Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]

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Cake day: May 1st, 2023

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  • I sometimes wish we had a vegan megathread, because I want to make a comment that’s not big enough for it’s own post, but it doesn’t really fit here either, because it’s kind of meta, a little struggle-session adjacent.

    So what I’m going to do is spoiler it and if you’re a carnist, don’t fucking read it. And if you can’t help yourself and read it anyway, don’t fucking respond to it. I will block any carnists who respond to this comment, I’m actually not trying to start a fight, I just need to vent where another vegan can see it.

    Seriously, carnists, fuck off

    I just ran across a post in c/food that had meat. It’s an 11 hour old post with no CW and it’s still up. I don’t blame the mods, really. Modding is hard work and of course stuff will fall through the cracks, especially when rule-breaking posts don’t get reported (and I assume this post hadn’t been before I reported it just now). I want hexbear to be vegan so badly. I understand why we allow carnists on here, I do get it, but I wish we could call them out more and have them shut the fuck up about stuff. But it’s hard to argue the vegan position, because we’re outnumbered here, and carnists are fucking fragile and tend to be argumentative asshats when called out on their meat eating. I admit to backing off fights I should have taken on because I just don’t want to deal with the pushback.

    And that suuuucks! This little corner of the internet is so good in so many ways. I can be unapologetically trans, no one will call me a tankie for saying China good, and bigots of most stripes get absolutely dogpiled here. I love it. But I wish asshole carnists got dogpiled in the same way. And they don’t.

    Anyway, that’s it. Carnists just don’t understand that pictures of dismembered dead animals are unpleasant to see. I truly wish we could ban all nonvegan posting from c/food. Maybe make a c/carnism or something for people who absolutely cannot stop posting pictures of their murder treats, because I don’t want to see that shit!







  • I didn’t know as a child. I had no idea. It wasn’t until I was like 28 or something that I realized I was trans. Before that, I never would have said I was suffering or struggling with my gender or anything. There wasn’t any gender-related pain I could point to. Then suddenly one day hearing myself referred to as “she” just rankled for some reason. It didn’t feel right and this feeling of wrongness came out of nowhere, very strongly.

    But a weird thing happened after I came out to myself and a few people around me. I started recontextualizing some childhood experiences and feelings and I realized, holy shit, I’ve always been trans, there was gender dissonance, I just didn’t recognize it for what it was.

    In time you might feel some of that, I suspect many trans people do. But even if you don’t, that’s ok! I’m not a person who thinks gender (or sexuality) is always innate and unchangeable. I think humans are malleable and our genders and sexualities can change, just as other aspects of our identities do.

    Let yourself consider that you might be trans! You definitely don’t need to have felt dysphoria for years, just not wanting to be a cis man is enough!


  • I gotta ask, are you incapable of reading or are you unwilling to read? Because DivineChaos100 responded to you with two links to NYT articles about this issue, in this comment, which was posted before CarmineCatboy2 asked you to comment on those NYT articles. And yet, you’re here acting as though this didn’t happen. But I can read and I understand what time stamps are, so I know that you have been shown evidence that the NYT believes similar things to the r/Collapse subreddit before this comment where you pretend such a thing never happened.

    So I’ll repeat CarmineCatboy2’s question to you, and maybe you’ll answer it this time: Were you surprised to discover that the new york crimes echoes the same ecofascist genocidal sentiments that we see on reddit?


  • So the weirdo you’re quoting is angry that parents can’t pay for private after school tutors for their kids and also their kids can’t play videogames all day every day. But then the weirdo you’re quoting says: “No fun allowed. No studying allowed. Only CCP school teachings. Afterschool is for CCP homework and restudying Xi JinPing thought”. And I think that’s a weird jump in logic, isn’t it? “No fun allowed”, “Afterschool is for CCP homework”, but China is surely not banning hanging out with friends, which is one of the main sources of fun I enjoyed when I was a kid. It looks to me like Xi is mandating that kids touch some grass, not that they become little communist robots.

    Videogames aren’t the only source of fun I guess is what I’m saying.