Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Jansen]

the fruits of transition 

Legitimately think he's inbred. The face and eyebrows give it away. Somewhere along the line somebody was fucking their sister

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sarah-mcbride-in-an-nyt-interview-w-ezra-klein-declares-that-the-trans-left-has-overstepped-on-everything-from-trans-youth-care-to-the-word-cisgender.1222614/#post-141674232

im far too angry to finish reading this horse shit

im so furious im crying

cum

[Mask]

What I'm trying to say is that the very idea you can become a woman by drugs and a wig is demeaning and untrue. It doesn't matter how much you "don't affect" people in the real world, because the very idea that you would legitimize such a thing DOES affect people in the real world. It has terrible societal consequences that trickles down!

The people that haven't caused a negative interaction have now served as the justification for why a 13 year old can get cosmetic mastectomies. That's how this works!

It's the same flawed logic behind "they pass as a woman perfectly". So if they don't, they're not justified? "Oh no, they're all legitimately women." Then so is Melody Shreds! "Oh no, they're just faking it / mental illness!" OK, so you're now the arbiter? Great, I can be an arbiter too! And now we are the arbiters of who are really women and who aren't, based on gut feelings! Tell me again how this is superior to biological classification again? And how this isn't even more demeaning than the original claims?

Anyway benji is better at writing this stuff than I am and he does actual research, I just find it disheartening when people can't see the bigger picture and let manipulated empathy cloud their judgment.

[HaughtyFrank]

"Sarah McBride in an NYT Interview w/ Ezra Klein Declares that the Trans Left has Overstepped on Everything from Trans Youth Care to the Word Cisgender"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sarah-mcbride-in-an-nyt-interview-w-ezra-klein-declares-that-the-trans-left-has-overstepped-on-everything-from-trans-youth-care-to-the-word-cisgender.1222614/

That ought to be an interesting thread

I find it amazing that "transmedicalist" is an insult while they at the same time declare that transness is a healthcare issue and that kids are literally being killed by not having access to it. 
This is exactly the kind of shit that loses you credibility and support. 
No wonder RE is mad as hell at this interview

[Potato]

Because when has that ever been Barack Obama?

It never has which is why I personally don't give a shit about his opinion lol. Go take your money and live safely with your family.

Oh, look, another rich capitalist, who spent eight years as the top cop, Nepenthe doesn't think should be giving back his stolen wealth nor has a duty to start organizing.

When Obama works a menial job for minimum wage and moves in with his parents, Nepenthe will respect his opinion. Until then...

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

The white male gooner pipeline.

Vanilla Porn becomes not good enough after the brain experiences it too much, and if you're cranking it 5 times day it will no longer get you off.. so you move onto more taboo things, anal sex, but that doesn't fix your itch after a while and you start looking at the cocks more in the film, so why not try shemale porn? It's not gay, it's still feminine. So you watch a trans person fuck a woman, it then leads into two trans people fucking, and finally a man fucking a trans woman.

But the itch starts getting worse and how do you solve it? Hentai only helps a little and looking at anime lolis only does so much when you need something more taboo. It's then the anime porn discord you joined makes you start to think: what if I become a girl? I'm no longer a white male loser who sits at home cranking my cock, I'm a woman now. It's the next drug to chase that pleasure high you need and you start gooning even more.

That's why all the online transbians love anime and can do nothing but post porn and talk about sex. They're druggies who are chasing a high.

[Averon]

Who knew....

...being so rabid that you bite the heads off of allies 
...being sexually perverted freaks making women uncomfortable
...being obsessive about influencing kids barely old enough to operate a smartphone
...aggressively inserting yourself into women's spaces and calling women tranphobes for being upset
...redefining the concept of "woman" into being a jumble mess of an idea

would backfire so badly  

[Boredfrom]

Would Iran be justified in launching a preemptive attack on the US? Seems unreasonable to expect some country to just wait around to see if they get bombed. Doubt they can do much to retaliate if/when the US joins in.

Only Western countries are allowed to do that

Despite being threatened endlessly for the better part of 40 years now Iran will always be the Boogeyman

(Not that I'm saying Iran is some kind of angel either), it's just that the world order doesn't apply to everyone

You are assholes and scumbags, pretending that Iran isn’t responsible for a lot of atrocities and backing terrorism. Hating the U.S. and Israel doesn’t justify this stupid shit. But you guys need to have solidarity with a regional oppressor because he has the same religion as you, and that is your whole identity.

[DavidCroquet]

Would Iran be justified in launching a preemptive attack on the US? Seems unreasonable to expect some country to just wait around to see if they get bombed. Doubt they can do much to retaliate if/when the US joins in.

