Saying it here for those in the back:

In a world in which we feel increasingly powerless, people will go to great lengths to control all kinds of things, just so we can feel a little less helpless.

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Yeah, this all checks out except that the doses transfolk need are a much smaller fraction of what's used for anabolics abuse. And most people abusing anabolics either go to rogue clinics, use underground labs, or DIY. Plus transfolk who need T sure af aren't selling it. We need our T to survive!

Oh, fuck. Yep. Bouncing up and down in my seat. So relatable. Well, really the whole damn thing.

I'll, uh, be in my bunk.

Sure, and maybe that's just habit for them. I'm loud and open politically, though, and they follow me and respond to some non-political posts, so I know they know where I stand.

Yes. They don't stop until we stop them. That's how the plan works.

I mean, they're struggling with this too, yes. But they don't think they're the center of the world, and they've seen it play out multiple times just in the past 200 years. They have breadth of perspective. Most of us don't.

And I know some of my sex-positive peers are going to cringe, hearing that term. I hope they can hear the nuance too. To be clear: porn consumption =/= addiction. But one reason people can be so easy to convince that it is, is because sexuality is a necessary and powerful part of many of our lives.

Thank you for sharing your lived experience with this. 🖤

Breaking free of shame is hard, no matter what drives it. And it can be confusing to know what we need, too, especially when we're cult/urally indoctrinated - or when dealing with a process or substance that *can* have addictive properties.

True, but ones who are too important to be limited to a single spot in my Primary's buildings get immediately towed.

And when they return looking confused, they find their special car that paid for 1 spot does not secretly deserve 2. Extra fun if you get to explain who handi spots are really for.

This sounds like a great hypno file concept.

Ooooh, that mask on you. 🔥🔥🔥

Now I'm gonna have to get one of those. I love seeing someone's eyes, and I only have one mask that does that, and it still is full face.

Oh, I didn't say I needed it, lol. Just that they don't. 😉

I fucking love this response.