A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
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Not a gender-identity thing, but I met my best friend when I was 12. We didnt have any classes together so I never heard his name called out in the register.
Wasn't until we were having a drink at 18 that I realised I didnt actually know his real name.
This one is a hard one, as a cis-gender male, I don't go by my real name. If someone calls me by my birth name I wouldn't even know they were referring to me.
I think its more to do with gender rather than names, that and the will to be cruel, of course.
Yeah, I go by my middle name and nobody thinks it's weird.
The only people that call me by my middle name are my... estranged family. So its sort of an insult in a way. Weird how that works out.
I get it. There's a nickname only my estranged family uses.
Honestly, I'd rather go by 'Malcronax the Ultimate Destroyer' but Harvey works well in most cases. That's what most call me.
The only people that have a problem with people changing gender is religious people that think that a fictional god assigned them a gender at birth, because their god knows and controls everything, so can never, ever, ever, ever be wrong about anything. Ever. Like a person's gender. So they hate everyone that questions their fictional hate book. Because it takes them a lot of work to live in that weird, fictional religious reality they want to so badly.
Be whatever gender you want to be. I'll call you whatever you want, but at least stick to it for a bit.
I recently learned that Charlie Sheen's birth name is Carlos Irwin Estévez.
Yep, he adopted the stage name of his father, Martin Sheen (Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez).
Everyone always forgets the brother who kept his name, Emilio Estevez.
I remeber when the first Mighty Ducks movie came out, I thought the main dude was Charlie Sheen.
Stage names are common for marketing something catchy. Book author aliases too.
JK Rowling used her initials because the publisher thought the books would sell better under a less feminine name. She now uses an even more masculine pen name for her detective novels. There's nothing wrong with that in and of itself, but it's kind of hypocritical given her outspoken anti-trans viewpoints.
She now uses an even more masculine pen name for her detective novels.
Hilarious that a TERF is using a masculine pen name for her book sales.
People should start calling her Book Trans or something and call her the fuck out
TIL it was a fart joke.
I've never encountered or noticed this problem that you mention.
I can't even see an issue with choosing a name that suits their gender, whatever that may be..
Is this really such a big deal irl?
Is this really such a big deal irl?
It is to the fascists.
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