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EldritchFemininity

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  • it's not worth listening to

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  • ...Give me two weeks and a ballgag and I'll have them whispering cursed knowledge of the void like a good cosmic horror should.

  • it's right there 😖

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  • Put a bucket over his head and you can take the entire set.

  • Mission accomplished

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  • I can 100% believe it, I've seen people who look like that who were that young as well. Pretty much all across that age range, around the time of puberty. But she definitely doesn't look older than 18, and I guess being that age or older would make her look unappealing to him.

  • Mission accomplished

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  • Seriously, she looks like she's about 16 in the first photo.

  • ‘No other option’: inside the refugee camp for trans Americans fleeing Trump

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  • Honestly, the issue is deeper than that. Your government has been fighting a war on science and reason almost as long as ours has. Politicians and CEOs in your country have been hungrily watching what politicians allow them to get away with in our country for over half a century. It's why they keep pushing for privatized healthcare for you and countries like the UK. The one that I'll never forget was around 2010 when a conservative administration came into power and immediately shut down a multi-year study on UBI halfway through and then sealed the reports because it showed that all the things that they lie about are false. The only 2 groups to drop out of the workforce were pregnant women and students, graduation rates increased, as did college admission applications, and the economy in the area where the study took place saw a general boom as people were willing to spend more money. And all of that was on maybe a $1,500 a month UBI if I remember right.

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  • Canada and the UK, too, if the politicians ever get their way. They've been moving in that direction slowly for a long time now.

    And forget the hospital itself, just the ambulance ride there can cost $600+.

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  • As an American, I don't know what that first image is supposed to be, but it sure looks expensive.

  • Surely This tech billionaire is different right

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  • I don't know what the back end looks like, but I see accounts hosted from unique servers fairly frequently. My favorite is @yeag.gay

  • Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...?

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  • Gay, lesbian, etc. are sexualities, which has nothing specifically to do with gender per se. Gender is a performance we do based upon what our culture expects of us based on specific labels and (often physical) traits. Think "goth girl" or "punk" or something. When given a label like that, you probably thought of a specific set of physical traits and behaviors, including fashion, hairstyle, and makeup. That's gender in a nutshell. Sexuality is more "if not attractive, then why x shaped?"

    It gets complicated because people really like to put things into an either/or box when life is so much more than a or b. Originally, sexualities were defined as two states: heterosexual and homosexual. Hetero, meaning other, means an attraction to the other sex (generally thought of as the opposite sex/gender due to a lack of information on intersex folk and the aforementioned two boxes appeal in the human psyche). And the opposite would be homosexual - an attraction to people of the same sex. But this is an elementary level of understanding, like when we teach kids about the 3 states of matter and leave out things like plasma.

    Because people have preferences and all straight men aren't attracted to 100% of women, and then there's lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and then there's how gender presentation plays into our attraction like with butch vs femme lesbians or how men and women both can appreciate a girl who could bench press them. And then some people are into femboys and women only while some are into men that belong in the Scottish Highlands wearing kilts and claymores and women who own fainting couches and ball gowns and wouldn't even glance at anything outside of those 2 groups, and then some people are only attracted to specific body parts (dick or pussy) but are less strict on who those parts are attached to, and then there's the people who don't care about anything beyond personality, and then...the list goes on and on.

    And then it gets even more complicated when you start talking about romantic attraction, because that's entirely its own spectrum as well. People can be romantically attracted to the same or different genders compared to sexual attraction. Some people are sexually attracted to multiple genders but could only see themselves dating one specific gender, some people experience no romantic attraction at all or no sexual attraction, or even both together. The human brain is a massive mess and there's simply no way to easily quantify the human experience - if we even can at all. I saw a post recently that went something like "the brain is 3lbs of mostly fat puppeting a meat suit by using less electricity than a light bulb, and if it can hallucinate algebra into existence then I'm fully willing to believe that it's also capable of identifying its own gender" and I think that sums it up pretty nicely.

  • Anyone else?

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  • This could be an introvert thing. Introvert vs extrovert isn't about being shy or anything like the stereotype. The best way that I've heard to describe it is that an extrovert refills their emotional batteries through social activities, big groups, etc. while an introvert has their emotional batteries drained doing that and needs time alone to let themself recharge.

    You can have a socially anxious extrovert who lives for hanging out in a big group of friends even if they don't talk much or anything, and an outgoing introvert who just needs to come home at the end of the day and sit on the floor with their back against a wall for awhile before they have the energy to do anything else.

  • Closing programs

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  • I literally had this happen with my desktop last night, and it's entirely down to Windows actively choosing to go into sleep mode or not. No activity on the computer, click on sleep, the monitors go off and I started to walk away except I noticed that my keyboard and mouse were still on (the first things to turn off when Windows goes to sleep for me) and the fans were still running. Wiggled the mouse and it had only turned the monitors off. I tried it 2 or 3 more times and Windows kept doing the same thing - putting the monitors to sleep and nothing else. I eventually just straight up shut it down with the power button.

  • Nearly a third of Canadians believe U.S. may try to invade Canada: poll

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  • I always love the duality of comments on this topic. America's military is a Schrodinger's Military at this point, both terrifying and completely non-existent basically depending on what time of day the conversation happens at.

    Canadians can't help because the military is so powerful (completely obvious and understandable) but also, like somebody up above said, "Americans are feckless sheep" for not shooting up the White House yet.

