Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Besticus Maximus]

Which lunatic is sophie then? Tyrant/Dimitrescu? What an absolute wobbler

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-appreciate-being-able-to-work-a-hybrid-schedule-but-certain-wires-concerning-office-and-home-habits-are-getting-crossed.1453768/#post-152170681

I can say as a trans woman who also works in porn that men's views on sexuality are extremely warped from rational thinking. Like think about it, you likely need your job to survive, does it make sense to masturbate while you work and risk potentially damaging your career or losing your job? You need to orgasm so badly that it's potentially worth more to you than maintaining your current life? A lot of men make choices like this, every time I post a pic of myself on the internet I get bombarded in DMs by men like this.

I used to have thoughts of similar irrationality pre transition, but since I started Estrogen I no longer feel the common urge to orgasm and am able to think... rationally about sex. Like I'm not going to risk my reputation or job or life just to orgasm, I'm not going to cheat on my partner just because I'm horny, thoughts like that don't actually make sense if you step back a little.

I think when you see women responding the way you're seeing here to you masturbating at woek and talkimg about nonchalantly, it's not from a place of prudishness, it's primarily just sheer confusion at why you or anyone else would do something like that. It's really hard to experience anything like that with high Estrogen low testosterone!

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

This year I went through a divorce, and it's absolutely crushing me financially. It has reached a point I can no longer continue my electrolysis, nor afford Progesterone (only available privately) and until I land on my feet again I can't continue with this care that helps battle my gender dysphoria.

I'm having to pay a mortgage in a house I no longer live in and rent alongside my bills. It's all too much.

He previously claimed he would be getting the house in the divorce. To be fair though, he also claimed to have a happy marriage and a supportive wife.

Some more gems:

I really would like to just chat casually, especially with other women here.

 
This simply isn't true. You do not have the same experiences as real women, and you aren't at all interested in them anyway. You are a fantasist, and the lives of real women aren't a fantasy, you have nothing in common with them.

I feel so alone and isolated because I post anything nowadays, especially if it's about my sexual liberation and it just gets dogpiled on

Your "sexual liberation" is just your fetishes and being a massive pervert. You got dogpiled in those threads because you were being a massive weirdo incapable of self reflection.

there's like no-one like being there in my corner, no-one DMing me to check on my mental wellbeing, like mass bullying sucks and I just utterly feel alone, even amongst the women on the forum.

How can you expect anyone to DM you when they barely respond to your posts publicly (and when they do it's only the parts that aren't about you). The real women of era barely tolerate you. Your posts make it clear you have absolutely no understanding of female friendship and none of them want to risk you thinking a DM means more than they intend.

I wanted to vent about a promotion I missed out on just last week. So this is to replace the LAST woman senior developer and or designer in our department....I was told by my boss when he gave rejection feedback that my interview was one of the best, there was no negative feedback. Just this person had more experience.... Then I discovered the guy they replaced the last WOMAN on the senior team has 4 years less experience than me, on top I have had short term experience RUNNING an entire department. But 11+ years experience in what I do isn't a match for a man's 7!

Yes I'm sure that's exactly how it went. Everyone in that thread knows why you didn't get the promotion, and they don't know you like your co-workers do.

In a way it's gender affirming for me that any male privileges I had are officially gone.😂

Very relatable to women.

I want to do D&D but I've never done it before. I have a character but it's homebrew AF because they are a person who travels providing Gender Affirming Healthcare to people. So their spells consist on (warning slightly nsfw descriptions) giving people and creatures massive boobs, or giving them a vagina or a large penis. Because there's nothing more I want to do than suprise an orc in battle by making it grow giant bazongas and just confusing it, or giving a thief a shlong so large it weighs them to the floor!

Big tits and big dicks, am I right, ladies? Again, very relatable to women.

Talking about his land"lady":

We're really well bonded, but occasionally kiss and cuddle in her bed and touch one another's boobs and compare nipples and say we love one another....

she loves me very much, she thinks my body is great, my penis is fantastic looking

Like if I'm unattractive in that way, don't fucking grind against me, caress my tits, kiss me, spank me, compliment my penis and call me sexy.

I get some people just don't vibe with a girl having a penis, like fine.... But if that's true, just treat me like a regular friend.

