Sewing circles & sections: Judith Shklar’s early Harvard wars of gossip, fairness, & drift as she found a way:

READING: Judith Shklar as Proto-Feminist in the 1950s
<https://braddelong.substack.com/p/reading-judith-shklar-as-proto-feminist>
2026-02-03 Tu
##judith-shklar-as-proto-feminist-in-the-1950s
#judith-shklar
#reading
#academic
#feminism
#patriarchy
#departmental-wives
#gossip-economy
#american-liberalism
#gatekeeping
#fairness-and-merit

Now the fact that I'm not existing in hoarding conditions and that I'm not paying for rent with survival sex is "speaking for other disabled people."

Man, I feel so advocated for I could swallow all my sleeping pills right now and make you AI haters very happy.

Do any of you actually care about people? Or is it really just ideology. It's obvious it's just ideology.

I would never treat someone going through what I'm going through the way you all have. It's never been in me to care so much for rules that I'm willing to let people suffer and die.

Like some of you are.

#DisabilityJustice #Ableism #SurvivalSex #HoardingRecovery #IdeologyVsEmpathy #Gatekeeping #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AIAccessibility #Survival #LateralViolence #CognitiveLiberty

Trauma fairies are the people who love to get you talking about your experiences and then gatekeep whether or not you get to be supported.

#mentalhealth #trauma #gatekeeping

We don't have the spoons for a detailed post. We've written other posts recently giving updates on some of our struggles, but we needed to get the thoughts out of our head before sleep tonight 🥺😔

We're realistically facing a situation very soon where we'll officially be told that we're not going to get any gender-affirming surgeries from NHS England whatsoever, making the last nearly 5 years of trying to progress through this dehumanising, anxiety-inducing, decorating, belittling, gatekeeping, outdated process completely worthless  

We already had to accept we could never get FFS.

We tried twice to convince them to give us VFS, but they said no, and gave us no actual further voice training help.

We knew that trying to get PPT vaginoplasty would be a longshot, but we never expected:

• to have PPT basically badmouthed during a consultation;
• to hear basic PIV or scrotal flap techniques described as the "gold standard" (!!!) for genital reconfiguration surgery (GRS);
• to be told that the only surgeon who'd see us is one we'd never, ever trust or want anywhere near us, especially after having specifically requested another surgeon (the only one we'd trust in the UK for GRS); and
• that we'd need to go back begging to our gender clinic -- which no longer responds to our emails at all -- to try to convince them to submit a funding request for a basic standalone bilateral orchidectomy and scrotectomy... which would have been required anyway as part of PIV or vulvoplasty!!!

We've reached the point where we don't think we can get any joy from seeing other trans+ folks' joy and euphoria from making progress in their own transitions, particularly surgeries, as we can't help but feel so painfully sad crushingly jealous and upset that we cannot get even the most basic care after waiting even longer 😔

And nope: we've zero chance of being able to ever even fund the cheapest of surgeries privately.

Apologies for the sad dump. We needed to write it all out to have any chance at getting to sleep soon  

#EOEGS #NHS #NHSEngland #FuckTheNHS #FuckEngland #FuckTheUK #GenderAffirmingSurgery #GenderAffirmingHealthcare #gatekeeping #trans #transgender #NonBinary #TransFem #GRS #GenderDysphoria #transition #PPT #PIV #FFS #VFS #orchidectomy #FML #queer #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #LackOfTransJoy

Anche se l'argomento videogiochi magari non vi interessa, vi consiglio di dare una occhiata alla risposta dell'autore alla discussione originata da un suo articolo sul Post, per cui é stato "maltrattato" sulla via del "su internet si fa così":

https://open.substack.com/pub/bariliesplosivi/p/se-vogliamo-che-i-videogiochi-siano?r=2r99bd

Perché a me piace vedere gente come lui, che da una parte si mette in discussione, dall'altra evidenzia come internet sia troppo spesso catalizzatore di cattive abitudini.

#videogiochi #gatekeeping #bias #internet

Is it just me or is there more #gatekeeping on Mastodon lately?

Folks. Be inclusive. Welcome reasonable, real people with views, political leanings that are not your own.

If you can't get into your wardrobe; It means the borders to Narnia have been closed

Better renew your visa, Children of Man ☝️

#Narnia #Wardrobe #Gatekeeping

X just limited image features to X Premium and Premium+ users.

Before: Anyone could prompt images with zero friction.

Now: Access is locked behind an eight dollar paywall.

The platform claims safety.

But, what about those living in poverty who cannot afford to pay?

#AI #Grok #Gatekeeping