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If you're the type of person who can inflate making electronic Mad Libs into "art" and a "career", you can inflate being a dorky woman into an all-consuming struggle against institutional oppression.
NoraReed / Nora Fleck / Nora Reed Heineman-Fleck and the Norasphere - The neverending fuck-ups of a sadistic thumb and tons of white knights
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If you're the type of person who can inflate making electronic Mad Libs into "art" and a "career", you can inflate being a dorky woman into an all-consuming struggle against institutional oppression.
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Her circle is very narrowly focused and unfortunately we tend to absorb stuff by social osmosis. If you remove dysphoria from the equation - and lots of transtrenders maintain that dysphoria isn't an essential element of being tran.s* - then what you're left with is a tomboy. Of course being a tomboy doesn't make you special, unique or *oppressed*.
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I was surprised to see that her father encourages this, and frames it courage. But it is not surprising considering how she behaves. Most parents will not encourage this level of seeking conflict. Especially with a female child.
Perhaps this is why Nora is in constant fights. Her father does not seem to value her safety or mental health. Just her "bravery."
Perhaps this is why Nora is in constant fights. Her father does not seem to value her safety or mental health. Just her "bravery."
on a serious note
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nothing that nora is doing could be construed as "brave"
there were actual political rallies very close to her and she copped out of attending because she was too busy simultaneously being a victim and bullying other people on twitter. picking fights with people in your own political group on twitter is not bravery
there were actual political rallies very close to her and she copped out of attending because she was too busy simultaneously being a victim and bullying other people on twitter. picking fights with people in your own political group on twitter is not bravery
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Honestly, unless he's constantly monitoring her online activity - and who the fuck has time for that - he probably doesn't really see her acts of provocation. He sees the aftermath, but not what led up to it. If he investigates at all, then he's going to come across a lot of stuff which supports Nora's narrative.
We can see everyone involved as being attention-seeking fuckwits. We don't have an emotional investment in any of the parties to the dramas Nora seeks out. Even if her dad does see her as playing some part in the creation of those dramas, he's still going to see the other parties as "more wrong" because he's emotionally invested in Nora. He's probably also reached the point where he views her having any interest at all - even if it's making spambots and picking fights on social media - as "better" than her being totally disengaged from everything.
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It seems based on assumptions about what it means to be a woman that are not true. Every woman has some things about the gender category "woman" that are not going to fit her individual personality. Furthermore, if you expect that being a woman means being comfortable being a woman, you are forgetting the effects of sexism completely. Any reasonably intelligent woman with healthy self-esteem cannot hope to feel like she comfortably embodies society's version of "woman."
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This is starting to get long and I'm getting bored with it. Can anyone mansplain this for me?
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Stopped clock, etc.
on a serious note
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if being a woman meant "fully identifying with and conforming to every expectation that society has for women" then there would not be very many "women", especially nowadays. Nora thinks that because she is sometimes uncomfortable with her role as a woman, and occasionally does not conform to gender stereotypes, that she is not a woman. Since she does not have dysphoria, does not identify as a man or intend to transition, she assumes that she is some kind of special gender.
which makes no goddamn sense because she actually conforms pretty well to most stereotypes about femininity but there you go.
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She doesn't hate her body and thinks that just because she doesn't feel like a stereotypical woman makes her think she's "enby"
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I was taking a look around Nora's blog, and it's much more informative than her Twitter (not that it's hard).
In a post from last year (archive) she explains why making dumb twitter bots 24/7/365 is so important to her: it's a kind of coping mechanism.
Kinda sad really.
Look at your life, Nora. Look at your choices.
In a post from last year (archive) she explains why making dumb twitter bots 24/7/365 is so important to her: it's a kind of coping mechanism.
Kinda sad really.
Look at your life, Nora. Look at your choices.
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It's almost like Nora had some self-awareness.
If only she'd realize she is an unproductive failure of a human being. Spam isn't art. At least not how she does it.
If only she'd realize she is an unproductive failure of a human being. Spam isn't art. At least not how she does it.
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Most people with chronic physical or mental illness find "sanity savers". The problem arises when those things become meaningless obsessions in their own right rather than a small and useful part of a fuller life.
Most people with chronic physical or mental illness find "sanity savers". The problem arises when those things become meaningless obsessions in their own right rather than a small and useful part of a fuller life.
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Yep. Making bots could've been a fun hobby, but it's pretty obvious that Nora is well past that stage. It seems she spends almost every waking moment on Twitter.
Another fun piece from her blog:
And here are the topics:
Ah yes, the old fandom favourite: navel-gazing, rambling essays on how such-and-such dumb popcorn flick/YA novel/popular vidya is actually a deep and thoughtful commentary on a given social issue, all so you have an excuse to continue watching or reading dumb shit.
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Imagine going so low that you consider Twitter bots to be inspirational and their nonsense to be 'art'. Imagine going so low that you constantly refer to them as your 'babies'.
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This is even more pathetic than Kevin Havens and his sex dolls that he talks to.
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Having an anxiety disorder doesn't qualify you as "neuro-divergent".
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Not only is this more RANDI, Nora is continuing her usual disingenuous narrative spinning where she didn't do anything but call Randi a 'transphobe,' leaving out any mentions of herself stealing the Social Autopsy Twitter handle and using it to attack Singal and Harper.
https://twitter.com/_csilverman/with_replies
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