I am a Rocket League addict. I hate that my once indie game is owned by a major public company that exploits us. Anyway, they just added the cybertruck to the game, and I frequently find myself playing against an all cybertruck team with nothing but cybertruck teammates to help me. And every time I see it, I can’t help but feel like it’s the anti-rainbow flag. Gay Pride month is over, now it’s Trans Hate month; gotta cover all the bases.
Do all the cybertrucks suddenly stop working for no reason? Otherwise it’s not an authentic experience
I’m so ready for the next event to happen so people switch to other cars
Rocket league added a rainbow flag but then “accidently” removed it to where you needed to submit a support ticket to get it back. Lot of homophobic folks will react if you have it on your car. We must stunt on those fools.
Whaaaaaaat?? I had not heard about this.
Hmm, from the google results of reddit pages I see that it was wiped from some player inventories but it’s still out there and tradable. Yes, very suspicious it’s known but was never resolved.
I’m confused. He looks super high on the left, but his eyes are red on the right.
The answer is simple, he’s high in both. It’s just different drugs.
That does make sense. I hear he does a lot of ketamine these days. A lot of ketamine.
Plastic surgery.
What are you saying, that plastic surgery is gender affirming care, because it is in most cases. Exemptions would be things like a rhinoplasty for breathing impairments, but if done for looks it would fall under gender affirming care.
Plastic surgery started as reconstructive surgery after accidents/invasive surgeries like mastectomies. Breast reconstruction and augmentation would both really fall under gender affirming care, although the former would be for losing something about themselves that was part of their gender and the latter for trying to fit social expectations.
Cranial reconstruction and other gender neutral plastic surgeries exist too.
Social expectations is gender though. What is a gender neutral plastic surgery? If you are doing a smaller nose for a woman or a larger nose for a man it isnt neutral.
Reconstructive surgery is a subset of plastic surgery separate from cosmetic surgery.
This definition is contrasted with cosmetic surgery performed to improve aesthetics or the appearance of a body part.
Reconstructive surgery includes fixing a cleft lip. Repairing a half destroyed face after an accident. Removing extensive scarring that is causing pain because it isn’t as flexible as non-scarred skin. There are TONS of gender neutral reconstructive surgeries.
Reconstructive surgery is performed to construct a person’s look to fit what is socially wanted, which coincidentally is a part of gender. If it is not needed to breath, it is about attractiveness, which is a social construct separated in categories of gender. Which is why gender “norms” are often considered toxic and don’t need to exist. If it is relieving pain or assisting with ones ability to breath/ eat, I would say it isn’t gender affirming.
You say there are tons of gender neutral constructive surgeries/alterations,what would they be? One might be considered to be Botox, because it is used by both genders, but where/why it is used is different based on cultural perception of gender, aka gender affirming.
Long story short, gender is a social construct, if you are doing something to fit in with a society, it will likely fall there.
You say there are tons of gender neutral constructive surgeries/alterations,what would they be?
Maybe try reading the words I wrote or the links I provided.
I did. Your link is just one, and starts with “Reconstructive surgery is surgery performed to restore normal appearance” meaning it is a cultural perception of normal. As for medical necessity that was in my first comment where I discussed breathing in an example of a rhinoplasty (the only example mentioned by either of us). So you supported what I was saying but are acting like you are refuting it. It’s fine that we will disagree.
Where’s the line between vanity and “self-affirmation”? Not a leading question.
What’s the line between society and the individual? That’s the core question here
If you can answer that I can probably give you a hint, but it’s a concept that can’t be taught, only learned. And it’s an important one, worth thinking over… It’s subjective, but key to understanding your own existence
Vanity is making sure others like what they see of you; self-affirmation is making sure you like what you see of you.
I’m not sure that’s accurate.
Then correct it.
Breast augmentation is vanity.
Breast reconstruction after a mastectomy is self-affirmation.
Gender is defined by a cultural perception, so all attractiveness would be encompassed within the cultural perception. So a lady who gets her breasts augmented wouldn’t essentially matter whether it is to self affirm or vanity or to attract others, it would all just fall into what culture taught that person was appealing.
I’m sure there are many that would pick my wording apart or disagree, but maybe that answers some of your question? Self affirmation and vanity I would say are not mutually exclusive though, there is overlap.
Probably right around the line between self- confidence and self-worth. They’re very similar, but having low self-confidence affects you in different ways than having low self-worth.
It’s helpful to think about opposites when considering differences, at least for me. The contrast in the concepts of the opposite of vanity and the opposite of self-affirmation make clear that there’s at least some kind of distinction and difference in purpose, even if it’s not totally clear.
He also has this thing about having lots of children to ensure the future of the human race. Dude, you know how you hated the way you looked? The surgeries aren’t in your DNA. You’re not part of a master race. (except he probably still thinks so because he’s white cause he’s a nazi shithead)
Yeah at least I acknowledge I looked great before the gender affirming care. I was hot pre transition, I’m hot post transition. Elon is over here thinking his kids will inherit his jawline and hairline. I’d insult his kids’ potential intelligence but his ex daughter seems to have gotten her mom’s brains
The only good gender affirming healthcare is my gender affirming healthcare.
