mm.


The Wolf :

If I help you, Clarice, it will be "turns" with us too.


Quid Pro Quo.

I tell you things, you tell me things.

Not about this case though.

About Yourself.


Quid pro quo. 

Yes or No?


Yes or No, Clarice?

Poor little Catherine is waiting.


Little Bo Peep :

Go, Doctor.

[ Come, boy - Suckle. ]


The Wolf :

What is your Worst Memory of Childhood?


Little Bo Peep :

Death of My Father.


The Wolf :

Tell me about it. 

And Don't Lie, or I'll know.


Little Bo Peep :

He was The Town Marshal, and...

one night he surprised two burglars coming out

of the back of a drugstore.


They shot him.


The Wolf :

Was he killed outright?


Little Bo Peep :

No. He was Very Strong.

He lasted more than a month.


My mother died when I was very young, so -

My father had become the whole world to me, and, uh, when he left me, I had nothing.


I was 10 years old.


The Wolf :

You're very Frank, Clarice.

I think it would be quite something

to know you in Private Life.


Little Bo Peep :

Quid pro quo, Doctor.


The Wolf :

So tell me about Miss West Virginia.

Was she a LARGE girl?


Little Bo Peep :

Yes.


The Wolf :

Big through the hips?

Roomy?


Little Bo Peep :

They all were.


The Wolf :

What else?


Little Bo Peep :

She had an object deliberately inserted into her throat.

Now, that hasn't been made public yet.

We don't know What it Means, yet.


The Wolf :

Was it a Butterfly?


Little Bo Peep :

Yes. A Moth.

Just like the one we found 

in Benjamin Raspail's head an hour ago.


Why does he place them there, Doctor?


The Wolf :

....The Significance of The Moth is Change.

Caterpillar into chrysalis or pupa...

And, from thence, into Beauty.


Our Billy wants To Change too.


Little Bo Peep :

No, There's NO correlation in the literature 

between Transsexualism and Violence.

Transsexuals are very passive.

[ The Activists AREN’T. ]


The Wolf :

Clever girl.

You're so close to the way you're

gonna catch him. Do you realise that?


Little Bo Peep :

No. Tell me why.


The Wolf :

After your father's murder, you were orphaned.

What Happened Next?


I Don't Imagine The Answer 

is on those second-rate shoes, Clarice.


I went to live with my mother's cousin 

and her husband in Montana.

They had a ranch.


The Wolf :

Was it a cattle ranch?


Little Bo Peep :

Sheep and horses.


The Wolf :

How long did you live there?


Little Bo Peep :

Two months.


The Wolf :

Why so briefly?


Little Bo Peep :

I ran away.


The Wolf :

Why, Clarice?

Did the rancher make you perform fellatio?

Did he sodomize you?


Little Bo Peep :

No. He was a very decent man.

Quid pro quo, Doctor.


The Wolf :

Billy is not a real transsexual.

But he thinks he is. He tries to be.

He's tried to be a lot of things, I expect.



Little Bo Peep :

You said I was very close to the way we would catch him.

What did you mean, Doctor?


The Wolf :

There are three major centers for transsexual surgery —

Johns Hopkins, the University of Minnesota, 

and Columbus Medical Center.

I wouldn't be surprised if Billy had applied 

for sex reassignment 

at one or all of them and been rejected.


Little Bo Peep :

On what basis would they reject him?

[ Today? Absolutely NONE. ]


The Wolf :

Look for severe childhood disturbances 

associated with violence.


Our Billy wasn't born a criminal, Clarice.

He was made one through years of systematic abuse.


Billy hates his own identity, you see,

and he thinks that makes him a transsexual.


But his pathology is a thousand times more savage

and more terrifying.




The Ram :

It rubs lotion on its skin.

It does this whenever it's told.


The Lamb :

Mister, my family will pay cash.

Whatever ransom you're askin' for,

they'll pay it.


The Ram :

It rubs the lotion on its skin,

or else it gets The Hose again.


Yes, it will, Precious.

It will get The Hose.


Thursday 2 September 2021

Kryptonian in Platforms





Life is hard enough 
when you belong Here.

— Morrissey,
Benghali in Platforms

Lil' Tic, set it off. DJ, 45 seconds. 
Spin that shit. 

I'ma murder this man! 
He's the type to lose a fight with a dyke 
They don't laugh 'cause you wack 
It's 'cause you white with a mic 
You're a laughingstock 
When will this laughter stop? 
When you and Everlast bitch-ass get popped 
You a wigga that invented rhyme for money 
Watch Lil' Tic spit kick The Energizer Bunny —
Rip the Rabbit head off 
Toss it to Hugh Hefner 
'Cause I don't play, boy 
Tell me who's fresher 
LT, that's right 
Cock the heat and shoot ya 
I'll punish Rabbit or obsolete Future 
My paws love to maul an MC 
'Cause he's faker than a psychic with caller ID 
So that bullshit, 
save it for storage 
'Cause this is hip-hop 
You don't belong, 
you're a tourist —
Put your hockey sticks 
and baseball bat away 
This here's Detroit 
16 Mile Road is thataway —

Whoa, whoa, okay, 
45 seconds, very nice. 
You did a good job, Lil' Bitch. 
I mean, Lil' Tic. My bad. 

All right, next up is my boy 
Bunny Rabbit. 
Hey, talk that shit if you want, 
but I vouch for this motherfucker. 
He's a motherfuckin' genius. 
Hit that shit. 
Forty-five seconds. DJ, kick it. 

