Ultimately, what I think we need is patience: The patience to explain from first principles, to meet people where they are at, to untangle webs of lies, to refuse the hoarding of wisdom. And this is much harder than shame because you must fundamentally reject that erring is a personal flaw

Idk I think this is a real YMMV thing because I know grown ass adults who are still taking thise

These thoughts brought to you by the grey hairs I found today

This is the tagline for the vegan orgy

Maybe my refusal to try in my prime was a self-protective move because I knew I couldn't play the game

As I remember who I was through those years though--gosh I couldn't have handled actually looking good. Looking the way I did, being as low effort and anti-feminine as I was, I still barely survived the make violence and female relational aggression I went through.

...I have more money and knowledge and willingness to try, and now that most of my years of thick blonde hair are behind me, I feel some regret about not beauty-maxxing earlier

I grew up in Phoenix and my mom would always put this on in the summer "so we can pretend it's colder"

The old Gender is dying, the new Gender struggles to be born, now is the time of... dysphoria???

had a great savory waffle in Portland this weekend!

And that didn't really work and made me so cognitively rigid that I had to do 10 months of therapy about it to act like a person again.

Perpetual self-reminder that I won't make friends I can be myself around by intensively self-censoring and self-monitoring to the point of personality erasure.