"...there's no use talking at all..."

[adrienmundi]

I'm tired of having to bend myself to language, my own use and others.

I'm tired of the naturalizing and limiting aspects, the invisibility of ideology behind the myth of description.

I'm tired of having to "make do". "Good enough" isn't.

I'm tired of encountering language use every day that hurts, controls, limits, or erases me.

I'm tired of everyone getting a pass on uncritical use at my expense.

I'm just fucking tired.

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[srl.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew how to give you a rest from this, even for a few minutes. It *is* tiring.

[adrienmundi]

For whatever reason, I can't claim verstandlich space in 'girl' or 'guy' enough to get by, which means I'm always running into things, linguistically/ideologically. I just wish it didn't seem like people had to know some of the pain to recognize it.