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The “”“alpha male’s”“” masculinity is so fragile, they threw a conniption when seeing a picture of a fit woman.
Without doubt, it will. Though the GD party is not keen on joining the EU anymore anyway and favor Russia. Laws like this will make it easy for the GD to blame the EU when the EU makes the inevitable decision to suspend Georgia’s admission process.
Technically this year, but already after the last elections in 2020, there were credible allegations of election fraud in favor of the ruling GD party which resulted in massive protests. Since then GD has only tightened its hold of the country’s institutions and has suppressed civil society. You can see why the upcoming elections aren’t looking promising…
Yeah, trans people in the UK are in horrible danger.
In regards to Hillary Cass I am not even sure how much of this is actual regret and how much is her trying to save her reputation in regards to her scientific credentials. It may be politically opportune to write a report full of bigoted pseudo-science that slanders the academic community who does actual science, but it comes at a price.
Of course, everybody responds differently to such things. For me… (spoilered for those who still want to play it)
the moment when you step though one of doors at the end and the game uses the related pronouns was a very powerful one. I did not even dare to step through the “right one” the first time I played the game and was very emotional when I did during a later playthrough.
But ultimately everyone has to find their own way to figures themselves out. So I will keep my fingers crossed that you will find yours.
If you are in the mood for another game and have half an hour of time, I recommend checking out “What’s your gender?”. It’s a short experience that made a big difference for me.
The enbys get the best class.
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This! This was the real perfection.
When you dig into the data of several other surveys, it becomes even more apparent that the seemingly rising number of LGBT+ is due to the removal of stigma: Earlier surveys had shown that the group that saw the biggest growth among all are bisexual/pansexual people while the other groups saw much less growth.
From an article in Psychology Today from 2022:
In the Gallup survey, most of those identifying as LGBT+ said they were bisexual: […] 57 percent of those declaring themselves something other than cisgender heterosexual. […]
Again, bisexuality was age-related. Those most likely to declare themselves bisexual were the youngest adults, with each older age group less and less likely to claim bisexuality.
An article in the Washington Post from 2021 makes the apparent “rise” of bisexuality/pansexuality even more obvious:
Research from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law has similarly found that a key driver of the growth in the LGBT community has been a surge in bisexual women and girls. Bisexual women make up the largest group of LGBT adults — about 35 percent, according to a Williams Institute analysis of data from three population-based surveys. More than one in 10 U.S. high school youth identifies as lesbian, gay or bisexual. And among them, 75 percent are female and 77 percent identify as bisexual. […]
Kerith Conron, research director at the Williams Institute, said more research is needed to understand this pattern. But, she said, “my theory would be it’s more acceptable for girls to identify as bisexual. The policing of young people is particularly pronounced for boys, to be masculine,” Conron said. “And for girls, to be bisexual isn’t necessarily perceived as a significant deviation from femininity.”
So people are much more open to talk about their sexual desires for people of the same sex once the stigma is removed, but - unfortunately for young men - that is less often the case for them, so they won’t admit these feelings.
PS: Add that to the fact that women are much more likely to hold progressive politics than men.
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Jokes and memes aside: You deserve respect and happiness no matter if you are of use to anyone. 🙂
Of course, they had to do this right before Christmas: The cruelty is the point.
Others have already written a lot about their experience and therefore I will keep it short. One thing that made a big difference for me was that feelings like the ones that you are describing are certainly normal - to an extent. But when all of them come together, then there is “something there”. No smoke without a fire, so to speak.
There is a little game “What’s your gender?” that helped me. It’s short. If you have a little time, I recommend checking it out.
Wherever you may go, may Blahaj be with you!
The reason is bards, isn’t it?
Gender: Kafka
Yes. From the article: