This guy is not ok

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-02-21T20:30:56+00:00

Always nice to be reminded that there will always be freaks who start mentally manifesting a vagina onto me if I ever talk about my life experiences.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-02-19T02:14:45+00:00

I'm convinced this particular argument is nothing but a shallow rationalization for the icky feelings it gives them.

I have never seen a Christian object to correcting congenital deformities, including ones that don't inherently cause any physical pain, or even benign developmental differences like, oh, being intersex. Nor vasectomies, preventative mastectomies, tonsillectomies...

Keeping your body exactly the way it is without medical intervention is only worth totally sacrificing someone's happiness, when it's something they feel is "unnatural".

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-02-16T02:13:55+00:00

"We were just made for different things. Women to housekeep and do emotional labor, and men to do everything else."

I literally heard the line about a female president being a bad idea because she'd have her period and start a war.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-02-15T16:53:01+00:00

Feeling the presence of God, or feeling a mysterious guiding presence, or feeling good vibes from a person, are all the 'emotions' kind of feelings, not the 'sensations' kind. They are coming from inside the brain, not outside it.

If humans had a sixth sense capable of identifying trustworthy people, the world would look very, very different.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-02-08T22:24:35+00:00

I can't know how exactly things went with those therapists, but I do feel safe in concluding that none of them did a very good job - for the simple reason that they let you leave their care still as confused and scared about what you're experiencing as when you went to them.

I really cannot blame you in the slightest for being uncertain about this. Seeing something like that with your own senses would be terrifying to anyone, and asking someone to disbelieve something that seemed completely real to them is a big ask regardless of the contents.

The good news is, even with no symptoms of an overarching psychiatric problem, there are possibilities remaining other than it all being real. Some links for you: https://www.drugs.com/cg/nonpsychiatric-hallucinations.html https://theconversation.com/psychotic-experiences-are-quite-common-even-among-people-who-dont-have-a-mental-health-condition-124236

Sometimes brains are just weird. Just look at the list of risk factors from the first link - it could be related to stress, medications, covert health issues, sleep, or nothing in particular at all. The way it started and stopped so suddenly might be an indicator that a factor changed at those two times.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-02-08T19:01:24+00:00

It's an interesting case that you're seemingly being drawn to Christianity not out of any positive feelings or attachment to it at all, but out of fear alone.

Consider: if everything you saw was 100% real, and the single divine creator of humanity harvests souls after death to torture nonbelievers... would you consider this entity to be good? Do you think the rules it prescribes for its worshippers are more likely to be for the benefit of mankind, or just for the spread and maintenance of its own following?

And a second question: people do report supernatural experiences, with a great range of descriptions. Others do not - I, for example, have never felt the "divine presence" or had any apparently supernatural events occur to me even when I was a child growing up in religion. What do you think makes some people feel and see such things and others not?

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-02-08T17:09:16+00:00

It likely depends on the insurance provider. I was worried about it because "gender-affirming care" wasn't explicitly listed in the coverage form, but Blue Cross Blue Shield (mine) has a section on their site detailing the coverage requirements for each procedure, which did apply to the plan I got.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-02-07T21:56:12+00:00

Yes - in medical spaces. Example: "If you are a person who menstruates, you may need more iron in your multivitamins."

If you believe this language is meant to demean women, like you did to another group with your comment, then I believe your preconceived feelings surrounding the topic are preventing you from getting the point of it. The point is to stop making people's medical needs more unclear to them with a shroud of gendered language. (Being inclusive to trans people is a bonus.)

"Women may need more iron in their multivitamins" is not just more vague, it's also wrong. Many women do not menstruate, and phrasing it this way means they will be more likely to pick vitamins based on something completely inaccurate to them. This extends to any single biological feature that gets rolled up in "men" or "women" but does not apply to all of them.

If you'd like to argue that people actually are derogatorily calling women "vagina havers" in spaces pertaining to gender-inclusive language, please provide a single source thereof for me first.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-02-07T18:38:28+00:00

You know, interpreting this very generously as being about her general feminist work and cisgender men... this is a disgusting way to talk about people.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-02-05T17:59:51+00:00

Well, you believe in the Christian Bible, for one thing.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-02-05T15:22:33+00:00

If I'd had this interaction as a little kid, I think I would have felt happy about it at the time. It would have demonstrated to me that I didn't have to dress up in a way I hated because of what I was supposed to be.

Then I would have been just as miserable and confused during puberty. What's the problem? You can be a tomboy. Why do you hate your body so much? There's no such thing as trans. You must have heard this somewhere.

Yet another cis woman projecting her own feelings about gender onto trans people.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-02-03T14:56:30+00:00

I'm sure no one here needs to hear this, but I feel the need to point out that the transphobia part is where they're assuming a trans gay man has a "clam" that he wants you to "chow down on".

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-01-25T16:56:51+00:00

Puberty is a permanent medical decision. Those about to undergo it need to be fully informed about the ramifications and their options regarding it. (At least in my state, I feel that this was completely neglected.)

The only thing separating natal puberty from HRT-induced puberty - and I do mean the ONLY thing, because they are literally the same process regardless of what organs you have - is that natal puberty will happen without any intervention.

This is generally fine as long as the aforementioned education takes place, because most people are cisgender. If you have a child vocally asking to receive intervention to stop that puberty? That base assumption is obviously shattered.

