Aside from what you explained, I have a few questions. What makes Ts and Qs, which includes these newly-minted 2S, think they have/are “evolved”? I know some, like this woman, think it’s mostly a spiritual evolution, but what of those who think it’s part of a societal evolution? Also, why does this woman think we (rational sex-based types) fear them in some way? I get that sometimes ignorance can make one fearful of another, but we (again, the rationals) pretty much know and “understand” what they’re about. No one on your Substack, for example, needs anymore “education” on this matter to feel “unafraid” of these people.
1/Fundamentally, this is an extremely culturally white woman. She is absolutely steeped in cultural default white supremacist attitude and behaviors. Part of cultural whiteness (and I'm stopping capitalizing it out of laziness not contempt) is the idea of your obvious and natural superiority to people of other backgrounds, due to the fact that you're a logical, smart person, and you lived your life, and you had what you needed, so if other people had different things and did not have what you had, they must lack (i.e. they're not civilized). This is what parents taught their children so they would continue the colonial project and so the children wouldn't hate the parents for their behavior towards enslaved people and indigenous people.
This is due to the fact that the purpose of white supremacy is to keep White people physically and emotionally comfortable at all times, at everyone else's expense, even if it means physically owning some people and genociding other people in front of your children whom you expect to eventually imitate the behavior. As much as I inherited intergenerational trauma of being on the receiving end of British and French colonization on BOTH sides of the pond, from one side, I also inherited it on the other because white people have a massive debt of intergenerational trauma. However the way things are set up, as a voting bloc, they have no cultural tendency towards confronting and healing through that trauma, because to acknowledge it would be to acknowledge a lack of white superiority. And that's uncomfortable.
Two Spirit therefore was clearly created to be sold to modern people who may have Native ancestry but who are otherwise predominantly steeped in the White cultural perspective where they are the center of attention, the hero of the play, and the person who is supposed to pull the sword from the stone. They want to reclaim their culture, but not if it means getting up. White culture is capitalist, seeking to sell to the young, so like a sexual predator, it flatters them that they are so very mature for their generation - in fact, their parents and grandparents have to age towards them.
Two-spirit is the social justice warrior equivalent of wearing a Pocahontas costume on Halloween. It allows them to be not just indigenous, not just their own culture, but a special and sacred Native. It's the Turtle Island version of "I wasn't just a farmer building the pyramids in the off season in ancient Egypt; they're the reincarnation of Cleopatra." It does not require actually learning any challenging indigenous topics (which might make them uncomfortable!) or deferring to indigenous authority on any matter (challenging their sense of unearned racial superiority). Their two spirit hajj is a new-friends tour of people who already agree with them.
Two Spirit therefore was clearly created to be sold to modern people who may have Native ancestry but who are otherwise predominantly steeped in the White cultural perspective where they are the center of attention, the hero of the play, and the person who is supposed to pull the sword from the stone. They want to reclaim their indigenous culture, but not if it means listening to minorities, old fogies or squares. White culture is capitalist, seeking to sell to the young, so like a sexual predator, it flatters them that they are so very mature for their generation - in fact, their parents and grandparents have to age towards them.
Two-spirit is the social justice warrior equivalent of wearing a Pocahontas costume on Halloween. It allows them to be not just indigenous, not just their own culture, but a special and sacred Native. It's the Turtle Island version of "I wasn't just a farmer building the pyramids in the off season in ancient Egypt; they're the reincarnation of Cleopatra." It does not require actually learning any challenging indigenous topics (which might make them uncomfortable!) or deferring to indigenous authority on any matter (challenging their sense of unearned racial superiority). Their two spirit hajj is a new-friends tour of people who already agree with them.
The narcissistic gnosticism of this woman. "Secret knowledge.....oooohh...I'm special. I'm best. I speak for both. Speak over both" "Sacred breath. We're always the center of attention, because we should be..."
She sounds like me as a 9 year old Anglo-Germanic girl facinated by Native American culture that I "learned" about from fiction novels written mostly by white people.
I'm a grown woman now. I love powwows and fry bread, but I only dance when invited. I follow the rules of whomever I'm visiing.
It's likely that some of the people she's met are Native American, but what Nation? What Tribe? Which clan? And why does this international amalgamation get to take over and erase the people she was born to?
Massive cringe! Even if she's part Anishinaabe (pick your favorite spelling, I guess), this is so arrogant. Only she knows The Truth! Anyone who objects, including her Elders...well, they are just not highly evolved enough to recognize her incredible gifts.
Let me tell you about indigenous beliefs says white woman who took a 23 and Me DNA test.
