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[TRANS] thread, whatever

MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
edited November 2014 in Social Entropy++
Here's another trans thread, a thread about being trans.
Genderqueer, gender fuck, intersex, and any other type of person who is made painfully aware of their own gender on a daily basis.
We will talk about trans issues and a little bit of feminism. And probably butts. We love butts around here.

Ask me a question: homptalk.tumblr.com

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    WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    I LOVE BUTTS

    ilovethisthread

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    I Win SwordfightsI Win Swordfights all the traits of greatness starlight at my feetRegistered User regular
    While we're loving things

    I still love your avatar, metal

    lfYVHTd.png
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    SyphyreSyphyre A Dangerous Pastime Registered User regular
    Butts are ok for sitting on, I suppose

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    TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    okay, question I forgot to ask when the last one of these was going

    is it okay for me to like the song "dude looks like a lady" by aerosmith?

    because that's been one of my favorite songs since I was little kid but the lyrics are uh

    well, they sure are some lyrics

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    Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    yaaay

    love this thread

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    ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Poly pansexual genderqueer here. <3

    And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
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    ManishtushuManishtushu Registered User regular
    My boyfriend is visiting in 6 weeks.

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    MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    While we're loving things

    I still love your avatar, metal

    Thanks, it feels kind of conceited to say that I love it too, but I deserve it. It's finally a face I'm not ashamed to show the public and I don't have to hide behind Internet anonymity to be seen the way I want to be.

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    MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    okay, question I forgot to ask when the last one of these was going

    is it okay for me to like the song "dude looks like a lady" by aerosmith?

    because that's been one of my favorite songs since I was little kid but the lyrics are uh

    well, they sure are some lyrics

    I don't really see a problem with it. It seems like a song about Steven Tyler getting nailed by a crossdresser. Nothing derogatory or problematic about it. As for that matter the lyrics seem to suggest that he enjoyed himself and was enlightened by the experience.

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Is the title something specific and I am not clever enough to get it?

    Cause I don't.

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    TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Is the title something specific and I am not clever enough to get it?

    Cause I don't.

    metalbourne started a thread called obscenely clingy grey tights a while back

    the OP was a picture of david bowe's junk from labyrinth

    we tried to turn it into a trans/feminism thread but it was locked for lack of content

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    Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Is the title something specific and I am not clever enough to get it?

    Cause I don't.
    Googling the first 3 words leads to the Labyrinth thread from last week.

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    denihilistdenihilist Ancient and Mighty Registered User, Moderator mod
    okay, question I forgot to ask when the last one of these was going

    is it okay for me to like the song "dude looks like a lady" by aerosmith?

    because that's been one of my favorite songs since I was little kid but the lyrics are uh

    well, they sure are some lyrics

    It is a terrible, terrible song because Aerosmith are terrible.

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    MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Is the title something specific and I am not clever enough to get it?

    Cause I don't.

    metalbourne started a thread called obscenely clingy grey tights a while back

    the OP was a picture of david bowe's junk from labyrinth

    we tried to turn it into a trans/feminism thread but it was locked for lack of content

    Tube must be some kind of size queen if he thinks bowie bulge "lacks content"

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    denihilistdenihilist Ancient and Mighty Registered User, Moderator mod
    Tube is a total size queen, it's true.

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    ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator mod
    I thought the lyrics were "do the flabby lady" for far longer than I'm proud of.

    Like till I was 30 or so.

    And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
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    VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    Oh gosh

    Size queen is my new favourite phrase.

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    MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Doooo the laundry later

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    MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    Anonymous said to homptalk:
    Did you watch the most recent South Park episode, "The Cissy," and did you think (like Lorde did) it was positive re: transgenderism?

    I haven't seen it, but if it's anything like they've handled other trans issues in the past, it was probably complete bullshit. The South Park guys tend to go for easy solutions to complex issues that make high school kids and pseudo intellectuals scream at the tv, "that's what I've been telling people all along!"

