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M. Belanger

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Nov 1

So … today I got woken up at about 9 AM by a police officer shining a flashlight in my face. In my bedroom.

That was not how I expected to start my day.

I have a housemate who works for Spectrum. Spectrum has changed its sales policy recently & my housemate’s supervisor has been demanding they lie to customers in the sales calls & automatically sign them up for things

When they refuse, they’re called into meetings

The supervisor at spectrum doesn’t frame this as disciplinarian meetings exactly. They pretend it’s a peptalk. But the bottom line is, my housemate refuses to lie and illegally sign customers up to things they have an asked for and the supervisor wants that to change

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M. Belanger

@sethanikeem

Oct 31

Everything on here is terrible, so let’s get lost in a haunted house 👻

As a #Halloween2022 🎃 treat, allow me to introduce you to #LonelyHouse - a new game of collaborative fiction

Which path will you choose? #TTRPG #HorrorGame #NaNoWriMo #RPG

itch.io/s/80315/lonely…

This is available only as a digital release for now

Because #LonelyHouse is an indie release, I could really use your help in getting word out

Any reposts or retweets would be most appreciated - doubly so if you are a writer, game designer/publisher - but every boost helps

Tomorrow on Halloween as a special treat, I will read a few chapters aloud on a Facebook live starting around 9 pm EST

If you haven’t found my verified Facebook page yet, it’s under the same handle as this Twitter account: sethanikeem

facebook.com/sethanikeem

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M. Belanger

@sethanikeem

Sep 21

What if training young salesmen to “never take NO for an answer” has a direct impact on their respect of boundaries in other aspects of their lives?

For example, when someone they want to have sex with says NO

Sales & upselling train people that trampling consent is “winning”

Moreover, many folks who get deeply ingrained in sales culture begin to model their identity around their ability to convince people to say yes to things they obviously don’t want or need

The ability to trample consent is perceived as power, superiority: a skill to be rewarded

Sales culture (and capitalism more broadly) is rotting us from the inside out in ways I don’t think many people ever stop to consider

“Don’t take no for an answer” is some of the most toxic advice any human being could take to heart - let alone be monetarily rewarded for

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M. Belanger

@sethanikeem

Sep 21

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Tried to get a picture of Ozzie with my @ElyriaRose to give some sense of scale for this enormous cat. Still not sure this does him justice (also he really, really wanted to be put back down)

When I endeavored to take these photos I did not fully appreciate the difficulty I would face in getting both the cat and the wife to hold still at the same time as the two are nearly always perpetually in motion 🤣

@Kambrieldesign

Also, I realize our fridge is a probable treasure hunt of Curious Things ™️

Not the least of which are my precious origami bats gifted from @Kambrieldesign 🦇

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M. Belanger

@sethanikeem

Sep 20

So, it’s #BiAwarenessWeek?

Which raises, for me, some existential questions

When I, sheltered in the Midwest within a white, performatively Catholic family, first learned attraction between people could actually be more than vanilla heterosexed, bisexual seemed to fit

But -

Back in the day when I was reading Dykes to Watch Out For & Hothead Paisan, I encountered the term “Stone Butch” which seemed to better encapsulate how I experienced love & affection for people but rarely any desire for them to get sexy with me (asexual wasn’t widely used)

I was sorting out my orientation in the 1990s & had been given virtually no healthy tools to do so

We didn’t have many terms for that complex trifecta of sex/gender/orientation better understood now

Also, AIDS was a thing & alternative sexuality carried enormous stigma

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@sethanikeem

Jul 5

I did a bunch of my undergrad work on the portrayal of women & witches in Shakespeare, the witchcraft beliefs of the time & the period in European history often called the “witchcraze”

Just never expected to experience a renewed wave of violent mass delusion in my lifetime

To be clear, the delusion is not the practice of witchcraft

The violent mass delusion in this case comes from Christian sects sublimating their fears of contagion, destructive weather & economic insecurity into beliefs of a widespread Satanic conspiracy working to harm them

The thing that gets me is - here we are in the digital age surrounded by life-changing advances in science with these astounding tiny devices we carry around our pockets that allow us to access a wealth of knowledge that would make the Library of Alexandria envious

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