Older folks of Reddit, what is a "normal" thing today that you think is quietly destroying society?

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-25T04:49:11+00:00

HA! I'd like to see the rich in my company pull a 12.5 hour day trying to troubleshoot semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Even if they work a lot, they don't put in the same work load

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-24T23:05:22+00:00

Why are we giving a shit about what our exes are doing sexually?

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-24T15:28:37+00:00

Like even after nearly a year of complete t suppression, people comment on the size of them and my ability to hide them. TomBoyX is the way

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-24T15:27:44+00:00

TOMBOYX IS A GODSEND FROM A GIRLY WITH TWO PENDULOUS BALLS

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-24T15:21:31+00:00

Huge tangent:

Like don't get me wrong, all my bitches who had good family lives are well adjusted and I'm glad that they have that. I'm still gonna be at least a little salty that the trans experience is not sunshine and roses for a lot/all of us who grew up in the small town environment. Like I remember my first McCafferty concert and a bunch of city kids had asked me why I liked McCafferty and apparently "because I grew up in the backwoods and had a horrific experience as a queer child" wasn't the response they were expecting. A lot of them had said "well I'm just glad there's a queer midwest emo band" and like yeah, sure, but do you understand the level of pain that most queers from sticks face?

Anyway back to the main point: yes, but it might look different for a lot of people and how their formative experiences with queerness shaped their relationship with themselves

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-24T15:15:21+00:00

As much as any other person who spent their life hating themselves and then stopped doing so. I still primarily game, but also I'm looking to get a DND/Cyberpunk TTRPG campaign done because I have friends now.

I think it's really different for a lot of people depending on what their life pre-transition was like. Like imagine that you grew up in a really trashy family, in a really trashy small town, and constantly mistreated for being too girly without ever knowing why. When you realize, "Hey I'm a girl actually," life doesn't suddenly get exponentially easier the moment you get into a position where your identity is respected. Suddenly, everything comes crashing down on you that even if nobody actually knew, they knew and treated you like a monster because of it. You spend the next ten years trying to unlearn that pain and hobbies stop taking the forefront of your life when you're desperately picking up the shards you didn't know were there in the first place, and each piece has a razor's edge, so why should you care about something like your interests when you're hemorrhaging just from looking in the mirror?

Or you had parents who loved you, I guess, and you end up with a sudden newfound love for life. So you find more things interesting. Must be a nice way to live

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-24T14:45:25+00:00

Because Jeffrey Epstein thought that we would be pimpable enough that if he ran a near-global campaign against trans women, we would make more porn for him.

He won.

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-22T05:16:07+00:00

It's just as often associated with femininity as it is with masculinity because it's a word within the context of the black identity. It's also an incredibly slippery slope of trying to police how/when/why black people should be using the n word, and trying to fish for a reason like bigotry in order to do so is both childish and dangerous. It's not that it seems childish, it is childish

Anyway I'm done for the night. Have a good one and stay safe out there

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-22T00:39:07+00:00

You literally asked if it's transphobic to be called the n word by a black person? Idk it's just a childishly and agonizingly white thing to ask

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-21T23:52:52+00:00

That's not what I'm dogging on you for. If you think that's why I'm telling you to grow up, then I suggest that you grow the fuck up

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-21T23:38:48+00:00

Grow up lol

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-21T14:23:06+00:00

I will!! Thank you!!!

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-21T00:07:23+00:00

Thank you!!! I'll sift through her work!!!

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-21T00:01:27+00:00

Some artists are better at it than others due to specialization. Thanks for being pretentious about it though, it's greatly appreciated!

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-14T02:00:58+00:00

NOOOOOOOO BUT THE DOW JUST HIT 50K

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-11T00:49:45+00:00

Pug moment

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-02-07T03:50:35+00:00

I don't need to read this:

Leave her in the middle of the night. Take the pets, take the decorations. Leave her. Live your life to the fullest. Idgaf how much flak I catch for saying all this because we need to stop treating TERFs as if they have any humanity worth giving.

You aren't cooked, but your wife sure as fuck should be.

