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Eh, that's sort of the thing, though.

I don't really think something like a philosophy usually has the ability to be universally true or false. I think philosophies can be personally, socially, or circumstantially meaningful or meaningless, resonant or dissonant, applicable or not applicable, but not true or false.

A philosophy can contain useful insights while still failing to speak to a particular person's lived reality. Someone who spent their life trapped in excessive ego and entitlement is likely going to encounter certain ideas very differently than someone who spent their life struggling to maintain a coherent sense of self in the first place. A person drowning in ego and a person drowning in self-erasure do not have the same problem. It would be strange if the same prescription served both equally well.

I was forcefully put on a form of feminizing HRT when they discovered I was intersex as a teen.

I was never given a choice and told that it would make me feel better, all while I became more and more suicidal. I was then falsely put on anti-psychotics as a teen, because my anger issues and disassociation got so bad. I was eventually on the highest possible dose for three different antidepressants and antipsychotics at the same time. It's only when I turned 18 and suddenly had a new doctor that saw something was very wrong and listened to me like an adult that I saw any relief.

Without her, I would've died.

Im not very generous about that. A lot of you need to learn the difference because you are hurting people. You are not safe to play with in kink scenes. You are blurring the lines between politics and fantasy. You are actively causing people pain by being intersexist and transphobic and, as many people have pointed out, driving a lot of future trans girls further into the closet.

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It's been used since around the 1800s, so it's definitely not new, and "authoritative style guides" have indeed tried really hard to keep it from becoming legitimate.

Sadly true linguists know language evolves constantly, and that language in itself isn't an unchangeable perfect form of communication, and there's no true correct way to do it.

The reason was that, if you get pantsed, and you weren't in on the joke / it wasn't planned, that's a massive breakdown in respect and discipline, and you have to make an example of that kid (generally by wrestling them, and in serious cases, taking away candy privileges). But getting pranked is still a bad look, and makes it seem cool to rebel against your authority.

However, if you get pantsed, and you are in on the joke, everyone has a good laugh, including you, and no one was actually rebelling. It both makes you look like a cool authority figure and makes the person doing it look like they're the sort of person in cahoots with counselors. Then, if there's a behavioral issue, you can have that quiet conversation later, away from an audience.

And since those underwear are so culturally specific as punchlines in a pantsing gag that the only plausible reason to be wearing them is if you're in on a slapstick act, you can retroactively Shanghai any would-be prankster into looking like they did it with your consent and planning, which not only keeps you from indignity, it makes sure that they're rewarded by laughter and attention for looking like they're cooperating with the staff, encouraging that in the future and bringing them in from the outside of the social-reward structure you're trying to set up, where it's cool too be wacky but responsible.

That preparation effort paid off maybe four times across three years, but it was completely worth it.

Just wanted to bring to your attention that the term whump was actually coined by the Stargate fandom specifically to describe making this guy suffer. He is the original Mr. Whump (no that's not his actual name). That's how torturable this guy is.

Everyone say mean things about him.

Here is a non exhaustive list of what he goes through in canon btw:

His parents get crushed to death right in front of him when he is a kid

He is forced to relive the memory of his parents death countless times

He dies and gets resurrected

His wife gets possessed

He fails to save her and she dies in his arms

He dies and gets resurrected again

He gets infected by a virus that makes him act crazy and gets put in an insane asylum

He dies and gets resurrected again

His ex gets possessed

He is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation

He dies and ascends to a higher plane, then gets kicked out of the higher plane and his memory is wiped

He gets kidnapped by a princess

He gets kidnapped by a fish alien

He gets kidnapped and tortured by some terrorists

He gets kidnapped and tortured by another alien

He is driven to insanity by an alien device

He dies and gets resurrected again

In Persona 4, every party member is confronted with their shadow-self, who embodies parts of themselves that they dislike. One girl who doesn't like being sexualized has a shadow-self whose an exhibitionistic bimbo, the shadow-self of a boy who feels stifled by his environment is like "I totally hate my hometown!," so on and so forth. They all kidnap the real person and try to harm them in some way while claiming it's what they actually want.

(The tough gang member's shadow-self is camp gay, but that has the somewhat redeeming pay off of the character in question later being shown to be more at peace with his less hyper-masculine traits. I disgress.)

When you're introduced to Naoto, you're led to believe he's a boy, being called "the Detective Prince" with a reputation for being a Meddling Kid. In actuality, she's a girl, but let's people assume she's a boy because she gets taken more seriously that way.

Her shadow-self...is literally just trying to transition her, with "transition," per the MO of the shadow counterparts, being an elaborate form of simply murdering her, which the Shadow Naoto disingenuously insists is what the real Naoto actually wants. Transition is a metaphor for suicide, essentially.

Shadow Naoto gives like, the most wacked out fuckin TERF-webcomic-villain speech:

And then, Naoto, you know, learns her lesson that it's wrong to "pretend to be a man" to escape misogyny:

It's wild it was ignorance and not deliberate radfemmery because that shit is so something a TERF would write years later, like, it's utterly ludicrous.