madwoman5150

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Isn’t attaching himself and any part of his mental well-being to random objects potentially dangerous? Sure, you might feel in control, but really, aren't you just adding one more factor that you might not ultimately be able to control? In one study conducted in Italy, for instance, seven hundred students were randomly assigned to seat numbers during a written exam. Some of the numbers were tagged as culturally lucky - that is, according to Italian cultural reference, they brought good fortune - and others unlucky. It turns out that students who were in the "lucky" seats were consistently overconfident in how they would do - and those in "unlucky" seats were actually expecting lower grades. Confidence is an important factor in how you play. Wouldn't you want to minimise the potential confounding variables? On the one hand, I recognise the power of the placebo effect: if you believe it's working, it may well work. If you think an object brings you luck, you are more confident. And yet what the Italian students in the "lucky" seats showed wasn't confidence; it was overconfidence. They thought they were doing better, but the evidence didn't actually back them up. And then there's the flip side of the placebo, the nocebo effect: the belief in evil signs or bad luck. It turns out people can literally scare themselves to death. If you think you've been cursed or otherwise made ill, you may end up actually getting sick, failing to improve poor health, or, yes, dying altogether.

Maria Konnikova, The Biggest Bluff

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“Many people believe that their intellectual ability is hardwired from birth, and that failure to meet a learning challenge is an indictment of their native ability. But every time you learn something new, you change the brain - the residue of your experiences is stored. It’s true that we start life with the gift of our genes, but it’s also true that we become capable through the learning and development of mental models that enable us to reason, solve, and create. In other words, the elements that shape your intellectual abilities lie to a surprising extent within your own control. Understanding that this is so enables you to see failure as a badge of effort and a source of useful information - the need to dig deeper or to try a different strategy. The need to understand that when learning is hard, you’re doing important work. To understand that striving and setbacks, as in any action video game or new BMX bike stunt, are essential if you are to surpass your current level of performance toward true expertise. Making mistakes and correcting them builds the bridges to advance learning.”

— Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, & Mark A. McDaniel, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

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She’s so beautiful. My sister found her beat up with a broken pelvis, stuck in a permanent state of being in heat, broken tooth and a bad eye, on the street. I think she suffered abuse and breeding. She’s ourssss now safe, healed, recovering from ptsd and fattened up how she deserves. We named her Blair.

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Nope I'm not on something, it's literally true that experimental SRS surgery was performed on homosexual men by Nazi eugenicists. This information is available to anyone. The fact that other eugenicists abhorred the experimental gender research doesn't make it any less based on the eugenicist idea of "correcting" homosexuals. The reason I brought this up in the first place was to highlight the irony of the commonly touted TRA idea that TERFs or anyone critical of gender ideology somehow align with Nazis.

And I didn't say trans people support John Money, I simply stated the fact that he was one of the first major proponents of the idea of gender identity. My point was that the foundations of the ideology are shoddy and corrupt.

None of what I said is a conspiracy theory. There is a plethora of evidence available to anyone who wants to do some real digging into the corruption and pseudoscience behind gender medicine.

transgenderism and transracialism are the exact same bullshit to me. i don't get how one's valid and the other's not.

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“If Kafka had been a woman. If Rilke had been a Jewish Brazilian born in Ukraine. If Rimbaud had been a mother, if he had reached the age of fifty. If Heidegger had been able to stop being German, if he had written the Romance of the Earth. Why have I cited these names? To try to sketch out the general vicinity. Over there is where Clarice Lispector writes. There, where the most demanding works breathe, she makes her way. But then, at the point where the philosopher gets winded, she goes on, further still, further than all knowledge. After comprehension, step by step, she plunges trembling into the incomprehensible shuddering depth of the world, the ultrasensitive ear, tensed to take in even the sound of the stars, even the minimal rubbing of atoms, even the silence between two heartbeats.”

— Hélène Cixous, “Coming to Writing” and Other Essays

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Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

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Why do people keep repeating the same self-destructive behavior? To answer this question, I would compare the character to a shell. To step out of character is like being born or, more accurately, reborn. The cracking of the shell is equivalent to a confrontation with death. Living in the shell seems to guarantee survival, even if it represents a severe limitation on one's life. To stay in the shell and suffer seems safer than to risk death for freedom and joy. This is not a consciously thought out position.

