Laurentide

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[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Just as some AMAB (Assigned Male At Birth) men want to look more masculine and will work out at the gym or take testosterone supplements, some AMAB men are femboys and may temporarily take feminizing HRT to look less masculine.

Both are trying to change their bodies to better fit their gender identity, and femboy is clearly a different identity from gym bro, but they are both male gender identities.

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The same reason anyone would be: because their current body doesn't match their gender identity and they want to change that. This person just happened to start inside the same arbitrary social category as their destination.

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No mention of trans people, which is odd given that Florida is a Do Not Travel state for its government's efforts to criminalize being transgender.

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 4 points 7 months ago

This was before they added F2P, but ten minutes a day of checking my two hisec market alts (who didn't have a lot of skills because it meant pausing my main's training) was making me just enough to pay for my account and there was room to expand further. Granted, it did take me several months of trading to build up enough funds to support this operation, but I don't think it's reasonable to expect to do this on day 1.

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's because the furry fandom, when it was founded back in the late 70's by a gay polycule of sci-fi fans, was one of the only communities in existence that accepted openly gay and trans people. (And the only non-fetish community.) For many queer people, the furry fandom is the first place they ever feel welcome.

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I support UBI. I just have issues with the claim that jobs in a capitalist system exist for a purpose other than generating profit for owners. I also resent the implication that some workers don't deserve a living wage. Without UBI, all jobs should pay at least enough to cover living expenses. If a full-time job (or job that expects full-time availability) doesn't pay enough to live on then it's not a job that needs doing.

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

None of this changes the fact that a job's purpose is to create profit for the employer and that any educational benefit to the worker is entirely coincidental. Target doesn't care how many teenagers need to learn that "working retail sucks". That's not what the job is for. Target only cares how many people are required to keep their stores running well enough to make money for them.

If you think there should be some kind of work-study program specifically for teenagers so they can gain a bit of job experience as part of their education, fine. That's something that can be discussed. But don't lie to us that Walmart is this program.

"[job type] is intended for teenagers" is nothing but corporate propaganda to justify poverty wages. If it were actually true then why the hell is McDonald's open during school hours? Which teenagers are supposed to be working those jobs?

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 3 points 7 months ago

My mental health improved considerably after I was fired from my basic retail job and was no longer spending 8 hours a day having panic attacks and dissociating. It's not good, but it's a lot better than it was and I can't go back to living like that. Even a year later I still sometimes wake up in a panic from nightmares about working in that place.

I want to work and be productive, but every job I could reasonably qualify for has a sanity cost and I'm all tapped out.

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 21 points 8 months ago

All the "I like Republicans' fiscal conservatism" people in this thread need to read this. "Fiscal conservatism" and "small government" are and always have been dogwhistles for racism and other forms of bigotry. "Government waste" does not refer to inefficiency in government spending, it's code for programs that help the poor and minorities.

The core of Conservative ideology is a belief in the existence of natural hierarchy, where all people owe privilege to the wise and righteous beings above them and are obligated to punish those below for their inferiority. The Conservatives themselves, having designed this hierarchy, are oh-so-conveniently at the very top of it. Everything that Republicans do makes sense when viewed from this perspective.

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I already turned down a free copy of this game because it installs a rootkit, and now this happens. I hear the game itself is a lot of fun, and I feel bad for the actual developers who are watching people shit on their work because of management and publisher bullshit.

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 4 points 10 months ago

My oven uses some weird "eco-friendly" self-cleaning process that involves pouring water into it and steaming the dirt off, which doesn't sound like it would be good for the pan. Got any alternatives? I found a Griswold at the thrift store a few years back and I'd like to be able to restore it without damaging it.

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Non-furries love anthropomorphic animal characters. Our culture is full of them; all cultures are. Furries didn't invent sports mascots, Looney Tunes, the Easter Bunny, Aesop's fables, or the Egyptian pantheon. Obviously it's not the appreciation for talking animals that people actually hate. So why is it that, out of all the weird subcultures that exist, the one that gets the most hate thrown at it is the one centered around a love of something universal to all human cultures?

It's because the founders of the modern furry fandom were gay and poly, and the fandom has always had an overwhelmingly LGBT membership because it used to be the only non-fetish community that openly accepted gay and trans people. All anti-furry hate is either a negative reaction to the fandom's queerness or a deliberate attempt to attack the LGBT community by proxy.

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