A Few Clowns Short Of A Circus

I need you people to realize that you can be friends with people older than you. like, much older than you. like, decades older than you. you can be friends with these people. regular friends, just like anyone your age. it is possible.

doctors hate her! This woman is experiencing symptoms that might point to a health problem and wants doctors to do something about it

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Is he "female socialized" or is he just a standard flamboyant sensitive artsy gay dude who would honestly be indiscernible from any other fem gay guy if you didn't see him as a walking vagina first and foremost.

Is she "male socialized" or is she just a tomboy with a fucking spine who doesn't let anyone talk to her any old kind of way who would honestly be indiscernible from any feminist cis woman y'all gas up on here if you didn't see her as a walking penis first and foremost.

Are you, the person using the terms male/female socialization (not op but hey you might not know either), aware of the origins of those terms?

Gender roles, and the idea of gender socialization, was entirely created by John Money after he coerced a mother into raising her son who lost his penis in a botched circumcision as a girl. This included bringing the boy and his twin brother to Money for "therapy," where they were "socialized" for their assigned genders by being forced to enact sex positions together as early as age six. David Reimer, the boy forced to be a girl, NEVER ever felt like a girl and fought back every step of the way. As soon as he was fourteen and could get away from Money, he adopted the name David and began living as a boy. He and his brother both committed suicide before Money died a natural death.

The idea of gendered socialization came from the David Reimer experiment. Today, in 2024, most hospitals across the USA use this experiment as the basis of genital mutilation surgery and gender socialization on intersex children. There are two hospitals in the USA who say they do not do these surgeries. It was entirely invented to prove Money's thesis that intersex people could be fixed and socialized however adults want. That's the genuine, actual origin. It's based in the destruction of intersex people. So when you're being a fucking idiot about trans ppl, know you're also agreeing with a genocidal eugenicist who believed that mutilating babies was "a game of scifi."

Gender roles and gender socialization are 1950s concepts invented by one white man from New Zeland who believed all men should be gelded and intersex people were, again a direct quote, "experiments of nature."

ok I just wanna say if you see a kink on tumblr or wherever that really turns u on and then you try it irl and it doesn’t make u feel the way you hoped it would THATS OK!! You can let that kink live in fantasy!! There are a lot of things that turn my brain on that I don’t enjoy during actual sex!! Isn’t human sexuality interesting!!

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You don't even have to try them out IRL. You're allowed to find things hot in fantasy that you'd never do IRL.

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I have nothing against trans girl headcanon stuff where people are like "this character would dress and present exactly the same as they did pretransition" but its always applied to characters it absolutely would not apply to

"if jesse pinkman transitioned she'd still dress the same and stuff she'd be a masc lesbian" jesse pinkman is extremely self destructive, infatuated with self image, prone to becoming attached to older men, has had zero healthy conduits for expressing femininity, and has an obscene amount of drug money to drop on plastic surgery and tiny black bodycon dresses she would not be fucking masc she would end up on mugshawtys 6 months into her transition

You unlock secret dialogue by being open about your kinks with friends

you unlock hidden events too

We need to be going door to door telling men about bisexuality. We need to start standing outside grocery stores

Part of autonomy and body neutrality is accepting nonjudgmentally that people will do things that aren't good for their bodies, getting over the fact that many people will do those things on purpose and it is never your business nor your job to fix it. Yes promote the idea that we don't need to have cosmetic procedures done and push for people to examine their relationships with themselves. Yes advocate for people being fully informed of the risks of drastic weight loss and push for people to practice harm reduction if they plan to lose weight. But at the end of the day, what a person does with their own body is always their own decision and they should have every right to do that without a lecture (or people trying to interfere and stop them). You're not "body positive" if you get aggressive towards people who diet, have work done, or intentionally modify their bodies in other ways. You're not better than people who pressure others to lose weight etc. Ultimately you have to get over the fact that what people do with themselves isn't up to you.

everyday it gets harder being silly and having great tits but someone’s gotta do it

the author’s barely-disguised stigmatized mental health condition

the medical side of it is still wild to me

like. in NO other circumstances would modern doctors accept anecdotal 150-year-old "evidence" from people who conducted no studies meeting modern scientific standards, usually without any modern imaging tools (there is one x-ray of a woman wearing a corset from the early 20th century, but it's lacking any information about the degree of reduction from her natural waist, whether she's wearing the corset the way she usually does, her other medical history, any context on whether this is a typical use-case for this garment, or even her name), and often with visuals that are as unscientific as can be.

some of these old articles have a sketch of a nude Greek statue next to a 19th-century fashion plate image. and that's a serious point in their arguments. you'd be laughed out of most medical institutions today if you tried to use that as grounds for a theory

especially when it runs counter to things we HAVE observed more recently- namely, that wearing back supports habitually doesn't cause muscle atrophy and that the only CT scan performed on a corset-wearer to date showed no seriously harmful effects to her body

like, I get it. most doctors will never meet someone who wears a corset EVER, let alone someone habitually using it as a support garment a la the 19th century. and nobody is putting young teen girls into even lightly-boned corsets the way they did back then, so the overall effects are difficult to study as they would have been for Victorians who started that young. we will probably never fully understand the exact physical effects of Victorian-era corseting, because even modern corset-wearers don't do it precisely the same way

but these doctors should be embarrassed at what they're willing to accept as fact in this case, when it goes against all modern scientific practice re: testing a hypothesis. you don't implicitly trust 1880s research on anything else- why is it suddenly ironclad fact where corsets are concerned?

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so Trump being a felon isn't actually the problem. you guys understand this right. it's the thing he did that got him charged with a felony that is upsetting, not the fact that he is technically a criminal. felons are not inherently worse people than non-felons. becoming a felon did not make him any less qualified than he already was. there are a quite lot of felons who would do a much better job at being president than Trump

this was the image i was trying to send btw