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    was playing some DayZ with some bros a while back

    100% cisgender dudes

    everyone chit-chattin on teamspeak, i wasn't completely paying attention to the conversation, was busy gathering supplies n other trivial shit on a fresh respawn after gettin' firmly axed a question upside the head outside berezino

    but someone, for some reason, dropped the t-word in conversation

    i didn't know the context because again, wasn't paying attention i was all "oh nice this jacket is in decent shape..."

    but that word hit my ear and i was mentally all hold on wait a fucking second

    before i could say anything, though, and was mentally tuning into the conversation to sorta contextualize how that dude was using that word

    literally everyone else was giving him shit for it

    all "dude, not cool"

    and he got sorta defensive about it at first and people gave him even more shit and i just sorta stayed out of it and listened and in the end dude just apologized and owned it and was like yeah i guess and they all moved on

    it was an interesting thing, like i said it was all cisgender dudes (well, i mean, so far as i know. they're all self-identified dudes and none of them seemed to like, take personal offense as a trans person so i feel it's the safe bet) but even still they all sorta spoke up against that and were not cool with him using that word as a slur and gave him shit for it and he accepted that and retracted it and apologized

    it'd be the sort of reaction that same group of dudes would react to someone droppin' an N-bomb in conversation, and it was interesting to see that other word getting the same weight of response

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    ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    I laughed at the Lorde parts mainly because it's just funny to see Randy doing or saying anything. But even the Lorde commentary I didn't undertsnad, it seemed like even they didn't know quite what they were saying.

    Also the trans stuff was pretty offensive but I don't know whether they were making the joke at the expense of those who do believe stuff like that, or they themselves believe it.

    They can be pretty frustratingly contrarian and they like positioning themselves in a sort of Middle ground where they can make fun of everyone, but sometimes issues don't have middle grounds and they just look like the assholes they're supposed to be making fun of

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    South Park is awful

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    VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    On the topic of Bowie's bulge and misheard lyrics

    Even though I know the actual lyrics, I just can't unhear Florence Welch singing "I'm living on sexy gherkin"

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    GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited October 2014
    Blake T wrote: »
    Is the title something specific and I am not clever enough to get it?

    Cause I don't.

    metalbourne started a thread called obscenely clingy grey tights a while back

    the OP was a picture of david bowe's junk from labyrinth

    we tried to turn it into a trans/feminism thread but it was locked for lack of content

    Ah, Labyrinth.

    A movie with David Bowie singing about Magic Junk while dancing in tight pants.

    80s was a hell of a drug.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cts-jXlULEI

    Goatmon on
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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    btw if you take the song Magic Dance from Labyrinth

    and replace the word Dance

    with Pants

    still works

    because Bowie

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    GnizmoGnizmo Registered User regular
    Anonymous said to homptalk:
    Did you watch the most recent South Park episode, "The Cissy," and did you think (like Lorde did) it was positive re: transgenderism?

    I haven't seen it, but if it's anything like they've handled other trans issues in the past, it was probably complete bullshit. The South Park guys tend to go for easy solutions to complex issues that make high school kids and pseudo intellectuals scream at the tv, "that's what I've been telling people all along!"

    It was better than the past I guess. Not good by any means, and you hit pretty close to the mark with your summary. The ending was at least not completely insulting. I love the show, but I really wish they would just stop doing anything trans related. It always goes badly and makes me hate the show until I can mentally delete the episode.

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    MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited October 2014
    Anonymous said to homptalk:
    a bunch of days i (M) kinda wish that I was a female alongside my girlfriend because ladyparts seem more enjoyable to deal with (non-sexually) than male parts, and I like bras and clothes and shit like that but it's disheartening cause I'd never want to wear it in a male body just because it doesn't work. if sexual transitions were easy and quick and cheap i'd probably want to change to female, but alas. is this a bad line of thinking because it's coming from a place of privilege?

    Not really privilege. More like ignorance. A lot of us are undergoing a long, expensive, and dangerous change that isn't going to leave us completely satisfied with our bodies. We hear stuff like this and we go, "pfft, okay, you just go ahead and flit back and forth along the gender spectrum, kiddo."

    Metalbourne on
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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Antimatter posted about it in the indie games thread, because that's where it was being discussed.

    Despite what their message was, the issue is that they spent the majority of the show showing someone acting trans phobic saying mean things and Antimatter said a trans person had a hate letter stuck onto their locker with one of the slurs that cartman used on it.

    This is what dumb people get out of shit like this. New ways to be mean to people. Even if you have a decent message, you need to be delicate on how you present it.

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    MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    Anonymous said to homptalk:
    when someone asks me "how was your day" and I respond with "pretty gay" knowing what it means in regard to sexuality but using it to mean happy, is that bad?

    I'm not a fan, since the more recent, and likely more interpreted meaning is negative.

