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its middle class suburban paranoia, the 24 hour news cycle, and racism, thats it.

i've recently moved to a large city from the countryside and my grandma is terrified of me getting stabbed. no one she knows has ever been stabbed, but it's on the news so it must be happening every day. its just what those hoodied youths get up to. the thing is i'm the only young person i've ever known who carries a knife - i always have, i'm from a fucking farm. it's a knife that's literally illegal in my country, we just don't have cops nearby.

the real kicker: SHE gave me that knife when i was fucking 13

doesn't amerikkka have something similar about how every street corner in detroit/chicargo/wherever is swarmed by teens who are Definitely smoking fentynol? its those same PMC delusions, but with violence instead of drugs. if ALL violent crime were eliminated, the news would just turn to some other shit to rile people up over.

yeah same. we have an AI assistent now and every meeting has a 'gentle reminder' that the sales people and devs and tech support etc etc should be using it. they're never specific about what we should be using it for and the one time i touched it it didn't seem like it even had access to our documentation.

is it really that simple? this is a massive capitalist company, surely they have to understand that they should be acting to improve their material conditions? random libs not understanding shit is fine, but i thought the actual capitalists themselves understood capitalism. exchanging material wealth for like cyberpunk vibes or whatever is genuinely insane.

why? genuinely who does this help and how does it make google money? it seems like they're paying for the energy for ai content in exchange for absolutely nothing

i wanted to be a boy when i was younger, in fact i was certain that i was. i was offended at the idea that i should be on the girls' football team, because obviously i couldn't hit a girl. i wanted to be a cowboy or a wizard or a scientist. i wanted a wife. i wanted to have a beard when i grew up (so that i could be a wizard). i remember my mother losing her mind when i referred to "the other boys" in my school, and i didn't really understand why adults kept saying i was a girl or wanting me to dress like one. in my 5th grade class we came up with the (probably transphobic now tbh) idea that i was a spy going undercover as a girl to find out what they got up to on their group bathroom trips. etc etc

but then i read Stone Butch Blues and realised that people like me exist and always have; i'm allowed to be a woman and love women, i'm allowed to be a woman and be as masculine as i like, i'm allowed to be a woman and not dress/act/talk/etc "like a woman" because there is no such thing. i'm allowed to be a woman and a scientist (and now i am!!). women like me have a history and it is proud and long and badass - and no matter what the world says there is fucking nothing wrong with being a part of it.

plus i realised that as long as i am clockably afab (which, for me, will likely be forever), i will experience sexism and be oppressed in the same way and by the same mechanisms as all other women. medically and legally, i will always be oppressed the same as women. there is no reason for me to distance myself from people who experience the same injustices as me.

(i still want my beard and superhero muscles but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ its not worth me figuring out how to get on T and spending the money and stuff. i'm just gonna go to the gym and try to learn how to love my body the way it is (which i'm certainly getting better at; nothing about the way i am makes me lesser or less masc or more deserving of objectification etc etc - society is just sexist))

i'm cis. i didn't want to be a man, i wanted to be a fucking person, we just live in a society where women are often denied that and i was too young to understand and reject sexism.

immediately taken half the DNC prisoner upon his inauguration

promise?

secret sixth option: selling him out to the government/scientists/whatever immediately. or starting a whole new genre of onlyfans content. sorry babe but i'm fucking Broke

i'm a hexbear user, of course i'm a lib

oh no sorry comrade, i was trying to imply that thats the yt people converting to harass one another for being yt lol

i don't understand - surely at that point you just convert?? like, if you're willing to learn and engage genuinely with the religion you can just become jewish... wtf

EDIT: i actually read the article. the whole things still a bit weird but apparently a lot are converting. still, its a fucking wild movement to be happening in germany of all places

a few months ago i had pneumonia. i'm young and relatively healthy, so there was no real danger or whatever, but i completely stopped eating, i just wasn't hungry in the slightest. i had maybe 3 meals over the course of two weeks and couldn't finish them.

when i told my dad that, his response was "well, you must have lost some weight!" as a positive thing. genuine fucking insanity. the thing that really gets me is that there is a 0% chance anyone would EVER say that shit if i were amab. like, don't get me wrong, i'm sure this stuff effects everyone to a degree, but so much of it is pure fucking sexism

i'm sorry i dont have any advice for you other than "overthrow the patriarchy" comrade, but honestly knowing that this shit it baseless misogynistic nonsense and that i'm in the exact same boat as every woman on earth has always helped me. you see women of all sizes being subjected to this shit, and it just makes it so clear that its not actually about size or health or whatever, its about condemning women for daring to be real living biological lifeforms rather than purely aesthetic 2D tradwives.