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I get the importance of the transfem community warnings but sometimes I see shit like girls talking other girls out of trying to get their teaching certificates because of the potential for harassment from conservative parents and idk that's very real but also at a certain point we are just doing preemptive hiring discrimination to ourselves

Like on the one hand it is very real that societal transphobia would like to see us all unemployed, forced to do survival sex work. But also that's not the only reality available to us at this point! And sometimes I worry that we are self policing in a way by flooding so many trans girls with this message of "your only options are to get super good at onlyfans or be Raytheon's strongest coder" when like, so many of the women I know are teachers, home care workers, nannies, day care workers, postal workers. Not glamorous, but like, idk the world of lower middle class pink collar jobs is available to us more or less at this point. Other girls have office jobs, some girls have to work food service and retail. But we get to exist in some form besides either NEETs or internet famous porn girls. And obvi hiring discrimination is real, and obvi disability issues come into play for a lot of us that makes a lot of the work I just mentioned inaccessible. I'm not saying things are sweet out there. But there is a world out there where you can live. Maybe not in the exact way you want, maybe not super easily, but you can live.

I know transfem lawyers, construction workers, professional musicians, bartenders, and academics. You can be the reason that another trans person believes the future they dream of is possible. The more trans people enter new fields, the harder it is to target any one of us or say we can't do that job

tech companies appear to be labouring under the delusion that users who click on the wrong program by accident because the button's placement has changed will naturally find themselves using and enjoying whatever feature they moved into the previous location of that program's button

i suspect the number of people in the world who go "ah, what the hell. i've accidentally opened the window for this new feature. i suppose i might as well stop what i'm doing to try this out rather than just figure out where they've hidden the old button and go do the thing i was already doing" is roughly n=2 and that those 2 people are the CEOs of microsoft and google respectively

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My incredibly bleak philosophy of compassion is that we should all pity each other horribly and practice an according amount of kindness.

has anyone considered that it was probably her house too. where else was she supposed to put her chintz?

And for people with roommates who have power over them (read: parents), and who's said roomates have really weird rules with food amounts or timing, small things that don't rot fast (mainly nuts, high preservatives, pickles, and dried fruit) in quiet containers in a place you'll remember but they won't look tends to do the trick!

Yes. And controlling what another person eats and when is abuse. Do whatever you need to do to subvert your abusers and eat enough to live.