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A majority of the fears of transition strike me as ultimately being fears of aging. You don't want to get bald, you don't want your boobs sagging, you don't want to get bigger, you don't want your back to get hairy, you hate that rather than resembling an anime character you will look like your dad or your mom. you're afraid of losing fertility, you're afraid of losing skin elasticity, you're afraid of losing hard-ons or vaginal moisture, you don't want to lose muscle you don't want to lose flexibility, you think people will no longer be attracted to you, you fear something will happen to your body from which you can never turn back, and most of all you fear the inevitable winnowing down of life options that actually occurs for all people as time advances, whether they make a decision about themselves or not.

what else have i forgotten here? especially curious on trans feminine perspectives on this (whether they converge with or diverge from or merely complicate what i am saying). this is for a piece

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people should talk about parenting like they talk about professional sports. you can do this if you work really hard and sacrifice your body and your sleep and other passions and activities. you've got to really want it. you've got to want it more than anything else. and 70% of the people who THINK they want to be parents actually look at the hard work and think. ok. nevermind i will be a childless barista (equally noble passion). and i think everyone should cheer and clap when parents bring their children home like they would if they won olympic gold. this would fix a lot about society

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just saw what were undoubtedly Some Takes so i'd like to go ahead and say that a job being stressful doesn't mean the person in question gets to be mean to you. working in the hell of customer service with mariah carey blaring at full volume for eight hours makes a person's soul leave their body, but that doesn't mean they get to treat you like shit about it. i understand we as an internet society have come down on the side of The Customer Is Always Wrong- and that's very fair, these bitches are often stupid- but like. your barista should not make you feel silly or small or stupid. this is not something that is normal.

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dog time AKA the only reason i've been managing not to overwork myself

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btw if you find yourself dehumanizing any person or group for any reason you've already lost

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these boys are ready for some good country cooking at reasonable prices

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Some of my favourite pieces of Christmas media are the ones that are straight up Evangelical propaganda, but they don't want to appear as such, so they copy and paste Santa Claus into Jesus' place. Like, I appreciate the hustle, my dudes, but I cannot begin to explain how many heresies you just promulgated.

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you ever be watching The Godfather and you’re like WOW that kitty is so happy and such a good actor i wonder if it was someone’s cat on set or what…

sobbing. shitting. puking

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Just finished Buy Your Gays and i continue to be so glad Chuck Tingle is writing horror. I had to stare at the wall for like five minutes when i realised what the screenplays were. I am going to return to staring at the wall after this while reliving the last ~50 pages because what an ending

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Just finished Buy Your Gays and i continue to be so glad Chuck Tingle is writing horror. I had to stare at the wall for like five minutes when i realised what the screenplays were. I am going to return to staring at the wall after this while reliving the last ~50 pages because what an ending

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They are studying us in petri dishes

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please please does anybody have the “i love my this” image please i can’t find it anywhere i’m getting desperate

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my contribution to the "neve in suits" agenda