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I feel like she's punching down. Like now that she's able to pass to a degree she's above the rest of us.

edit your posts next time, please. triple posting is really bad form.

in any case, i think we should all keep ourselves from being too vicious at contrapoints. she's already deleted her twitter for the time being, and while what she said was awful, she also never asked to become an activist and this is absolutely more of her putting her foot in her mouth more than her being actively malicious given how she herself used to id as nb.

"she also never asked to become an activist"

???

What do you think her YT career is?

she's acknowledged that she never expected to be put in the position of being a de facto spokesperson for the trans community, and that's not really a fair burden to place on anyone. for that matter, we never asked to be represented by her. it just kind of happened, which sucks, but it's kind of the way society works. socially prominent minorities tend to become viewed as representative of the entire minority community. you see it with basically every black actor or elected official.

but being respectful of all identities is something everyone should be doing all the time, so there's really no excuse for saying something like she said, especially when she knows she should know better.

Yeah I agree, political YouTubers aren't activists, they're propagandists and we shouldn't consider them radical for saying basic things. I'm just perturbed by this because solidarity is all we can hope to have and it feels like she's breaking away for the sake of assimilation.

Edited by KeironCioran on Sep 10th 2019 at 2:27:00 AM

So, it seems that the protagonist of Celeste might be a queer trans girl, as revealed in the DLC.

How?

Potential spoilers ahead, but these screen-caps shows why.

So I've just recently discovered that I'm bisexual and to me, at least currently anyway, my attraction to women seems to have a slightly different vibe than my attraction to men. I'm new to this stuff and it's most likely different for everybody but does anybody else feel the same way or nah?

It took me a long time to find my capacity to be attracted to men because I was trying to picture the same dynamic I want with a woman, but with a man, and that didn't seem like something I was interested in. But then I was playing a romance game where a romanceable character came to me in the role I want to be in with a woman, and while that character was a woman in my playthrough, I was thinking about how my friend was playing the game with the genders the other way around, and I realized, "actually, that character being a man sounds nicer".

i'm not bisexual myself, but i have heard from some of my friends who are tell me that they experience attraction to men and women differently.

Edited by EpicBleye on Sep 17th 2019 at 2:16:02 PM

Yeah. Aside from the fact that I find more women attractive than men (although that may be because most women put more effort into their appearance than most men), I also tend to only like a very specific kind of man. And those guys aren’t at all the same as the kinds of women I’m into.

I myself am bi and yeah, I find men and women attractive in different ways.

So yay for Facebook reminding me that it's been two years since I formally announced my intent to transition full time.

And that I've failed to make any progress in that regard.

Thanks a fucking lot. Now I'm grumpy again.

I'm still questioning but I think that I'm bi, I also do have some forms of attraction between the two.

So yesterday was probably the first time I seriously considered looking at going private for my medical transition stuff.

Because the waiting list for NHS treatment has gotten oppressive to my brain and I just want to get going. Even though I need to fix my social transition first.

But then again I also need to figure out my options there.

I know a lot of people went that route. Some people just get a private diagnosis and prescription for HRT (the NHS should still allow you to get surgery and the like).

Yeah, I've heard a lot of people went that way for the shorter wait if nothing else. Though it can get pretty expensive, unfortunately (granted, that's just private medical care in general. I still feel kind of bad about my parents paying for my mental health care).

It does just mean I have no clue where to go for everything.

The gay young man I've been working with the last couple months told me a week or two ago that when it gets cold he might wear his denim jacket with a huge shiny pin collection to work. Today it was cold and I wore my denim jacket with a small pin collection and I made sure to show it to him. He saw my Take My Hand Texas pin and said "oh okay. Is today the day we talk gender? I'm trans masc."

Apparently I hid my surprise so well he thought I'd already clocked him. I just feel like registering too much surprise when someone comes out to you is rude or at least alarming. Nobody's ever come out to me as trans in person or one on one before. My best friend has related to me online that she's undecided about her gender and sexuality, but that's as close as I've been before.

So worked experience has left me no-longer sure of my own passability.

Wonderful.

For the past few years, I have been questioning my sexuality, because I seem to have displayed attraction to both men and women. However, I have my doubts about calling myself bisexual, because I don't want to fall into the Golden Mean Fallacy (something I am avoiding consciously— we all know how obnoxious "enlightened centrism" is). However, it does pain me to reject a label that seems to fit me, even though it might not fit me a few years down the line.

I'm not sure how bisexuality falls into the golden mean fallacy.

The thing is, your sexuality may not be fully figured out for a long time. There's nothing wrong with currently identifying as something.

In time, you'll figure it out. It's no big deal if you change your mind on things/discover new things about yourself. It might at some point affect a date or casual sex or whatever, but that's only if you choose to do those things. And life is like that anyway. Stuff happens.

I think I’m probably gay.