The police confirm it. In Germany, it’s unlikely that there will be progroms for the moment, particularly not because of an attack on queer people. The far-right hates us too after all.

The short version: The right-wing outrage machine is firing on all cylinders because Nolan dared to cast non-white and queer actors in some minor roles. They are now in the stage where they invent all kinds of conspiracies to claim that the movie is a box office bomb and Elon Musk is now fully on-board too. It’s their usual playbook.

While the video certainly covers broad topics, Ghazi is certainly the right community for it. Its original intent has always been to cover topics and media which did not fit in with the typical progressive, more political or funny communities.

That is horrible and I am sorry you had to go through this. That level of negligence is certainly on par with the doctor I had to deal with, though hiding the increase from you is certainly borderline malicious (if not outright so). I am glad that you got away from him, because that was definitely the only way to go. . Internet hugs if wanted.

I empathize with your sister and I will keep my fingers crossed that she finds support, though my own experience taught me that she may not get it from a doctor who disregards her wishes so blatantly. I hope finding somebody else is an option for her.

Thank you. It was for about a year. Something I definitely do not recommend.

After that time I finally wised up and sought outside advise. Afterwards I scraped some donated medication together and basically did DIY for half a year. My test results were still way too low, but - at least - closer to the recommended minimum.

Unfortunately very likely yeah…

This hits me particularly hard, so here is a personal story of mine…
Light CW for medical malpractice.

When I started HRT, I saw a doctor in a clinic that was supposedly “good” with trans health care and generally was known to treat a lot of trans people where I live. The doctor I was assigned to was an old white guy (yes, it mattered). He did prescribe me HRT as I wanted, but refused to adjust the dosage beyond anything that he usually prescribed. He prescribed me what he prescribed for everybody else for many years. Which may have been fine for lots of people, but it was a disaster for me.

Due to a particular metabolic quirk I seem to possess, my body can’t absorb hormones as well as others. Routine blood tests showed that my hormone levels were critically low with the dosage the doctor prescribed me. Neither the test results, nor my own pleading did anything to change his mind. He always dismissed it as “trans people always want more” and refused to adjust the dosage. Meanwhile the side effects were so severe that other health care professionals were worried for my well-being. [If you want to know what happened to me, look up what having a combination of critically low levels or testosterone and estrogen do. I was a text book example of most of those symptoms.]

I probably don’t need it to say it around here, but nonetheless: Telling a trans person that they only want a higher dosage because “trans people always want more” is transphobic prejudice, particularly when somebody refuses to acknowledge the individual’s problems and even the facts on hand, such as blood tests that done by his own clinic.

It took me 1,5 years before I finally found another doctor who was willing to actually deal with my case.

So, no. A transphobic doctor will not give good care to a trans patient, not even if they are have a reputation for treating trans people and are providing trans specific health care, like HRT.

Barbara Loden is a criminally under-appreciated actress. If possible, I highly recommend tracking down the only film she directed (and starred in), “Wanda”. It is a gut punch of a movie that stands out as a singular feat in US’ independent cinema and shows how much Loden was capable to complete disappear inside a role.

I have no legal knowledge here, but whatever legal consequences there may be, one of the goals is certainly to ruin the org financially through never-ending lawfare.

It’s that and it is also a “divide and conquer” strategy that is aimed squarely at the rights of all women. The Heritage Foundation makes this abundantly clear by going after all women’s sports now.

I will just leave this article from 5 days ago here:

Ubisoft Barcelona Celebrates Successful Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Launch With Layoffs

Despite Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced being considered a successful launch by Ubisoft, 51 employees at Ubisoft Barcelona, many of whom worked on the game, will be celebrating its launch by seeking new employment.

Announced on June 10, 51 employees at Ubisoft Barcelona face layoffs, with those who spoke to Insider Gaming saying the layoffs felt premeditated and were going to happen no matter how successful Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced was.

I presume they mean Leslie Feinberg

This is not an accurate summary of the video.

The math does not even work with casual mobile games: MS owns King and hence Candy Crush, one of the most popular casual mobile games ever. At its peak Candy Crush had 293 million active monthly (!) players. So even if one is generous, those numbers comes down to some 10 million daily user. They want games that are the equivalent of 100 Candy Crush-es. It is pure folly.

Be careful. Desireless is good, but you should avoid repetition. Doctors recommend mixing it up with some Mylène Farmer every other time.

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but here it goes…

Because the Hero’s Journey is junk science. Joseph Campbell who created the “Hero’s Journey” was an arch-reactionary who had intended to present an alternative to the literature of his day which he disdained. He longed for a return to the “wisdom of the past” and his book “The Hero with a thousand faces” was positioned as presenting this wisdom, arranged around Freudian and Jungian theories, particularly the debunked “collective unconscious”; as well as the ideas of reactionary philosopher Spengler and ethnologist Frobenius (particular Frobenius’ idea of “paideuma”).

What the book actually is, is a mashup of quotes from various myths and legends, deprived of their cultural context and strung together along the lines of Campbell’s preconceived beliefs. These myths and legends are never considered in their entirety, nor did Campbell dwell on the culture that produced them. From a standpoint of anthropology, it is a profoundly unscientific book and upon publication it was largely dismissed as such by Campbell’s peers.

In the “American Anthropologist” Stephen Porter Dunn wrote:

Campbell’s book is in a sense a throwback to an earlier heroic age of anthropology, when the air was dark with flying hypotheses and comparisons rained down like acorns in autumn. Reading it, the case-hardened social scientist derives the same sort of nostalgic, half-shamed pleasure as the ordinary adult would from reading G.A. Henty or Robin Hood to his children. Campbell uses the traditional equipment and methods of a literary critic, for whom comparison and analogy are tantamount to proof and fact. He writes in a curiously archaic style - full of rhetorical questions, exclamations of wonder and delight, and expostulations directed at the reader […]

Accordingly, The Hero’s Journey always mattered more to literary applications than as a genuine human artefact. Still the importance of the The Hero’s Journey as a storytelling concept only came after the success of “Star Wars”, when Hollywood discovered it as a template for blockbuster movies. Though Hollywood largely discarded most of Campbell (for good reason) in favor of the simplified version as presented by Christopher Vogler (for example: The 12 steps of the Hero’s Journey are Vogler’s version, Campbell used 17) who did not care much about the Hero’s Journey allegedly universal applicableness, than in its usefulness as a tool set.

Lots of people are still heavily invested in painting the Hero’s Journey as a universally shared principle of storytelling. To those people I recommend Robert Ellwood’s “The Politics of Myth”, which traces the development of Campbell’s thinking and the development of the Hero’s Journey.

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