Strangeness & Charm

It is no coincidence, however, that once someone has “collected them all” from a specific set of personal commitments — paranoia about seed oils; rejection of vaccines; a belief that biohacking or “data” or artificial intelligence can make humans physically immortal; a nostalgia for “traditional” foods or gender relations — we can pretty much predict which political forms they will favor. [...] Couched in the boosterish language of the online wellness guru, their projects link perfecting the physical self to building a better future for white men and those who love them. The “robust energy and biological resilience” of Liver King’s “ancestral lifestyle” is fueled by patriarchal values as much as by raw liver.

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i’m a navy enjoyer through and through

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people in my country when misogynistic violence is committed by a white man:

for those not as invested in this shit as I am, the movie ends with the protagonists not having sex and deciding people who like having sex are shallow and weird. Yknow. Agreeing with the facist government banning them from having sex.

someone on reddit explained 😭

While this isn't news to anyone who works in this space, it is useful to have this water-is-wet research to affirm that Indigenous knowledge and land management are extremely effective at storing carbon and protecting biodiversity.

I want to draw special attention to this part of the article:

I get a fair number of asks and comments on my posts expressing sentiments like "human beings are a plague on this Earth", "humans ruin everything, we deserve to be wiped out", "humanity is inherently selfish, evil, and irredeemable".

I don't think the folks saying these things have bad intentions, I know their words come from a place of very understandable pain, fear, and anger. But to act as though humanity's impact on nature is inherently damaging and extractive is to erase thousands of years of Indigenous stewardship of nature. These ecosystems are thriving because there are humans living there.

r/ftm about damage from binding, all posted within the past year. 

Binding is not safe. I was only on testosterone for 3 months and was relatively unscathed, but I was binding for a year and a half, 6-8 hours a day (what is considered “safe binding practice”). and that also may not sound like a lot of time, but I cannot wear bras anymore, over 2 years after I stopped binding. not even wireless, soft bralettes because if i wear one my ribs hurt and i have shooting pains when I breathe. 

I just want to say, that although my breasts appearing almost overnight made me pretty devastated, at least I got the chance to eventually get used to them. I hated them with a passion. I hid them, I slouched (I’m finally trying to get rid of that!). I’d have given anything to have a time machine and go back to before they erupted onto my unwilling body. But now I don’t feel anything about them.

If you wear a binder, you get that dreaded sinking feeling every. single. time. you. take. it. off. The breasts appear, out of nowhere, as a reminder, each time. That will fuck with your head.

So you can see transmen keeping the binder on. Because what do you see when it comes off? Destroyed breast tissue and lumpy ribs. The more you do it, the more you feel you have to do it. The more you dissociate from your own body, the more dysphoria you’re going to have, not less.

There’s no opportunity to get to relate to your own body parts as neutral. I’m not talking about some massive self-love thing, just seeing your breasts as neutral body parts. Like your ankles, or your earlobes or whatever.

You can’t do that if there’s this upsetting big reveal every time you take a binder off. And you have to take a binder off eventually. It’s just a shitty coping mechanism.

And, I hate to sound cruel, but in most cases it doesn’t make that much of a difference. A flat chested woman still looks like a woman. And there’s nothing particularly masculine about not being able to breathe. And if you do have a mastectomy, your results will be worse, because you’ve got fucked up breast tissue and deformed ribs.