Hey, yo —




“By the time they were writing, Laclau and Mouffe were aware of the demoralization that had struck much of the left. The legacy of Budapest, Prague, Vietnam and Cambodia (just a few of their own examples) had left many socialists reeling. But in this ‘whole series of positive new phenomena’ a new energy could be harnessed. Although for Laclau and Mouffe it obviously first needed an urgent ‘theoretical reconsideration’:

“The rise of the new feminism, the protest movements of ethnic, national and sexual minorities, the anti-institutional ecology struggles waged by marginalized layers of the population, the anti-nuclear movement, the atypical forms of social struggle in countries on the capitalist periphery — all these imply an extension of social conflictuality to a wide range of areas, which creates the potential, but no more than the potential, for an advance towards more free, democratic and egalitarian societies.”

The Point is that these new groups of people could be useful.


Of course those who took the advice and attempted to bring all these groups together found a number of problems in all of this. Aside from the assumed racism of the working class, the practitioners of 1980s and 1990s deconstruction provided new tensions of their own. For example, after critical race theory and gender studies had done their work, was it not hard to explain why some things that seemed fixed (especially sex and race) were in fact social constructs whereas other things that may have seemed more fluid (not least sexuality) had become viewed as completely fixed?


If these questions did detain anybody, they did not detain them for long. One of the traits of Marxist thinkers has always been that they do not stumble or self-question in the face of contradiction, as anybody aiming at Truth might. Marxists have always rushed towards contradiction.

The Hegelian dialectic only advances by means of contradiction and therefore all the complexities – one might say absurdities – met along the way are welcomed and almost embraced as though they were helpful, rather than troubling, to the cause. 

Anybody hoping that intersectionality would dissolve amid its own inherent contradictions cannot have seen the myriad of contradictions a Marxist can hold in their head at any one time.

Their ideological children in identity politics and intersectionality seem content to inhabit an ideological space littered with contradiction, absurdity and hypocrisy. 

For example, one of the foundational notions of women’s studies and feminist studies was that victims of sexual abuse should be believed

Discussion of rape, abuse, domestic violence and inappropriately wielded power relations lay at the basis of all women’s and feminist studies. 

Yet when a student of Avital Ronell of New York University filed a Title IX complaint against her in 2017, accusing her of sexual harassment, the alleged harasser found Ronell’s academic colleagues coming out in support for her

Along with Slavoj Žižek and others, Judith Butler was among the signatories to a letter condemning the investigation of Ronell, testifying to her own character (‘the grace, the keen wit’) and attempting the equivalent of a drive-by shooting against the reputation of her male accuser. 

Specifically they demanded that Ronell ‘be accorded the dignity rightly deserved by someone of her international standing and reputation’.

All of which suggested that allegations of abuse are indeed always to be taken seriously, unless the victim is a man or the accused is a professor of feminist literary theory. In all matters, such contradictions merely have to be got over.

By contrast, anybody who got in the way of this direction of travel found themselves mown down with astonishing vigour. The weapons to hand (accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia and finally transphobia) were all too easy to wield and there was no price to pay for wielding them unfairly, unjustifiably or indeed frivolously. Critics of the emerging orthodoxy, including scientists, were accused of being propelled by the most base motives. 

As Steven Pinker wrote in 2002, ‘Many writers are so desperate to discredit any suggestion of an innate human constitution that they have thrown logic and civility out the window . . . The analysis of ideas is commonly replaced by political smears and personal attacks . . . The denial of human nature has spread beyond the academy and has led to a disconnect between intellectual life and common sense.

Of course it had. For the purpose of large sections of academia had ceased to be the exploration, discovery or dissemination of Truth. The purpose had instead become the creation, nurture and propagandization of a particular, and peculiar, brand of politics. The purpose was not academia, but activism.”

“Passing privilege” is the concept that transgender people face less prejudice when they are perceived as cisgender, including less risk of harassment and violence and *better employment opportunities.*

For those in the transgender community the ability to pass is held as the standard of sorts for which to ascribe to. 

However in terms of the privilege associated with passing there is a general lack of research about the impact that successfully passing has on a multitude of aspects of an individual’s societal experience.

However it can be noted in a few studies that successfully passing can impact ones likelihood to experience homelessness as well as ones experience with homeless shelters themselves. 

Passing privilege in these cases can present as the following experiences or lack thereof as pertaining to homelessness. 

11.4% of surveyed individuals stated that they had experienced homelessness directly related to their gender identity, with a bigger percentage of 16.3% indicating they needed to seek new or short term living arrangements due to their identity. As for those dealing with direct homelessness those who lacked the ability to pass were more likely to experience a variety of difficulties including harassment from staff and other visitors, difficulties being accepted to and staying in the shelters themselves, and due to these factors being less likely to seek assistance from shelters.

Risks of NOT passing

The risks of not fully passing for the gender one is attempting to pass for can vary depending on the circumstances. 

There is a significant difference between drag queens or those who dress for performances, and transgender people or those who vary from the gender binary. 

For those who attempt to pass as a means of a differently gendered lifestyle the risks assumed can be greater. Being outed by ones physical attributes as a transgender or gender non-conforming individual can negatively impact one’s cultural experience, resulting in neglect, abuse, or disownment by one’s community.

According to data from the U.S 2015 Transgender survey, 88% of those interviewed were denied “equal treatments and services” as a result of their trans identity.

Transgender people face high rates of discrimination and harassment, particularly among trans women of color.

Transgender people face high rates of harassment and violence both sexual and physical, sexual objectification and social stigma.

The experience of transphobia can also lead to negative impacts on mental health, as noted by Lombardi, Melendez & Pinto, Nuttbrock in the article “Experiences of transphobia have consistently been found to be associated with depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem”.