#THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS when you ignore disabled people's warnings about eugenics because you're not disabled

[mythicalcoolkid]

If I had a nickel for every time I had to watch "I can't believe they're doing this!! This is heinous, who could have seen this coming?! <thing a minority group repeatedly and explicitly said would happen if x other thing went unchallenged>" I could afford to live somewhere with fewer human rights violations

#m/cc #negative #'transition and abortion restrictions I understand but criminalizing transition and overturning Roe v Wade?!' #'and NOW talking about overturning gay marriage?! and interracial marriage??' #woah maybe if you'd listened to the trans people who said heavy transition restrictions were setting a dangerous precedent on #bodily autonomy and LGBTQ rights you could've maybe made a plan for what to do if these things were proposed #this is also specifically about everyone shocked and horrified that medically assisted death is being pushed on people with depression #WE TOLD YOU THIS. WE TOLD YOU EVERY TIME THAT IT WON'T BE USED ALL IN GOOD FAITH #DISABLED PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR DECADES. YOU HAVEN'T BEEN LISTENING #THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS when you ignore disabled people's warnings about eugenics because you're not disabled #EVENTUALLY IT WILL EFFECT YOU #and you will be shocked every time!! #eugenics will not stop at the smaller subgroup you aren't part of. it's the testing ground for tolerance #you think they're really like 'oh trans people are gross but gay people are a-ok' or 'the person who's terminally ill deserves to die (!!) #but certainly not the person with painful cancer treatment #or permanent disability #or chronic illness #or serious long term mental health problems #or intellectual or cognitive disability #those people OBVIOUSLY can find quality of life still. it's ONLY these specific people that should be offered death as a solution' #I'm just exhausted. I feel like my voice is hoarse from screaming about this. conservatives do not see a difference between #killing a future baby via 'sterilizing' HRT or surgery and abortion or birth control #or gay people vs trans people as a risk to children #ableists see 'no possible quality of life' in both constant unbearable physical agony without ease and in treatment resistant depression #no difference between the prototypical Right to Die patient and someone who can absolutely have high quality of life #and with the last one any US people who didn't see this coming have never dealt with the US healthcare system long-term #when I took my medical and healthcare ethics course I was So uncomfortable because it was. so clearly written by someone not a part of it #'hospitals would never WANT someone to use euthanasia.' I can think of five reasons off the top of my head for why they would #politics #current events

[rjalker]

Here's a summary of the Xenogenesis trilogy. Contains spoilers.

Trigger warning for discussion of rape. Because "consent" does not exist in this trilogy.

The Xenogenesis trilogy is about the Earth being almost completely destroyed in a nuclear war between the United States and Russia, and then some aliens, known as Oankali, just so happened to come along at just the right time to rescue people.

They bring Humans up to their living ship, and put them into suspended animation while they fix the Earth and remove the contamination.

They keep Humans in solitary confinement when they're not in suspended animation so that they can interrogate them and study them. Any Humans too violent to be allowed back onto Earth when the restoration is done will be kept permanently in a drugged state to be experimented upon.

The Oankali have three sexes: male, female, and ooloi. All three are required to produce offspring. The male and female provide the genetic tissue, and the ooloi combines it and removes any defective material and ensures that the offspring will fit whatever goal the Oankali currently have. All of their children are genetically engineered and the result of eugenics.

Male and female Oankali are unable to reproduce, or even have sex, or even touch eachother to show affection, without an ooloi, because the ooloi literally rewire the body chemistry of their mates so that they become literally addicted to the ooloi and can't be away from them for more than a few days without feeling like they're dying.

The Oankali travel through space on their living ships, constantly on the lookout for new species to "Trade" with. They are instinctively driven to search for new things, including new genetic material. Every time they find a new species to "Trade" with, they take over the planet, remove any members of the species that resist, and breed with the remaining survivors, who they grant longer lifespans and immunity to disease or disability, creating hybrid offspring.

A collaborator family start up consists of: A Human male, a Human female, an ooloi, an Oankali female, and an Oankali male. The ooloi acts as the go between for all the genetic material for the four other parents, so that each child has genetic material from two Humans and two Oankali.

In these families, you are expected to keep making babies until you are too old to do it any more. And since the Oankali give people increased lifespans, you're gonna be doing this for at least the next 200 years.

Like with the male and female Oankali, ooloi rewrite the body chemistry of their Human mates as well, so that they are literally addicted to the ooloi, and cannot leave it without intense psychological pain and withdrawal. They also become likewise unable to touch eachother, or even any other human, without feeling horrible disgust and repulsion. The only way for them to reproduce or even have "sex" now is to go through "their" ooloi.

The Oankali insist that everything they do is done with good intentions, and is done for the benefit of the species they're "trading" with. And if you don't like it, that's because you're just an ignorant savage child who doesn't know what's good for you.

There is no such thing as consenting to join with an ooloi, because you cannot say no to an ooloi. If you try, they'll literally paralyze you with tendrils they've inserted into your literal nervous system and tell you that your mouth might be saying no, but your body is saying yes, so that means you want it to happen.

Yes, that's just as horrifying as it sounds. Yes, it is rape. Yes, that is the point.

And once you have been bonded to an ooloi, with or without even the illusion of consenting to it, you literally cannot hate them. You can be mad for a few days at most, but you literally are now physically incapable of hating them or fighting back, and you can't leave.

and yeah I have a headache so that's all I'm writing right now.

#Rjalker reads Xenogenesis #Xenogenesis spoilers #space colonization #Oankali #the oankali