If you have the time, I strongly recommend Carrie Poppy's talk on this subject. You may find it enlightening.

https://pca.st/episode/b8b7d820-0cbd-4902-8864-e6205097006d

Whether you do or not, I'm glad the book helped you! That's genuinely wonderful. It does, however, posit a lot of disproven theories that can be very harmful when taken seriously. The Satanic Panic is the best possible example of this.

That book should not be taken seriously. Very much pseudoscience.

I work in healthcare, you'd be surprised how many people start to drastically improve with good hospice care. It's more common than you'd expect

This made my night. What a well-written and kind product

"If someone tries to steal your ukelele, let them take it!"

Idk, retusing to date someone based on their race does seem pretty racist to me. I know it's not the point of the post but like... It's murky moral territory.

You can't help who/what your attracted to, true. Even if it might be defined by subconscious prejudice, that might not necessarily be something you can change, totally. But having that conversation... It's gonna be hurtful, yeah? I think if you have that kinda preference the only easy way to accommodate it is by you advertising it in a general way.

Which only really works for dating apps, the absolute worst way to meet people.

Also, not a big deal, but it's best to put a space between 'trans' and 'men/'women'. It's an adjective. They are trans, they are men/women. 'Transmen' and 'transwomen' makes it seem like you're designating them seperately.

Or direct those players to a table of equally horny adventurers and everybody's happy 😎

Yeah I boycott all TERFs and encourage my friends to do the same. Just like the chicken place, and the pillow guy, and anyone else who thinks making other people's lives hell is a valid political stance. Don't gove those people money if you don't have to, please. Just pirate it

A point for Vampire: the Masquerade then

As soon as my facility went from not-for-profit to privately owned they cut our staffing by around 15% and started aggressively increasing intakes.

Shocker, quality of care dropped.

Two times a week is sufficient for most people. That's medical advice straight from every Nurse I've worked with 🤷‍♀️

It kinda came outta nowhere for me, I wasn't expecting it. But idk, could be ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, eh?

Ok boomer

Absolutely not. Women are people the same way men are. We ask stupid questions that we didn't think through purely out of curiosity, and then realize how rude it was on the drive home just like you do.

She may be, but if she is, that's a godawful opener. I have 0 rizz but something like 'I like your shoes' or w/e is never hard to pull.

As a trans woman, I noticed it started happening fully unintentionally after HRT. It's anecdotal, but makes me feel like there's definitely a chemical component because it actually surprised me.

True management material

That's honestly a great point I hadn't considered. I'll have to re-evaluate my stance on the issue

Amazing! I imagine that was probably a huge obstacle for some people

Voice training is too hard. I'm not lazy I swear

I listen to a lot of trans punk (on Spotify), and I gotta say punk makes hate speech seem kinda tame. Stochastic terrorism sucks, and I don't like being dehumanized, but a lot of the music I listen to on a daily basis calls for outright acts of political violence, mass murder, and dehumanizing political/religous leaders.

I hate that this song exists as much as anyone, but removing it would set a dangerous precedent, so I'm kinda glad they didn't.