All of the era ladies completely ignore this totally relatable content.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

This moron stopped posting on era for a year due to the embarrassment of everyone calling him out for posting dumb Elon Musk memes on LinkedIn.

Of course he only got worse, so so much worse.

#opentowork while posting shit that'll ensure no one will ever employ you.

Self-diagnosed as having multiple personalities? Sounds like a real winner.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Don't do it. I have masturbated at work before, got caught and fired for it .

Spoiler: NSFWish
When I was in uni I used to work part time doing data entry. My friend (who was also my co-worker) showed me Viagra pills he had bought, and I took one as a joke*. Now, Viagra is not supposed to make you horny so I don't know what happened, maybe I psyched myself out, but I went to the stalls and rubbed one out**. Thing is, the stalls at this place were comically short***, so this, combined with the angle, caused a bit of the ejaculant to go over the stalls****. Unfortunately, someone was in the bathroom at the time and he happened to somehow take notice.***** Anyway long story short, I was fried shortly thereafter.

Does this motherfucker expect anyone to actually buy this bullshit?

*No you didn't. Take it "as a joke" I mean.

**This way always your plan. Masturbating at work - it's just a prank, bro!

***An obvious lie, but necessary to make the next part of the story believable (spoiler, it doesn't work).

****"Yeah, so unfortunately my fat load managed to escape the confines of the toilet stall I was in", he said, realistically.

*****"I was just silently wanking myself off in a way that absolutely no one could have possibly detected, but my high velocity ropes gave the game away."

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I want to do D&D but I've never done it before. I have a character but it's homebrew AF because they are a person who travels providing Gender Affirming Healthcare to people. So their spells consist on (warning slightly nsfw descriptions) giving people and creatures massive boobs, or giving them a vagina or a large penis. Because there's nothing more I want to do than suprise an orc in battle by making it grow giant bazongas and just confusing it, or giving a thief a shlong so large it weighs them to the floor!

Big tits and big dicks, am I right, ladies? Again, very relatable to women.

I blame critical role for this.

[Snoopy]

Poor old Derbert or whatever has made a total twat out of himself again 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-appreciate-being-able-to-work-a-hybrid-schedule-but-certain-wires-concerning-office-and-home-habits-are-getting-crossed.1453768/

Guy must have some kind of humiliation fetish. No doubt he'll be crying about it in the mods help section

[jooseloose]

Talking about his land"lady":

We're really well bonded, but occasionally kiss and cuddle in her bed and touch one another's boobs and compare nipples and say we love one another....

she loves me very much, she thinks my body is great, my penis is fantastic looking

Like if I'm unattractive in that way, don't fucking grind against me, caress my tits, kiss me, spank me, compliment my penis and call me sexy.

I get some people just don't vibe with a girl having a penis, like fine.... But if that's true, just treat me like a regular friend.

All of the era ladies completely ignore this totally relatable content.

And these were posted in Era's official Women's OT  https://www.resetera.com/threads/regals-women-of-era-ot-episode-i-the-female-menace.337/post-137367603

Bonus points to Morrigan a few posts up who is clearly sick of their attention-seeking shit 

[filler]

Don't do it. I have masturbated at work before, got caught and fired for it .

Spoiler: NSFWish
When I was in uni I used to work part time doing data entry. My friend (who was also my co-worker) showed me Viagra pills he had bought, and I took one as a joke*. Now, Viagra is not supposed to make you horny so I don't know what happened, maybe I psyched myself out, but I went to the stalls and rubbed one out**. Thing is, the stalls at this place were comically short***, so this, combined with the angle, caused a bit of the ejaculant to go over the stalls****. Unfortunately, someone was in the bathroom at the time and he happened to somehow take notice.***** Anyway long story short, I was fried shortly thereafter.

Does this motherfucker expect anyone to actually buy this bullshit?

*No you didn't. Take it "as a joke" I mean.

**This way always your plan. Masturbating at work - it's just a prank, bro!

***An obvious lie, but necessary to make the next part of the story believable (spoiler, it doesn't work).

****"Yeah, so unfortunately my fat load managed to escape the confines of the toilet stall I was in", he said, realistically.

