He probably will. If he's in this much emotional distress in Pre-Med Anatomy 101, there's no way that he'll be able to make it through the hardcore stuff.
It's a very adolescent mentality when you think about it. Teenagers (and even young adults in their twenties) tend to experiment with different identities, switching them out like fashions. It's a normal and healthy part of growing up (assuming you don't mutilate your body or get hooked on drugs.) But adolescence keeps getting extended further and further.
I'll admit that it took me a bit longer to mature and set my life in order than some of my peers. But now I'm in my thirties, and it is creepy and downright weird to see people my age and older acting like teenagers. I'd like to hope that this person is still young enough to sort his life out, but I see this in older and older people.
He could be in a pre-med undergraduate program, but of course that's only studying to become a doctor in the most general sense.
Where's the fetus gonna gestate, E_gindi? You gonna keep it in a box?
Seriously, though. Redditor experiences intense emotional distress because women can get pregnant and have babies. But it's totally not a mental illness.
I completely agree. Even if medical transition were the most effective treatment that we had for gender dysphoria (I doubt that it is), its risks and harms would necessitate finding a better treatment path. Yet, curiously transitioning is strongly promoted as the only viable treatment, with all other treatments classified as "conversion therapy."
When a parent transitions, they destroy their family, period. The term that is used for the spouse left behind is "trans-widow(er), and it feels appropriate. It's as if the person who transitioned is dead, and they've been replaced with some kind of imposter. I feel absolutely awful for Chris' wife and for his young son.
Meh, I was in elementary school, and I remember 9/11 vividly. I didn't understand the ramifications of it, of course. But it was all over the news. I remember my dad being home from work when I got out of school, which was highly unusual. I remember watching the news playing the plane hitting the second tower on loop. I remember learning who Osama bin Laden was for the first time and worrying that we were going to war.
Facial feminization surgery damages the facial nerves, limiting his facial expressions. It's really uncanny valley.
It really gets the noggin joggin. Antivaxxers were made into the Internet's punching bag a few short years before the engineered covid plague and consequently the shots were released.
Oh wow. I never realized that they got an app on a mainstream store. I figured that Scored would be disqualified for being "extremist."
"I see some black people lookin' at me! "Man, why you gotta say that? It ain't us, it's the media. The media has distorted our image to make us look bad! Why must you come down on us like that, brother? It ain't us, it's the media." Please cut the fuckin' shit, okay?! Okay?! Okay?! When I go to the money machine tonight, alright, I ain't lookin' over my back for the media!"
--Chris Rock, "Black People vs Niggaz," 1996
Haven't you heard? They let people say icky, no-no things!
It's really paradoxical, because in some ways pop-culture has stagnated since the 80s and 90s. Practically every movie is set in a universe and with characters created decades prior.
Absolutely. I think that this site qualifies as old internet simply for not being mainstream and for not having an associated app.
But the old internet seems to be less populous than it used to be. A lot of online communities consolidated into larger sites, like Digg, Reddit and Tumblr. While all of those sites have issues, with Digg and Tumblr falling into obscurity and Reddit turning insane, I haven't seen evidence of a widespread exodus back to the old style of internet.
Even the right wing counterculture has fallen into this mentality. There was so much focus into making a right-wing Twitter clone. The same goes for YouTube, and even Reddit.
I do think that if we go too far, we do run the risk of turning the mainstream against us. The LGBT lobby became powerful in the first place because of anti-sodomy laws. In order to enforce those laws effectively, you need a widespread invasion of privacy. Even straight people balked at that, and they were amenable to the idea that "what happens in the bedroom is no one elses business." That gave the LGBT lobby a foothold to push for gay marriage and beyond.
That said, I do believe that we need to push back on certain things and gain lost ground. For example, I strongly believe that medical transition needs to be brought to a halt, for both children and adults. Poisoning and mutilating the bodies of the mentally ill is not sound medicine. First, do no harm. The long-term research into suicidality among transgender people is also not supportive of medical transition, particularly surgery. There are rare individuals who seem to mentally improve with transition, but the negative consequences to that individual physically, and to society as a whole, outweigh the benefits. If current methods of treating gender dysphoria are insufficient, we need to find new methods of treatment.
The internet has so fundamentally changed too. It has changed from being a wild west of varied, diverse sites made by both individuals and corporations to a carefully curated and psychologically-engineered garden, accessible mainly through apps.
The internet feels less free overall. The world wide web made the internet accessible in a way that allowed the average person to explore a new world. But then start phones and app culture clamped that down, making everything a focus on what's trending or what the algorithm wants you to see.
Precisely. One of the main reasons that a justice system exists is to discourage vigilantism. But that's predicated on an assumption of fairness. If you remove fairness from the process, I think it's only a matter of time before individuals takes matters into their own hands.
This was really interesting. Streaming has really been a black box as far as viewership numbers go. It's easy to look at box office returns to judge how successful a theater release is; but it's much harder to tell how well a streaming show does. It was particularly interesting to learn that even the creators are kept in the dark about viewership numbers. I imagine investors are, too.
When I was a child and found out how babies were made, I thought it sounded disgusting. But then I figured that I would one day, because we must make sacrifices to continue the human race.
It's a bit hilarious that my elementary-school self had more fortitude than these supposed adults.
Wow. That's absolutely nuts.
To be honest, I didn't quite see that level of extremism the many times that I lurked in /gendercritical, but it doesn't really surprise me that they would go that far.
She reminds me of the feminists back at r/gendercritical before it got banned. In some ways, those women were very perceptive about the trans menace. They were unafraid to call out its perversion at a time when many right-wingers were either unaware of or afraid to speak of the issue. But as feminists often do, they completely screwed up their understanding of the cause.
She is right in some ways. The forcing of men into women's bathrooms and sports is an attack on women. The grooming of young girls into poisoning their bodies, cutting off their breasts, and rejecting their womanhood is an attack on women.
But the transgender movement also attacks men, and most importantly, it attacks children. It attacks them in every way that attacks women. It attacks humanity itself and it attacks the God who made humanity in His image. To make this solely a women's (or any other group's) issue is to fragment in the face of an enemy that will never be satisfied until you are humiliated, broken, and preferably dead.
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