Now that's what I call political consciousness! 

Hey Iran, can you start with this specific guy's house? Thanks.

[Boredfrom]

Is shitty how predictable HamasEra is. And how assholes like BDubs cannot smell the radicalization because he is to busy trying to smell Nepenthe pussy.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Pretty open and shut.  There isn't a national or global consensus on its safety or efficacy and there's a legitimate interest in protecting minors from experimental interventions and safeguarding medical ethics from long-term unknowns, like infertility, bone density loss, cognitive issues, or whatever else comes from not going through puberty...not to mention later regret in life.  Just wait until you're an adult.  I don't understand what the issue is.  The surgical feminizing/masculinizing procedures will be more advanced, probably cheaper, and you'll have more organic tissue to work with for reconstruction.  Chill the fuck out, people of gender.

Fact check:

Guess what dipshit....you're still making these kids suffer irreversible consequences that cant be undone. I know that's the point for a lot of these ghouls but its just such obvious bullshit if you think about it for more than 2 seconds

*the passage of time*

[Snoopy]

Is shitty how predictable HamasEra is. And how assholes like BDubs cannot smell the radicalization because he is to busy trying to smell Nepenthe pussy.

That was last week. This week he's got a baseball bat and a ticket to Dublin

[benji]

Would Iran be justified in launching a preemptive attack on the US? Seems unreasonable to expect some country to just wait around to see if they get bombed. Doubt they can do much to retaliate if/when the US joins in.

Feel like Iran hasn't exactly been holding back from one due to some kind of ethical question.

And like do they think Iran thinks the United States would be scared off by a pre-emptive terrorist attack? Or become more likely to wreck their shit? Do they think Iran missed what happened to two of their neighbors? 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

JD Vance unbanned off Bluesky AND given a verified checkmark? Ohnonono Resisters! Are we going to keep using a NAZI website?!

[Shecky Fragbaum]

My overall argument was questioning whether the closet-release narrative alone can account for the rapid rise in reported transgender identification.   I don't think it can - It seems unlikely every closeted teen left zero clues in diaries, autopsies, or friend testimony that gender dysphoria drove them to suicide in the past.  But there is clearly a rise in transgender-identified people.   Where can it come from if transgenderism is purely an innate phenomenon and the past doesn't indicate the same proportion of population of transgenderism?  Something must account for the rise of it - whether undiagnosed mental illness, or personality disorder, or some other environmental explanation?  I don't know!

I think your understanding of how transgender people come out is faulty.  There is this idea between you and a whole bunch of people here that gender dysphoria is a mental illness, or something innately negative. 

You're right, you don't know.

You're not understanding what I'm saying.  I'll do it step by step.  My skepticism is aimed at the data, not the individual people.   The share of U.S. adults who identify as transgender has nearly doubled since 2017 , and among Gen Z it is more than five times higher than among boomers.  Because gender identity is presented as innate, I struggle to understand how the underlying prevalence could shift so sharply in just a few years without any agreed-upon environmental explanation.  The standard answer, like the one you used is “they were all in the closet and now can express themselves” or something to that effect.  It seems like an incomplete answer when records on teen suicide do not (or rarely) mention hidden gender dysphoria, even though transgender youth have the highest documented suicide-attempt rate today.    Are you following me?  If stigma alone explained everything, we should have found at least some historical diaries, autopsies, friend accounts, notes, whatever, indicating that closeted trans feelings were a suicide driver in the past when the rates of trans-identified people were lower, yet the evidence isn't there.  What accounts for the rise?  You suggest my view treats gender dysphoria as a mental illness, but the DSM-5 classifies it as a clinical condition so people can receive care for the condition!  That's the point of the diagnosis - it's not a moral judgement i have!  I just want an explanatory factor for the rise that satisfies the issues I have with understanding it.    And until we can reconcile those unsatisfying conflicts - the rising prevalence, the innate biological explanation, and the incomplete historical trace of the past explanation - I will keep struggling with this question about where the rising rate comes from (which has implications in using guilt of suicide as a cudgel for these discussions).

It's not just trans-identified people though, the entire spectrum of identity exploded recently (most notably during the Covid period) and sure, plenty could be explained away simply by being in a more open, accepting and inclusive age. But don't tell me not to believe my lying eyes in regards to these obvious grifters, interlopers and self-diagnosed victims of the Lord's most creative afflictions. 

