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affirmations

i am a complex organism brutally engineered by uncaring forces of nature

i am a product of billions of years and trillions of deaths

i am building a machine greater than myself

i am able to make phone calls and appointments

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A redditor u/spottedgolfing shares the process of the penny floor they installed into their homes foyer.

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knew this woman who used to be a gay man and when he was a gay man he liked ‘ironically’ referring to himself as she/her and so when he came out as a woman he decided the next logical step was to also switch his pronouns to he/him.

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what about trans men that /do/ experience male privilege? like, i'm a transmasculine bigender man/woman that presents male in most situations offline. and i absolutely experience male privilege. jobs treat me better, strangers address me before my feminine partner, i get to live in a house that a woman was kicked out of by a misogynistic woman, people listen to me. i'm privileged for the male half of myself that i show to the world, and i would lose it if i wasn't a man and didn't present like one.

There's a difference between individual privilege and systemic privilege.

While there may be some individual transmasc people who are privileged, they still aren't systemically, nor do they benefit from the patriarchy.

Take for example, black people. Sure, you have the occasional successful ones (Ben Carson, Obama, Clarence Thomas, Tyler Perry), and even some successful black women (Oprah, Sheila Johnson, Mia Love), overall, these are outliers and by no means represent the wider black community, or women at large.

These individuals still can be affected by racism, or sexism.

In the same way, sure, there may be some transmascs who "make it" and beat the system. But, at the end of the day, even the most successful and privileged transmascs is still affected by reproductive rights issues, corrective rape, and other elements of transandrophobia.

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EXCUSE ME, my boobs are down here. Look at them when I speak to you. 💢

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gender-affirming surgery is a months-long dark comedy. what the fuck do you mean you're charging me double for everything. what do you mean they itemize the bill by left and right ball. what the fuck.

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dramatically and violently turns into a werewolf and then continues doing the same thing I was doing before

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Btw I think it's worth mentioning that I'm like. In some ways an extremely cynical person:

Literally, one of my major opinions on humanity is "Humans really seem to like committing genocide???" (Looks, obviously genocide is a fucking atrocity, and I'm in no fucking way diminishing that. It's just also something that people keep fucking committing.)

I work professionally with survivors of abuse, rape, and incest.

I think that most people are (by design, aka evolution!) fundamentally self-interested (and also that that's usually okay)

I am more caught up on the news than like/at least 90% of people.

So when I say that I think that:

Hope is real

There is real, substantial evidence for hope

I think we're going to beat climate change

There is a ton of evidence that supports us beating climate change,

We're going (continue) making the world a better place

The good of humanity and the world ultimately outweighs the bad

It's not because I'm sticking my head in the sand. It's really, really not!

I'm saying that in very real knowledge of how fucking shitty things are and can be.

And despite all that, I'm still hopeful. I'm still optimistic.

I still think hope is going to win.

You don't need to be some huge optimist to have hope.

Anyway here's a link to my masterpost on why we're going to beat climate change,

And here's a link to a great article on all the reasons that this century is, on average, the best time to be alive in human history.

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typical cottagecore girl

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imagine top surgery in the fallout universe

your options are like

a guy named sawbones jones living in a tent outside a radiation spill, claims he has performed the surgery once and that in general most of his patients survive

a robot named SURGBOT1778-C that hasn’t been turned on in 167 years at a medical research facility that had seventeen different scandals for inhumane treatment of staff and clients

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Being 30 is fun. I was discussing anime with a teen at work and asked her how much of bnha she had watched. She had trouble answering and wasn't sure how to approach it. I said "better question was who was your husbando" and she turned bright red before mumbling an answer. They never expect me to know how deep their love of anime boys runs....