So true. Infrastructure issues aside, car insurance companies are horrible and need to be taken down a peg. I hate being legally required to buy insurance on a beater car I’ve already paid off because American health insurance is terrible and has shifted responsibility in collision-related healthcare to car owners.
If OP lives outside of England or the European Union, Fairbuds might not be worth it because the company won’t send replacement parts overseas. Which is a shame, because if I were ever to upgrade to Bluetooth, it would be the Fairbuds XL.
I have the DT 770 Pro X and love them. Not only extremely durable, but super comfy after hours of wearing them. The company sells some replacement parts, and they work with a third-party company in America to do more complicated repairs.
That being said, the 770 and 990 aren’t very portable at all, so that’s something to consider. I use a pair of Shure IEMs when I’m away from home. The OEM hard carrying case for the 770 does have a caribiner clip, so you could get around space constraints by clipping it to a backpack or travel bag.
I can get behind that. Have a nice day!
Sadly, no. I’ve been off Facebook for years. Back when I did have an account, I used Frost for Facebook on my phone, but I just checked and it hasn’t been updated in three years.
I’m not cool then lol.
Yes, that’s true. There are situations where it can be a sign of respect, I agree.
However, as a binary trans woman, it’ll never be that simple for me. If I get they/themmed by a stranger who doesn’t know, I spend the entire day worrying about what I did wrong in my presentation to not be simply referred to as “she” that time.
This isn’t anyone’s fault. No one’s a mind-reader. And overall I think this practice is good, though not without some minor criticisms that probably aren’t worth mentioning since it would take an essay to unpack.
This problem won’t stop until law enforcement starts treating deepfakes of minors as possession of child pornography with all the legal ramifications that come with it. Young boys need to understand that their actions have consequences.
In the meantime, no one under 18 should be on social media. I wish AI, deepfakes or in general, could just be illegal, but laws aren’t catching up and people are being victimized.
Just straight, brown hair, oddly enough. I think some people don’t really know the difference between drag queens and trans women, and then assume that all trans women wear wigs because drag queens tend to.
https://reductress.com/post/they-them-pronouns-suddenly-easy-for-person-misgendering-trans-woman/
I’m so sorry. I genuinely don’t understand why people see they/them as a compromise. It’s just misgendering.
My wife’s side of the family is weird. We don’t have to go to their Christmas, but we did get dragged to their pre-Christmas party, which is supposed to be just for the couples with kids, who get together and then the kids make cookies. My wife thinks it’s my mother-in-law’s revenge because we can’t have kids. We were so out of place there.
So many Christian relatives. So many weird looks. One person asking if my wife’s hair is real. (It is.) But we did get ourselves cookies by ourselves after the party, because the Christmas cookies weren’t for adults 🙃
It’s especially annoying when so many local bands I follow only use Facebook and Instagram to promote, much less internet memes.
Frontends are your friend! I use flufi.me. But most of the time I just avoid Instagram like the plague these days. Instagram is this unfortunate mix of essential local updates, toxicity, and unattainable beauty standards all wrapped up in a slop algorithm.
Such a beautiful tradition. Stonehenge is captivating.
Happy Yule! How are we celebrating this year?
Thanks for asking 🙂. I think man or bear raises important points about gender and safety, and I definitely don’t think it’s transphobic. So in my opinion, you’re safe keeping it up.
It can cause discomfort for some because it unintentionally invokes the complications around “passing.” Because not all trans women pass 100% of the time, it can lead to situations where they’re perceived as “male” in public by strangers, which can lead to cis women putting their guard up in a way they might not around strangers who are cis women. “Choosing the bear,” so to speak. This isn’t anyone’s fault, and cis women aren’t wrong for having safety instincts. It just happens sometimes and it can be dysphoria-inducing. So transfemmes are in a unique position: They have the same struggle as cis women in regards to safety, but they’re also distrusted themselves by association.
So when the meme went viral, I remember seeing a handful of posts from sad trans women on queer subreddits, I think because the algorithms leaned into it nonstop and it reminded trans women of how they are or were once perceived. The meme has also been misused by gender-criticals to justify keeping trans women out of women’s bathrooms and in men’s prisons. So I just wanted to share some positivity in case any trans folks saw this and felt that sad for any reason.
Some more context:
https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/MtF/comments/1ck9ovw/i_put_myself_in_a_bad_headspace_regarding_man_vs/
https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/MtF/comments/1d7s6l6/transgender_woman_or_bear/
Relatable! But I know this meme can be really triggering for some trans women, so I just want to say a few things preemptively:
-Internalized transphobia is rough. Trans women are women and not men and this meme doesn’t apply to them.
-Just about everyone sharing the meme would choose a trans woman over the bear or choose the bear over both men and women (cis or trans).
-There’s probably, somewhere on the internet, a TERF who used this meme for evil. Please don’t go out looking for content like that. It definitely doesn’t reflect most people using the meme.
-A lot of girls worry that they don’t pass, or have to boymode, and will unintentionally make cis women nervous. After years of HRT, I still try to walk on the opposite side of the road of cis women I don’t know, or make early turns, even on days where I feel like I look great. It’s not a perfect consolation, but if you’re worried about that, actively thinking about wanting other women to feel safe, those women didn’t have anything to be nervous about in the first place.
-Men have us all on edge and we’re all just trying to stay safe.
Isn’t this already covered with extensions, though?
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In America, even if you live in a city with good public transit, there’s frequently no way to get from one city to another. Greyhound routes are extremely limited, Amtrak seems to just loop around major metropolitan cities extremely slowly, and the price of a rental car has gotten out of control after COVID.
So even if you live in a city with strong infrastructure, you still have to buy a car unless you’re willing to be stuck in that city 99.9% of the time.
Sometime in my lifetime, I’d like to see America catch up with the rest of the world.
I don’t have an opinion about Hasan one way or another. Influencer culture (and broadly celebrity culture), and the phenomenon of people using influencers and social media in lieu of news, is disturbing and influencers only have power because we give it to them.
I wish fewer people would opt to empower celebrities via attention and worship, followed by disappointment and scorn when their actions come into conflict with their brand image. They’re just people, and we never knew them, not really.