I know when I did tennis in gym class in high school I struggled to figure out how to keep the ball in the court.

I feel like if the best reason one has for how they might be able to score a point on her is “but she could make a mistake” they’ve kind of conceded that it’s not actually possible.

Oh my God those “Greater Idaho” people are insane.

Worse than that since you can actually kill yourself by taking too much vitamin A. It’s more like trying to treat the measles by playing Russian roulette.

Pffft, you believe in the Moon?

I’ll never forget the look of sheer unmitigated horror on my brother’s face one of the first times he met my wife. We had started riffing on something I don’t for the life of me remember what and he hits the thousand yard stare after a minute or two and just says “Oh my God, there’s two of them… And they make each other worse.”

I about died laughing just now. I’m nonbinary but I was curious about what was actually on the page so I clicked the button. My internet is shit sometimes because Spectrum fucking sucks and it chose that moment to drop connection for a second and the page didn’t load.

The one that got me when I was still undiagnosed still infuriates me to this day.

You just need to apply yourself more.

I tried that and went from a 90 average slacking off to a 92 burning myself out “applying myself” in place of any activity that brought me joy.

Nah, if he was there’s not a chance in hell Trump wouldn’t have personally said so to any camera he could get his face in front of.

Don’t know how to tell you this, but I think that means your boyfriend is actually a woman. I don’t make the rules, sorry.

I joke. In all seriousness though, you can be straight and have a dynamic that’s more typically seen in Yuri manga. My partner and I joke all the time that we’re so straight it looped all the way back around to being gay again. We’re technically “straight” too, but I’m asexual and nonbinary, while she’s gay as the day is long. I can’t tell you how many Yuri memes I’ve sent her with the caption “look, it us” because it’s absolutely something one of us would have done.

More that they have no idea what they entail. Most people hear “gender affirming care for minors” and think it means HRT and surgery. They think that kids are too young to be making those kinds of permanent changes to their bodies.

As for the sports bans, most people “know” that whole bit about men being generally stronger than women. So it inherently feels unfair to them to let trans girls participate in sports with cis girls. They don’t know that virtually everywhere it was ever allowed they already had guidelines in place to mitigate exactly what they feared.

The right weaponizes both of these misunderstandings to make bans seem like common sense protecting children. But these people don’t ideologically hate trans people like the right does.

That’s my point though. None of the people who keep commenting these things seem to give any thought to the possibility that the person saying they’re scared might not be able to actively resist. It never seems to be “if you’re able, you could try A, B, C. If not, then X, Y, Z, might help you stay safe.” It always seems to come off as them saying “Oh, you’re scared? Fight back then lol.”

What part of I care for multiple disabled family members and live in poverty did you miss? Yeah I can totally afford the financial upheaval of a strike or to get arrested or injured protesting. I’m sure my spouse can handle things without me.

I just hope the pseudotumor doesn’t act up and cause her to have a seizure at an unfortunate time. Or maybe it’ll be one of the ones where she temporarily loses a random chunk of her life and she won’t remember who they are or why she’s there that’d be fun.

Thank you. It gets so tiring seeing these people constantly shouting “WhY ARen’t YOu FIGhtinG bAck?” Whenever someone expresses fear about what’s been happening. Oh I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m a little preoccupied wondering how my family and I are going to fucking survive the next four years in the first place.

My wife’s disabled, we’ve got multiple autistic kids, my health isn’t the greatest, I’m trans but luckily I can still play cis. We can only afford to live because my wife gets Social Security Disability, and we have Medicaid and SNAP. All things they’re certainly going to be targeting. Yeah we’ll likely be shielded from some of the worst of this living in a blue state but I’m not sure how much even that’s going to protect us anymore.

Not me taking my morning adderall dose on a chill day so I can get my brain to shut up and let me go back to bed.

I love the idea that Frieren would be a fan of the Doom Slayer.

In group and out group baybee!

“Surely they don’t mean me, I’m one of the good ones.” The magic words that let people that are part of any group they screech about vote for him. No honey, they mean you too.

To your point about nonbinary people getting caught up in it. I can’t even tell you at this point how many specifically trans women I’ve had tell me point blank to my face that I’m not actually nonbinary. That my egg still hasn’t fully cracked and the only reason I think I’m nonbinary is because of internalized misogyny. I’m just too scared to be the woman I really am deep inside.

I didn’t figure out I was trans until my mid twenties. I had a whole gender crisis in high school but because my knowledge of gender identities began and ended with full binary MtF/FtM I eventually figured I must just be cis but against the gender norms forced on men and boys. Yeah I’d have crying fits wishing I had been born a girl, but those tended to link back to people bullying me for not being “man enough” or my early career wish of going into childcare or early childhood education and quickly learning that I’d be forever looked at as a predator purely because man alone with children. When I thought about actually being a girl? That didn’t feel right either. I’m sure at least a little bit of that was due to being asexual and not being comfortable with the sexualization inherent in much of the female experience but I didn’t know that at the time.

Anyway it wasn’t until I had that discussion with the woman that eventually became my wife that I learned that nonbinary was even a thing you could be and suddenly I had a word for everything I’d felt since I was like 14. So I understand the impulse to say “but I wish someone had told me sooner” but like… I got “egged” a lot before this. Not a single one heard my story and gave me info on nonbinary identities. They all heard me say “I don’t feel right as a guy, but being a girl didn’t feel right either” and did some variation of “Egg. Internalized transphobia/misogyny. Egg.”

Nah, they harass cis women too. My wife has been harassed multiple times in the bathroom for “being trans” by MAGA dipshits in our area. Hell, one of the chuds even “transvestigated” our daughter back when she was like 2 because she had short hair and was in the stroller with her twin brother. Because everyone knows that toddler girls are literally incapable of having or wanting short hair right?