lapis

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

"pay us to not harass you" is honestly the epitome of Americanism. thank you though, that's good advice, and might be worthwhile to avoid the stress and embarrassment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

this is so real, I didn't mind being gendered male until I transitioned far enough to be more often gendered female (more common, bc people tend to assume binary gender) or ??? (which is its own flavor of funny, like I'm giving off a non-binary aura or something).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)
  1. sorry you had to experience that, it sounds awful
  2. this makes me strongly consider just never flying again now that I'm trans, holy shit
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

this looks like as awful a textural experience as creamed corn plus the gross shit is covering a portion of the chips/fries, so that's a hard pass from me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

that’s right, it goes in the square hole!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

damn, that would’ve been a rare Sonic movie W.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

wait hold up did Knuckles just not assume Shadow's gender in the movie? or are the captions here for the meme and not the actual lines?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

I know nothing about this book but the little intro on goodreads and what you all have said here but it's not in my library hold list

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

weird corollary, we also only have 6 x 3 = 18 trans men on the site, so a total of maybe 40ish AFAB binary-gender people on the site. there are likely more if we count nonbinary people and those who choose not to disclose their pronouns, but oof, even with an extremely optimistic guess that doubles the number above, we're still looking at under 5% of active users being AFAB.

damn, I sorta want to start a struggle session thread for the prevalence of AMAB people on this site. it's really bizarre to me, as a transfeminine enby, how being in, or not in, online spaces like lemmy, reddit, discord, and such tends to stick through transition.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

now this gets me wondering, did white people back then try to control the reproductive rights of black people (or even kill black children or force black couples into aborting their children) to achieve this goal?

while modern Planned Parenthood has more-or-less moved beyond its racist roots, the organization's founder, Margaret Sanger, was a eugenicist and aligned herself with racist arguments to further the cause of birth control.

so, yes, white people did try to control, or at least influence, the reproductive decisions of black women.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

this makes sense, in a disgusting sort of way. cis-passing culture tends towards racism (among other problems), so I could definitely see that playing into some really weird takes.

I'm now very interested in seeing these wild takes, though, from a place of morbid curiosity...

 
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