• 11 Posts
  • 90 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 7th, 2023

help-circle

  • you could try having people refer to you with she/her pronouns and descriptions

    Honestly this hit me like a ton of bricks. Just last night I laid in bed going “he him she her he him she her” trying to figure out what I vibed with and felt like I was getting nowhere. But reading this and realizing that I can ask other people to refer to me with she/her had my hear beating fast and tears welling up and I felt super giddy.

    I think you’re right. I think I might not have negative male thoughts, but positive female thoughts.

    I have a safe and anonymous discord server I’m in and yeah I think I’m going to try experimenting. Wish me luck




















  • After doing some searching, it appears that period life expectancy is a perfectly reasonable metric for life expectancy. It looks to be a clever way of capturing a sort of “instantaneous” life expectancy for a given year. In a given year, you can track how many people of each age range die, but that only tells you death rates, not life expectancy. And you can’t just average the ages of everyone living because you don’t know when they’ll die. So what they do is they take the death rates for age ranges within a given year and they calculate the expected value of an infant’s death age, assuming that infant would live through the same death rates that were tracked that year. In my opinion, this seems like a natural choice.

    That said, there’s definitely other bullshittery going on.