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- Jun 2, 2024
Let them eat cake: the concerned beloved of a troon wants advice on how to soothe said troon after the couple encounters a cruel and vicious clip making light of the self-harm statistics found in the transgender population - a joke that hits too close to home for OP's delusional date given his own history of cuddling with chainsaws and boxcutters.
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After learning that they'll be expecting a nephew rather than a niece, a pooner's sister pokes fun at OP's desire to have been born male, which leaves her afflicted with l'esprit de l'escalier when she thinks about it further upon the conclusion of the call. The part that makes this aftertaste especially bitter, however, is that the sister who made the comment claims to be an ally of the final letter of the rainbow alphabet. As the kids say, it really do be your own peeps sometimes.A TikTok video ruined my girlfriend's and my holiday season
I really don't know how to start with all this, I'm not MTF or anything, but my girlfriend is, as you can read in the title of this post.
Well... My girlfriend and I were just watching videos on TikTok, laughing at whatever stupid thing came up, until one particular video came on that I feel like ruined our whole holiday season.
The video says "a cake who cuts itself" before changing to an image of a cake with the trans flag. I could immediately notice how the glow on my girlfriend's face completely disappeared; I felt terrible after that, since my girlfriend had problems with cutting for almost 6 years.
Everything was going great during our holiday season; it had been almost two months without any depressive episodes, And since the day before New Year's she's been super down and I just don't know what to do, because it's been months since I've seen her so bad.
I simply need some idea beyond what I'm already doing for her: making her coffee every day, asking her how she is, trying to let her know I'm there for her.
What should I do?
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A man mentally off-kilter enough to crossdress for a mere jaunt to the grocery store is brought kicking and screaming back into reality when store cameras, powered by transphobic wizardry, always manage to make him look like he's starring in The Michelin Man's Midlife Crisis. While I enjoy his colorful descriptions of himself, I just feel like if he's as round as he claims, orange lighting wouldn't do much more than make him look like Garfield, which I guess might be a step up from looking like a tranny.My sister made a comment and I'm not sure how I feel about it.
My sister and I were talking about the gender of our pregnant sibling's baby. We just found out that the baby will be born male. My sister, apparently, knows a lot of people who gave birth to male children recently, and made a comment along the lines of, "wow, everyone's being born a boy. Except for the people who want to be." (She said it in a humorous tone.) I laughed it off in the moment but, when we got off the phone and I thought about it more, it started to make me feel uncomfortable.
First of all, I hate it whenever people generalize my experience with gender as me "wanting" to be a boy. It's not that I WANT to be a boy, it's that I AM one and I am transitioning in order to help my body align with my mind. It just feels diminutive to chalk it up to a simple "desire" to be the opposite gender, but maybe I am overthinking considering that most people don't think that hard about their choice of words.
It doesn't help that this sister is one who I have been out to for over a year and who claims to be an ally, yet consistently misgenders and deadnames me. It felt less like a lighthearted joke and more like an ignorant jab.
I don't know, am I being too sensitive about this?
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FTM, or female-to-Moped: a gayden finds it amusing - yet also a bit sad - when men refuse to openly court her out of shame of being seen with her, though she chalks it up to concerns of homophobia rather than the much more reasonable assessment that she might be fun to ride, but no one wants to be caught riding her in public.Self checkout cameras are the devils work I stg
As if I'm not constantly grounding myself from my dysporia, I go to the store thinking I at least look cute even if I don't pass and then I get to see a low angle, harsh lighting flipped (Or, unflipped I guess) photo of myself and I look like a dumpling with bone structure that's had to retire from a 20 year boxing career.
Can't they at least put these at head height with some nice orange lighting? Help hide my shadow a bit, soften my features, I leave with some sandwich fillings and a mini photoshoot!
Instead I get gormless gorman the playdough woman asedjmfl
I'm gonna be real, I can live with not passing, I don't even know if I'm a woman anyway, but if I have to wear makeup to look good at the self-checkout I'm going to apply for a job installing these things to purposefully sabotage every single camera in them.
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Most Bittersweet Affirmation
So two of the most recent guys' I've fucked around with have one singular thing in common, they both didn't want to display any sort of affection in public/in front of their family because they are both insecure about their sexuality.
Like on one hand its sadly the most affirming thing as these two dudes view me as just another guy.
But on the other hand its just upsetting to see folks grappling with issues like this, I understand the dynamic with my family has been shaken and eroded greatly cause of my queer identity so I would never want anyone else to be yanked out of the closet like I was.
Just thought I'd share this here since I thought it was funny.