    Everybody's a hero until it's their life on the line.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'

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  • They mistook your comment as disagreeing with their take on how there are real victims of Grok's porn and CSAM and saying that they themselves were supporting CSAM, rather than saying that you agree and were saying Sweeney is supporting CSAM.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'

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  • You know those signs at roller coasters that say "you must be this tall to ride"? The US is that, except the sign says "you must be this rich to play".

  • As Minneapolis shooting stirs fears of state violence, several Black Panther Party members made their presence known in Philly

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  • Unfortunately for the US, the rich have spent the decades since the Civil Rights Movement convincing the general populace that their rights were won by holding a snarky sign on a street corner and not by burning down entire city districts after the murder of MLK by the government (which his family proved in court, by the way. Unfortunately, no criminal court would hear the case so it was only in a civil court, but the judge was convinced well enough to find the government guilty).

    Years of protesting and nothing solid was accomplished. Within a week of billions of dollars in damage to property and big business, the Civil Rights laws were drafted, voted on, and signed into law.

  • Christian dad sued school to keep his son from knowing that LGBTQ+ people exist. He just won.

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  • It's the same as the "basic biology" argument. Twisting something to the point it breaks in order to justify their hate. The Bible has gay people in it.

    In the Bible, one of the people that Jesus heals is the slave of a Roman soldier. In the original Latin text, the word they use is for a kind of male slave kept as a consort/sex slave. King David, one of God's chosen, is a bisexual man who had multiple wives and a male "friend" who "loved him in a way that no woman ever could."

    Being gay or bi was so normal back then that they never bothered to spell it out, not thinking that centuries later some heretics would twist their words to spread their hate.

  • As Minneapolis shooting stirs fears of state violence, several Black Panther Party members made their presence known in Philly

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  • Unions are the peaceful alternative for negotiations that workers and their bosses agreed upon instead of dragging them out of the factory into the street and beating them to death.

    More people need to remember this history.

    Even MLK credited the success of his work during the Civil Rights Movement to the Black Panthers being willing to do what he could not, and the Million Man March on Washington - seen today as an example of successful peaceful protest - was a threat to every white American in a seat of power. If he could mobilize a million people to shut down the capital of the federal government peacefully, imagine what else they could do.

  • Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document

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  • I completely agree and experienced it myself (missing what you don't have). I just meant in the terms of a bunch of replies that I've gotten in here to the tune of "I'm a cis guy who was circumcised at birth and it doesn't bother me at all."

    There's the possibility of something akin to how some trans people experience permanent low-grade dysphoria and it affects their frame of reference. Basically, if we were to map the feelings of dysphoria out on a scale from 0 to 10, the average person would be at a 0 under normal circumstances, but some people are born at a 2 or a 3. So to them, a 5 would be the average person's 3, and experiencing a 0 would be like getting glasses for the first time and realizing that trees have individual leaves and this is how everybody else sees the world. If you can only reach a 6 on a scale of how enjoyable an experience is while the average person can hit a 10, how would you have the frame of reference to know that you are or aren't missing something when you've never felt a 7 or above? So these people saying that they weren't negatively affected could just be mistaking a 6 for a 10 and there's no way for us or them to know for certain.

  • Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document

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  • I'm trans and I brought it up for a couple of reasons: first, Weevil brought up gender affirming surgeries in regards to trans people as part of some slippery slope argument. Secondly, trans medical issues tie very well into my exceptions that I mentioned in the second part of my comment - medical necessity and consent.

    You may not have any issues with being circumcised, but there are plenty of men out there who do. To the point that there's a "foreskin restoration" process that involves using clamps and rubber bands to yank on the skin of your penis until it stretches into some resemblance of a foreskin. It doesn't reverse any of the consequences of circumcision, but some men at least feel less dysphoric after doing it. I myself thought that my dysphoria was related to being circumcised before I learned words like "transgender" and "gender dysphoria." Still not a fan of what was done to me, though. Enough to weigh in on conversations around the subject in the way that I have.

    Generally, I think it's a situation of "people don't miss what they never knew they had." There's plenty of data from men who were circumcised later in life reporting a loss of sensitivity and difficulty with sexual pleasure and satisfaction post procedure compared to before. And this is why I compare it to being forced through an unwanted puberty. Permanent physical changes that you do not consent to. A baby cannot consent to having their genitals permanently altered. And a trans kid unable to access puberty blockers is as capable of preventing an unwanted puberty as a baby is capable of fighting a doctor/Rabbi/priest/etc.

    Now for the exceptions: consent I've kinda already talked about, but if you understand the consequences and want to do it, I don't see why you shouldn't be able to anymore than somebody who wants to get a Prince Albert or a Jacob's Ladder. And the big one, medical necessity. There are a number of reasons that it would be medically necessary, and they're all valid regardless of the age at which they appear. Phimosis is a real thing that can hit at pretty much any age up to post puberty. I once worked with a poor kid who had to get it done for that reason at the age of 18. Although, based on a comment I saw elsewhere in this thread about the number of babies who die from UTIs related to circumcision, there may be some room to talk about what strictly is and isn't "medically necessary."

    Basically, if your doctor says that you need to for health reasons or it's your own informed choice, go right ahead. But if you're forcing it on a baby due to peer pressure from the dead or because of some sense of "my dad hit me and I turned out fine," then that isn't right and should not be considered kosher.

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