i have not been able to find a source for this claim and i provided a piece of information that would seem to indicate that they are not kids. what do you want from me?

it’s a kids show, but that doesn’t mean each character, is, in turn, a child. is that what you’re trying to imply?

i’d like to see confirmation, because otherwise you’re coming off lowkey homophobic here, along the same lines as when people think being attracted to twinks is pedophilia. respectfully, i would appreciate it if you wouldn’t claim these things about a vulnerable population without something more substantive to support it

didn’t see the confirmation that they’re children in the wiki, can you post where you found that? it would be unusual for children to live alone in an apartment together (see “In Popular Media” of the wiki page)

also, the later quote from the creator:

A last thought: If Jim and I had created Bert and Ernie as gay characters they would be inauthentic, coming from two straight men. However, I have now learned that many view them as representative of a loving gay relationship. And that’s pretty wonderful. Thanks for helping me understand.

yeah, it’s crazy how issues i had dealt with for like half my life went away after braces (chronic nasal issues)

braces are NOT only cosmetic!! (what i’m assuming you meant to write)

sometimes it’s fun to get them stinky again 😁

yea but only if i can pat you on the head while you do so

“women should behave a certain way to not justify misogyny” comes off about as well as “black people should behave a certain way to not justify racism”, imo

i appreciate your intentions, but this is not the way

the usage of puppy pads here are a minority of the use cases for them; mostly, i ejaculate a TON, and well… the waterproof blanket i have doesn’t handle it very well 💀 unless i wanna be sitting in a puddle. so how do the picnic blankets handle a lot of water?

also i’d need to get like… idk a week’s supply or smth 💀 that’s definitely more of a daily usage 😭

god, yeah, everytime someone talks shit about a maga head by saying something like “he’s got a small dick!!”, i wanna blow them up 💀

context: i am a transgender man

the 360 camera is so neat. i love that it gives the feeling of being there with you

i also had that thought, but if i had an assistant, then i probably wouldn’t need the machine, huh? ha-cha-cha!

(/hj, i could probably find people at e.g. a club, like you mentioned, but, despite my openness about posting about it, bottoming is kind of a more personal / intimate act for me; if i felt comfortable with someone there, it would probably be someone i would be interested in having sex with anyways)

((not that there isn’t a world where i get involved with someone who is ace but doesn’t mind lending a hand, i guess…))

yeah i wouldn’t really recommend using it. a quick search doesn’t show any independent review of the toy, so i would assume it’s toxic unless proven otherwise. the sex toy industry is, sadly, mostly unregulated, so there should be a high degree of skepticism when approaching any product. after all, if you suffer side effects from it, what recourse are you going to get?

you can use it with a condom, if you’re really keen on getting some usage out of it. but overall, i think you should just take it as a lesson to check that anything you buy is silicone. $20 isn’t bad to learn it 😅

edit: on your follow up question about silicone lube with a pvc toy, i don’t have an answer for you. unfortunately, i can’t find any information on it. perhaps you could sacrifice this toy in the name of science? it seems like it’s safe with condoms, also, so you could probably use them together with a condom on, as mentioned before

i’ll have to mull on this, i WISH i could reuse the lube, i have these puppy pads it’s just becoming huge puddles on 😭

i think, ideally, such a device would be mounted / compatible with the sex machine itself

mostly replying because you reminded me of another person who commented on the last post, also talking about machines and forces and stuff… i think i admire the way y’all think

also, considering the situation as if i am a person who needs an industrial kind of fucking is… pretty funny. it’s true 😅

do they… do they make dildos with vac-u-locks and cum tubes? (“they” not specifically bad dragon)

perhaps i should innovate here… a cursory search didn’t reveal anything fitting these criteria

i’m on the lovense one, but you can probably get one just as good and cheaper 😭 i don’t like talking about it bc i’m upset at how much money i spent on it LOL

i’ve heard there’s like an open source one, i’d probably look into that one nowadays

good luck, i understand your plight 😅

this comic is wild

i’m sure someone, somewhere, has used this argument in a demeaning way to trans people, but i can’t imagine that’s common among actual allies. it feels more like something that the right would use as a purity argument among itself, except they lack the logical rigor required to do so

and then it depicts the guy as actually being affected by that argument, as if he wouldn’t just go “yeah but it’s gender affirming care for my real gender that i really am” 💀

i poked around the author’s bsky a bit, and i think she must have had some shithead say something like this directly to her, because there’s a comment asking about using the same argument in a different context (“i was arguing that, since i have such easy access to testosterone, trans men / my trans son should” https://bsky.app/profile/warstrike.bsky.social/post/3mnaipvuvp22y) and she was like, yeah that seems fine

so there is some nuance here that i think is absolutely not being portrayed by the comic, namely that it’s implied this is a common part of this broader argument, rather than a specific, shittier flavor of it, where instead of trying to get people to empathize with trans people, we’re using trans people to imply certain cis people are shitty (e.g. “he’s not a real man because he got <gender-affirming procedure>”, with the implication that gender-afffirming procedures aren’t necessary for cis people of some arbitrary caliber)

i think this may also miss the usually implied “for cis people” that’s included with this kind of dunking? ofc, it’s logically consistent to interpret that as being demeaning towards trans people, but i think it’s mostly an acknowledgement that, ofc trans people (on average) need it more, we went through the wrong puberty (without addressing the nuances of how much an individual may or may not want to transition medically)

there are just different implications for cis people getting gender affirming care than trans people. it’s different if you’re unhappy about what you got as the result of the correct puberty (ignoring for a moment that there are some trans people who can/did go through the correct puberty and may still need gender affirming care)

ofc, we should be striving for a society where anyone can get the gender affirming care they need to feel comfortable in their body. there’s just a lot of nuance about this situation that i think is both not covered by the comic, and even more that is possibly missed entirely

it seemed to me like he was using it as a compass (magnetic earth + the ability to spin freely in water), but i don’t really know a lot about the lore here, so i can’t be sure

ah yes, from the evil 90s,

taking you at your word that you’re being genuine, this meme is referring to the common situation where a cis man is fetishizing a trans woman while assuming she still has her default hardware (i.e. hasn’t had bottom surgery) and asking inappropriate questions to her (“how big is it”)

you may direct further questions to me via DM; asking these questions in the context of this meme seems to be being received poorly, for understandable reasons, even if your intentions are genuinely to understand

kind of similar, i read so much gay shit on webtoons that i forget they have (a majority of) straight stuff 💀

since we’re talking about “things that could invoke this feeling without one being an egg”, i think it’s really interesting how i (primarily a homoromantic man) also find girl’s love media very relatable. i think it has a lot of overlap with the themes in boys love (social stigma of same sex relationships and whatnot), so it makes sense, but isn’t necessarily intuitive