I want to be beautiful, like a sewer rat.

I HATE TOM

I HATE DICK

I HATE LARRY

Final Fantasy 14 was something I always wanted to play because it felt like half my friends were having the time of their lives with it. This was after A Realm Reborn. I even ended up buying the game on sale once, which came with a month or two subscription. Nowadays I think that game is free to play, or almost free to play.

Unfortunately, a lot of those friends moved on years ago, because everything from (I think?) Shadowbringers onwards felt like diminishing returns for them and they quit within a couple years I think. So now it feels like there's little incentive for me. I'm not an MMO guy anyway, but every now and then I get curious about FF14 and even World of Warcraft. I just don't like games that force me to be social, and have to be played like jobs.

To me, going from FF14 v1.0 to A Realm Reborn felt like Square was turning over a new leaf. This was also right around the time games like Bravely Default were beating out Lightning Returns in sales and Square made a vow to stop prioritizing production value over gameplay.

My parents pulled me for the fourth grade, and I was homeschooled until the end of high school. Nine entire years. They pulled me from the public schools for a perfectly reasonable reason — my mental health was in the toilet and I needed to be away from other kids who might hurt me as they had spent all of my third grade year doing. My mom has a fucking PhD in neuroscience and tutors math professionally. She was, during the ten years that my siblings and I were homeschooled, the best, kindest, most caring, understanding, lovely teacher you could ask for.

But I'm still broken. That's the thing about homeschool. You can have the best experience possible in homeschool and still come out a fundamentally broken person. My social development stopped at the age of 10. I'm a 22 year old adult woman with the social skills of a 10 year old. That's not to say that that COULDN'T have happened in public school, but being homeschooled only made it more of a certainty. Both of my siblings and I have fewer coping strategies on average than our peers with similar neurodivergencies because we basically did not live in the real world for a decade during key developmental years.

Don't ban homeschooling because of the religious nuts. There are plenty of them. Hell, I KNEW plenty of them. But there are also plenty of quote unquote "good" homeschool families. Ones that do everything you would hope the model homeschool family does. And they are still hurting their children, even if unintentionally, because homeschooling is an inhrently traumatic experience. It's isolating. For seven entire years of my life, I had no friends. Not because I was a social outcast, but because I didn't even SEE anybody regularly enough. But, nonetheless, I knew people. You generally do if you get involved in the community.

Ban homeschooling because it breaks and utterly destroys everyone who goes through it.

Everyone.

Transandrophobia theorists keep reinventing the terf concept of sex based oppression from first principles!

First, you’re aware that trans women also frequently have vaginas right? Second, you do realize that trans women are raped and abused at higher rates even not talking to account what genitals they have.