apotheotic (she/her)

Fair enough, I forgot other people still federate with .world

Where? I don’t see any cats in my feed and I feel like I’m missing out

Idk I just existed and my narcissist mother decided to take that personally when I was an early teen

It sounds like they mean that they projected their insecurities onto their partner, as opposed to just sharing the insecurity. The latter is good and healthy, the former is unpleasant at best and harmful at worst.

And which minority group do you belong to that makes you an expert on their issues?

Alternate reply: oh no my feewings you win

Oof. Passing is an archaic concept, just use the language for people that doesn’t make them feel uncomfortable.

☝️🤓 - ignoring the impact of inherently masculine gendered language on non-men sounding ass

Sincerely, a trans woman

A woman’s best friend 100%. Couldn’t live without mine.

For those more sensitive areas you want to make sure you’re getting a razor body where the blade doesn’t protrude as far. Henson shavers are incredible quality but I dont remember if they have a razor body suited for body hair.

The idea with these razors is to not apply much pressure, just letting the weight of the razor itself do the pressing. As long as youre doing that, and not holding it at a stupid angle, you should find it quite difficult to hurt yourself shaving your head. Same goes for your pubes, but if you’re going to shave your balls with it you’ll need to take a lot of care.

I’d say “and it isn’t close” is a bit disingenuous when instances like beehaw and blahaj exist.

Who the fuck is Steve Jobs

The public snaps are absolutely not a good way to keep up with the world around you. When I still used it, it was just celebrity slop on the public snaps. If that has changed then idk.

The Looker is based on The Witness not the Watcher, and its fucking hilarious

Calling the trans-only category “frisky” is certainly a choice. Let’s keep it to “all/non-cis/non-trans” and we can avoid cisnormative language altogether.

You’re perfectly entitled to not want to have sex with anyone based on any criteria you choose. Your body, your choice.

You are not entitled to filter transgender wo/men out of a “wo/men” category, as to do so fundamentally implies that they are not wo/men.

Now, if we’re talking about allowing people using dating apps to filter based on finer grained criteria, I’m all on board. If you choose to match with women, then trans women and cis women should all be captured by that filter. But if they add the ability to filter down to “women AND afab people” where all criteria must be met, then you can have your desired category.

But if we are going to do that, then I’d ask to also have a category to filter out people who have filtered out transgender people, because as a transgender person that’s obviously not gonna work. And many non-trans queer folk may want to also filter out people who filter out trans people, since queer folk tend to have a much more open approach to gender in dating in my experience and that’s not so compatible with someone who doesn’t.

Buuuuuuut… Dating apps don’t care about letting users filter down to such a granular level, because a large portion of their business model relies on people swiping for ages to find people that meet their criteria (or! Buy our premium package and unlock better filters! Which won’t work very well because people haven’t filled their profiles in to that degree!). So you’re probably stuck with trans folk in your feed, and they’re stuck with you. Lose lose.

Also, no human being is obligated to share what their assigned gender at birth was with any dating app. So even if we had these filters, a bunch of cis folk are probably just going to mark themselves as their gender, and a bunch of trans folk are gonna do the same(especially as outing yourself as trans can be horrendously dangerous in some situations), and neither will mark down their assigned gender at birth. And then the “assigned gender at birth” filter is gonna be somewhat worthless to the people who want to use it.

So maybe the best option is just to keep swiping past people who you think are unattractive (which might include some trans people).

Your Name makes me feel nostalgia for a childhood I never had and its fucking gorgeous.

Don’t forget the dire environmental impact of pretty much every cryptocurrency!

I don’t necessarily disagree with you, and I can certainly understand that from the perspective of nations that are currently being oppressed or suffering great hardships it might be a unifying symbol that helps people to find light in the darkness. I’m not sure I can see a huge argument for an Australian flag that covers 1/20th of the canvas, however. But to your original point, I see where you’re coming from about these nations flags having other potential symbolism.

It did make me feel a bit gross that from the get-go the plan was for the Australian flag to take up such an enormous space.

I’m satisfied with how things turned out, with art going all over the flag and the stars shining through, but it didn’t seem considerate in the beginning.

Being gay, or any other actual identity, is an intrinsic part of who you are that would still be true if all of society’s constructs were to fall away. You’d still be interested, presumably, in people who presented in what we currently associate with masculine appearances. Trans folk would still be trans. POC, still POC.

Your home country doesn’t hold up to the same rigour. I think that’s the idea? Its less a “part of you” and more a “circumstance of your conception”. But hey.