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

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/israel-passes-law-making-death-penalty-default-sentence-for-palestinians-convicted-of-lethal-attacks-against-israelis.1477744/page-3#post-153259561

Perhaps mods/admins can provide some clarity?

B-Dubs

B-Dubya can't pretend to not see the metacommentary anymore.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-international-transgender-day-of-visibility-activision-decides-to-announce-a-raging-transphobic-pos-being-added-to-call-of-duty.1478959/

[Vertigo]

Oh Boy 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-international-transgender-day-of-visibility-activision-decides-to-announce-a-raging-transphobic-pos-being-added-to-call-of-duty.1478959/

[Hap Shaughnessy]

[malfoyking]

I'm sure all corpos need to adhere to every made up day these fuckers come up with. Also Chapelle still rules. mofos cant take a joke.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-international-transgender-day-of-visibility-activision-decides-to-announce-a-raging-transphobic-pos-being-added-to-call-of-duty.1478959/

Oh Boy 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-international-transgender-day-of-visibility-activision-decides-to-announce-a-raging-transphobic-pos-being-added-to-call-of-duty.1478959/

                      Islamophobia?

[Jansen]

The cruelty is the point

[Jansen]

Fuck Activision, Fuck COD, Fuck Dave "Cancelled" Chapelle.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-international-transgender-day-of-visibility-activision-decides-to-announce-a-raging-transphobic-pos-being-added-to-call-of-duty.1478959/

They didn't even bother adding title/emblem pride flags to BO7 like they've previously done, last I checked

Something, something, when you're accustomed to privilege equality will feel like oppression

[benji]

Isn't Pride in June?

edit: *puts it in the game at launch*

"Oh, so nothing special for Pride Month of all months?"

[Jansen]

https://dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictranslist

[benji]

https://dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictranslist

M.U.L.E. (1983, Atari 8-bit, lots of other things)
This is the game everyone knows Danielle Bunten Berry for so I'm kinda kicking myself for not really knowing much about it. It's like a multiplayer sci-fi economics game or something.

Opportunity to quote Berry's ancient message to other trans woman.

Special Note to Those Thinking About a Sex Change, by Danielle Berry
Compiled from a number of emails I sent in response to requests for input from those considering their own change.

Don't do it! That's my advice. This is the most awful, most expensive, most painful, most disruptive thing you could ever do. Don't do it unless there is no other alternative. You may think your life is tough but unless it's a choice between suicide and a sex-change it will only get worse. And the costs keep coming. You lose control over most aspects of your life, become a second class citizen and all so you can wear women's clothes and feel cuter than you do now. Don't do it is all I've got to say.

That's advice I wish someone had given me. I had the sex change, I "pass" fine, my career is good but you can't imagine the number of times I've wished I could go back and see if there was another way. Despite following the rules and being as honest as I could with the medical folks at each stage, nobody stopped me and said "Are you honest to God absolutely sure this is the ONLY path for you?!" To the contrary, the voices were all cheerfully supportive of my decision. I was fortunate that the web didn't exist then - there are too damn many cheerleaders ready to reassure themselves of their own decision by parading their "successful" surgeries and encouraging others.

I can speak the transgender party line that I was a female trapped in a male body and I remember feeling this way since I was 4. But, it's never that easy if you look at it sincerely and without preconception. There's little question that a mid-life crisis, a divorce and a cancer scare were involved in at least the timing of my sex-change decision. To be completely honest at this point (3 yrs post-op) is not easy, however, I'm not sure I would do it again. I'm now concerned that much of what I took as a gender dysfunction might have been nothing more than a neurotic sexual obsession. I was a cross-dresser for all of my sexual life and had always fantasized going fem as an ultimate turn-on. Ironically, when I began hormone treatment my libido went away. However, I mistook that relief from sexual obsession for validation of my gender change. Then in the final bit of irony, after surgery my new genitals were non-orgasmic (like 80% of my TG sisters).

So, needless to say, my life as a woman is not an ultimate turn-on. And what did it all cost? Over $30,000 and the loss of most of my relationships to family and friends. And the costs don't end. Every relationship I make now and in the future has to come to terms with the sex-change. And I'm not the only one who suffers. I hate the impact this will have on my kids and their future.

Anyway, I'm making it sound awful and it's not. There are some perks but the important things like being comfortable with myself and having a true love in my life don't seem like they were contingent on the change. Being my "real self" could have included having a penis and including more femininity in whatever forms made sense. I didn't know that until too late and now I have to make the best of the life I've stumbled into. I just wish I would have tried more options before I jumped off the precipice. I miss my easy access to my kids (unlike many TS's I didn't completely lose access to them though), I miss my family and old friends (I know they "shouldn't" have abandoned me but lots of folks aren't as open minded as they "should" be ... I still miss them) and finally, I hate the disconnect with my past (there's just no way to integrate the two unrelated lives). There's any number of ways to express your gender and sexuality and the only one I tried was the big one. I'll never know if I could have found a compromise that might have worked a lot better than the "one size fits all" sex-change. Please, check it out yourself before you do likewise.

