When it comes to mood, I honestly can’t tell what is because of HRT and what is because of changes in my life, it’s been far too dramatic lately :P

Anyways, I do always look forward to injection day! And I love doing em and feel amazing afterwards! Tho it’s only a mood thing. And again, could just be the joy of continuing a ritual that brings me the desired changes in life. Either way I’m not complaining, either effect is 100% desirable in my opinion! ^^

It’s interesting to me to compare my excitement around injections with my roommate, who sees it more like a chore I have to help remind her to do.

I get your point, but your original comment didn’t specify “societal” or “structural.” Of course there’s no systemic misandry or “reverse racism”, and the issues you mentioned are far more serious, by several orders of magnitude. Still, misandry does exist on an interpersonal level, and it affects real people. Dismissing it outright feels insensitive, even if it’s not comparable in scale or impact.

For example, toxic masculinity harms women much more deeply, but it also harms men. Acknowledging that helps men see that they don’t have to conform to abusive or repressive norms to be accepted. Rejecting that nuance risks alienating people who might otherwise support feminist goals.

I was in that position once. In my teens, internalized misandry kept me stuck in the right-wing pipeline and made transitioning an absolute impossibility. I used to be an enabler, I’m ashamed of my past, almost as much as teen me was ashamed of existing. But it is real and could have been prevented.

Ok, that makes more sense, but I don’t see that assumption in the original post. The word “attractive” has no inherent sexual meaning. That’s why people usually say “sexually attractive” or use a different world like “hot”.

If I may offer a suggestion for the future, try to think if your comment might need context. Your original comment has nothing, leaving it to the reader to interpret the meaning. And nobody is going to assume that you’re referencing a different issue if you don’t explicitly state it. Leading to the only reasonable assumption of it deconstructing the original post.

I don’t see any detail I can’t find in the sharp image. Except for the off screen stuff at the very top and bottom, since CRT pixels aren’t perfectly square and who ever made this image decided to fit by width. Nonetheless there are countless more example online and videos dedicated to this on youtube. Highly recommend :)

Meow! :3 Honestly quite handy, my roommate taught me to, ia quick vibe check! Tho I dread the day I’ll accidentally meow at someone in public :P

I feel ya. For me the eye opening moment was the full scale invasion of Ukraine. I grew up with the ideas of the unprecedented era of peace and human rights as a given hammered into my head, so I made it a moral duty to follow the war semi daily once it escalated. I live only one country over, so we’re next on putin’s campaign. And yet half the people here feel just fine with this arrangement. Our lackluster response, our bickering over the smallest things while this future defining horror show unfolds at our doorstep, it’s all quite sad.

Anyways, since then I’ve been doing my best to understand people, to go out of my way and educate my self on what people are going through. I still have a lot to learn, but I refuse to stay ignorant, because it only leads to more pain.

To think that just a couple years ago we thought Ukraine had no fight in it, but today they are showing us how to do it. How the tables have turned.

Wouldn’t have it any other way ^^

I don’t want to imply that older systems were superior, just wanted to point out historical alternatives. Saying this beforehand because I noticed that the way I talk makes people think I’m endorsing stuff I’m not.

For most of human history there was no such thing as an institutionalized state police force, and yet law and order existed for millennia. To over simplify, you would have multiple powers that would try to mediate (or fight). As an example, in medieval Europe you’d have a local lord, guilds and the church, all with some form of guards to represent their interests. And you as an individual would likely belong to such a community. Also specifically the church would go out of its way to mediate problems of other people and prevent issues before they arise, both as community building and power projection (obviously).

The police of today are mainly here to protect property and maintain the status quo, they try to act like mediators, but in such conflicts they mainly come to pacify you so someone else can handle you. Personally my main issue is that we pretend like they’re much more than a civil suppression force. Like for some reason cops are still the main way states handle suicidal people, like jesus christ…

I feel your frustration. I especially hate the needlessly confrontational ones. I recently started trying to be less confrontational my self, because I finally realized that it’s fruitless and only leaves me distressed, but somehow tankies still blow up at me.

Recently in a comment under a youtube video I dared to vaguely imply that china is flawed and I got people telling me that “china isn’t a dictatorship” and that I should read “neutral news sources” (as if such a thing exists). I didn’t even say anything! Like bloody hell… I barely mentioned it in passing. But I guess implying any flaw is triggering…

Aww… You can’t just tease like that and then not say what story it is. Tell us more!

Honestly shocked that only central Europe and Finland are against it, I mean this benefits no one. The people lose their liberty and nations would experience a complete and total national security collapse. It doesn’t even protect kids! And I don’t even want to think about the false positives… If this passes I’m legit trashing my smart phone, I’m not gonna be a part of this.