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lemmy.blahaj.zone

i probably would have made a deal with almost any eldritch entity if they turned me into a pretty girl

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I, umm.. Thought that were identical? I think originally the original original was the one with hyphens, which is why the references versions also copied that choice, but that's just a guess, I didn't look it up. [Update: yeah both domains are identical. Note: the banner-text at the top is ransom on every visit]

Not to be confused with turnintoagirl.com which claims to be a modern adaptation. But I don't see how it's better than the original, also the "for the low price of $0!" and "This text is protected by quantum encryption, only girls can read it" humor kinda makes it... toooo ridiculous. Whereas from a users perspective this is supposed to be fun, but also very very serious. These button sites are literally life changing serious business. They shouldn't ruin 💖the magic💖 by making too much fun of themselves. Damn, I could've spend all this time ranting to instead just look up a sourced answer to your original question 😭

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I never asked god, but I did try to make a deal with the devil. But as they say pray in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first.

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Praying to God and making a deal with the Devil are pretty much the same thing.

Curiously, if you ask fundamentalist churches (and most mainline ones) the Devil is more LGBT+ friendly, and more pro-women.

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The satanic church in the US is the more LGBTQI+ accepting Christian church in the country

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lemmy.world

Growing up in the southern US — just about every old person I know says “want in one hand, shit in the other. See which fills up faster” so this is just a slight variation on that phrase.

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lemmy.ml

Wow, memory unlocked of crying so hard and begging God to take away my sinful queerness.

Didn't work.

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If that asshole made us this way, then he wants it for us (probably has a sick sense of humor and enjoys giving us dysphoria)

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I'm of two minds about why god would make people like us. Though bear in mind im not at all a believer.

I think about the movie Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Theres a scene where a kid asks the one black guy if god made him black, and why. The response was, "Allah loves wonderous variety."

On the other hand I think in a well run universe an intelligent species with a genetic binary sex expression would be hard coded to gender expression. Since it isnt I can only conclude that god is lazy and indifferent.

On the other other hand I think dysphoria is a result of social pressure to enforce gender coding on children from birth. And traditional god fearing family structures force it hardest.

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Yeah. I imagine if god(s) exist, they're either psychopathic, or utterly incompetent. But since I'm an atheist, my view is that it's just "shit happens".

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It's not that bad, just inconvenient. I do appreciate how it's given me a unique perspective on many things and helped me figure out things I wouldn't have otherwise. However, on top of the bigotry that's only gotten worse since I came out, I also needed to put in a lot of effort to reach the baseline mood that others have by default. The years I spent discovering and figuring out how to deal with my dysphoria severely impacted my academic career. I probably lost half a decade as a result, and most of it was unavoidable, as I really couldn't have figured things out more quickly.

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I bowed to cishet normativity and well that didn't go well and so here I am straight as a fiddle

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