Notable idea from the comments

I agree somewhat. I might phrase it as terrorism as a charge is relative and related to challenges to institutional authority rather than the specifics of the act being committed, but I think the core truth of the comment stands

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'Dionysus was raised as a girl, Pollack wrote, and went mad in adolescence; his madness was only cured when he sought initiation from the goddess Cybele, who was famously served by an order of transfeminine priestesses, and who was herself depicted as intersex. Dionysus’ cult, the Bacchae, struck terror into the heart of civilized Greeks – a lot of their activities involved pulling live animals apart with their bare hands, so it makes sense – but it was also a haven for gender transgression. At ceremonies, “female” worshipers strapped on phalli, and “men” wore women’s clothing.

The idea that the Greeks had a god of transing your gender was new to me, and I’m someone who’s spent a lot of time with Greek mythology. It shouldn’t have been surprising: It’s all over The Bacchae, which is a story about a male-presenting character named Pentheus who puts on a dress, leaves the stage to attend a ritual of Dionysus, and comes back as a woman named Agave. Cybele is mentioned in the opening monologue. Tiresias — the seer who spent half of their life as a man, and half of it as a woman — is a supporting character.

What really surprised me, though, is that The Bacchae is not just trans, but strikingly queer — queer in the present-day, political sense; queer as in outcast and marginalized and opposed to a repressive and violent social order. It is a story about a fascist regime that cracks down on gender non-conformity, only to be undone by the anarchic nature of desire, which lives in the hearts of fascists and dictators as surely as it lives anywhere else.'

https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/rapid-on/

Sometimes I like to annoy my friends by using and referencing memes that are horribly outdated

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Cw animal evisceration I guess