If there’s no gender neutral toilet (not including disabled toilets, those are for disabled people), I tend to just use the women’s as that’s what I’m perceived as and it would lead to less stares.

On of my ancestors cut his two fingers off to escape the Russian draft decades and decades ago. I’m not in America and I think I might be disqualified anyway if I were, but I wonder if that’s a modern strategy that could work. It does sound a bit drastic…

I would ask for a second opinion but I probably shouldn’t upload selfies of myself onto the internet 🤣

That’s like rule one of online safety lol

I have green eyes, but I’m also trans so not very pretty :(

It sounds very butch 🤣

No, it’s a cool name though - short and snappy ;)

I struggled to recall a movie I watched three times, I very rarely rewatch movies. Then I remembered, Wicked! I watched it once when it came out, then again when it released in better quality to piracy sites, then once again with my cousins :3

😭

I just eat chocolate occasionally :p

I’m very much in favour of gender abolition, but I’m not sure that’s what TERFs who self describe as ‘radical feminists’ mean by the term :p

“Radical” feminism, ie, not true feminism. Hijacking the name to try oppress men ‘in return’ for women being oppressed, or to oppress trans people.

So apparently now “men’s right activists” also doesn’t mean what it is just like “feminist”? I find all this redefinition of words really annoying and confusing :(

Can’t “men’s rights activists” just mean people who advocate for men’s rights? Or better yet, stop with the binary gendered language, and instead advocate for gender equity?

It’s more about experience than age. If you prevent 13 year olds from gaining online experience, they’ll have the same level of inexperience when you expose them to the internet at 16.

I think you have to operate in the framework of the sensory world when acting within the sensory world, and like using science and stuff to work out what’s likely to happen if you do certain things as opposed to other things. But that’s not the same as saying that you believe the physical world is real

Also they’ll deny trans kids puberty blockers which are proven to be safe and reversible, and the alternative creates harm.

And they’ll censor the internet for ‘children’ (a 17 year old is not a child) to prevent them finding community, support or education outside their IRL religious and harmful bubbles.

It was never about actually protecting children

I went from windows to Manjaro to Fedora :p

What do you mean by being spiritual? I’m an idealist so I think consciousness/subjective perception is the fundamental substrate of reality, and matter/the physical world is just an illusion, but I wouldn’t consider myself spiritual…

We tens to visualise the people typing like us. At least, I do

I think they should have already been worried, basically every animals endures immense suffering in its life. Also you don’t need to believe in literal reincarnation to believe in this, you just need empathy

Well, you said you’ve been eating more protein. That’s it. You need to eat less, not more. Also doing more exercise also makes you more hungry, which makes you eat more if you just focus on what you’re eating, as opposed to how much. Also gaining muscles makes you gain (muscle) weight. GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic or Mounjaro can help you eat less by making you feel full for longer.

What’s cultural programming? 👀

Is that like societal norms?