Trans Megathread for the Week of November 25th, 2024 to December 1st, 2024
Trans Megathread for the Week of November 25th, 2024 to December 1st, 2024
Hello everyone! Hestia here with a new Megathread! Years ago, before I transitioned and when I was still in college I took an anthropology class. My favorite part of the class was when we were covering different gender customs across the globe and got to make a report on one of them. I can't remember exactly which one I chose for that project, but what I do remember is a map with different pins scattered on it with various forms of gender-queerness. I decided to track it down and share it with you folks!
Edit: you have to open this in a browser, if you're on a phone it will automatically try to open it in Google maps and won't bring up the info.
This map provides a brief summary of these genders, but does not go in depth. If you find any you're interested in, feel free to do some further research and share your findings here. I'll pin a comment to this post you can attach them. I'm going to share a couple that I found interesting and decided to look further into myself, both of them are non-binary and native american in origin.
The first one I want to talk about is the Winkte, which is a third gender role that was particulatly notable in the Lakota tribe The Winkte are seen as half-men, half-women, and considered sacred. They are typically AMAB and historically have served unique roles in matters of romance and matchmaking and often served as intermediaries for prospecting couples and their families. They also participated in war parties, functioning primarily as witnesses to battle and as doctors to care for the injured. They were also seen as seers, able to forsee paths to victory.
https://www.sdpb.org/blogs/arts-and-culture/the-winkte-and-the-hundred-in-hand/
This next one I'm going to talk about seems mostly local to the Zuni people called the "Lhamana" and I find the Zuni culture to be particularly fascinating, even just doing a cursory glance at it.
Gender roles were well defined in Zuni culture, but the Zuni also valued the concept of a "middle" as it represented stability. This originates from their creation myth, which I won't go in detail here because I don't feel qualified to summarize it, but it's in the link down below.
The Zuni culture is pretty neat and they don't refer to gender when talking about children. They believed that gender wasn't an inborn trait but something you acquired as you approached puberty. I wish this was the western approach, but alas.
As children approach puberty they begin to differentiate through different hair styles or clothing choices. AFAB Lhamana would grind corn and make a bowl of stew when they get their first period. There's probably some cultural significance to this, but I'm not going to do a deep dive on it right now. AMAB Lhamana would start to wear dresses once they hit puberty and start performing women's work. Both AMAB and AFAB Lhamana were allowed to switch between male and female gender roles as they pleased.
https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/The-Middle-Gender-in-Zuni-Religion
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Are audio cassettes making a comeback? I've bought two new albums recently that had the option of getting them on cassette.
Yes. It's terrible. Sometimes I want a CD and all they've got is a cassette.
I may have have ordered one cause now I'm curious...
But do you have a cassette player??
I do not...
unhelpful mini-rant about cassette players
the new portable ones are easier then trying to fix a walkman but they are definitely not hi-fi, they all use the same mechanism, I found that the Fiio one specifically has a ton of hiss even when not playing anything (theres no need for it to be this bad IMO), whereas my eBay JVC from the 90s has much higher quality sound reproduction and far lower hiss, even with NR off. Fiio tries to imply its the fault of the medium but clearly that is not the case...
Yeah I've read up on the Fiio one before and it's kinda cool that they make one but I was expecting much better performance than what I was hearing, given the Fiio mp3 player I have. It almost looks like the opposite of what I expect from a fiio product since it actually looks cool instead of looking serious and boring, but they didn't put the effort in on the audio side.
Yeah, it seems like theres really only the one company producing the mechanism currently. I'm not sure if the mechanism itself is the source of the noise, or if its something else in the circuitry. I found the volume knob to not really work the way I expected, and for some tapes to sound different when i laid the player on its side vs on its face, it was very strange but also very cool...
Sounds like niche that could be filled. I'll add it to the "to do: at this rate never" list XD
my partner has a cassette deck in his car. I bought him a 2 Mello cassette, which he loved, but unfortunately the cassette jammed up eventually and wont spin anymore. Since it's sealed (no screws) I can't really get in there to repair it without re-shelling the entire thing.
It was great while it lasted, but instead now I just record cassettes myself using new-old-stock ebay cassettes. So good so far, and it pays him back for driving me around since I hate driving in this town.
I had a cassette deck in my first car and found a bunch of cassettes I wanted to listen to at a thrift store. Sadly half of them didn't play properly and a few more failed or faded over time. But for a while my friends and I were able to sing along to The Lion King soundtrack when I drove them places.
yeah, I learned the hard way that buying used cassettes can be kinda hit or miss, one I found at the thrift had the pressure pad come completely off after a bit, so I guess the adhesive just wore down.
Partner still has Big Shiny Tunes 3 though and it plays just fine haha
Yeah it's so much easier to tell if a used CD will still work than tape or even vinyl records.
true, my only reservation about CDs as a medium is specifically about CD-Rs, which iirc have a pretty short lifespan.
yap
Officially CD-Rs do last way less time than pressed discs but I find their lastability is ok honestly. I'd still make doubles but my copy of quadraphonic Dark Side of the Moon on Fuji DVDR is still all good, four years later.
DVD RWs however, the disc itself works fine but the data layer retvrned to blank after a year, holy shit. I swear the main reason portable CD machines did not replace cassette machines is that writable disc media is silly...
I was hoping you'd reply, that story about the DVD-RW is scary, haha. I had 10 years in my head for CD-Rs and sound like maybe that's not too far off? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R#Lifespan But varies widely with quality, yikes...
It is me, recordable media doofus :3 I think ten years would be about right. For what it's worth I also picked up a bunch of offbrand (Khypermedia) DVD+RW discs used from a thrift that actually still read, so it varies. My Win7 DVDR is like six years old, but Backup your backups!
I didn't know this but I usually used them to burn Linux isos Back before 8GB flash drives were affordable and also when not every mother owed supported USB booting
brings me back!
I think hard drives you change out are better for backups though tbh