The Voice of the Body

Alexander Lowen

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Why is shit like this apparently happening in lgbt spaces across america. This isn’t gay culture this is virgin culture. I’m ashamed to even be remotely associated with this. it’s also so often just forced teaming by heterosexual weirdos who think of gay people as ‘weird’ and see a lgbt club as a ‘weirdo club’

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Blair

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Another one

Why are there so many of these creatures. No one is even arguing against them. They think this shit is normal. We need to start being meaner to these straight males larping as lesbians, it's not normal, they don't have enough shame. They literally don't see cis actual lesbians as real human beings, we're just a set of traits and stereotypes for them to sexualize and appropriate. We are just a fantasy for them to roleplay. There is no material difference between a straight man and a "transbian"

Saw this video and looked at the comments

I can't do this anymore I'm going insane I'm literally turning into the Joker

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i plan on becoming a child prodigy at 44

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being really good at research and fact checking is going to be such an overpowered skill in 20 years. we’re going to be high priestesses and oracles

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I think it’s so important to expose yourself to new information & situations that stimulate growth. I’ve noticed that a lot of confident people do really well as long as they’re in a situation they understand and have experience in. But when faced with something new that confidence completely shatters because they lack the knowledge or skills to navigate it.

This happens because their confidence is based on familiarity, not adaptability. Confidence comes from trusting your ability to learn & figure things out, even when the situation is unfamiliar. This is why it’s important to loosen control. To listen to thoughts and opinions that may clash with yours, if you’re in a situation where your knowledge is only one sided. We’ve already established this isn’t something that is backed by confidence anyway. That’s why stepping out of your comfort zone regularly is so powerful. It helps you build resilience & confidence that isn’t tied to specific experiences but instead rooted in your ability to grow.

*Obviously I don’t mean to do things that harm you or go against your values. You can learn new things and still stick to your belief system after drawing all conclusions*

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There’s not a single person or philosophy that I agree with in its entirety, and that’s okay. Even fools can be wise, and ignoring important information just because you dislike the source sets you back. Taking the pieces that make the most sense and disregarding what doesn’t apply is a sign of an analytical mind. Don’t let dogma derail the pursuit of knowledge. Information is to be found in multiple places and disagreement shouldn’t stop you from new realizations. You don’t have to endorse an individual completely to benefit from what they have to say.

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No Brianna what you aren't capable of realizing is that sometimes femininity is the punishment for us. YOU don't know what it's like to be forced into toxic, restrictive, coercive social roles that feel terrifying, at least not from a female perspective. Go ahead, be as feminine as you want, express yourself, that's not the issue. The issue is when you think that your idea of femininity is what womanhood IS. The issue is when you think that none of our exclusively female experiences count or have anything to do with womanhood, because you can't access those. The only parts of femininity that have value to your identity are the easier ones you can detach from femaleness and therefore appropriate, like doing your hair and makeup and dressing up and behaving in certain ways. The only parts of our lives you give a shit about are the ones you can wear and perform. Even when you do try to change your bodies into a poor nonfunctional simulacrum of ours you're just proving even more how lowly you think of us and how little you know of us by acting like a vagina is nothing more than a flesh hole and that's what being female is. Your male body is not malfunctioning, there's no chemical imbalance except when you introduce one artificially.

The audacity of him to say that we see transwomen as stereotypes when that's what he sees womanhood as is hilarious.

“[Women] have never been denied any area of expression”

what

Buddy have you heard of voting

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ssa women do you prefer women who are bigger or smaller than you (height, muscle mass etc. whichever matters more to you)

- I'm only attracted to women bigger than me

- I lean heavily towards bigger women

- I lean slightly towards bigger women

- 50/50

- I lean slightly towards smaller women

- I lean heavily towards smaller women

- I'm only attracted to women smaller than me

- nuance

- I don't care

- not ssa / see results

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