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I missed @FtttG post about Dave, and while I’ll agree that Dave is likely porn sick, I don’t think that’s what happens all the time. My impression of most trans people of either gender is that they rarely understand anything other than what media or social media tells them their desired sex is actually like. They tend to, for want of a better term, “LARP”. Trans women tend to suddenly wear makeup and frilly dresses and take up interests in things that media holds as traditionally feminine interests. It comes of as the gendered equivalent of a white man deciding that his soul is that of a black man and proceeding to go out wearing dreadlocks, fake gold teeth, flashing gang signs and tattoos, and eating fried chicken and watermelon. No one would think of such a thing as a serious attempt to live out the life of a black man because that’s not remotely the way most black men live. It’s a stereotype, tropes, and are generally things that whites or at least racist whites think black men are like.
Most women, unless they’re feeling fancy, are not wearing dresses in ordinary life. Unless working in a field that requires it, most women aren’t wearing skirts. If they’re just hangout wyother women, it’s jeans and a cute top or something. And most women are not just doing things TV decided was feminine. Lots of women like sports and play them regularly. They go hiking and fishing, they play video games, they read science fiction and fantasy (and not all of us like romantasy).
So whatever is actually happening in the brain, I think it has less to do with a feeling of being a woman and more of a desire to be treated like a woman. They know what the media tells them women like, but they have no other source of information.
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I'd swear I read every top-level in most threads, and especially the CW thread, and yet every time one of these comes out it's the first time I'm seeing at least a third of them.
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Felt righteous at the time I wrote my post, but felt like a fool soon afterwards when the original story turned out to be kinda fake. Though I think the quoted bit is still true. At least it held up to some verification. Would like to know if it is false as well. Because I should know better than to trust feelings of righteous Indignation.
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Not sure if I should put this here, but for the Pittsburgh posts it’s one of the regions that are >10% Irish > 10% Italian. Which is an interesting culture not everyone in America is familiar with. I am a member.
https://x.com/sidkhurana3607/status/2060869302547296606?s=12 Been trending on Twitter for a few days.
Also interesting that the majority of the counties that fit this category are touching each other from Boston, NYC, with a horizontal line of connecting counties that ends up in Pittsburgh. And some reason non of them went to the middle of Pennsylvania.
Chicago in my opinion is weirdly missing. Maybe at one point it was 10% and 10% but later migrations waves knocked them down. And then some reason a random county in Florida which is perhaps a later retirement wave of North east snowbirds.
The Irish-Italian blending in America to sort of one distinct group/race is also interesting in my opinion because the Irish are basically the last refuge of Celtic culture and the Romans basically genocided them 2000 years ago. But the oddness and randomness of religion and economics between 1850-1920 made them into a distinct block in foreign land. Which then brings you to Pittsburgh as one of the 3-4 primary hubs of that culture.
And of this culture/race blending has played out in Politics as Joe Biden married an Italian and had a political alliance with Nancy Pelosi.
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