*****"I was just silently wanking myself off in a way that absolutely no one could have possibly detected, but my high velocity ropes gave the game away."

it was in a women's restroom 

[Uncle]

TransEra never beating the accusations.

wait, what's that beating sound I hear, then

[EaldNarche]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-appreciate-being-able-to-work-a-hybrid-schedule-but-certain-wires-concerning-office-and-home-habits-are-getting-crossed.1453768/#post-152170681

I can say as a trans woman who also works in porn that men's views on sexuality are extremely warped from rational thinking. Like think about it, you likely need your job to survive, does it make sense to masturbate while you work and risk potentially damaging your career or losing your job? You need to orgasm so badly that it's potentially worth more to you than maintaining your current life? A lot of men make choices like this, every time I post a pic of myself on the internet I get bombarded in DMs by men like this.

I used to have thoughts of similar irrationality pre transition, but since I started Estrogen I no longer feel the common urge to orgasm and am able to think... rationally about sex. Like I'm not going to risk my reputation or job or life just to orgasm, I'm not going to cheat on my partner just because I'm horny, thoughts like that don't actually make sense if you step back a little.

I think when you see women responding the way you're seeing here to you masturbating at woek and talkimg about nonchalantly, it's not from a place of prudishness, it's primarily just sheer confusion at why you or anyone else would do something like that. It's really hard to experience anything like that with high Estrogen low testosterone!

So if I'm understanding her correctly, OP is an egg and just needs to start estrogen so she can stop feeling compelled to masturbate on the clock like this? She isn't a pervert, she's just trans!!  

[BIONIC]

Yall be talking about zootopia characters fuckin and all of a sudden this thread is too much

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

[clockwork5]

That place is so weird. You have these absolute caricatures of perverted sex pests that fetishize everything from a 10 year old squid person to a fucking Pokémon. One would think RE is like their safe space to talk about this shit. 

But then Benji pulls up their fucking LinkedIn profile and it is somehow even more twisted than their RE persona. 

“If I say that I might get banned at RE, let me just log into LinkedIn”

[HaughtyFrank]

lots of men in the control thread about jesse not being playable strawmanning and deriding anyone who voices disappointment that she's not playable in the sequel to her game. kinda pmo

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/post-152178685

You guys literally just banned people who were disappointed by a god of war game without Kratos

[DavidCroquet]

imagine being a slave to your cock where you can't function without blowing a load.

yeah uh… heh…imagine that….*glances around nervously*…couldn’t be me…I actually hate blowing loads so…

[Uncle]

https://www.advocate.com/news/education/trans-teacher-fleeing-florida

   

what is that you're teaching there, s...sao...irse...? saoirse? what the fuck did you name yourself? at least you didn't pick zoe or chloe or lilith

[Uncle]

I think it stands for Sword Art Online Inspired Routinely Slurping Estrogen

[Mediocre Lager]

Real winners always goon at work. Don't do it for free, get paid for that shit.

[HaughtyFrank]

Probably took the name from her

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saoirse_Ronan

The resemblance is uncanny

[Boredfrom]

https://www.advocate.com/news/education/trans-teacher-fleeing-florida



what is that you're teaching there, s...sao...irse...? saoirse? what the fuck did you name yourself? at least you didn't pick zoe or chloe or lilith

Imagine having this person as your English/Literature teacher.  

Also, immediately with Sappho. Living that stereotype.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

imagine being a slave to your cock where you can't function without blowing a load.

yeah uh… heh…imagine that….*glances around nervously*…couldn’t be me…I actually hate blowing loads so…

Oh, so you were raised Catholic.

[Boredfrom]

ERA has the ability to not want to support them even with stuff I would agree with them:

 Mike Johnson says Iranians have "misguided religion"

Disgusting even if I’m not the biggest fan of Islam. Let’s see ERA reaction:

"Misguided religion" compared to theirs where it's cool to bomb innocent school children

 

They really going to downplay those protesters that got killed, don’t they?

[Boredfrom]

BTW, remember when Arab ERA got offended when people remind them that Arabs voting for Trump was the dumbest decision ever? 

ERA:“ Hahaha, look how dumb is the Irani Diaspora when we warned them about the U.S.”  

Also ERA:“Where is the Muslim solidarity.”

[Boredfrom]

I do trust Remedy, but I wasn't a fan of Dylan at all in Control , meanwhile Jesse was one of my favorite protags last gen. Bummer, but I'm glad they went ahead a confirmed it.

