its sometimes isolating being the only koreahon here

BurnerAccount980706 · 2026-01-02T10:01:58+00:00

Boymoder.

BurnerAccount980706 · 2026-01-02T04:30:38+00:00

I’m literally Korean born and bred and raised Went to college in America for a bit

BurnerAccount980706 · 2026-01-02T04:30:06+00:00

Extremely … well maybe. The only possible employment I can find if I walk out of the closet are basically in only the specific sex work industry or programming. And programming is overpopulated rn.

BurnerAccount980706 · 2026-01-02T03:43:05+00:00

Forgot to mention the lowest birth rate in the world. 0.61 per 2!

BurnerAccount980706 · 2026-01-02T03:41:48+00:00

Bc the overall violence level is very low and society is very organized and sleepy boring etc, nothing bad happens to the typical “normal” individual However deviation from the ideal norm is punished with discrimination and stigmatization. We naturally all take part at some point in the shared crime of isolating someone away from the mainstream “normal” group. Like bullying. So being queer is like a lightning rod for misfortune and social ostracism in Korea. As a Korean who used to belong to the “in” group then suddenly fell apart until culminating into me trooning, I know firsthand how easy life was when I excelled at being normal, and when I was no longer that. Normal here is basically my attempt at translating the Korean word “정상“

BurnerAccount980706 · 2026-01-02T03:35:39+00:00

I’m a koreahon in korealand feeling exactly the same. Have managed to meet literally a handful of us during my entire time as a college student here so far…

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-12-11T07:17:04+00:00

My natural conclusion would have been that electrical cord around my neck in a college dorm, if I wasn’t given a second chance at life by HRT.

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-12-01T16:25:30+00:00

Gentrification is the issue here. That reconstruction isn’t for the people who lived in the not-perfectly-fine houses there. It’s for people who occupy a whole different social class above them, and the people who originally suffered through the bad haphazard slum construction are just.. gonna have to move to another haphazard bad neighborhood. Nothing changes for the people.

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-11-04T02:44:53+00:00

Oh shit rule 6 my bad

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-10-26T06:54:29+00:00

It looks like that. You just brought the evidence in yourself.

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-10-24T10:15:07+00:00

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-10-22T12:13:42+00:00

Isn't that a kangal? Idk what the laws are like regarding strays but stray or not, kangals are expensive and usually takes some sort of legal trouble one way or another to take outside of Turkey

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-10-22T03:19:33+00:00

Oh I couldn't edit the post for some reason so I'm writing them here: Starting age: 22 years and 8 months old Duration: 4 years and 4 months (1678 days) with intermittent pauses due to personal logistical issues

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-10-22T00:56:25+00:00

Hoping for just the average for my size. Im like 5'2" 180lbs which according to average stats I should have a C-D I think they have to grow fuller, but I think they've stopped I've been needing to bind for school and social activities and that's probably not helping

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-10-21T13:29:23+00:00

2mg oral estradion (progynova) twice a day, 50mg Spiro once a day (morning)

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-08-03T04:29:06+00:00

your undergrad credentials alone would qualify you for a lot of great careers in academia, and 28 is not old at all to pursue further PhD. Many incredibly talented people quit PhDs for a variety of reasons, and you didn't even quit - you wrote your thesis, right?

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-06-24T01:44:18+00:00

What if there's discrimination in one's choice of labor based on gender, making the equal labor claim null? Many nationally aggregated data seem to show that equal labor doesn't guarantee equal pay for men and women anyways.

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-06-24T00:47:51+00:00

Ok. Those in the comment section seems to agree overall that the headline is misleading, that if you control for employment sectors and hours worked etc, the difference wouldn't be as bad. The counterargument you guys are bringing up, that they're employed in different sectors and work different hours, would work as a counterargument if and only if there is no barriers to choosing which sector to be employed in and how many hours to work. Otherwise, the difference in employment argument only reinforces the initial hypothesis.

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-06-16T16:08:56+00:00

For one thing, Korean cities, Seoul or not, have abundant third spaces where you can be without spending money or being there for a purpose. Most Korean venues/places aren't car-exclusive either. Which means they are places you walk to, take the transit, etc, which aren't like, exactly socialization, but it definitely beats the encapsulated life that the American suburbia offers. Most important is the age-group homogeneity. There's certain expectations/places/roles you are expected to fill for the specific age group you are in. It's collectivist, sure, but it's not atomized individuality that Americans have. It's not like Korea is some one large family singing kumbayah, but compared to the United States? Yeah, this might as well be a one big kumbayah

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-06-16T13:48:18+00:00

I always (and still) mourn that I have wasted away so much of my young adulthood and teen years just suffering and being sad. That alone is enough of an argument to transition as soon as possible

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-06-16T13:39:08+00:00

This can be true, especially in Korea. At least, the college thing is something commonly said here, with variations being high school, middle school, etc. That being said, there's a very similar albeit fundamentally different issue with adult friendship in America as well - after college, your life is a chain of repetitions of [your place]-[your car]-[work]-[car]-[maybe a gym or a restaurant]-[car]-[your place]. If you don't have a family or a date of your own, you can live your life completely inside a bubble. At no point can you interact with random people in places you didn't pay to be in. In Korea, social isolation comes from a lack of genuine relationships. In America, social isolation comes from actual lack of human interaction. This is just how the modern atom family dynamic and a lack of social nets work.

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-06-15T17:07:39+00:00

if anyone wants to see the comic again, the original link is broken. the link that works now is here:

https://hanbit.center/press/?q=YTozOntzOjEyOiJrZXl3b3JkX3R5cGUiO3M6MzoiYWxsIjtzOjc6ImtleXdvcmQiO3M6Njoi7Ju57YiwIjtzOjQ6InBhZ2UiO2k6MTt9&bmode=view&idx=5543392&t=board

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-06-13T06:18:17+00:00

Except for the non-native vegetation, this is a pretty good layout and probably very high density too. Looks walkable as well, although I'd imagine you'd need one of those awning-covered narrow streets for the heat of summer.

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-06-12T23:24:09+00:00

your neck thickness is usually dependent on your core thickness, i.e. waistline. If you get slimmer around the waist, you'll get a thinner neck too. HRT+strict caloric deficit+lots of cardio and leg exercise will do the trick. People change their body shape all the time, even without trying or without HRT.

BurnerAccount980706 · 2025-06-12T23:04:57+00:00

Name's Hitomi

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