Emphasis in the original.

[Besticus Maximus]

They didn't even bother adding title/emblem pride flags to BO7 like they've previously done, last I checked

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-international-transgender-day-of-visibility-activision-decides-to-announce-a-raging-transphobic-pos-being-added-to-call-of-duty.1478959/#post-153261838

1. Obviously shitty of them (fuck Chapelle), but I don't think it's intentional.
Snip

It's Activision come on they do everything on purpose or did you all forget about what they did during the Blizzard case?

Stop defending them. It's tiring when people give grace to those that do NOT deserve it

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/random-meandering-birthday-thoughts-my-fanon-on-classical-mythology.1478971/

It's got wlw.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-international-transgender-day-of-visibility-activision-decides-to-announce-a-raging-transphobic-pos-being-added-to-call-of-duty.1478959/

I love that even with the emoji, I still wouldn’t have guessed Chappelle.  I had no idea who it might have been since everyone is a raging transphobe these days according to resetera.  Shit this could have been me finding out I was added to cod today.

[Boredfrom]

Ms. Noem is devastated. The family was blindsided by this, and they ask for privacy and prayers at the time," Noem's representatives told The Post.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/supreme-court-rules-against-colorado-ban-on-%E2%80%98conversion-therapy%E2%80%99-for-lgbtq-kids.1478434/#post-153254686

"I wonder what awful shit they will do to us on this day of TDOV" I thought to myself as I opened this forum.

I see the legal argument, but the timing sure feels like a kick in the teeth

[HardcoreRetro]

People say AI is bad but then I get this on my youtube homepage.

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/supreme-court-rules-against-colorado-ban-on-%E2%80%98conversion-therapy%E2%80%99-for-lgbtq-kids.1478434/#post-153265036

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/supreme-court-rules-against-colorado-ban-on-%E2%80%98conversion-therapy%E2%80%99-for-lgbtq-kids.1478434/#post-153254686

"I wonder what awful shit they will do to us on this day of TDOV" I thought to myself as I opened this forum.

I see the legal argument, but the timing sure feels like a kick in the teeth

They're always being mean to me on DavidCroquet's Day of Shitting on Ur Lawn and Fucking Ur Mom. It's not FAIR.

EDIT: wait is the V for Vengeance or Visibility? Actually, is there even a difference?

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/supreme-court-rules-against-colorado-ban-on-%E2%80%98conversion-therapy%E2%80%99-for-lgbtq-kids.1478434/#post-153254686

"I wonder what awful shit they will do to us on this day of TDOV" I thought to myself as I opened this forum.

I see the legal argument, but the timing sure feels like a kick in the teeth

As an adult, the Colorado law never applied to your therapists. Also, the law could still be upheld, the Court made no decision on this. The Tenth Circuit had stupidly ruled that First Amendment rights were irrelevant and that's why it was 8-1 for them to do it over.

edit:

Symbolism of timing
Several commentators saw the decision's timing, on the International Transgender Day of Visibility (hosted every year on March 31), as a political statement by SCOTUS.[13][14]

Cited sources relevant lines that supposedly support this claim:

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, on Transgender Day of Visibility, struck down Colorado’s ban on so-called “conversion therapy” for minors.

“Today, on International Transgender Day of Visibility, the U.S. Supreme Court ignored the longstanding role that states play in protecting their citizens and made it more difficult for them to outlaw harmful conversion therapy.

[BIONIC]

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/page-519#post-153262357

It really is an issue with society and how we view gender and people. The whole BS about people having to act and think in certain ways, like men having to be masculine and women having to be feminine. It's so pervasive. For example, a trans woman could feel repressed growing up and then when they transition, they want to act in a feminine way because thats how we view women.

And this isn't me saying we can't present however we want. In fact, that's what I want to see, but also understand that we all have these unconscious bias and ideas and beliefs that we hold because society puts us in these boxes and we have to act a certain way or we aren't normal.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-review-thread.1479064/

I'm not judging the reviewers, I don't know them, but some of these blurbs sound bitter lol. Haven't actually read their reviews yet.

[Ethan]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/on-international-transgender-day-of-visibility-activision-decides-to-announce-a-raging-transphobic-pos-being-added-to-call-of-duty.1478959/#post-153261838

1. Obviously shitty of them (fuck Chapelle), but I don't think it's intentional.
Snip

It's Activision come on they do everything on purpose or did you all forget about what they did during the Blizzard case?

Stop defending them. It's tiring when people give grace to those that do NOT deserve it

https://www.resetera.com/threads/supreme-court-rules-against-colorado-ban-on-%E2%80%98conversion-therapy%E2%80%99-for-lgbtq-kids.1478434/#post-153254686

"I wonder what awful shit they will do to us on this day of TDOV" I thought to myself as I opened this forum.

