Not sure if this will provide you with any hope, but there’s some good news as to our* numbers. While it may not seem like much, it’s a massive jump generationally. In the US, out 2SLGBTQIA+ people are almost 10% of the entire population. Considering how many of our siblings are closeted, it’s a pretty big boost.

(*I discovered last month that my being enby counts as a ‘trans experience’ so I am tentatively trying out including myself.)

Thank you so much for posting this! I’m looking to get myself - and my recently-out daughter! - our first pairs. This is absolutely full of things I had no idea about. 💜

It’s true, I should spend less time here on Lemmy.

EDIT: If you think I haven’t heard/experienced those things on Lemmy, oh boy do I have bad news for you. I’ve had to make multiple accounts for every time a bunch of MGTOW guys decide to spam my account with messages/downvotes, so I’m used to it. Downvote away :)

Oh yeah, whenever I see men whining and complaining about something to do with women, I feel this sense of euphoric calm; this feeling of ‘I remember this. I’m not part of that group anymore. They don’t speak for me.’

It has a tinge of melancholy afterwards, because I still have to deal with men, yet I feel less embarrassed for myself.

Reading over these comments brings me back to why I came out as non-binary, and the gender euphoric boost is quite nice.

Back when I was a kid, pedophilia meant what she said - attraction to a prepubescent child. If someone was an adult who thought a physically developed 15-year-old was sexy, that was just logical.

Was this the 1890’s? I was born in '82, and I can’t think of a single time someone was like “oh an adult and a 15 year old child? Yeah that’s okay.”

I find it strange that we use the same word for someone who rapes a toddler, as someone who “statutory rapes” (as it would be called) a 15-year-old. They are both wrong, but it seems to me that one is much worse than the other. Both because of the attraction (or I guess power fantasy) on the part of the adult, and the impact to the victim.

This is straight priori falacy. Why the fuck are you arguing the ‘degrees of okay-ness’ for sex with children. This is fucking baffling.

Their managers are also call center employees who will filter that noise out. That’s one of the reasons to employ a call center.

Then how did Collective Shout cause all of these companies to do what they want with ~1000 phone calls?

Is this a kill all men thing or like

A threat saying to fight back against catcallers

Well, yes.

Patricio Manuel is 3-1 in boxing. His main issue is men won’t fight him now because they’re terrified of losing to a trans man. It’s patriarchy all the way down, so generally the accomplishments of men who’ve transitioned and suppressed, because it kind of shatters the entire ‘unfair’ claim when trans men can win. It also doesn’t help them that being a trans woman isn’t some kind of automatic win; I can’t remember her name, one woman was claimed to be ‘cheating’ because she was trans, but she got 6th in the event. So the entire ‘huge advantage for people born men’ thing keeps getting disproved time and again.

I dunno, I’d like to have some people inside me.

Replit is an agent that does stuff for you including deploying to production.

Ahahahahahhahahahahhahahaha, these guys deserve a lost database for that, Jesus.

How are you? Are you okay?

Okay, legitimate question - what is femininity outside traditional female archetypes?

If I may infer from her quote, it sounds to me that she is saying not having a feminine trait does not remove one’s femininity; the overall idea being that femininity isn’t a checklist you have to have all of to ‘pass’. Personally, I like Simone de Beauvoir’s take that “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

As an AMAB them-fatale who found out they had male pattern baldness the day they came out, I, uh, I needed to hear this. 😭 EDIT: I really do appreciate the ideas and help, everyone, but I think we all misunderstood the assignment given the quote: “…femininity doesn’t have to come from hair or any of those traditional female archetypes of appearance…” 😂 Thank you all though, I have happy tears reading your replies.

The ‘incident’ at the corner store is uh, not great either, eh?

I’ve heard of people in America not even daring to use a shared gender bathroom because of mens behaviour where they lived. I know some places suck.

Je suis Canadienne.

This is the first time someone put words in my mouth in a discussion on equality.

_You’re in a women’s forum talking about women’s issues and your first comment was an attempt to invalidate the entire discussion by saying:

Isn’t that true for any gender?

No. Women talking about issues women face isn’t true of any gender - similarities can exist yet are separate because they are different groups that have different experiences and realities.

You walked in here and tried to derail commiseration into a vague debate that holds no water.