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Pedro's sister is trans and he seems to be quite supportive of her. It'd be weird for him to be lesbiphobic but not transphobic. I don't think I've ever even heard of someone that is.

I tend to miss things people say if all I have is their voice, so I am definitely better at reading. If I am focusing on comprehending them it reduces my ability to remember what they are telling me, so I too do much better with written instructions.

I took 5 years of French in highschool and I could understand my teacher just fine. Then when I graduated and wanted to continue learning French I would listen to French videos in the background, but I realized I was missing a lot of things, so I went to rewind the video, and then suddenly noticed it was so much easier for me to understand them if I could lip read.

Then I started to remember how when I was kid, and my parents would have me call a relative for whatever reason, and sometimes I would just hear garbled english, and I'd be so nervous and not know what to do, so I'd just say "yeah" and hope that sufficed. This still happens to me, although not as much, but it's caused me to become phobic of phone calls.

Now that I've realized how crucial lip reading is for me to understand speech, I now use only resources where I can actually see the person speaking if I want to practice that.

(Also subtitles are awesome.)

At this point I'm just frustrated about it. Most of my excess fat is on my stomach and I can't seem to make it go away no matter how much I exercise or diet. Idk if I could be doing more or if I have some condition making it more difficult.

100% some people are genuinely shitty people and their behavior would happen even if society wasn't misogynist, classist, etc.

My goal wasn't to alleviate them from responsiblity. I do not believe it is their fault for growing up in a society that is against them, but it is their fault for not thinking crtically and choosing to perpetuate that hate once they are an adult.

Also I was thinking of abuse on a societal level, not an individual level, but that does contribute. (I probably could have used a better word. I do agree that abuse implies individual rather than societal.) I find the fact that so much misogyny and other hate exists within the overton window to be repulsive. Trump said "grab her by the pussy," (plus a bunch of other terrible things) and got into the oval office not once, but twice, which shows that society has a major problem with finding hate acceptable. Why people find that hate acceptable I imagine varies between demographics.

I still do stand by my previous comment, which is my thoughts on why specifically women voted the way they did, although I agree it has room to be expanded on more.

I think a major part of it is that people simply aren't thinking things through enough. They should be questioning society's misogyny, racism, etc, but for some reason they choose to accept it as normal.

Abuse towards women is unfortunately so normalized by society that I bet most of those women don't realize how much they have been manipulated since childhood to be against their own autonomy, especially if they grew up in a religious environment.

It's possible that women of minority demographics voted more blue because some realized how anti-(their specific minority) republicans are but, just like the white women, weren't put off by republicans' misogyny.

My first ever job was working as a cart pusher at a Walmart supercenter. I naïvely choose to work two long shifts in a row not realizing how much walking that is. Every shift would end with me having open blisters on my feet and I eventually just stopped showing up after a few months because I contracted cellulitis from having so many blisters.

On top of that management was very rude and unreasonable. Despite it being a supercenter, I was often the only person scheduled to work, especially on sundays, meaning I would have to deal with the after church crowd by myself. Usually I would show up to work and carts would be strewn all across the parking lot and none would be in the vestibules since no one was there to do carts until my shift started at 11.

Customers would yell at me to work faster and management would get upset with me since they were getting complaints too, even though it was their fault for having one person do a job that needs multiple people doing it.

Also some people would use the parking lot as a trash heap. People would come by and dump their broken junk that they couldn't put in their trash can in the parking lot instead of paying to dispose of it at an actual disposal site.

I make 'em look normal with one thing off. My current character is a breton with her eyes all the way big, all the way apart, and all the way down, but is otherwise normal.

Estrogen isn't a controlled substance so it's easier to get than testosterone. As far as I am aware DIY estrogen is a lot more common because of the legal risks associated with testosterone.

If you want more booba

Boobs not Bombs


(Note: If you are a cis woman, taking more estrogen will not give you more booba, although it could possibly give you reproductive system cancer if your levels are too high)

I'm not bipolar but I have had my own struggles with depression and suicidality in the past. I can tell you that all those negative thoughts you are having are lies, even if it is difficult to see that at the moment. I sincerely hope that you are able to see a therapist and get help because you do deserve to be alive and happy.

Mine talked about various contraceptive methods, STDs, and accidental/teen pregnancies. It did focus more on the pregnancy part than the STD part, but they also briefly talked about how condoms are still important even if you're gay, since they prevent STDs.

I have a cousin I went to highschool with. He grew up in the south, but he finished highschool with me in Minnesota, and he told me his sex ed curriculum down south consisted of a brief talk on how sex is bad and that it is important to eat vegetables. Even though he had health class credits from down south, the school made him take their health class and he was happy to find out it's much more comprehensive than the south.

Most of the roundabouts near me have the crosswalks right up by the circle, so you'd have to either stop on top of the crosswalk, or stop with it in front of you. If you stopped with the crosswalk behind you, you'd be in the circle.

And I do look at the circle ahead of time and will go if it is clear, but if it isn't then I do stop, and it happens to take me longer to make a decision as to when I am good to go than most other people.

If I didn't live in freedumb land, I wouldn't drive, but driving is the only reliable option here.