AutomatedPossum

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[–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

in this case i wouldn't rule out it was originally made up because somebody was horny and then later turned their fantasy into an article.

[–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months ago (6 children)

a third of the users are cishet hesitation-2

[–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A common binary trans consideration that I have the hardest time relating to as a non-binary trans person is a burning desire to pass as the gender that one identifies with.

As a nonbinary transfem who is very closely ajacent to what is commonly referred to as "binary trans womanhood", i really struggle with the way many other nonbinary people frame issues of cissexism, passing obsession, transmedicalism, lack of self worth, excessive and unwarranted shame and internalized transmisogyny as "a binary thing" instead of as "a deeply brainwormed thing". These desires are not inherent to "binary" transness, they are inherent to the ruling discourse about what the trans experience has to be like, which is a discourse that purposely exists only within the safeguards of binary gender roles. But i see many of these assumptions bleeding into nonbinary spaces as well. The underlying, toxic desire to be cis, to hate one's transness, to reject one's body for not meeting (cis)normative standards of beauty is present in both cases, and it is the main obstacle to trans joy in both cases as well.

[–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 45 points 5 months ago

We have something better:

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[–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Happened to me as well even though i barely bothered to push voice training beyond the androgynous range. Cis people think of their voice as this set-in-stone natural thing and everything else as a form of faking, but a voice is actually just a learned way to use the most complex instrument built into the human body. It's very easy to forget the exact mannerisms you trained yourself for, because that wasn't your natural default voice, it was a learned way of speaking just like the one you learn when you transition.

[–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 35 points 5 months ago

You will quickly learn to hate how the cis moderate will continue to talk about you instead of with you even when you are actively engaged in a one on one conversation with them.

[–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

Yeah that works pretty well. I'm having my tenth laser session on monday and the only dark stubble that remains visible is half a John Waters mustache on my left upper lip and some hairs under my nose. I haven't needed orange concealer since about session 6 or 7. When my health insurance pays for it, i'm gonna clean the remainder up with electrolysis afterwards, especially the grey hairs on my chin, but i really went from "my beard dysphoria is murdering me" to "i'm a girl who thinks about getting rid of some annoying facial hair, but is unsure if she needs to" just with laser.

[–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

It gets a lot worse when you're German and the most common slur for brown people in your language is derived from the name of the Kanak people.

[–] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

IPL is useless for facial hair because the roots are in too deep there. IPL can work well on your legs, belly etc., but face and back hair need an actual laser for permanent results

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