EmptySlime

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[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 months ago

He'll graduate from being chastised to being -gasp- rebuked. If he's not careful there might even be a... Finger wag.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 4 months ago

It's not a failure in the usual sense we think about it, no. You were still "technically wrong" in whatever hypothesis you had that was disproven. But the end result is different because theoretically everyone involved cares more about the answer being found, not necessarily that they are the one to do it.

Hell, in cases where whatever you did was later proven incorrect it's usually that whatever you did was the most correct answer for the information we had at the time. Then new information is discovered and often someone else builds off what you did to get this new answer.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 months ago

For me it was just a general feeling of "wrongness" mostly. Like cramming yourself into shoes that are just a little too small. You're acutely aware that it's uncomfortable and that it doesn't feel right, but it's your whole body.

In my case I think those feelings were aggravated by my ADHD. There's this sense called proprioception that is knowing where your body is and how it's moving without looking that many people with ADHD or autism often struggle with. It's one of the things that contributes to that stereotype of the "ADHD Walk" where we're constantly running into, getting caught on, or tripping over things more typical people seem top just instinctively avoid.

So not only did just the state of being a boy feel wrong, and I hated the things that came with this box everyone had put me in. But my whole body felt clumsy and like it was a few inches too big in every dimension. Which only reinforced that this person I saw in the mirror every day just wasn't Me.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

6ft is roughly 183cm

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Jokes like this aren't to imply that there are only two options. It also implies the existence of pescatarian shoes for example. The joke is that you apply other related terms to the situation, usually the most absurd of them. In this case carnivorous was probably chosen for the implication that the shoes themselves are carnivorous and would eat you if you wore them.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 months ago

By any sane reading of the constitution he should have been barred from running again due to having been part of an insurrection. But SCOTUS said nah let the voters decide.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There's also a bunch of us who at one point identified as bi before realizing we were actually ace. I've talked to a fair few people with similar experiences.

In my case I went from being a homophobic straight guy because I mistook being uncomfortable with being directly desired for sex with disliking gay guys because "of course I like women... I'm just old fashioned and need to find The One™ first." To realizing that I must be bi because I don't actually feel any different about men than I do about women. To realizing that I'm ace because of course I don't feel any different 0=0 after all.

Hell, I probably wouldn't have ever figured out the ace part without my partner. She's the one that taught me it was a thing when we first started dating along with helping me figure out I'm nonbinary.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

I don't think you need to actually have kissed a boy to be a boykisser. I'd think that wanting to kiss boys is probably enough.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I never meant to upset you or anyone else. Bisexual erasure is dumb and I'd hoped that I was over the top enough for it to be self evident how dumb a position it would be to unironically hold.

I'd identified as Bi myself for many years before learning what asexuality is and so I've experienced people doing this not joking. That frustration is pretty much where that joke was coming from. I'm sorry.

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Does that mean asexuals would say bye? Oooh oooh oooh. Does that make us Bye-sexuals? I'm sorry I'll see myself out

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Well yeah, trans girls can like boys and be boykissers just like they can like girls and be attracted to the same gender.

Edit: reading it back I wanted to add just to be clear I'm saying a lot of these can apply to both femboys and trans girls. That's why it's not redundant.

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