Who was? The dude was an intentional blank state. His job was to be possessed by the eldritch cosmic horror of misanthropy or something, and also to show that the Bureu could be shady and mismanaged. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jesse-faden-wont-be-a-playable-character-in-control-resonant.1453972/

[Snoopy]

It’s pronounced ser sha. Handy to know if ever you bump into an Irish schoolgirl or a 300 pound, unwashed gorilla

[nachobro]

none of these mfs ever heard of conditioner? damn

[Ethan]

That place is so weird. You have these absolute caricatures of perverted sex pests that fetishize everything from a 10 year old squid person to a fucking Pokémon. One would think RE is like their safe space to talk about this shit. 

But then Benji pulls up their fucking LinkedIn profile and it is somehow even more twisted than their RE persona. 

“If I say that I might get banned at RE, let me just log into LinkedIn”

At least it proves that their neurodivergent diagnosis is real and not made up.

[Snoopy]

Meanwhile Nep is stuck behind the service counter 



plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-smoke-pot.7946/page-17#post-25643992

No but my wife suffers from chronic illness and pain and wants to try some (in perhaps edible form), but only if it becomes legal, unfortunately we live in the UK where things take so much longer to catch up with the rest of the world.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-general-election-12th-december-2019-ot1-hindsight-is-20-19-tory-majority-confirmed.151404/page-225#post-26982428

My wife is extremely upset, she's disabled and we've had to fight tooth and nail to get her the benefits she currently has. I'm personally fearful of medication shortages due to Brexit and the NHS becoming Trumps'.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-general-election-2019-polls-open-today-7am-10pm-get-out-and-vote.158714/page-5#post-27304006

Yeah, she [wife] was angry and devastated, she's disabled so she finds it hard to go long distances unaided (long for her is going anywhere longer than 10 minutes (there and back). She's now got my last name, so has re-registered with a simpler signature.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/airlines-make-you-pay-to-choose-your-seats-now.169325/#post-28992938

Hasn't that always been the way? My wife is disabled and one of the silver linings is that you get to sit next to each other and we get to sit near the front.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/novel-coronavirus-covid-19-resources-and-discussion-thread-discussion-guidelines-in-op.171547/page-657#post-30053892

My wife and I (asthmatics and chronically ill) are self isolating because I've started coughing. No headache, no temperature but better safe than sorry, hopefully it isn't it and hopefully if it is it, we don't go into respiratory arrest!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/you-can-get-2-billion-dollars-but-you-must-cut-off-every-personal-relationship-and-start-anew-would-you.245575/page-13#post-39393400

Hmmmm I'd be abandoning my wife who's disabled and I love, so no guilt of that isn't worth 2bn. I'd abandon my family for less OP if you would like to renegotiate the amount of money for blood relatives. Because I love them but I could probably do a lot of good with the money to help my wife and others like her.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-always-know-what-you-wanted-to-do-as-a-career.251103/page-3#post-40287318

I'm still not doing what I want to be doing, I gave it up to look after my mother, and now I'm married with a mortgage and I can't chase my career anymore. I just have to stick with whomever wants to give me money to do stuff, and I don't think there's much I wouldn't do (my wife probably would divorce me if I became a prostitute or a cam-person/porn star so that's probably out).

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-does-era-deal-with-stress.309520/page-2#post-48943912

I don't. My stomach has been in knots, full of acid, I'm constantly worried because I have an unknown lump on my thigh and I'm waiting on an urgent MRI appointment and the waiting for not only the appointment but the results is absolutely terrifying. Not only that but COVID, not having stable income (occasional short contracts thank fuck), but it's all stressing me out and the only relief I have is having a caring wife and my cat.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/surgery-or-painkillers.315958/#post-49873318

Surgery. My wife is stuck on morphine and really wishes she had the choice of surgery for her chronic pain.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/im-so-tired-of-daily-pain-illness.346540/#post-54339388

I have stomach issues, and my wife is chronically ill with chronic pain and chronic fatigue to the point she's on morphine some of this is chalked up to Hypermobile EDS which means collagen doesn't form correctly, essentially her muscles have to take over the ligaments' job and are constantly trying to keep her body together.