Someone who's autistic AND bipolar AND trans AND non-binary AND autoimmune compromised AND etc. should be a medical unicorn, instead it's just Tuesday on Bluesky brehs. The handful of people I've known with one or more of these conditions are not walking parodies either, but hey nature gave me a pretty small sample size to observe over the past 5 decades.

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And it certainly doesn't help engender sympathy when these fucking clowns invoke the Holocaust at every instance of pushback. Knock that shit off

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[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I think Benji's right. The cis just don't care.

The Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law that bars gender-affirming care for minors thread didn't even get a second page of the thread yet. 

[books]

Gonna flick my girthy girl bean. *woof woof*

cum.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sarah-mcbride-in-an-nyt-interview-w-ezra-klein-declares-that-the-trans-left-has-overstepped-on-everything-from-trans-youth-care-to-the-word-cisgender.1222614/page-2#post-141676179

It's no true Scotsman level BS, not to mention massively unfair when more and more are these treatment become harder for trans people to afford, get or even be on the waiting list (and that's not even getting into the social issues with being openly trans, says a trans woman who is terrified opening about being trans in public and family).

https://www.resetera.com/threads/sarah-mcbride-in-an-nyt-interview-w-ezra-klein-declares-that-the-trans-left-has-overstepped-on-everything-from-trans-youth-care-to-the-word-cisgender.1222614/page-2#post-141678075

I love you all and I do wish I could make a wish through Jeanie.

But she folded her arms and nodded her head. Samantha from Bewitched was the one who could wiggle her nose

But as the old Duck Tales movie that included a genie said "These are wishes not miracles."

[benji]

[benji]

Also, I just bought my first Barbie.

[Yulwei v2]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/rpg-vanity-era-have-you-ever-not-used-a-character-in-your-party-because-of-how-much-you-dislike-their-design.1222662/

"RPG Vanity Era, have you ever not used a character in your party because of how much you dislike their design?"

Definitely feel this way about some of the lady characters in JRPGs

Ys 8 was kinda like this for me due to some of the costumes being too revealing. Thankfully there were others to choose from, so I didn't have to flat-out not use them. I wish all games (especially RPGs) had different clothing options or vanity sets.

[Chumbawumbafan69]

I don't need money but give it to me anyways? This is levels of grifting previously unheard of.

[imsotired]

Court abolitionist? Yeah let GOP state legislatures have their way without having to worry about courts, that'll help trans causes.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

cry for court abolition one year when the republicans hold power
cry for expanding the court the next when the dems hold power

what the fuck do they even want. :

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

being in a more open, accepting and inclusive age

We shall call this enlightened age...

The Age...

...of ETERNAL GENOCIDE.

[Polident]

Hearing the movie is to become a trans refugee in the Netherlands. I’m not ready for Austin Power 3 to become a problematic movie.

[nampad]

Nintendrones really going into overdrive since Switch 2. Crazy that they are the dumbest faction on era, considering who they are competing with.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-is-your-mental-health-right-now.1222827/

[Snoopy]

Visawife is going to have an absolute shit fit

Don't bottle up your feelings dude, get therapy if you can

Long story short. I learned the hard way that therapy isnt taken as seriously as most medicine. What I mean is therapists are held to almost no standards. Like, I saw one and then another and told the other what the previous one said and they were wild eyed and filed an ethics complaint. Nothing ever came from it.

Considering how Wild West therapy is I don't recommend it. At all.

Therapy doesn't work. Don't suggest it to anyone.

I don't get how telling your problems to a paid stranger is supposed to make you feel better either, but it works for some people.

It's not a paid stranger, it's a medical professional.

There are clinical mental health disorders that can be diagnosed and treated and/or mitigated through tested treatment methods. There are also non-clinical symptoms that can be lessened through good therapeutic methods.

The latter can often be helped even via conversations with friends and family. But some people don't have that network or the privilege of feeling comfortable expressing themselves outside of a professional environment.

I'm a bit perplexed at the hostility towards therapy in a thread intended to check in on people.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-is-your-mental-health-right-now.1222827/

[Polident]

A competent therapist challenges the neurotic victim story a lot of people tell themselves. And often people don’t like to hear it. See it as confronting or avoiding the issues.

Like, let’s say there’s a hypothetically person who begs for money online to support a porno cartoon addiction. One type of therapist tells them they’ve spiraled out of control. Works on a schedule of behavioral therapy. Sets plans and goals to move away from the self destructive lifestyle. Or another type hears them rants about a wlw relationship with Rikku from Final Fantasy X-2 and occasionally interjects with “that must be difficult” and “how does that make you feel?”, writes a script for high dose SSRIs, and calls it a day. A certain type of guy prefers the latter.