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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    as an aside Lorde conspiracy theorists are the weirdest people

    i didn't know this was a thing until recently but apparently it's a thing

    of people who do not accept that Lorde is like, 17 years old

    but instead is some like thirty year old woman and the whole thing is some big masquerade because something something i don't fucking know

    let's throw the word Benghazi or something in there who fucking knows anymore with those people

    but that it's this big conspiracy the music industry is in on and everyone knows and they pour over her interviews for "slip ups" where she accidentally references things a 17 year old couldn't possibly know or consider a cultural touchstone or something and it's just

    the internet has done terrible things to people sometimes, man

    it giveth and it taketh

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    knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    I feel like that's possibly people projecting their own insecurities and inadequacies.

    "God, I was a fucking idiot at 17, no way this girl has really got her shit together at that age" or something similar.

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited October 2014
    Has Lorde been taking about ducktales or something? Is that why people think she is 30?

    Scandal just in. Lorde can hum the entirity of the he man theme tune.

    This just in. Now in going to for the rest of the day.

    Blake T on
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    ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited October 2014
    Anonymous said to homptalk:
    a bunch of days i (M) kinda wish that I was a female alongside my girlfriend because ladyparts seem more enjoyable to deal with (non-sexually) than male parts, and I like bras and clothes and shit like that but it's disheartening cause I'd never want to wear it in a male body just because it doesn't work. if sexual transitions were easy and quick and cheap i'd probably want to change to female, but alas. is this a bad line of thinking because it's coming from a place of privilege?

    Not really privilege. More like ignorance. A lot of us are undergoing a long, expensive, and dangerous change that isn't going to leave us completely satisfied with our bodies. We hear stuff like this and we go, "pfft, okay, you just go ahead and flit back and forth along the gender spectrum, kiddo."

    Sometimes I wish I had a penis, but not like... that much.. certainly not enough that I could identify as male.

    Aside from your hangup about the looks of them though, have you ever tried to actually wear the things? That may help you make up your mind about how you feel about dressing the part, at least.

    ceres on
    And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
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    GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    edited October 2014
    Look, we don't get tv in NZ at the same time as you guys.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqLY96_zezc

    Gvzbgul on
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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    to be frank although i actually quite like male gender presentation and consider myself quite male and that is very much my gender identity

    i really could take or leave my genitals, if given the option

    like if give the choice of "male gender, but with vagina" without society being total fucks towards me about it? (that part is important)

    i dunno man, my finger would hover over those checkboxes is what i'm sayin'

    dick problems get pretty fucking tiresome sometimes and lets all be honest with ourselves here

    penises are pretty undignified

    they're a goofy lookin' organ

    then again, periods?

    yeah fuck that noise, i barely deal with periods on my sentences let alone in my life

    if i had a whole vaginal assembly it would have to exclude that nonsense because that is some straight bullshit

    but like seriously you know what is a thing i've had to start dealing with recently?

    prostate stones

    that's a real thing, fellas

    that can really happen

    crystallization in the fluid in your prostate that form jagged little fucking caltrops that can cause inflammation, blockages, irritation, and most fun of all

    firing out fucking shrapnel when you blow a load which is exactly as high-pitched screaming inducing as it sounds

    so really i can take or leave that bullshit

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    ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Anonymous said to homptalk:
    when someone asks me "how was your day" and I respond with "pretty gay" knowing what it means in regard to sexuality but using it to mean happy, is that bad?

    I'm not a fan, since the more recent, and likely more interpreted meaning is negative.

    If I say I'm having a gay day it means I really, really want to have sex with a girl.

    And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
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    MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Has Lorde been taking about ducktales or something? Is that why people think she is 30?

    Scandal just in. Lorde can hum the entirity of the he man theme tune.

    This just in. Now in going to for the rest of the day.

    I cannot, for the life of me, remember the he man theme song. Was there even a theme song?

    All I remember is the funny feeling I got when prince Adam changed into a leather harness

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    ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator mod
    It's true, Pony's relationship with periods is terrible

    And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    it's like

    i complain about my junk and the problems it causes me

    on the other hand

    some people with vaginas get period cramps so fucking bad it's like someone walks up and hits them with a baseball bat in the innards every month on the regular

    yeah uh

    ffffffffffffffffffffuck that

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    Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    I think it's just fair to say that biology fucks everyone over

    some more than others, but it gets us in the end one way or the other

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