Kim Mack

“The idea of not having a gender wasn't frightening to Sasha, but it wasn't a relief either. Maybe this is just a phase, Sasha thought. Maybe I'm just overthinking things.
But maybe not. Maybe the question was its own kind of answer. Maybe the place in between was a real place.”
― Dashka Slater, The 57 Bus

“... the smaller the area of choice, the smaller the temptation to take thought.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It doesn't really directly affect me, at least to hear it - it's more like 'Huh, that's not right'. And when people use the right pronouns, whey they use 'they' or another gender-neutral pronoun, it feels validating.”
― Dashka Slater, The 57 Bus

“Take for example the well-known passage from the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...

It would have been quite impossible to render this into Newspeak while keeping a sense of the original. The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the single word crimethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984