Anti-Bedtime Leftist Astronomer (they/them 🏳️‍⚧️)

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the modern customer support experience is repeating HUMAN over and over until we encounter sentience

I ended up crying so hard about this that 7 hours later I *still* have itchy eyes and a headache :/ I think it's time I recognize that I'm not managing my stress or mental health well at all right now, and being off meds last week because of the refill issue really knocked me down hard

Anti-Bedtime Leftist Astronomer (they/them 🏳️‍⚧️)@blueearotter.bsky.social · 3d ago

feeling very stupid today :/

...had this on hand for a piece I'm writing on this very subject, so may as well share here. it's a passage from page 119 of my 2007 book Whipping Girl in which I used 6 em-dashes. I don't usually use them *this* much haha. but writers use them because they're useful when writing complex sentences

a passage from page 119 of Whipping Girl with 6 em-dashes, it reads:
This highly dichotomous approach to treating trans people reflected the fact that most other sexologists who became involved in transsexuality—such as John Money, who pioneered the use of nonconsensual genital surgeries on intersex infants, and Richard Green, who is renowned for his use of behavioral modi- fication to eliminate femininity in young boys—seemed to be pri- marily interested in “curing” (i.e., eliminating) sex-, gender-, and sexuality-related ambiguities.
By the late 1960s—with the establishment of several U.S. gender identity clinics and the publication of Green and Money’s medical anthology Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment—a standard pro- tocol for dealing with people who requested sex reassignment had started to emerge.9 These guidelines for treatment were later codi- fied with the release of the original HBIGDA Standards of Care in 1979, and while they have evolved somewhat over time—especially since the mid-1990s, when HBIGDA finally began to incorporate changes suggested by the transgender community—they follow the same basic outline today.10 While this chapter is largely written in past tense (to maintain grammatical consistency), it should be said that most gatekeepers today still follow this same basic protocol, and many still evaluate their trans clients based on the oppositional and traditional sexist criteria that I discuss throughout this chapter. The first step in this process was a period of psychotherapy (lasting at