"Sword of Damocles" like bitch we used service pack 2 XP for ever. "We won't support something" means nothing if the original product was built right.
...Ohhh now I see the problem. Nevermind, everybody, carry on.
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Once you see what that user is doing, it's absolutely hysterical. It's one of the few times I'll see comment threads and upvote everyone in them.
To be pedantic, it's spelled pedantic.
And they feel zero remorse!? I'm genuinely shocked and appalled!
Oh my God that was the same person!? Who had all that drama and who can't write to save their life?
Jaysus!
The word maritime means of or near or on or dealing with the ocean. So he made a pun by replacing it with Merit, which is about how worthy or how good at stuff someone is, or if someone deserves something.
It's a pretty good pun!
I really hope he chuckled to himself over Meritime because that's excellent. That's good work right there.
I don't know how to say this without sounding insane, but I've never met a trans person who didn't pass.
This isn't because they're all beautiful. It's because there's a wide variety of women in the world and I've said this before, and I'll say it again- I think there's a lot of internalized misogyny in trans spaces, where there's this idea that you have to conform to some idea of 'beauty' in order to be femme.
A lot of cis women are invisible. That's not because they 'pass'. It's because they aren't remarkable. One of my oldest friends, who passed away recently, was a woman with polycystic ovarian syndrome. It's a condition that tends to make women grow more hair than "average," it tends to be coupled with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, which makes for a rounder body in some ways, and it's an extremely common condition. I'm not even 40 and I've had 5 different friends who all had it! It's super common! And there's this thing that cis women deal with which is, if you aren't pretty, you're straight up ignored.
So what I see, and I hope that this comes across as gender affirming, is that trans women are women, and they don't realize that they pass a lot easier than they think they do. Because you don't have to be like the woman on the right in the comic to be a woman. You can look like the person on the left, and still look like a woman, because there's lots of ciswomen who look imperfect in a lot of ways. It's just that trans women are harder on themselves than they should be, because they've been taught "women look like X and sound like Y and do like Z." And the truth is, we're half the damn population! We look like and sound like and do like everything! We just aren't on TV, on the radio, in the news.
I've said in the past that I have the bodytype of Danny Devito and it's true. And I definitely am not trying to downplay the extreme difficulty that trans women face, and there are some very obviously masculine things that concern them (such as facial hair, omg, the struggle) but my point is, it's easier to pass than most people think. Give me 12 hours with Danny Devito (and a talented cosmetologist to do something with his hair) and we can make him pass. He'd probably let us. He probably wouldn't even make a joke out of it, because he's a class act.
I'm real tempted, as a cis woman, to dress like a man and see if I can pick fights with people. Because I want people to be able to stand up say, "Well, yes, I'm trans," and then fistfight whoever jump them, but that sounds exhausting, and they shouldn't have to do it. At the same time, I'm worried these idiots would find out I was fighting them on purpose and then would try handwaving me as "not really trans so it doesn't count."
I already have the body-type of Danny Devito. May as well make use of it.
I mean we can take exception with someone holding a bag that is tagged, "candy for luring kids." I can't think of a time when that could be a good thing.
Is it telling about my childhood trauma that I immediately imagined a priest holding that bag?
My main problem with them is that they were on a federal goddamned holiday.
Everyone met at empty state capitols to protest, in a way that would inconvenience and send a message to literally none of the people who should be receiving it.