godhood is just like girlhood;

This is the best description I’ve heard for this method, I always thought it was bullshit because I never heard a description that actually explained how to do this other than “tap your head 20 times”.

OH MY FUCKING GOD IT WORKED!

This has been added on the reddit thread and I think this might be useful here as well, since you can actually see the method demonstrated:

ok... but if a trans girl has had surgery and ""passes"" in a way you can't distinguish her from a cis girl then youre saying you could be attracted to her? :/ objectively nothing changes except what anatomy a girl has and not every girl is going to tell you that upfront. if you can look @ a girl when she is fully clothed, view her as a girl and think she's attractive, but when she's nude suddenly dismiss her gender...? that's very much a you problem. trans girls are girls.

nobody is saying that there aren’t attractive/“passable” trans women (or “girls” ew) out there, anon. what we are saying is that the moment this person says they’re male, that attraction goes away. automatically (for me at least).

Here’s a good analogy I saw.

Plastic stakes ARE steaks. It’s IN the name.

One of my favorite stories:

They renovated the office bathroom to be ‘eco friendly’ and replaced paper towels with a blower.  And got rid of all trash cans and other receptacles.  Yup, even the little bins inside the stall.  I and other women complained loudly, and were told that there wasn’t anything they could do about it.

Incidentally, a refusal to provide adequate sanitary bins contravenes workplace health and safety laws regarding the handling of biohazardous waste.

Friendly reminder that this blob of core material was so hot and dense, it melted/burned through three floors of the building before coming to rest in the lowest basement.

okay but

Elephant’s Foot: *releases horrifying levels of radiation fatal to most life* Heretofore unknown species of mold:

what do you mean your family doesnt speak english? how do you comunicate?

hi could i ask how exactly does one accidentally set a lemon on fire??

“We often have to explain to young people why study is useful. It’s pointless telling them that it’s for the sake of knowledge, if they don’t care about knowledge. Nor is there any point in telling them that an educated person gets through life better than an ignoramus, because they can always point to some genius who, from their standpoint, leads a wretched life. And so the only answer is that the exercise of knowledge creates relationships, continuity, and emotional attachments. It introduces us to parents other than our biological ones. It allows us to live longer, because we don’t just remember our own life but also those of others. It creates an unbroken thread that runs from our adolescence (and sometimes from infancy) to the present day. And all this is very beautiful.”

Reminded me of these

That comic up there – I witnessed almost that exact scenario. Teacher wanted the kids to all pick books. One kid spots something on the shelf and gets visibly excited. Pulls it out and starts reading. Teacher sees it, snatches it off him and tells him that this is a book for 8 year olds (the kid was 15ish) and tells him to get a book more appropriate for his age. Kid slouches around the shelves for about 10 minutes, finally picks up a book at random and sits in his chair tucking the edges of each page into the binding to make that looped-page look. He didn’t read a word. He sat there and did this to his book for the remainder of the reading session:

Reading this thread I’m reminded of Daniel Pennae’s The Rights of the Reader, which can be found in a lot of bookshops and school libraries: