[-] Balinares@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

Vast question. Finding out who you are is a lifelong process.

My thought: "male" and "female" are, in fact, abstract ideas, simple labels that each imperfectly, awkwardly covers entire, partially overlapping universes of complexity. And in practical reality, no one is all the way in either universe to the entire exclusion of the other.

So perhaps you are fine in a masculine body enjoying feminine-coded traits and activities. Perhaps the body shape that you would like to see in the mirror fluctuates with time or with your mood. Perhaps you are fine with your genitals but would like to have breasts, or perhaps you are fine with your chest but are thrilled by the idea of a vulva between your legs. Perhaps you would love the way you look and feel in a skirt and high socks. Perhaps you just thrive socializing and belonging in groups of women. Perhaps -- likely -- none of the above, but something else, something lovely I can't even begin to imagine. Only you can find out.

Ultimately all labels are, to some extent, bullshit. Each human is a rich multitude that defies naming and containment. I hope you love whatever it is you end up finding out are.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 15 points 1 day ago

No one can tell for certain, but it does seem like he's been huffing his own farts so hard he figured he could win this.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 12 points 2 days ago

Nice socks! Where's a good place to find quality socks of this style?

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Le Pen's party polls strong but has few allies. My guess is that Macron hopes that even with his party weakened, he can form a broad coalition that would keep Le Pen out. I have no idea how likely that is to work.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 160 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Macron's party got disastrous results and got trounced by the far right in the European elections.

He had been selling himself as the shield that protected France from the rise of the local far right party. With these results, he has lost his credibility, and therefore his government did as well.

Therefore he's calling out-of-schedule French parliamentary elections that -- I assume -- he hopes will reelect his party and allies ahead of the far right. It might work: the far right party polls strong at around 30%, but has few allies, and may not be able to form a coalition government. If Macron himself can, that will strengthen his legitimacy.

Needless to say, this is a risky gamble.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 45 points 3 months ago

Presumably the My Little Pony comic. I haven't read it but I understand it likes putting in references that will amuse adults.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 60 points 3 months ago

I wonder why people are downvoting your comment. It's literally what happened. See for instance this paper on the history of gender segregation in the Olympics: https://theworld.org/stories/2016-08-17/see-120-years-struggle-gender-equality-olympics.

Quote: "Margaret Murdock from the US won a silver in a tie in the 1976 Riffle Event, one of the events in the shooting categories. The rifle event was split into men's and women's events in 1984."

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 41 points 5 months ago

Considering it's a reference to Monty Python's Life of Brian, I'm gonna go with yes.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 216 points 5 months ago

Could we, like, leave the clickbait headlines to reddit? Thanks. The queer.af admins just decided -- wisely -- not to renew the domain considering who the fee would go to.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 43 points 9 months ago

The actor in the picture on that site looks like Richard Harris, not Michael Gambon. -_-

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 51 points 9 months ago

"Today you. Tomorrow me."

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 62 points 1 year ago

Probably it's just that the Google crawlers are not being served Twitter content, since Twitter now requires a logged in account. If so the number of indexed tweets should keep dwindling as they expire from the Google index, I imagine. We'll see.

view more: next ›

Balinares

joined 1 year ago