Freyja33

812609 pts · May 16, 2016

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I'm writing this in a spirit of 'let's all just be fucking human beings and try to understand and be good to each other instead of hating each other because we never took the damn time to try': I'm Transgender, here's what that means (for me): It means that I felt, even well before I knew why so ashamed of, and disgusted by my body that I would have panic attacks whenever I had to dress formally, or knew I might be photographed. It means that as I did begin to understand that I might be trans I was even more disgusted with myself, because I had been taught that to be trans was to be a deviant, to be something shocking, vulgar, and demeaned. I was taught that it meant I wanted to trick men into fucking me. I was taught to associate it with prostitution, and drug-use, and insanity. I was taught that sometimes there really were trans people who were normal, but I was also taught that these people had to meet a preposterously narrow, and stereotypical model that I didn't and that gave me the tools to stay in denial for years. When I did become more comfortable around other people I felt like I had to hide behind a mask, and I felt constantly ashamed because I couldn't just make it all go away. I fell in love. I always felt that she would hate me if she knew, and trying to hide it from her made me so stressed I felt like my life was being torn apart, and I felt guilty because I thought it was all my fault. Accepting how I feel, and taking the long road I have towards being comfortable with who I am was necessary for me to live my life. Transitioning by taking hormones, and changing my name, pronouns, and presentation is something that has finally made me comfortable, and accepting of who I am. So for christ's sake, I ask you: please if you've read all this consider letting go of some of your misconceptions about what it means to be trans, and in general try to empathize with the experience of others cause I think you'll find that in the end whether we're straight or queer, dark or fair skinned, fortunate or down on our luck and justifiably angry or sad because of it we're all human beings, we all feel, we all think, we are all flawed. So while some of us are assholes most of the time, and all of us are assholes some of the time, we all have far more in common than we usually admit, and for the most part we are capable of seeing each other's humanity. I'm happy to answer questions about being trans if you genuinely want those questions answered. We all need to be less shitty to each other, and part of that is trying to understand and accept each other. I believe doing so would be of great benefit to us all, and would help us all to be free and prosperous. I know imgur's a silly fucking place, I'm really pretty easy-going, and I'm not on imgur just to preach or anything, but I've gotten a lot of shit for being who I am on here and elsewhere, and I've seen a lot of fellow trans people have to live in denial, and in often quite justifiable terror that their own friends and family will disown them for something that's an integral and perfectly okay part of who they are, something that they can't change, and that they should be allowed treatment for in the form of gender reassignment (whatever reasonable steps that involves). I just thought it might help to try and explain what it's actually like, and how acknowledging it was a profoundly important, and I believe necessary part of living my life in case anyone happened to read it. And if you identify with any part of what I was writing about and you want to talk about it feel free to PM me. And if you read all that and you still want to be a total asshat about it then hey you do you bud.

Caroline

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yep

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Everything's so tiny in there, almost manageable

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Cops hate this one weird trick

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A poem

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They don't, and because they don't they'll continue to attack the left and do nothing to stop Republicans

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"AI" is worthless bullshit, and people who can't see that are idiots.

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Venture Bros season 4 finale

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Lackadaisy - Doggerel

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Amy Klobuchar glazing Lindsey Graham and then (rightly) getting viciously dragged for it in the comments.

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Always has been

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What's left of Gaza is a modern day Auschwitz. The remaining Palestinians are corralled into an ever-shrinking space where they are murdered at random by the IDF. It is undeniable that Israel's plan is for total extermination

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Liebensraum

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What kinda breakfast do you think they serve in Hell?

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"It's not that bad at first, but eventually it will be maddening"

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Ben Gvir is the face of all Israel. He is the truest representation of what almost all Israelis are: genocidal fascist shitstains.

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I mean just...

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A lesson is learned but the damage is irreversible

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I'd prefer a PDF actually

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We're gonna need an even tinier violin

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There are actually people who have the nerve to be mad at Mamdani for not attending this BS

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Reminder that American police lynch people like this every single day.

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Fuck FIFA, fuck Trump, fuck Israel and fuck America.

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You don't hate Israel enough

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Anytime you think this is just Republicans, remember that Homan was first appointed during the Obama administration and he was already advocating for family seperation and throwing children into concentration camps back in 2014

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I hope I'm wrong, but it would make a lot of sense for them to do this at the World Cup tomorrow

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And remember, it's not just her, it's almost all US politicians

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Hot Fresh Memes

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This is why anyone who posts about 'Murc's law' is a braindead moron

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RIP Tyrin Johnson

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Rarely get to see Western propaganda called out this eloquently

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Both parties are united in fascism.

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You don't hate Israel enough

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Harry Lime's Theme from The Third Man, performed by Georg Eichberger on Alpine Zither

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I hate the USA so much

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Israel continues to commit genocide in Lebanon

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And remember, this is the supposed liberal party, and Democrats are further right on most issues. Do not expect corrupt politicians from any party to help you. They serve capital, therefore they serve fascism

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Hell freezes over

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What Israel is doing to Lebanon while your congressman bends over backwards to send them more money and bombs

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He is risen

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How would you react?

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Today Israel launched "Operation Eternal Darkness", yet another series of airstrikes on Lebanese civilians.

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Every day they reach new levels of capitulating to fascism like the bootlicking fascist sympathizers they are

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A lesson is learned, but the damage is irreversible

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Good old Jimmy Bond

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Hot Fresh Memes

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It's not hard to understand, and the writers/editors at NYtimes understand it perfectly well. They just have no problem writing and printing propaganda for morons who don't understand how any of this works.

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This guy is a pulitzer prize winning journalist, which I just mention in case some zionist shithead in the comments doubts this because it's "just some guy on twitter"

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Or if your political ideology is too left wing

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Yep

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But seriously, fuck Israel

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Munchies for thought

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It's not easy being cheesy

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On this day in 2003, American activist Rachel Corrie was brutally murdered by Israelis while trying to defend a Palestinian home from demolition. They killed her by driving a bulldozer over her and the home she was defending

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