You're probably going to have to find out for yourself if you want to join someone on the inside. The whole point is that if anyone is disrupting things from within, they're doing it secretly. So no one is able to name them publicly, otherwise they would be removed instantly.
I heard an interview with a woman who tried to commit suicide. She was having lots of suicidal thoughts without actually planning to do anything, like you are. But, one day something happened and suddenly she decided that was it. I think she took a lethal dose of pills and she was just lucky someone happened to find her before it was too late. I think that's a very common sequence of events.
She now really regrets trying to do that and works to try to prevent other people from committing suicide.
I've also been there, thinking about it without actually ever planning to... I regret not getting therapy sooner.
My point is this is actually serious and therapy may help you enjoy life more. What's the point in living if you're not enjoying it? Why not do what you can to make it more enjoyable? And maybe it would prevent you from doing something really regrettable.
I think you should at least call a hotline and explain your feelings to someone who knows about this stuff professionally. I've heard they get a lot of calls that are much less important and they're still happy to help.
I think this line of thought is really important here. You two may like each other but just be incompatible due to gender identiny and sexuality. It really sucks if that's the case, but it's better to recognise it earlier rather than later.
I wish the guy who assaulted me went to prison for it… or anything, really.
Just want to let you know I feel for you. Really sorry that happened to you and that this kind of thing does happen. I hope you don't let it continue to reduce your quality of life.
I do feel like a lot of self proclaimed feminists are dismissive of sexual assault against men. I've often seen responses like "but it's men who are usually the perpetrators", which I think really shows they're coming from an us vs them perspective and they don't have much empathy for the male victims, because of their gender.
Hmm, this is an interesting line of thought. I've always thought these movements are dominated by left leaning people and the left usually understands the importance of inclusive wording. So why do they use such exclusive labels?
Surely many people do try to jump at that low hanging fruit and adopt more inclusive labels. But, I guess it's not an idea that spreads so easily? These movements must rely on people with strong feelings on specific issues and have to target them with a label they can identify with. I guess the more moderate majority would associate with other terms, but don't have the motivation to take much action in the name of it.
As a father of a FtM young boy I'm doing my best to make sure he doesn't need to worry about it as much as I can do that. I'm really sorry your father and grandfather haven't been supportive. But, that's just their ignorance. I've had to do a lot of research into this stuff and I took some time before I fully accepted it. But, now I'm really worried by the idea that ignorant people will tell him he's just a confused girl and likely a lot worse. Those ideas really are just ignorance that isn't aligned with the real world.
I really hope you can feel free to be yourself.
Also T isn't cheating. It's what you give to a boy/man who's body doesn't create enough of it, no matter what gender they're assigned at birth.
The science has moved on from the time we called it junk DNA. It's definitely not junk and we now understand at least some of the reasons it exists.
The harms of radiation on humans are well understood. Of course, with high amounts of radiation we would likely evolve mechanisms to handle it, but that takes many generations. That fungus would have had many generations since the Chernobyl disaster happened, but we haven't. So, you can't really draw any conclusions about humans from this study.
I think the ideal is that it would be a conscious decision to donate more to software that needs more work. It definitely wouldn't be good to encourage poor usability that creates more usage time.
(That's how we ended up with terribly written recipes all over the internet that make you scroll for ages before you get to the useful information)
I guess I'm just poking fun at what I see as a dumb line of argument that derails constructive discussion. Trying to strawman someone's argument by suggesting they mean all men/women is not productive.
That's a real pet peeve of mine. I would have thought activist groups would be more inclined to avoid supporting the tech oligarchs and especially Meta with all the controversies they've had.
I've had to look it up and maybe fascism is the wrong word, I'm not exactly clear on the differences between that and totalitarian or authoritarian. But I've found examples to be Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot and North Korea. They've all had highly centralised power that inevitably gets abused. Or am I wrong?
Honest question: Isn't it the same for communism? My limited understanding is that all communist leaders that have lasted any significant length of time have also trended towards fascism.
You're probably going to have to find out for yourself if you want to join someone on the inside. The whole point is that if anyone is disrupting things from within, they're doing it secretly. So no one is able to name them publicly, otherwise they would be removed instantly.