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  • Rachelhazideas@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    4 hours ago

    Most veterans started out as exploitable highschool kids and end up exploitated, handicapped, homeless, and without physical or mental healthcare.

    Don’t let political interests redirect your anger towards veterans. It’s a distraction that absolves the US government of responsibility for foreign policies rooted in American exceptionalism.



  • I wouldn’t take it so literally. Linda is a placeholder for the wife’s grievances over her husband. She is claiming that he might as well have a different hypothetical partner who is willing to put up with his antics and not get upset about it.

    When people use their dreams as an excuse to express frustration, they don’t mean that what happened in their dream is real. They mean that the outcome of the dream is congruent with their grievances that they are unable to express without a device.

    I don’t think this is a particularly healthy way of dealing with it, but just trying to give people some insight before dismissing their partners as crazy.



  • Imagine any other medical condition where a person’s appearance is drastically altered but not critically endangering their health, conditions like massive benign tumors, skin conditions like psoriasis, alopecia, etc

    We wouldn’t question them if they wanted it fixed due to body dysmorphia or dysphoria because as fellow humans we can understand what is like to have a drastic unwanted change to your own body that you did not agree to.

    Remember that puberty too, is a drastic change to ones body. Imagine if you had gone through puberty expecting to be fine, and then you go through the sensory torture of developing features on your body that you do not want. Imagine waking up the next day with the body of the opposite gender, except this is what it’s like every day for the rest of your life. You might personally be okay with this, but for many, the internal experience of having a mismatched brain and biological sex is unbearable.


  • It’s because gender presentation is only one component of it, and the other is biochemistry.

    Trans people experience dysphoria partly because their bodies do not produce the amount of sex hormones (progestogens we, androgens, and estrogens) at a ratio that matches what their brain needs. It’s like putting gas into a diesel engine. Their brain expects their body to develop in a certain way, and it does not.






  • Too soon for this meme format.

    For those who don’t know, the woman petting the fox committed suicide a few days ago. She had ran a fox rescue farm and saved 4000 foxes, many of which were rescued from being bred for fur in inhumane conditions.

    She passed away after years of harassment and accusations of abuse for ‘not doing enough’. Redditors were piling on her in a hate sub and that was one of the final nails in the coffin. People criticized her for not hiring more staff to help or expanding her operations.

    This was her life’s work. She was autistic, and funneled every bit of dedication into saving as many as she could. She had a special bond with her foxes and a way of speaking to them that brings out their giggles. Not everyone can do that, and with Mikaela’s passing, her foxes will now have to make it through without her.






  • Not that simple. When you’ve been abused all your life, you cease to understand what is abuse and what’s normal. Parents can do the most fucked up things and claim that it is all because they love you.

    This is why childhood abuse can make one vulnerable to abusive relationship as an adult. When you’ve been taught as a child that you are the cause for your parent’s explosive temper, you normalize this behavior in your partner.