Yes, unfortunately you may start looking with envy instead

Philips Oneblade works really well for me on my whole body, and it’s really not a hassle to use. I use it directly on dry skin and I get pretty smooth. I can use it on my face too, but it is a little harsh so I prefer a foil shaver on my face.

Charge lasts a while, you can use it in the shower although it’s annoying to use on wet skin/hair. Replacement blades are not obscenely expensive, they last at least a month before I switch them.

I’ve been using the same one for years, only had to replace the blades.

Is that a thing lol, I burned out and quit my job, then realized I was a woman within a month.

No, this is social murder.

For those unaware, eating pickles is transfem culture. I think it’s because many of us take spironalactone which is a diuretic and makes us crave salty things.

Voting for Biden says you want to keep your current rights and possibly gain some rights, if democrats can gain a majority in the House and a larger majority in the Senate.

Weird, I don’t remember ANY of that happening when Democrats had both chambers and the presidency

Is that based on a calculation of excess deaths which includes an average of the trailing several years of mortality? Because that just sets the baseline to include covid deaths as the baseline

Because my point is that I really don’t give a shit about litigating queer identities, and I think it’s pointless to try. Which you keep mischaracterizing as transphobia. You ask if I think anatomy is inherently gendered, and I just think it’s a bad question.

Well first of all, I’m not saying they are “just” gay men. Like I said, I don’t think it’s all that useful or even possible to try and draw boundaries around what or who is gay vs straight. People and gender and sexuality are way more complex than that.

And the original context WAS about cock-obsessed chasers. And not all of them, but some of them definitely are (internally or otherwise) misgendering trans women. And that is definitely gay.

But I’m not saying everything is inherently gendered. I’m saying things can be both gendered and not gendered, and it’s super subjective and context dependent precisely because gender is a personal experience unique to each person. Even within the gender binary, I highly doubt you could find two people that experience what it feels like to be e.g. a woman exactly the same way. I believe this contradicts the existence of an objective gender binary.

To clarify, I think maybe you interpret me saying that anatomy can be inherently gendered to mean anatomy is always gendered a particular way. I don’t think that’s true. I think it can be gendered, but that always depends on context and subjective experience and can ultimately be a valid personal viewpoint one way or another. I don’t think it’s prescriptive, i.e. having a dick is always masculine no matter what. I do playfully question the sexuality of “straight” men who are obsessed with cocks, and I’m not interested in protecting their self identification as straight. I do this in response to being objectified by chasers in ways that make me feel particularly dysphoric, and I’m sorry if that stance makes other girls dysphoric in a different way, but it’s really not a comment on them or their femininity.

You know, I guess we just disagree that “being a man/woman” is a real, specific thing that someone can objectively be. For example, my gender expression fits pretty neatly as “woman” and that’s how I like to identify, but to me that’s just a social relation. Whenever I try to deconstruct what it actually feels like or means to be a woman, I just feel as though it’s all made up anyway. Other people surely feel differently.

I’m sorry you think I’m implying there’s some inherent maleness in a trans woman. More accurately, I just don’t think “inherent maleness” is a real thing. For my part, I can’t help but feel like you’re implying that medical transition is pointless because we should all just start viewing our features as feminine. Or that we should just stop feeling gender dysphoria because there’s nothing inherently masculine about our bodies in the first place.

Ok sure, I just feel similarly towards sexuality, too. Like if nothing is inherently gendered, then I think sexuality is reduced to just having one’s “type” be a collection of traits. And so queer labels only exist for communicating to others what one’s “type” is.

And if nothing is inherently gendered, then there is nothing real about a person that indicates their gender besides their own feelings which are, at least to some degree, totally unique to their own experience. So “being gay” must be based on people’s internal feelings of gender, and has nothing to do with physical traits. That pretty much is how I feel about it; it’s much more of a vibe than anything real and concrete. I think that’s why people would clock me as gay or even a lesbian before my egg ever cracked.

But I don’t think that’s very useful, so I also consider “being gay” to be shorthand for being into certain physical traits. So men who are into women regardless of their anatomy can absolutely be straight. But chasers who are specifically into our dicks? A little bit gay.

Societal definition doesn’t count as anything like “inherent”…

Then nothing can be “inherently gendered” because gender is a social construct.

It’s a good reference point for the concept of anatomy being gendered.

But that’s exactly my point; society does gender anatomy. Society genders a bunch of other things, too. I’m not being prescriptive about it. I’m not saying I think that’s a good thing and we should do it more.

As for whether it’s gay to like dicks, I believe it is at least a little gay, but also I don’t care. Like I said, I think once we start trying to draw form boundaries around queer labels then inevitably people will start to get confused because nobody views it exactly the same way. For example, is a ftm4mtf relationship straight? Yeah, I guess. But it’s also queer. It follows, then, that queerness and straightness are not mutually exclusive, so something can be straight but also a little gay. Or very gay. It’s whatever.

I wasn’t talking about intersex surgeries, sorry that was unclear.

Look, it’s obvious you and I just don’t mean the same thing by “X is/isn’t inherently gendered”. If genitalia are not gendered, then nothing is, and also any queer labels are all meaningless including straightness and cisness. Which I happen to believe, generally speaking.

But as long as we’re having a conversation about something “being gay” or whatever, then it’s silly to pretend like society doesn’t actually view genitals as associated with gender.

I’m not really sure what you’re saying here. Society reduces gender to anatomy, therefore the two are completely unrelated, actually? Are you saying it’s wrong for trans people to want bottom surgery?

I mean I get what you mean, my anatomy certainly doesn’t stop me from feeling like a woman. Obviously gender is far far more than anatomy, but I’m not going to pretend like they are completely unrelated. If that’s your experience, that’s great and I’m happy for you, but it’s unfortunately not mine.

I mean… A little bit yeah

funniest thing i’ve heard today is implying commies don’t read ENOUGH