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  • As someone who has recently been the person who doesn’t care anymore, but has also been the one who does, you aren’t doing yourself any favors clinging to someone who isn’t interested. It’s just going to hurt both of you the whole time and end the same anyway. You can’t change their feelings or your own feelings, but you can let them go and try to move on. It sucks and it hurts and it feels like such unfair bullshit, but in the end you will be better off without them, and as painful as it may be to hear they will be better off too.






  • I never really hated trans people personally but I definitely didn’t see them as whole people for most of my life. I thought they were just broken mentally or something which was easy to rationalize since most trans people (including myself) carry around a fair bit of trauma and mental health issues, often due to how people treat us and how society depicts us. The color I want to add here is that despite having (eventually) accepted that trans people exist and aren’t broken and transitioning is a totally fine thing for someone to do, I didn’t connect the dots that I was trans and that I could transition myself. I finally realize the first time I tried lsd. It just hit me like a truck that I’m a woman and I was the whole time and I want to transition. All the pieces finally came together (there were so many signs) and I just couldn’t ignore it anymore. For me it took that final push even after accepting transness in general, so you can imagine how hard it would be for someone who literally does hate trans people and think we’re broken scum. Whatever they’re experiencing can’t be being trans in their mind because trans people are those broken other people.





  • A surprisingly simple model can be accurate enough to be usable, but you need to understand the limitations and assumptions of it. You need to understand when the model is prudent and when it gives erroneous results. The problem with models of gender and attraction is people take them at face value and assume that they’re complete, when in fact they are almost all deeply flawed in one way or another. Ignoring those flaws creates blindspots and bias, which ultimately hurts everyone, but hurts individuals who fall inside the blindspots or who become victims of bias most of all. Anyone who goes through a mechanical engineering program will know that steam isn’t an ideal gas, but that doesn’t stop an ignorant layperson from assuming it is and hurting themselves and others as a result.


  • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneexpert rule
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    2 months ago

    Counter argument, attraction exists on an infinite dimension hyperspace encompassing all of time and space and all past, current, and future configurations of matter and energy. We try to fit the world to our models but the world doesn’t concern itself with our musings. Attraction is on a case by case basis for all of us anyway.



  • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMyth rule
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    3 months ago

    I’ve been saying for years this is literal training for anti-intellectualism and ultimately fascism and hate. As soon as you can convince yourself to believe something just because someone said to without any evidence or even contrary evidence, you’re primed to start doing that in other areas of your life. Grifters and fascists will absolutely take advantage of people like that without a second thought, and they scream their propaganda all over Fox news. Religion is more than just some stupid bullshit people believe, it’s a threat to democracy and freedom.