Best beloved pointed out the question about whether AGAB language is useful or not and I had to stop and really think about it.Some might notice I’ve changed phrasing elsewhere, in addition to the correction, to the clunkier “as a person seen and considered to be a little girl”.Clunky, and some might think, unnecessary.After all,… Continue reading
Date Archives → October 2023
Compromise, sacrifice, and where is the line?
When my relationship of near eleven years fragmented (ostensibly) because I was chronically ill, rapidly moving on disabled, I was incredibly angry. So incredibly angry. Incandescent, really. But I didn’t know it at the time. I didn’t realize it until fairly recently, until all that suppressed rage came spilling forth from somewhere I never knew… Continue reading
The (un)kindness of strangers
I was at the shopping centre yesterday, and the shop’s assistant kept calling me 姐姐 (older sister). Except~ at the end, after I paid, when suddenly she switched to 妹妹 (younger sister). No idea what that was about, but I didn’t like. And aside from Eldest Daughter trauma and the general meh of “don’t try… Continue reading