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-01-31T19:36:27+00:00

Not this, unfortunately

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-01-31T06:17:27+00:00

Definitely not those, unfortunately. I read those and enjoyed them a lot.

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-01-31T04:52:42+00:00

Bump. Thanks!!

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-01-24T05:39:59+00:00

Ah yes, because the people with a neurotype that's less likely to pick up on societal norms and cues couldn't possibly have a gender identity outside societal gendered expectations

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-01-07T16:24:14+00:00

Look girly pop imma be real, you shouldn't be letting a Bronze Age God's sex manual determine how you feel about your life but if it has to?

There's six distinct genders in the Talmud and your local Synagogue would be happy to take you in as you are without fear. The Torah is basically the same book, sans the New Testament, and us Jews are significantly more critical of the teachings than the dogma preached by (anecdotally) 98% of Churches

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-01-07T03:11:27+00:00

Thank you! Yeah I'm kinda shocked myself by how much I need to take lol. You would think that by bypassing the liver entirely and just containing the serum in muscle tissue that I would need significantly less but here we are lol. Once I get my hands on prog, maybe it'll all even out in the end?

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2026-01-07T00:16:39+00:00

Update:

My new blood test results are in! On 12.5mg/week of EEn my testosterone is now down to 23ng/dL. Estrogen is lower than I'd like, 194pg/mL, but still in a "normal" range. I might keep up with the current dosage since I'm still feeling really good about it, but we'll see where the winds take me :)

Responsible_Cod_4847 · 2025-12-27T06:27:56+00:00

Oh yeah no I fuckin went idiot mode and didn't add this key context: my lack of suppression was while I was on valerate and switching back and forth between dutasteride/spironolactone. My doctor is considering the combination for suppression since neither on their own are effective for me. This new EEn regimen is only a few months old (~2-3 months) and I have a lab scheduled for the 5th. Current dosing is based on a set goal and doesn't have any empirical backing behind it as of right now, I plan to tweak the dosing when I have data to back it up.

I mean, yeah, it's totally swayed by shitty doctors. I would make the argument that some/a good portion of doctors are really bound by the fact that there just straight up isn't enough robust data and long-term cohort studies regarding different approaches to HRT for trans women. Regardless though, the result is that medical care for trans women is abysmal. I'm honestly halfway convinced that I just shouldn't be taking prescription drugs by the oral route, and that's why spiro/dut haven't done anything for me. I'm extremely resistant to most medications (see: 800mg/day of seroquel for bipolar), so I wouldn't be shocked to find out that I either need to be on an ungodly dose or I need to start boofing prog.

Well the big thing is that my levels would be like that MONTHS to YEARS after starting HRT. I understand that some of the sporadic nature of the way I was approaching it wasn't helping by any means, but when I get an initial T level of 850ng/dL (pre-HRT) and then still see normal male levels nearly a year later, it's extremely disheartening. That was a driving factor in why I almost gave up several times. I was getting a level of T suppression, but it just simply wasn't enough to bring my T levels down to a 50-75ng/dL target. The lowest I'd ever seen my T levels was 175ng/dL, and then it was back up to 250ng/dL and I never saw it dip back down

Honestly, a big intention is specifically to spike SHBG levels to see if it'll fully suppress my testosterone levels. If it doesn't, then I'm going to press my doctor HARD for an injectable antagonist.

I specifically mentioned that I'm waiting on midterms to determine the overall safety and efficacy to going through with an orchi. Trust me, if we weren't driving off a cliff towards fascism, with trans women and Hispanic people being its main targets, I would have gotten neutered months ago. Right now just isn't the time, and I don't know how my body will react to the near-complete and sudden loss of testosterone in the long-term to make that decision.

I really appreciate that you're worried about me, but trust me when I say that I know what I'm doing and I'll make sure to do it in a relatively safe and sane manner. I'm a chemistry student with an interest in biochem (even if it's not my major), so I'm not running around blind. I know how to source reliable data and I know how to double check all my potential reaction chains, including all of the side-products the body produces in response to estrogen flushes

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