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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 7 days ago • 100%

    Yeah she is a dummy, obviously believes strongly in gender stereotypes.

    Actually I feel like I remember reading a news story where boys at an actual private school started wearing skirts in the summer because it was so hot and the dress code didn't allow for shorts, it was both as a form of protest and just because it was too hot to comfortably wear pants. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/teenage-boys-wear-skirts-to-school-to-protest-against-shorts-ban-in-heatwave-b1887321.html

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 1 week ago • 100%

    Why is it phrased as a punishment? Nothing wrong with boys dressing feminine. More people should try it actually, skirts are surprisingly comfortable.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 1 week ago • 100%

    Gross, flair as NSFW or better yet, don't post this shit on a meme community in the first place.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 1 month ago • 100%

    That is very true, there is no one universal experience. I didn't have a way of knowing for sure what the author's intent was since on it's own it could go either way and I have seen other people post messages that legitimately do claim to impose gender expectations on people in that kind of way. It's good to know that she didn't mean it that way, though it also is very sad that so many people continued to misinterpret her to the point that she had to stop posting.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 1 month ago • 66%

    Something important to remember is that even though the intention with games like that is to identify with the character you're creating people don't often play games as they are intended (if they did would modding games be as popular as it is?). So the argument framed in the 4th panel, despite it being framed as invalid or shaky is actually a valid argument because if people are using mechanics in ways that aren't intended, then it's only natural this would be one of them. Let's face it, not everyone identifies with the characters in the game and they may want to satiate their attraction rather than to identify as the character, this is a common sentiment in 3rd person games where the character is being looked at from the outside, AKA a perspective that isn't you.

    Another thing about this is aesthetics, because people can like things that are seen as feminine without actually being girls, people like this who identify as male are femboys, and they are valid as they identify. Unfortunately most games out there which have the courtesy to offer the luxury of character creation, don't offer gender-nonconformity as well. So this is another reason to violate intended use case. So 2 and 3 are very much valid use cases.

    All in all this isn't the worst thing but I'm not really a fan. There's many reasons someone can use avatars in games that are different from their own sex and gender, the way this is framed makes it seem like it automatically means that you must be trans. In addition this mentality is a double standard since it obviously never applied to the many female gamers before gender selection was implemented as widely as it is now, I mean them playing as a boy doesn't make them a boy now does it. Also the attitude of "oh ho ho that's not very cis of you" does not come across as respecting the egg prime directive very much, but also at the same time doesn't come across as outright disrespecting it.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 4 months ago • 100%

    It's also a gamble because you might get a painless one but also could get one that is insanely painful. Those odds aren't clearly defined and quantified like the button's odds.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 4 months ago • 100%

    You either have a 99% chance of cashing out big but a 1% chance of dying horribly. What body part you press it with doesn't make a difference.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 4 months ago • 100%

    Can always keep pressing until you get it, or just keep pressing to increase odds, these buttons usually allow multiple pushes.

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    Button Rule

    Would you press it?

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 5 months ago • 100%

    Nonbinary identities kinda break the idea of straight or gay since straightness or gayness are depended on the gender of the person, so when that gender is outside of the binary it doesn't work right.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 5 months ago • 100%

    I agree, and that's for the best, fuck oppressive gender stereotypes.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 6 months ago • 100%

    Not sure how an estrogen laser would work but if it's anything like it sounds I wouldn't want to use that on people, seems very unethical.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 6 months ago • 100%

    I have no clue, probably something to do with them taking up less space and being faster to use, though I'm not really sure the speed benefit is that great.

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    Feminine Boys FMC8456 • 6 months ago • 100%
    Sitting drule
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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 6 months ago • 100%

    I usually pee standing up, however I prefer to use stalls because I like privacy, I never use urinals.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 6 months ago • 100%

    I think Bigender.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 6 months ago • 100%

    I can kind of see how it would be a mirror, if the circle was bigger.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 6 months ago • 100%

    Well it was meant to be the symbol for mars so not far off. I don't get the female one though, no matter how long I look at it it just looks like a legless stick figure.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 6 months ago • 100%

    When I was growing up I never understood nor was I ever told what those symbols met, the first time I saw them was in fireboy and watergirl and my first thought when seeing them was exactly as described in the meme, which confused me because both fireboy and watergirl have bodies and neither of them have horns.

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    Once you see it you can't unsee it

    Also none of them have any legs...

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 6 months ago • 100%

    Even if I wanted to it wouldn't be possible due to Androgen deficiency (and a severe unwillingness to take hormones to replace what's not there) and also the fact that I have abnormal sex chromosomes (XXY). So the Aroace (in my case Enby) wins both through will and biology, check and mate queerphobes.

