{"id":31574,"date":"2016-12-17T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31574"},"modified":"2016-12-07T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:19:08","slug":"qotd-otherkin-headmates-and-multiple-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/12\/17\/qotd-otherkin-headmates-and-multiple-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Otherkin, headmates, and multiple systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Turns out, crazy sex maniacs have cooked up new ways to be crazy sex maniacs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome on,\u201d you\u2019re thinking, \u201csex is sex and crazy is crazy. There\u2019s nothing new under the Krafft-Ebing sun. I saw that <em>CSI<\/em> episode about furries and read that article about bronies that made me want to kill myself (after I killed my wife and kids to spare them the horrors of living in America another second.)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fine. Meet the \u201cotherkin.\u201d Unlike cosplayers, these dudes genuinely think they are animals trapped in human form. Literally. They\u2019re serious.<\/p>\n<p>How\u2019s about \u201cheadmates?\u201d We used to call these \u201cimaginary friends,\u201d but they\u2019re not just for kids anymore. (Cuz that would be age-ist!)<\/p>\n<p>Next? \u201cMultiple systems\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>[A] person who describes themselves as a multiple system will likely refer to themselves as \u2018they\u2019 because they believe they are multiple people\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And, because that isn\u2019t already batshit insane enough, some multiple systems will have headmates who are animals, otherkin people, and, of course, fictional characters\u2026.I\u2019ve not even got to the people who believe they have galaxies, nebulae, universes, and other space shit, either in their \u2018headspace\u2019 or as an otherkin. So some people will believe they are actually galaxies.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or \u201cdemisexuals\u201d? They\u2019re \u201conly sexually attracted to people\u201d they have \u201can emotional connection to.\u201d (We used to call them \u201cnormal\u201d and \u201cwomen.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Now meet the \u201ctransethnic\u201d and \u201ctransabled\u201d: paralyzed black women trapped inside functional white-male bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, \u201cthe favorite pastime for SJAs [social justice activists] is to pretend they\u2019re oppressed, and they are all professional victims. You may very well see otherkin telling people to \u201ccheck their human privilege\u201d while they talk about how oppressed they are because no one believes they\u2019re really a cat\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All very weird indeed, but so what?<\/p>\n<p>Well, within living memory, gay \u201cmarriage\u201d was unthinkable, transsexuals stuck to the stage, and a \u201cbathroom bill\u201d letting \u201ctransgendered\u201d boys use the girls\u2019 washrooms in elementary schools would be one of John Irving\u2018s forgotten subplots, not something that is about to become law.<\/p>\n<p>Brace yourself for \u201cotherkin-phobia\u201d and the fines and firings that will come with it. <\/p>\n<p>Kathy Shaidle, <a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/my_otherkin_headmate_is_a_two_spirited_starseed_kathy_shaidle\/print\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;My Otherkin Headmate is a Two-Spirited Starseed!&#8221;, <em>Taki&#8217;s Magazine<\/em><\/a>, 2013-03-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out, crazy sex maniacs have cooked up new ways to be crazy sex maniacs. \u201cCome on,\u201d you\u2019re thinking, \u201csex is sex and crazy is crazy. There\u2019s nothing new under the Krafft-Ebing sun. I saw that CSI episode about furries and read that article about bronies that made me want to kill myself (after I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,41],"tags":[906,139,255,997],"class_list":["post-31574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-quotations","tag-mentalhealth","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality","tag-socialjustice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8dg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31575,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31574\/revisions\/31575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}