The carnal love one may feel at their core

It might take time. More than has already passed, but it will get better.

than has already passed, but

it will get better.

A social media post by Jonathan Edward Durham (@thisone0verhere). It reads:

Honestly congratulations to anyone who's managed to do ANYTHING this year. I see your quilts. I see your poems and your books and the things you cook. I see your jewelry and your paintings and the things you crochet. I see the animals you take care of. I see the mouths you feed and the bills you pay and the pieces you're trying to pick up. I see you getting out of bed and chasing continuance and just existing. I see you. You are doing important work, and the world needs it, and you should be proud.

Hormonal birth control is vital for people who cannot afford/manage a baby AND especially people with hormonal illnesses like PCOS (meee), endometriosis, some chronic illnesses, etc etc. This is very true.

Hormonal birth control has many unwanted side effects and can really mess people up- also ABSOLUTELY true. I've really struggled to find a sort that doesn't turn my anxiety machine into overdrive!! So much of hormones, especially of menstruating people, is underresearched and often underplayed. Leading into the next point:

Hormonal birth control is often thrown at people by uncaring/awful doctors who then proceed to dismiss any and all concerns about side effects. Especially if you're AFAB, doctors are notoriously awful and will speak over you. A lot of these women HAVE felt the frustration of being spoken over, having their questions ignored, being told their Real Physical Sicknesses are just hormonal and they need to suck it up. Its no wonder they'd turn to influencers who at least pretend to care more about them.

ALSO! The birth rate is very awful in the US right now! Restricting access to birth control is absolutely a goal to force more unwanted pregnancies! There are constant pushes to make people have babies while simultaneously denying them the money needed to care for the kids!

Its like a horrible perfect storm of conditions leading to women hearing of the bad side effects some people have (very real, because hormones are a wild beast we don't know enough of) seeing other women Like Them talk about it lifting their malaise (instead of a doctor who can often be dismissive, fostering a sense of a fellow giving you advice) and then getting hit with an unexpected baby (benefits the capitalistic hellscape that probably caused the malaise in the first place)

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- aromantic people who aren't asexual.

- asexual people who aren't aromantic.

- cishet aromantic and cishet asexual people.

- aromantic men in general.

- intersex people who are trans.

- intersex people who are are cis.

- intersex people who are cistrans/tris and those who are neither.

- intersex people who are cishet.

- intersex people in general.

- nonbinary people who don't personally identify as transfem or transmasc.

- nonbinary people who don't want to be androgynous.

- cis people who use neopronouns and/or xenogenders while still feeling cis fits just fine.

- people who feel gender dysphoria or misgendered when referred to by they/them, especially after telling you not to use they/them.

PART TWO.