I see the legal argument, but the timing sure feels like a kick in the teeth

Would I be wrong if I said that probably less than 5% of people know that today is Trans day of visibility? Even MAR10 Day is probably more well known.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-314#post-153261250

Leave it to Donny Numbnuts to fuck things up catastrophically with Iran.
He kept going off on how the deal Obama got was so awful, meanwhile, after all his moronic bullshit, Iran's going to have more power than they've ever had. Great job, you unbelievable idiot!

This was all clearly designed to help Russia - he got Cuba buying their oil with the US's permission and Russia enjoying the increase in gas prices. I don't believe for a second this was done in any way to accomplish lofty goals in the Middle East.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2026-us-and-israel-launches-strike-on-iran-khamenei-killed-israel-invades-lebanon.1449391/page-314#post-153262789

there's no way people actually believe this

Are you going to clarify why that wouldn't make sense when this administration has been helping Russia from day 1 of inauguration? And to be clear, I'm speaking of only the US getting involved and Trumps actions. Israel has their own agenda.

[benji]

EDIT: wait is the V for Vengeance or Visibility? Actually, is there even a difference?

They've done that too:

https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/trans-day-of-vengeance-cancelled-organizers-blame-a-credible-threat-to-life-and-safety-supreme-court-washington-dc-our-rights-trans-radical-activist-network-tran
https://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/hundreds-gather-for-trans-day-of-vengeance

Here's one from last year in hachikoma's neck of the woods:


Looks like Potato, Rendle, etc. have missed this years:

Demands
Accessible Gender Affirming care for ALL: All data points to hormone replacement therapy seeing a considerably positive outcome in the wellbeing of the transsexual individuals who take it. Despite this the process to acquire HRT is largely unaffordable and time consuming to many of those who need it. We demand the alleviation of medical gatekeeping of our medicine and for HRT to be subsidised.

Cops & Zionists OUT of Pride: Cops and Zionists fundamentally have conflicting interests with the transfeminist movement. No one is free until we are all free. This sentiment extends to the queers of Palestine. We demand cops and Zionists stay our of parades and rallies. These is pride in pinkwashing and genocide.

No Pride in Detention: Transgender women are not offered dignity in persecution. A prison sentence is a sentence to sexual violence for trans women in men's prisons both from inmates and enforcers. We demand trans women in prison are offered distance from sexual violence in prison and can be placed in a cell that is congruent with ones identity.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-do-i-do-to-get-my-money-back.1479106/

So I haven't been able to post here for awhile but I wanted to get advice from Era about my situation. So basically I come from an abusive household. My parents have abused me physically and mentally, although more on the mental side as I've gotten older. They refused to get my dysphasia treated arguing I was just being a "sissy" and all that junk. They forced me to eat a steak even though it was nearly impossible and I nearly choked to death. Afterward they still blamed me. They also refused to tell me about my autism diagnosis arguing "it didn't matter Einstein was successful" Anyways I had about 10,550$ worth of savings for emergencies, but my mom took it from my joint acc because "I shouldn't have all that money" but I was a legal adult and it was a crime. I should have made it my acc only but I didn't know much about banks when I first created it. By the time I changed it, it was too late. My parents also took all my documents and passports and refused to give it to me. So I had to sneakily find them and take them so I could leave the abusive household. Once I've gotten everything, I was ready to leave but my parents tried to force me at the house by taking my phone by force, (thankfully I've gotten it back) then chase me to my car. They threatened to get me arrested (for charges unknown as I did no crime) and also refuse to give me my money unless I meet them. They said a restaurant or their place, but I have to pick one by this weekend or else I will never get the money back. What should I do? I'm struggling paycheck to paycheck due to the severity of the situation but I really don't want to meet them because my dad has firearms and threatened my life since I said I would get the police involved. They gave me 500$ so I can make trip to them. I'm completely lost and devastated. I've lost friends due to their libel and felt endangered and no one seemed to care. They argue "someone took you away from us" but I'm tired of the abuse. What am I supposed to do? I've been alone for months now. In deep depression as my dreams are crushed. I think I should get police involved but idk how.

Edit:

I have recordings and messages that they stole the money. And bank statements. They admitted it on camera thinking it wouldn't matter. I have plenty of proof that my mom took the money but she wants to meet me with my dad who threatened me.

[Alpacx]

Intersectionality is a tough cookie to crack

[Boredfrom]

It's a bummer that Nintendo, purveyors of the most creative and enduring works of art for all ages, and are presumably heavily involved in every decision, are happy to put out these duds. Like what's going on here? My only conclusion is they have no respect for cinema as an art form and these exist solely as brand extensions.

This is the same Nintendo where the Mario Galaxy director needed to hide any semblance of narrative in the game to placate his boss.