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  • 196 196 hmm, i wonder which two random r/196 users might find themselves directly above and below my post
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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 6 months ago • 100%

    Is it even technically gay if the two users are opposite genders? (not sure if Zeppo is male, it only seems like it from the profile, if I'm wrong I deeply apologize).

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 6 months ago • 100%

    Some speak of a legendary queer who can embody the entire LGBTQIA2S+ acronym, but they apparently hibernate for 200 years and won’t wake up until 2086.

    That seems like it would be difficult since it seems like it would be very hard since some of the letters seem to go against each other in their meanings, wouldn't say it's impossible but might require very fast switching.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 6 months ago • 100%

    I believe the term you're looking for is abrosexual, that's what it means for attractions to change (not saying genderfluid doesn't also apply here, I'm just giving the term that applies to sexuality).

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  • trans Trans After your egg cracked, did you have a moment where you looked back at your life and think, "wait, THAT was dysphoria?!"
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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 6 months ago • 100%

    That makes much more sense.

    I mean it's still a bit confusing because for me wanting to and wearing them wasn't ever a gender thing, I just thought they're comfy, though I guess many people aren't as Gender Non-conforming as I am, so I guess it kind of makes sense..? I don't know.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 6 months ago • 100%

    Pardon my ignorance but how exactly is wanting to wear thigh highs (gender) dysphoria?

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 7 months ago • 100%

    I fail to see how that would work as birth control, if the person still engages in sex it doesn't cut the odds of pregnancy there. If anything it makes them more attractive and increases the chances of sex.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 7 months ago • 100%

    I don't think it's the shark that caused it to happen to him, he already started changing between 1 and 2.

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    Yeah I agree, not really a fan of them.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 7 months ago • 100%

    I don't know anyone who puts the straw in the bottom, wouldn't that make a huge mess?

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 7 months ago • 100%

    It's not really a slur, it's just really uncool, as it makes assumptions about the person's identity.

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    femboys and egg culture rule

    How to get out of an uncomfortable egg culture situation with this one simple trick. Real talk: Calling people eggs is a violation of the egg prime directive, and is considered invalidating as you are trying to say that a person is not the gender they identify as, that their identity is invalid. Don't call people eggs, like ever, it's extremely uncool.

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    How to parry being called or referred to as an egg

    A very useful comeback to being called an egg. Decided to share it, as it can be quite useful to GNC and possibly even trans people who find themselves in this situation. Also a good thing of note is that calling people eggs is a violation of the egg prime directive, and is considered invalidating as you are trying to say that a person is not the gender they identify as, that their identity is invalid. Don't call people eggs, like ever, it's extremely uncool.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 8 months ago • 96%

    I mean duh, they're a centralized service owned by a company worth millions of dollars, the idea they are a democracy is an illusion.

    Also funny how they're a multimillion dollar company who's main source of income is what basically amounts to cyber-begging.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 8 months ago • 100%

    Only transmascs I think.

    I didn't know that, why is that anyway? Is there something wrong with being cute and being male?

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 8 months ago • 100%

    I don't think so, I mean what's wrong with being cute anyways?

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  • traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns Would you hop on the HRT bus?
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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 8 months ago • 75%

    Nah, I don't like taking the bus, it's very slow and unreliable. I know it's because American cities are built wrong, but I still live in an American city that is so it's not feasible for me.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 8 months ago • 100%

    I won't make excuses, I do it because I like the feminine aesthetic, I think it looks cute. I don't really know if feminine characters give an advatage in some games or not.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 8 months ago • 100%

    I think that might've been added afterwards, it seems too clean compared to the other text here which is messy (look at her coat and hoodie).

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 8 months ago • 100%

    If you look close at the badges on her jacket and the text on her hoodie you'll see similar AI glitches as well, from afar it looks passable, but up close it's nonsensical.

    The text and images on the monitor are also consistent with AI generation.

    The text in the bubble was almost certainly added afterwards though. It's too clear.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 8 months ago • 100%

    Is this actually a real wine that one can buy?

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    I think it's AI generated, that's why the keys are really funky too.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 8 months ago • 100%

    nyaa~ of course, but that doesn't mean I won't drop by.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 8 months ago • 100%

    Yes it will.

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  • FMC8456 FMC8456 8 months ago • 100%

    Only for 4D shapes, for 3D shapes they get suck in the little alcove in the middle, they can't percieve or travel along the 4th dimension so that little part is almost like a space "inside". Of course there isn't a space inside in actuality, the 3D space just gives that illusion, but for objects bound to the 3D world it is essentially the inside for all intents and purposes.

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