Bard spotting on Bluesky 10 November 2024

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I have an epistemological belief that, in an important aspect, for much of ~20 years I was "a man" — in the Vonnegutian sense that We Are What We Pretend To Be.

I was also a woman for those years, in the de Beauvoiresque sense that One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️ (@sophianyx.bsky.social):

without besmirching the glory of pickles,

what is the most not like other trans girls thing about you?

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

My first and second spouses certainly entered into marriage in the full belief and trust that they partnered with a man. My parents believed they raised a man.

I am not this flesh, but without it I cannot be. A great paradox.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

What does it mean to deny outwardly the inner life that walks, runs, flies, dances, sings - the heart that beats in dreams and the soul that shines when the body is left behind?

Jung spoke of Anima & Animus: a frame of reference whereby I compartmentalised the dichotomy.

Still - only a shell.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

We used to speak of women trapped in the bodies of men. We spoke of souls, we grasped for good, and explanatory, and satisfying, and safe, and useful metaphors

But the Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.

☯️

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

When trans women say, "I was never a man", that is the truth.

I lived truly in dreams for a long time, briefly venturing into the waking world, experiencing transphobic attacks of hatred, sealing off and hiding again, until I could not any longer.

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