is this one of your earth jokes?

Cutting - in my opinion, the most labor intensive part of the process. The amount of time/effort needed varies depending on the pattern and if seam allowance is included or marked separately, but no matter what this process can not be done by machine. Each and every panel and piece of fabric that goes into a garment must be cut by hand by a person.

Pinning/clipping - pinning (or clipping) is the stage at which you align the pieces you are going to be stitching together and hold them together with — you guessed it! — either pins or clips. This can not be done by machine.

Stitching - the actual sewing. This can be done by a sewing machine, but that machine still needs to be operated by a human being.

Ironing/pressing - two words that mean the same thing. The iron itself is a machine, but once again, it needs to be operated by a human being.

Finishing - depending on the technique you use, there are certain finishing techniques that can only be done by hand. But, let’s assume we’re talking about fast fashion, which is usually just finished with a simple overlock/serger. Once again: these machines need to be operated by people.

These are just the basic steps to making a garment, and don’t include textile arts that I am not as knowledgeable about, such as weaving, knitting, and crochet. Also, it is important to note that there are a lot of things that can only be done by hand, such as certain stitches and decorative techniques.

Also, the machinery being operated in textile factories is not equivalent to a domestic sewing machine. We’re talking about one of these guys:

See that gray cylinder under the table, behind the knee pedal? That’s the motor. These machines can sew through your fingers bones and all and not even stop. The people in these factories and sweatshops are operating heavy machinery, and are subject to all the risk that comes with that in addition to all of the work I mentioned above.

First part is them staring at the camera in exasperation. Caption says: "white transmascs appropriating black culture after transitioning because they associate blackness with masculinity." Theres music playing and they mouth along the words "that is not the baby!"

Second part is a response to the first. Slow piano music plays in the background. Caption says: "white queers have a weaponized incompetence problem."

The filmer says the following:

"The other day, I made a video talking about how white transmascs appropriate black culture in order to feel more masculine because they associate blackness with masculinity. And never before in my life, or posting videos about trans discourse, have I gotten so many comment from people acting completely oblivious or confused to the issue, even though the issue is a very simple statement.

I think this reflects the fact that a lot of white queer people are just incapable of thinking about issues if it is not personally affecting them.

And I think this reveals a weaponized incompetence issue in the larger white queer community when it comes to racial issues. When someone brings attention to intercommunal issues not about race, I never get these comments. I never get comments acting confused, or acting like what im talking about is so incomprehensible, or saying things like, 'well, I've never seen this happen,' because people accept 'maybe this has happened, just not to me.'

But the second someone brings up a racial issues, suddenly it's incredibly confusing and complex, and people need to explain to them five million different ways to where they get it. And obviously other people call bullshit to this, and they say, 'This is very clearly just you refusing to understand this, not you being unable to understand.'

And a lot of people in the comment seem to be resorting to the fact they theyre neuro divergent to excuse the fact that theyre not aware of racial dynamics in the queer community. And I think this is a larger problem. People like to flee into marginalized identity and talk about how theyre queer, or theyre neurodivergent, in order to get away from complex critiques about the way they ignore racism in their own community.

There are two possibilities. Either 1: these people are aware of this issue, and are pretending not to know about it because it allows them to escape accountability; or 2: theyre just generally not aware of it. But both of these things reveal a problem, because it means that white queer people either do not notice, or do not care, about the racism happening in their own community. Because the problem identified is not a niche issue, it happens all the time. But the refusal to use critical thinking —or even just look in the comments for other explanations, before jumping to acting confused and acting ignorant of the issue— is a bigger problem that white queer people need to examine in themselves.

Remaining ignorant on issues of race and acting like you've never seen this happen, or you've never heard this before, is a result of you ignoring it, not as a result of it not happening.

The fact that tons of people in the comments who are Black queer people are saying this happens all the time, but white queer people are saying they've never seen it happen, suggests that it's not that it doesn't happen, its that white queer people dont recognize it happening because they dont actually pay attention to racial issues in their community. Which is why when it gets called out, they act so confused about it.

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what is the function of hormones in the body

@voidcatdoll "cramps are caused by muscles"

No, cramps are in your muscles, but period cramps are caused by the uterus releasing prostaglandins. If you do not have a uterus, you should not mysteriously get abdominal cramping regularly. That's a sign to see a doctor.

Your body *does* actually know that there's no womb, and will react accordingly. For example, in cis women without uteruses and ovaries, there is no monthly cycle or cramping.

I don't understand why trans women aren't being recommended more resources from post-hysterectomy cis women because those *do* tell a very different story than what you're being asked to accept, and are much more applicable to your bodies.

1. That's a woman with ovaries. Ovaries release hormones such as LH and FSH regardless of a uterus. This is why I specified in my initial post the following:

2. Who you should be researching for this information is post-menopausal cis women, because their experiences will be far more akin to those of trans women. The cramping experienced after menopause is not a period and does not occur on a monthly basis, it is often a result of minute hormone fluctuation and pelvic muscle flexibility. These cramps are a symptom of larger issues and often precede pelvic floor disorders.

why would cis women who have low estradiol levels be comparable to me, a woman who does monotherapy? I have more estrogen in my blood than you.

why do you insist on being aggressively ignorant and saying wrong things so loud? you need to be mad at how little you were taught about your own biology, not us.

1. No, that's not how that works. I actually know a trans woman who has been on HRT for ten years. Here's what she told me:

Because she has no ovaries and no uterus.

LH, or luteinizing hormone, does not act in trans women the way it does in cis women. Ovaries convert testosterone into estrogen; LH stimulates testosterone production in both male and female bodies. If you have no ovaries, your LH production will not lead to more estrogen. In fact, if you have no abdominal theca or granulosa cells, LH and FSH will not be interpreted as anything other than "let's go stimulate testosterone production". I don't know why you assume that being on estrogen will somehow create a female reproductive system with cells that have receptors for these hormones.

2. Women with low estradiol levels =/= all post menopausal women. A LOT of cis women go on hormone therapy to ensure they have high estrogen levels.

You very well could have more than me! Good for you! But that doesn't give you a period, your body doesn't just start manufacturing abdominal cramps to expel the lining of an organ it does not possess, and that's fine! Again, there's really no reason your body would do any of this, because the entire reason cis women have a 25-38 day hormone cycle is interactions between the pituitary gland, the uterus, and the ovaries (amongst other things). You are missing some of the key steps in this cycle, which stops it from happening. Same as in a cis woman who lacks ovaries and a uterus.

I genuinely have no idea why else you would have thought that my experiences are more comparable to a post-menopausal cis woman. Menopause is literally caused by a decline in endogenous sex hormone production, it is treated with exogenous hormones, that's just about the only similarity. it is an entirely superficial similarity you're still ignoring the fact that people do in fact get cramps without the oh-so-important tissue that you're obsessed with. the top comment on that reddit thread I linked is someone saying they still get them even after having their ovaries removed, you didn't read that because it disagrees with you. when we talk to doctors about this sort of thing, they think we're just making it up. they treat us just like you are treating us. you big dumb idiot. trans women often see a significant reduction in menstrual symptoms by adjusting their hormone regimen, that would have been a great suggestion to make. you did not have any real suggestions, all you wanted to do was deny that we experience menstrual symptoms. p.s. you forgot to list the hypothalamus when you inexpertly described the HPG axis.