She too is tired of being sick and having to choose between just staying on the sofa all day and feeling crap and in pain or cooking a meal and feeling worse physically for accomplishing something. I can't do anything apart from doing stuff for her and be emotional support.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-you-vaccinated-yet.387932/page-62#post-63346740

I WISH. I have asthma, my wife has chronic, neurological lung illnesses yet neither of us have been invited to be vaccinated yet.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nasa-wants-you-to-spend-a-year-simulating-life-on-mars-for-science.469446/#post-71109564

If I weren't married and also the carer of my wife I'd totally do it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/today-has-been-pretty-shitty-era.556150/

Just need to vent. Not only does my job role get made redundant in a workplace that was super supportive of my transition, but one of my close friends died today. Aaand my wife requires surgery which will be happening soon which is worrying.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/family-caregiver-support-thread-do-you-look-after-a-family-member-with-an-illness-or-special-needs.571645/#post-84967687

I look after my wife, she has a number of disabilities including ME. Her immune system is crap due to the ME combined with her asthma which means even a mild version of COVID could be fatal. Which means going to the cinema is impossible to do. My work almost has to be remote now for health and safety reasons. Or lives have been changed forever.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/woman-with-disabilities-awaits-final-approval-for-medically-assisted-death-after-futile-search-for-affordable-housing.578843/page-2#post-85963211

Capitalism at it's finest folks... With a chronically ill wife, this isn't a surprise that capitalism and society has got this bad that this scenario is happening. If it were legal elsewhere (and I think medically assisted end of life should be legal) this would not be an isolated incident.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-have-covid-and-this-is-fucking-awful.617895/#post-91348551

My wife has a disorder that gets worse every time she gets any kind of infection. We both have asthma, and we have essentially agreed to keep contact with the outside world a minimum. I'm her unpaid carer too.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/remote-workers-bear-the-brunt-when-layoffs-hit-wsj.811320/#post-118419891

I literally got made at risk of redundancy today. As an unpaid carer it's hard to do office work when every day you risk your wife's life because even a mild case of COVID for her could be fatal.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/regals-women-of-era-ot-episode-i-the-female-menace.337/page-77#post-122343849

My wife does cross stitch, knitting and sewing. She's disabled and I'm her carer and while it takes her much longer than an able bodied person she makes both of us clothing all year round. I have done a gender affirming photoshoot recently and some of her clothes she made ended up in there. She recently did a gigantic Monkey Island Cross Stitch which is now hanging on one of our walls.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-general-election-2024-ot-gone-on-the-fourth-of-july-labour-wins-general-election.881007/page-45#post-123844422

don't trust Starmer and Co to go back on anything he's said. I know that I'm absolutely screwed and only remain living out of spite and determination to leave my wife life insurance money as that doesn't cover suicide.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-health-secretary-wes-streeting-plans-to-renew-and-make-permanent-ban-on-puberty-blockers-for-trans-children-edit-is-the-official-gov-position.925548/#post-125718792

The only reason I've not killed myself is because its against my life insurance, I can only hope that something within my life insurance gets me before I find no other option. I'm not leaving my wife without an insurance payout.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-prefer-living-alone-or-with-others-why.944253/#post-126711441

I'd not swap living with my wife for anything in the world. I have always wondered what it'd be like to live alone, I've never done so in my life. I think my ADHD would make it difficult to do so.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-sony-pulls-back-from-playstation-games-on-pc-ghost-of-yotei-port-and-other-internally-developed-games-scrapped.1452817/page-43#post-152164168

 User banned: Troll account

Well there goes my longstanding tradition of hanging out and streaming these PS games for/with my best friend. Once we run out, it's over. Fucking sucks. She had been looking forward to more God of War especially. Some of the best times we've had hanging out.

Kinda lame to see the console fandom aspects making people celebrate this shit online, but what can you do. All i want is for games to be available to the most people possible and for all works in the art form to have their best chance to spread to as many as they can. Too many people attach their damn identities to the plastic-encased silicon a corporation sells them. Games are more, should be more, than a dumb tribalistic fandom-war affair, and we certainly shouldn't assign so much importance to the capitalistic side of things - the corporations can handle that well enough on their own, they don't need the average person's support and defence in the matter.

I love how when Pc players are doing "dumb tribalistic fandom war affair" by saying Ps5 has no games and its useless, none of you guys said anything. I will never feel bad for Pc gamers, good riddance.