"The Angst Monarch"

The world is getting harder, which creates stress

Minors are having spaces on and offline stripped away from them, which creates stress

More awareness around DID, which leads to more syscoveries

More people are pushing back against the medicalized idea of plurality, which leads to more syscoveries

Are people really faking plurality? Or are more and more people realizing they're plural and becoming plural due to the torment nexus? This is a question I wish more people would ask themselves.

Headmate note: online plural spaces can be real bad for newly discovered plural people. online is not perfect. there's a lot of ideas around what pluralitys gotta look like and it causes extra distress and makes more ppl prone to splitting. advice for newly discovered plural people who see this: dont go headfirst into internet plural spaces

Let me explain:

Grotesque fascist grifter, Nigel Farage, is the leader of Reform, the racist far right party he created because UKIP got what it wanted (Brexit) and it sucked.

Having tried and failed to be an MP many times (but somehow getting more screentime than any Liberal Democrat or Green politician), he finally succeeded in the last election because people were so overwhelmingly pissed off with the Conservatives, and many right-wing people saw Reform as the new Conservative Party; partly because it's full of rejects from the Conservative Party.

Speculation: he doesn't really want to be an MP, he wants to be a fascist grifter. He's annoyed by suggestions he do things like Be In His Constituency and Serve His Constituents.

He's recently been caught having accepted a VERY large amount of money from some unsavory people that he insists was a totally legitimate 'donation' and not breaking any rules.

Only it did break the rules and it's very clear that it did and things are in motion to hold him to account.

To avoid this, he has resigned as an MP, saying this is a protest at his treatment by the 'establisment' (he is a rich fascist grifter, but he likes to cosplay as a Man of the People). This has triggered a by-election, in which he is standing, with the hope that the people of his constituency will either elect him in a resounding win, indicating they don't care that he's corrupt (having not heard everything the investigation is uncovering), or someone from Labour or the Conservatives will win and he can swan off to America, free to grift again because of what the 'establishment' did to him.

Only, all the major political parties have agreed not to stand, stating openly that this is an obvious stunt and they won't legitimise it. So if he doesn't win, he can't say it was because he was too much of a rebel and the Establishment went against him, he'll just be a loser, which doesn't play too well with the right-wingers he wants to grift. And if he does get back in the investigation will go forward without any kind of 'mandate' from his constituency buoying him up.

But. There is another option.

COUNT BINFACE IS RUNNING.

Count Binface is part of the grand British tradition of joke candidates who stand as a protest option. They usually don't get enough votes to get their deposit back (which is supposed to deter unserious people) but they don't care, because DEMOCRACY.

Of course, Count Binface has never won, but it is hilarious to see a completely serious pathetic fascist concede defeat while standing next to a man with a bin on his head to whom they are democratically equal.

But if nobody else is standing. And if enough people in Clacton-on-Sea are finally cheesed off enough with Farage not doing anything for them, there is just a chance that one of the funniest things to ever happen in politics will happen.

Imagine. Imagine for just a moment that the Grotesque Fascist not only loses, but loses to Count Binface.

"Drooling" and "incontinent" are not actually insults or negative concepts

Someone might drool because of neurological disorders, craniofacial disorders, etc. It's when saliva isn't contained in the mouth. That's it.

Being incontinent is also entirely neutral. Someone might be incontinent due to a spinal cord injury, other neurological disability, psychiatric illness, medication side effects, etc. Again, it's just having difficult controlling excrement and urinary output. That's it.

They are not negative things. But:

Using them as an insult adds to stigma

Using them as synonyms to objectively negative words like "gross" and "disgusting" adds to stigma

Okay so. I'm stuck in a dead end retail job that doesn't provide insurance at a business where one of my bosses can't gender me correctly to save her life despite the fact that I haven't had a foot in the closet for over a decade. I pay for all my health care and medications out of pocket and effectively work pay check to pay check. Now you know a trans masc who doesn't have a glowing career and private health insurance.

I know a couple trans fems with well paying jobs who are very accepted and accommodated in their places of work, who have health insurance and had their gender affirming surgeries approved by said insurance. They haven't lived pay check to pay check in years.

I know many other trans people across multiple identity lines who are in similar positions to me working dead end jobs and just scraping by. In fact that's most other trans people I know, regardless of if they're a man, a woman, masc, fem, genderless, genderful, it doesn't matter, we're all kind of in the pits together.

The like 3 gender conforming/stealth trans fems I know are an outlier and frankly shouldn't be counted, but could you imagine if I solely based my perception of how trans fems navigate the world based on their experiences alone? That would be fucked up! So why do the exact same thing with trans mascs?