You are correct, this is not new, nor does it bring any new information to light.
I studied politics, and even then I never wanted to run. I just wanted to be a staffer and work on policy and tactics.
I left politics because I felt I couldn't help people, and inter party politics were not something I was interested in. I went back to school so I could help people more directly as a nurse.
I don't think I'm a great candidate, but I feel like I have to do something. No one is coming to save us, we have to so it ourselves.
Our party? Democrats are no more my party than Republicans are. They are objectively the better option for someone like me given the alternative, but in no way do they represent me. They are just another element of the capitalist corporate hegemony, and I'm just a consumer to them.
I'm in Minnesota, if you can make it up here I'll take you with me.
I do, the longer it's been the shorter they are (almost 10 years now). My trigger is seeing someone, usually in a TV or movie, take that long, exaggerated drag.
As a trans girl, I get a lot of interest from other trans girls, so it checks out for me.
Yeah, I was going to give this a watch, but 6 hours? I think I got the main points from the synopsis.
I love to rag on Star Wars as much as any salty millennial, but fucking get on with it.
Just want to comment on the "trap is ok/not ok debate."
It's totally cool if you or your partner(s) identity as a trap. As an older trans girl, being a trap was a badge of honor. It meant not only do you pass, but you're fucking hot. Almost like a trap/not trap distinction of attractiveness (which is also horribly misogynistic and demeaning), but it was a qualifier.
So I get it, part of me likes the idea of being called that - in a private, contextual sense. But the problem is the word and the connotation it has in the general zeitgeist, which implies that a trans person (typically a trans woman) "tricks" a man into having sex with her, and then deserves whatever happens to her, regardless of how dehumanizing it may be.
It is the horrible, completely unjustifiable rationale behind the Panic Defense, and that's why it is a term that needs to be buried. Continued use of it is an unconscious signal that trans women are perpetrating some kind of deception just by existing in a man's field of vision (if, of course, she comes close enough to cis white heteronormtive standards of beauty).
Be woke. Don't say trap (except in the bedroom. And then smack my ass a little 😋).
I prefer to do this with "Do you believe in life after love". We call it a Cher bomb.
Best part is it's basically a bell curve of how into it people get. Starts off alow, maybe one or two. By the third play, most of the bar is feeling it. And then all downhill from there
Slay the Spire. It's so challenging that it's always engaging when I play it.
I'm trans and work in Healthcare, and I often just queer as a catch all phrase instead of using the whole acronym. It's easier to say and most queer folk are not offended by it.
That being said, I try to use the specific group names when I am personally talking to patients, as I think it's empowering to hear them in a way that doesn't assign normative value.
Trump should be "I don't know"