But not all. I can think of exactly one crabby genius, and he is unpopular and isolated. And I didn’t realize why until I’d known him for a few years: it’s because he is old and gay, and while his friends were dying in the 80s his colleagues were homophobic bigots.
After the queer studies department the English lit. department is the gayest department on the campus.
The Anglosphere in the 1980s was
sooooo homophobic.
We’re living through an age of anti-trans hate of an unprecedented sort. Most of that is visible—god knows, anonymous accounts swarm me and call me a paedophile every other week. But some of it is invisible and consequential, and I’m terrified it is going to make me too angry.
Poor Joe. "[E]very other week" isn't that bad. How does the "swarm" of transphobes coordinate so that Joe gets called a pedo only "every other week"? They don't appear serious about harassment. Wouldn't it be better--for them, not Joe--if they coordinated such that Joe was called a pedo every day or at least every other day?
"Invisible and consequential" would be difficult to distinguish from
imaginary or
fabricated. Joe must have special powers of discernment that ordinary humans lack. How can Joe link an "invisible" cause to a visible effect?
At some point, when a particular file has been dislodged from the position it has occupied for nearly two years, I have some serious shit to get off my chest about my place of work. But it’s more than just “the Berkeley English department is a transphobic hellhole.”
Joe is on the cutting edge of progressivist identity politics, and the Department can't keep up. Offering classes in
Queer Nature and
Difference and Desire are insufficient. Having departmental specialists in
Gender and Sexuality Studies won't cut it. Being granted sabbatical leave to write books on trannies is similarly wanting. Joe, tell us how the Berkeley English Department can be made less of a "transphobic hellhole.” Do not forsake the Berkeley English Department. Educate them on how they can trannify the entire Department and put you in your rightful place.
Similar to your capacity to identify the "invisible and consequential", I can recognize the subtext of your Xeets, Joe. I get you. There are too many uppity bitches in the English Department. Bitches like this:
Joe, you just know that she thinks she is better than you because she has a vulva and vagina.
You should be a full professor and
John F. Hotchkis Chair in English. You are so much better than her. Abel should kneel before you so that you can insert your hand into her mouth. Show her who's the boss. Take a photo and then post it on social media.
Don't these other bitches need a hand in their mouths?
In an ideal Joe-centric world, these bitches would be forced to cut off their tits and inject testosterone. This would knock them down a peg. After their forced masculinization Joe can insert his hand in their mouths with aplomb.
Everyone knows that envy is a virtue and the best way to deal with envy is to destroy the object of your envy. How can anyone expect Joe to come to work and be surrounded by women who remind him that he isn't a woman? It's transphobic. This is the "transphobic hellhole" that Joe is referring to. It's also transphobic that Joe isn't the departmental head. The whole (Cisnormative) System is against Joe. Joe is speaking truth to power. Would it kill these bitches if they submitted to Joe and willingly accepted his hand in their mouths?
I don’t know how to preserve my sanity in a profession that seems to delight in sabotaging it. It’s not just the bad guys, either—that’s the kicker. Some transphobes are brilliant, beloved, frequently cited. There are some among your faves, probably—certainly among mine.
Obeisance towards trannies is important. Joe isn't asking for much. He just wants his--predominantly female--colleagues to agree with all of his opinions and to genuflect to him in recognition of his brilliance and superiority. Joe's "brilliant" colleagues should be able to recognize Joe's brilliance and the unassailable quality of all of his opinions. Failing to do so is transphobic.
Every day I get closer to the door. I am so, so angry and I don’t want to be this angry any more.
It's frustrating when you want to call a woman an uppity cunt and force your hand into her mouth and the Cisnormative System won't let you. All you can do is turn to Xitter and make vague posts about transphobia. Women are such bitches.
Hey, Joe
Where you gonna run to now? Where you gonna run to?
Hey Joe, I said
Where you gonna run to now? Where you, where you gonna go?
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