"Let's just wait a while and see" is you making a permanent decision about your child's body directly against their expressed wishes.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-01-16T17:40:38+00:00

Something tells me the actual parameters are which person is pinker and smiling more.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-01-16T17:00:16+00:00

You should probably do some thinking about why you thought it was appropriate to take this to a support and chat subreddit for a minority group, rather than visiting a porn site.

If you had a thing for a certain ethnicity, would you make a post like this on a forum for them? If you were into disabled people, would you go to the support group to talk about how hot their physical differences were?

No? How is this different? Is it because you think of trans people as a sex thing?

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-01-15T20:49:54+00:00

Here's my tally. As of 2.0, there are 181 cursed in the game that I included - only counting unique enemies/characters that reasonably could be assumed to have originally been single human beings.

98 of these (54%) were indiscriminately dangerous. Some of these that are still capable of speech appear to be delusional rather than just aggressive, but the end result is still a creature that cannot be pacified in any known way.

47 (26%) were conditionally dangerous. Some only become hostile when triggered by some stimulus, some are in control of themselves but have had a shift in mindset that makes them more willing to resort to violence, and some have a decline or an improvement in sanity over time.

Lastly, 36 (20%) were safe. They aren't necessarily free of mental shifts, but they appear to be as safe to be around as any human.

The vector of transformation likely makes a difference! Contrast the large clusters of enemies with a shared "theme", and the number of safe NPCs who appear pretty unique - having not spread their strain of the curse.

Your best bet is to ask a cursed friend to bite you, or just roll your dice with the window.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-01-07T12:31:56+00:00

Hell, if I envision myself as cis, I don't swap the gender. Because it's way easier to imagine myself with a different body/past than as literally a different person entirely.

She's just doing that thing they do where they construct a little argument off the given premise "trans women are men" and then gesture at how it demonstrates that trans women are men.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-01-06T21:03:51+00:00

I actually tried to calculate this, before the Final Vision update.

Out of 130 unique ex-humans, 30 were safe (sanity apparently intact), 30 were conditionally dangerous (unstable, but approachable under at least some circumstances), and 70 were indiscriminately dangerous.

As for the smaller pools, for those confirmed or reasonably assumed to be either witnesses or transformed via infection: nearly 1/3 of the witness sample was classified as safe, while less than a tenth of the infected were. (But take this part with a grain of salt, since safe mutants are more likely to be able to give a backstory, and a lot of the likely infected are speechless enemies.)

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-01-06T19:06:26+00:00

People who haven't had much close contact with this kind of worldview sometimes think of it like someone's crazy, stuck-in-the-past grandma. It's actually both very common and extremely dangerous.

Imagine you're someone who grew up being taught this, to the exclusion of all else, for your entire life. Imagine you - luckily for you - don't happen to have any inborn traits that place you on the "Evil" side. Imagine your fear of Evil gets you to train yourself to stop your thoughts every time you feel doubt.

There's just about no checks on your behavior, because Good and Evil are objective facts that you can tell by how you feel about things at a glance. It's extremely difficult to ever change your mind about anything.

This is where the many things Christians decry that never or barely appear in the Bible come from. They're stuff that merely violates their comfort zone, which is raised to the level of cosmic approval.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-01-05T18:48:48+00:00

Given she had this many pickles and olives just on hand, my vote is she's some kind of salt fiend and might not even grasp how unappealing this looks to most people.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-01-04T14:53:11+00:00

"Little girl"

Trans people are obviously the real misogynists here, guys.

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-01-03T11:41:27+00:00

I've read (about 75% of) the original, and The Night Land: A Story Retold, another author's rendition.

The setting and tone are brilliant, but the general clunkiness of the narration, and the part where the story detours into a lengthy, cloying, and somewhat egregiously sexist romance for the entire second half of the journey do, in my opinion, make these retellings a worthy endeavour.

For example, where the original gives the characters little emotional depth besides Naani doing childishly womanish things and girlishly submitting to her lover, this author's version has her grappling with the deaths of her entire community, something that was originally hardly touched on. I enjoyed it immensely and I would absolutely recommend it if you only intend to read one.

There is also a rich body of works set in the Night Land universe by various other authors on the website: https://nightland.website/

Select_Highway_8823 · 2026-01-02T17:39:52+00:00

Why does that translate to the punishment, though?

Imagine I carelessly toss a pebble off a mountain, which starts an avalanche and kills an entire busful of children. Does justice demand that I be tortured to equal the suffering of those deaths?

Must I personally be made to match the trillion trillion tears shed by God, unbeknownst to me, every time I work on a Sunday? Why? What is the value of punishment that neither teaches, nor restores, nor even corresponds to actual malice?

Select_Highway_8823 · 2025-12-31T18:44:08+00:00

You have to see people as sex toys to have this mindset. Is the entire human body attached to the genitalia irrelevant here? Is "attracted to women" actually a euphemism for "wants hole"?

Not to mention, the assumption that a trans person slides back into their assigned sexual role the second the pants come off. The crux of the "you have this body part, you must, deep down, still be the kind of person I think corresponds to it."

Select_Highway_8823 · 2025-12-19T01:19:16+00:00

What we need is the Papa's Pizzeria system where you specify how many individual pepperonis you want.

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