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Ah, my apologies for misunderstanding that. That does sound very nice - I was under the impression you at least had to sign a 'name change petition', even if that was functionally a nominal barrier.
Because of how British electoral culture is, it's already weirdly common for politicians to go by a different name than their private name, or to use their middle name instead of their first or something.
Because of this the ballots follow a format of '(Private name), commonly known as: (Public name)'. Count Binface in this case is his public name, totally normal politician behavior, he can go in character as Count Binface and I'm sure he will if the gods favor him enough to let him win.
That said, it is a long-standing convention that you're forbidden to address the House of Commons while wearing a hat, so he'd run into issues there. I'm sure he could figure something out, though.
I think Palworld isn't worth much, personally, but yeah it's pretty strange to me seeing so many people in here act like it's particularly depraved.
Then again I've seen people genuinely advocate banning violent video games entirely on this webbed site, so I shouldn't be too too shocked. There's a biiiiiiiig contingent of people here with rather puritan morals.
It is really funny to me to call an independent animation production made by a trans woman that is more than anything else about how many trans women engage in incredibly toxic repression that ends up hurting themselves and everyone around them, and the permanent, fatal consequences of doubling down on that repression, a 'treat'.
Do you think TADC is just a 'treat' simply because it had the good luck to become incredibly popular? Because I strongly disagree. I find it one of the most compelling and relatable depictions of a trans woman in fiction, period, and I honestly believe that TADC is probably going to play a role in cracking many eggs and preventing many suicides because of that fact.
Maybe investigate the thing you're talking about before writing it off because it has bright colors or whatever. The success of TADC has been a breath of fresh air for a lot of trans women I know, because most of them have NEVER seen a popular depiction of a trans woman that actually reflected our reality, that actually reflects the consequences of the cisheteronormative society we live in, that actually reflects many modern trans women in a realistic way instead of being some cis persons misunderstood, idealized image.
And all that at a time of increasing oppression of transgender people.
I guess you didn't pick up on all that. Maybe Gooseworx should've made the characters state their emotions even more clearly, it seems like the show was a little too mature for where you're at right now.
It's very much the former, though Gooseworx herself is sorta in the fuzzy 'Zenninial' zone between the youngest millennials and oldest Gen Z.
Zoomers were probably part of the intended audience, but from what I've gathered the massive popularity among Gen Alpha was a complete accident that kinda blindsided everyone working on the show. On a personal level Gooseworx actually seems to kinda fucking hate that things played out that way, actually, though I'm sure all the money she's gotten out of that happenstance is a cushy silver lining.
I would assert that it is, personally, but I would also assert that the entire show revolves around Jax and her issues, and would barely have a plot at all if you stripped her out of it.
Which doesn't seem to be the majority opinion, something I've found kind of incomprensible.
In fairness to cursive, some kind of cursive was the standard form of handwriting for basically all English writings up until probably the 2000s - it is legitimately very useful for anyone who might have to dig through old documentation or letters. And handwriting is an important skill to build, cognitively speaking, it has lots of second order benefits.
Definitely a less important skill than ability to actually understand computers, these days, but it does have its uses and if everybody forgot how to do it a lot of old stuff would suddenly require specialists to decipher - we're basically halfway there already, people of my generation often have to kick cursive up to older people because we were never taught it.
I know this is probably a joke, but just in case it's not, there's a ton of old fishkeeping forums that are still accurate and more often than not have a better ratio of good info to chaff.
As one of the people you alienated, you are forgiven. I've done the doubting others experiences shit before as well, it can get too easy to feel as though one has to dig one's heels into one's chosen ground.
I myself at that time was already decently too dug into my broader position/feelings on that subject. I am significantly more chilled out about masculinity now, as an example.
And do remember, it wasn't just you doing the alienation. Speaking from my personal perspective there were several users at that time who contributed as well, and I ended up writing off the trans community on this site as a whole as 'Not a space that would accept me'.
It's funny, honestly. I've actually only gotten more non-binary since then in an objective sense even if I very much shy away from calling myself that for a lot of reasons. Sometimes I'm not sure if that thread helped with that change or hurt it - same thing with the chilling out on masculinity.
What that does make it for sure is narratively significant, so, no regrets or hard feelings on my part, alright? It was a worthwhile conversation, if unpleasant at the time.
Welcome back.
Are you capable of understanding that not all psychiatric medications are the same, not all psychiatric conditions are the same, and that not everyone has the same reaction you did to them?
If I didn't have my meds - which it was INCREDIBLY difficult to get because of medical gatekeeping in part paused by 'deprescription' sentiment - more likely than not I would kill myself, and even if I didn't I wouldn't be capable of living even a half life because I'm so mentally ill I need stimulants to fucking shower on a semi regular basis.
The only thing propagating this rhetoric right now does is hurt the people who need psychiatric medications the most. It's great for you that you can function without them.
Not everyone is you.
I need to contest your idea regarding there being different porn preferences based on assigned gender at birth.
Beyond the fact that I don't know what the mechanism would be for that, given ones assigned sex/gender is something social, not biological, I can tell you from experience that porn with plot and written erotica is EXTREMELY popular in Transfem spaces. Like, overwhelmingly, in addition to a general preference for drawn/animated pornography instead of live action stuff.