you know i spend waaay to much time on social media and let me say this: this dysphoria shit is contagious. i am a healthy grown woman and as much as i despise gendies' ideology i still look in the mirror sometimes, thinking "my boobs do kinda look weird, don't they" because i see so many people hating their bodies every. single. day.
so be safe. cultivate your sense of self. don't let anyone or anything convince you something is wrong with you.
No, no it’s not, that’s clinically not fucking true in any sense and “Gendies” makes you all sound like pedos looking to molest trans kids.
what's not true? that i personally feel how social media affects the way i feel about myself and my body?
also the "pedos" part, why was that your first association? just wondering.
Because it’s not clinically how trans factors work.
This is a YOU failing not a trans thing.
Oh it’s not my first association terfs are that creepy with people this just outs that fact even more. It sounds like age play trash and well... there you go.
"this is you failing not a trans thing"
that's exactly my point though?
please stop with the baseless pedo accusations. you're clearly just trying to demonize people.
I am, I absolutely am and it still fits the word use.
I’m glad we see eye to eye on leaving trans people out of this.
As a Transhumanist I think it’s perfectly fine for people to want to alter their bodies in order to make their lives better. We should reject the Bioconservative notion that every human body is a perfectly functional mechanism. That kind of thinking leads to discrimination against the physically disadvantaged for failing to live up to the collective standard. It can also justify denying the disadvantaged from getting medical assistance. Here’s a set of quotes from an outraged imaginary person that hopefully illustrates the slippery slope of being opposed to bodily autonomy:
- Anti-Cosmetic: “How dare you get a boob job, I think you look perfectly fine!“
- Anti-Trans: “How dare you get gender confirmation treatments, you are perfectly fine and it’s the internet making you think otherwise!“
- Anti-Feminist: “How dare you get an abortion, I think your pregnancy is going to be fine and you’re just trying to shirk your responsibility as a soon-to-be-mother!“
- Anti-Modern Medicine: “How dare you get cataract surgery, I think you can see perfectly fine and are just faking it!”
So if you want a boob job, go for it! [God/Evolution/Mother Gaia] is not going to care about you mutilating your body because it’s already twisted our species into uncomfortable shapes. Our bodies were never meant to walk upright, that’s why we have hip problems.
@wealmostaneckbeard oh i totally agree. although i was talking more about how my perception of myself is negatively affected by social media, you are making a very good point.
Good, glad we’re in agreement, also I’d like to apologize for @lostelvenqueen. She’s ordinarily more eloquent and won’t accuse TERF vocab users of pedophilia right off the bat. And yes, I know TERF is a slur and that you’re just Gender Critical.
If what I’ve just written is insulting to you then buckle up. I’m telling you this like a doctor telling a patient that their benign lump is actually a cause for concern:
You could’ve condemned the unholy trifecta of Diet Foods, Cosmetics, and Social Media industries for promoting dysphoria in order to increase usage of their own products. Instead you’ve conflated transgender expressions of dysmorphia with the Rainbow Capitalist systems that give Transfolk some visibility in exchange for shilling corporate brands. That’s because you’re too far down the Gender Critical Rabbit Hole to see it’s a fundamentally exploitive relationship. If you were alive back in the 1930′s you’d be blaming jazz musicians for being paid promoters of menthol cigarettes to black people instead of blaming the Phillip Morris tobacco executives signing the checks. Phillip Morris wasn’t affected by Jim Crow laws but Louis Armstrong certainly was. Likewise Social Media Executives don’t care about what happens to feminists and queer people who out themselves on their websites (BTW, it’s cyberbullying by conservatives) just as long as they use the website/app and get their friends to use it too because The UserCount Must Grow.
You can’t blame people for trying to earn money in a capitalist system especially if they’re a victimized minority. Are minority people perfect? Hell no. Any population of sufficient size will have a percentage of professional criminals and sexual predators, but that’s no grounds to deny them civil rights and dignity. Except it is if you are a conservative looking for a justification to get rid of people you don’t like!
Believe it or not, everything I have written so far has been me trying to be intellectual. I tire of that and now I am going to be even more emotional:
You blaming “The Gendies” for your body image problems is like a man (any race) blaming black people for making him feeling unsafe: It’s valid to feel anxious but holy fucking shit you didn’t need to assign the reason to real people, oh my god, what the fuck is wrong with you!?! Jesus Fuck Me Christ, anxiety just happens for no reason, you know that, RIGHT?!? Let me guess, if we just got rid of the Gendies you’d just feel better? Are you sure you’re not a conservative?!
In conclusion, that’s probably why Lostelvenqueen lost her shit and called you a pedo.