But it's pride month 😭😭

At least winter is comfortable inside. Summers get so warm now that there’s often no escape from the heat. Where I live AC used to be completely unnecessary so rental apartments with AC basically don’t exist.

And as someone with a delayed circadian rhythm I also hate daylight saving time. I don’t want to get up an hour earlier every day. Why do morning people get to force their lifestyle on us?

There's actually a word for this: ewphoria (or ewwphoria)

To me it seems like a huge reason for this is social media and conservative influencers in addition to worsening economic conditions. Social media platforms have way too much control over the content people consume and there's also a huge amount of money being pumped into right-wing and manosphere content specifically because it helps rich people stay in power.

So what I'm saying is, the problem is capitalism.

Might take a while to fix that though and I agree that teaching empathy and compassion are a good start. Also critical thinking. Parents should probably be aware what content their children are watching and help them engage with it critically. Outright bans probably don't work.

I think that better education would actually help with most of the world's problems.

Sports really isn’t that important compared to other issues. You were the one who brought it up.

But this is also a non-issue because trans women are underperfoming in sports and in many cases they actually have disadvantages, e.g. because of testosterone levels that are often lower than those of cis women.

And even if there was an advantage, that’s just how literally all of sports works. Do you want to ban cis women who are tall or have naturally high testosterone? Should Michael Phelps be banned because he has a biological advantage?

Biologically speaking, this debate remains stupid. Also, all females are biological.

It's probably still a lot harder though. You're not just heavier, but also slower which means you'll spend more time fighting gravity. And all the extra fuel you bring for that makes the rocket heavier which means you need even more fuel to launch the fuel. Higher surface gravity likely means a thicker atmosphere too which is a big issue and a more massive body also has a faster orbital velocity. Although in this case the larger diameter might counteract that a bit because higher orbits have slower velocities.

My point is that this would probably still be a lot harder than just building a 50% bigger rocket. If you've ever tried launching from Eve in Kerbal Space Program you know the pain. Although in that case you also have to fly the entire rocket there first which is its own challenge.

I love it when they tell on themselves!

I've always been a huge fan of these colourful looks. I wish I could get something like a gradient/ombré but I'm scared of damaging my sparse and very thin hair too much.

This is maybe more of a category of stereotypes rather than a specific one, but I've realised that people often still make very binary assumptions about gender and sexuality.

They think that transition is a linear path and that every trans woman wants to get "the surgery" and then the transition will be "complete". In a lesbian couple one of them needs to "be the man". Or with sexuality, you're either attracted to a certain gender or not and there's no in between.

We use labels to help with communication, but reality is so much more nuanced and interesting!

Not sure whether this counts, and I didn't watch it a lot, but as a trans kid in denial I was weirdly fascinated by Ranma 1/2. In hindsight it's obviously not surprising at all, seems to be a fairly common experience. I was so confused why Ranma kept trying to get rid of the "curse". What do you mean you don't want to be a woman?

When the outfit literally slays

me but with my blåhaj

This should be a crime.

After reading it again a bit more carefully I totally agree with both of you. The post conflates people who are unhappy being single and people who would prefer it.

I think the point she's trying to make is "at least you're allowed to leave now" and I'm sure she didn't intend to invalidate anyone's sadness but it does come across like that a little bit and like no, having basic rights doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't be sad. Someone else having even bigger problems doesn't invalidate your own problems.

In my opinion a better version of this message would be that it's okay to enjoy being single. Because that's something that's still not always accepted by society, especially for women, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.

I know the struggle, it sucks! One thing that helps a lot is applying nail/cuticle oil religiously. Especially after contact with water, water really dries out your nails.

The game has some lore, but not much of a story. It’s primarily a deck builder. So there isn’t really anything to spoil.

That's weirdly affirming, I actually have three of these and it would be four if I had a car. Although these days I also like to use a sparkly lip oil instead.

It's hard to get bored when you always have access to the internet. I'm not sure whether that's a good thing. I think I'd be comfortable alone either way but I'd probably go out and do stuff a lot more if I was bored at home.

They don't think trans women are women. And they don't care if we're at risk, they might even think that's a good thing. Usually they don't actually seem to care about the safety of cis women either, it's just a convenient pretense. And the resulting policies ultimately do hurt both cis and trans women.

The solution has always been single-use/private bathrooms.

These bills are designed to eliminate trans and gender nonconforming people from public life, not to address any actual problems. The solution is just not doing that. Trans people using the bathroom that matches their gender isn’t new and nobody cared before this manufactured outrage. Ultimately this is just about enforcing traditional gender roles.

I still support these types of bathrooms of course, they’re great for privacy and also benefit people who don’t feel comfortable in gendered bathrooms.

Paris Paloma and Sofia Isella are both amazing!