dragonfly
9mo ago
I count two, maaaaybe three, factors. Entering two passwords in the same form is definitely not 2FA.
dragonfly
9mo ago
As a trans person in a more normie space (ie mostly offline), my vote is the more progressive the space the worse the mental health (but then, I rather would say that). Causality seems to go both ways, though.
Actually, leave the trans bit out and I'll happily stand behind "In my experience people in more normie spaces have better mental health than those in very progressive spaces, ceteris paribus." Not as sure about "very (online) progressive vs very online right" though -- I suspect "very online" is doing most of the heavy lifting there, in the same way "people in an cult" presumably have worse mental health than normies for basically any x[citation needed]. And obviously this is just my personal experience.
dragonfly
9mo ago
I know the idea has been discussed here before that when women compare themselves to men they're only looking at the most successful/attractive x% with the rest basically invisible. I could see that skewed comparison making transition look more appealing, for sure.
For what it's worth I do remember back in the day in MtF trans spaces there used to be pushback like "You're not gonna be a young attractive woman; you should decide about transition based on your feelings about being a wrinkled old woman vs a wrinkled old man." No idea if that still goes on. I rather suspect not.
dragonfly
9mo ago
I love the recurring word "organically" here. Translation: "I didn't have to ask for this dammit."
I'm sorry I missed this entire discussion by two weeks, but I won't reanimate it now.. I'm sure it'll come around again, and I hope you can forgive me this one necropost. A lot of people in this thread could take advice from each other, but I'm entertained by the pushback you and mrvanillasky are getting on what is basically the attracting-women equivalent of Calories In/Calories Out.
dragonfly
9mo ago
Hah, you baited me into making an account after mostly lurking since the CW thread. Hopefully the lower barrier to comment here doesn't tank my real life productivity.
I'm only a former software dev, but after spending like five minutes staring at the second paragraph on far too little sleep trying to visualise the problem, I gave up and moved on to the third paragraph and immediately realised
I'm not sure there any any offline very progressive spaces, at least not ones where the most active individual members aren't very online and setting the tone for the space, at least not around these parts. But that may well be a filter bubble thing.
I've dropped in on various mostly-offline trans groups, but the offline ones usually skew older and not especially progressive. (Snarkily, they probably have more in common with the prostate cancer support group they share a medication with, than with trans people who know what Discord is).
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