Bioessensialism for thee but not for me. (Fuck you, got mine basically.)
Poor Elon doesn’t just understand what it’s like to not be comfortable with your body without extensive medical treatments.
One of the drawbacks to modern medicine and high life expectancies is that elon will be tormenting humanity for a long time :(
But with a small chin it seems.
It’s weird he didn’t get surgery for that.
Can someone explain the “jawline” part? It looks the same to me.
I think it’s an illusion. The hairline, as well as a beard, changes how one “reads” a face. His squar-ish haircut also draws attention to similar features in the jaw.
Only difference between this incel and grandma’s basement incel is that this incel herp-de-derped into a lucky break thanksto mommy and daddy’s money. Once an incel alwaysan incel.
You’ve applied the “good guy with a gun” fallacy to gender affirming care.
I appreciate this.
I get what everyone is saying, but if we’re being totally honest their issue is with gender affirming care is when it’s used for the opposite gender they want to force you to maintain.
Male affirm male ok. Female affirm female ok. Male affirm female… AHHHHHHH!!! BE AFRAID!!!
Either way we’re all correct in calling them assholes that should stay the fuck out of our pursuit of happiness.
Tbf: their understanding of the “original gender”.
Ah, but you see, a man who wants to live as a woman is delusional. A weak, low-T beta male who wants to live as an alpha is
…no, I still can’t figure out how they square that with themselves
Eh, “cut my penis off because I want to be a woman” is a pretty far leap from “I wish i wasn’t bald”. That’s how they square it.
I’m not judging one way or other.
So it’s just a question of degree?
That means they’ll have no problem with men growing their hair out, for example, or wearing makeup?
when it’s used for the opposite gender
I’ve never seen Elon present his long form birth certificate for the State of Texas to review, before beginning these treatments
I literally heard an interview with a trans person who talked about how everyone who feels that they want to exert some effort to adjust their appearance to affirm the gender they feel is correct for them is trans. It doesn’t matter what the starting or ending point is, if you make decisions to enhance your gender expression in any way, then you’re engaging in trans behavior, and I think it’s a great point.
Yeah, no. We don’t need to make shit up. However, we could call it trans-gender affirming care and cis-gender affirming care. Using cis will trigger these idiots anyway, no need to call it trans.
I mean that’s just completely incorrect though. The sentiment might be coming from a good place but it doesn’t work that way.
The guy on the right definitely looks like he has enough testosterone. Sure it’s not the effects of testosterone that 16 year olds and pre transition trans men dream of excitedly, but speaking as a trans woman, that’s the effects I dreaded. He looks like if Jason Alexander wasn’t handsome. Nobody can deny that Jason Alexander looks masculine as fuck.
Everyone should post this to his Twitter
Hey hey hey.
Don’t be saying “Twitter.”
It’s Shitter.
But yes, very much agreed.
Xitter
Question: Can supplemental testosterone cause anger management issues and/or accelerated cognitive decline?
Anger management, yeah. Hence the “roid rage” stereotype.
Cognitive decline, I don’t think there’s any evidence.
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Yeah, the cognitive decline could be due to excessive drug use (ketamene). Plus the side effects of hormone imbalances on a person with malignant narcissism.
I have a theory that the anger issues could lead to cognitive decline. Anger and rage has a tendency to kick off the fight or flight response. With that comes survival mode, lizard brain thinking, and irrational decision making. There’s a lot of viral videos of people in this situation where the anger is causing them to make bad decisions. The experience might even be traumatic for them, kicking off their mental defense mechanisms.
Afterward, they post-hoc try to justify what happened in those moments to hold onto the idea that they are still a good person. Occasionally they realize they have a problem that needs to be fixed, but many times they will dig into their irrational positions with new emotional attachments to it. It can take a lot of therapy to get past it, which still has a lot of stigma with testosterone-types, so they don’t and the irrational “logic” builds up over time. Therefore, cognitive decline.
Are there more substantiated studies on the effects of anger, especially there we see this pattern? I think I am seeing it over and over, but I can’t be sure of the prevalence of the behavior since there is a bias in the media I see.
I think the easier explanation is that the cognitive decline is because of all the ketamine, like ThePowerOfGeek suggested
Lol, you got me. That would explain a lot. Cook it up with some ketamine and suddenly a lot of his behavior makes a lot more sense.
According to Dr. Mike: steroids/testosterone, depending on what type and how much, can cause: anxiety, intrusive violent thoughts, a “marked, proximate reduction in IQ,” and “an inability to perceive a broad spectrum of positive human emotion.”
He (Dr. Mike) openly uses “gear” and has a PhD in sports physiology, so I consider his opinion valid. You can hear more about his thoughts on the subject (while literally feeling those effects from the steroids he uses) here:
