Emma Serena Lavin
2 min readMay 1, 2024

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Do you want to fight? Do you realize that you were othering me when you wrote this?

While I could argue about how this was very much written with 18 hours of my own sweat, not AI, I doubt if you'll believe me. (I did use AI to generate a lot of the images, which is clearly cited but none of the writing). Anyway, by your tone, it seems unlikely you'll believe me anyway, because the "reptile within you" has painted you into a corner such that you can't let yourself believe me! What will you lose if you're wrong? What can you possibly lose?

It's okay. The version of divinity I ascribe to won't send you to Hell forever for othering me. It doesn't need to go to such lengths when posing a few good questions is a lot more effective anyway.

So...

How do I know you were othering me?

All or nothing statements designed to insult, like:

"I found nothing in it existentially edifying whatsoever. But that is the kind of thing you get when you let a machine do your thinking for you."

Ouch!

And

"I looked up "sonder" and the only thing I found was that it is an alternative to Air B &B..."

If "Seek and ye shall find" is a truth to live by, then maybe "Not finding" is a result of "not seeking" because you don't want to give me an inch?

Here again is the link, which was included in the article:

https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/23536922667/sonder

I hope you can see this response as an invitation, not an insult.

Best

~ Emma

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Emma Serena Lavin

Trans philosopher queen deconstructing the house of power-over that we locked ourselves in. Follow me everywhere: https://linktr.ee/we_are_belov3d