The only thing this person is the caretaker of is bullshiz
Aside from what you explained, I have a few questions. What makes Ts and Qs, which includes these newly-minted 2S, think they have/are “evolved”? I know some, like this woman, think it’s mostly a spiritual evolution, but what of those who think it’s part of a societal evolution? Also, why does this woman think we (rational sex-based types) fear them in some way? I get that sometimes ignorance can make one fearful of another, but we (again, the rationals) pretty much know and “understand” what they’re about. No one on your Substack, for example, needs anymore “education” on this matter to feel “unafraid” of these people.
1/Fundamentally, this is an extremely culturally white woman. She is absolutely steeped in cultural default white supremacist attitude and behaviors. Part of cultural whiteness (and I'm stopping capitalizing it out of laziness not contempt) is the idea of your obvious and natural superiority to people of other backgrounds, due to the fact that you're a logical, smart person, and you lived your life, and you had what you needed, so if other people had different things and did not have what you had, they must lack (i.e. they're not civilized). This is what parents taught their children so they would continue the colonial project and so the children wouldn't hate the parents for their behavior towards enslaved people and indigenous people.
This is due to the fact that the purpose of white supremacy is to keep White people physically and emotionally comfortable at all times, at everyone else's expense, even if it means physically owning some people and genociding other people in front of your children whom you expect to eventually imitate the behavior. As much as I inherited intergenerational trauma of being on the receiving end of British and French colonization on BOTH sides of the pond, from one side, I also inherited it on the other because white people have a massive debt of intergenerational trauma. However the way things are set up, as a voting bloc, they have no cultural tendency towards confronting and healing through that trauma, because to acknowledge it would be to acknowledge a lack of white superiority. And that's uncomfortable.
Two Spirit therefore was clearly created to be sold to modern people who may have Native ancestry but who are otherwise predominantly steeped in the White cultural perspective where they are the center of attention, the hero of the play, and the person who is supposed to pull the sword from the stone. They want to reclaim their culture, but not if it means getting up. White culture is capitalist, seeking to sell to the young, so like a sexual predator, it flatters them that they are so very mature for their generation - in fact, their parents and grandparents have to age towards them.
Two-spirit is the social justice warrior equivalent of wearing a Pocahontas costume on Halloween. It allows them to be not just indigenous, not just their own culture, but a special and sacred Native. It's the Turtle Island version of "I wasn't just a farmer building the pyramids in the off season in ancient Egypt; they're the reincarnation of Cleopatra." It does not require actually learning any challenging indigenous topics (which might make them uncomfortable!) or deferring to indigenous authority on any matter (challenging their sense of unearned racial superiority). Their two spirit hajj is a new-friends tour of people who already agree with them.
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Two Spirit therefore was clearly created to be sold to modern people who may have Native ancestry but who are otherwise predominantly steeped in the White cultural perspective where they are the center of attention, the hero of the play, and the person who is supposed to pull the sword from the stone. They want to reclaim their indigenous culture, but not if it means listening to minorities, old fogies or squares. White culture is capitalist, seeking to sell to the young, so like a sexual predator, it flatters them that they are so very mature for their generation - in fact, their parents and grandparents have to age towards them.
Two-spirit is the social justice warrior equivalent of wearing a Pocahontas costume on Halloween. It allows them to be not just indigenous, not just their own culture, but a special and sacred Native. It's the Turtle Island version of "I wasn't just a farmer building the pyramids in the off season in ancient Egypt; they're the reincarnation of Cleopatra." It does not require actually learning any challenging indigenous topics (which might make them uncomfortable!) or deferring to indigenous authority on any matter (challenging their sense of unearned racial superiority). Their two spirit hajj is a new-friends tour of people who already agree with them.
The narcissistic gnosticism of this woman. "Secret knowledge.....oooohh...I'm special. I'm best. I speak for both. Speak over both" "Sacred breath. We're always the center of attention, because we should be..."
She sounds like me as a 9 year old Anglo-Germanic girl facinated by Native American culture that I "learned" about from fiction novels written mostly by white people.
I'm a grown woman now. I love powwows and fry bread, but I only dance when invited. I follow the rules of whomever I'm visiing.
It's likely that some of the people she's met are Native American, but what Nation? What Tribe? Which clan? And why does this international amalgamation get to take over and erase the people she was born to?
Massive cringe! Even if she's part Anishinaabe (pick your favorite spelling, I guess), this is so arrogant. Only she knows The Truth! Anyone who objects, including her Elders...well, they are just not highly evolved enough to recognize her incredible gifts.
Things that only men can do and things that only women can do... Over and over the more egalitarian societies didn't need that third designation.