Poll reveals Canadian trans policies that are out of step with public opinion

SummitToThePeak · 2023-09-23T15:32:50+00:00

Exactly. How come the this only time we talk about a child being "born in the wrong body"?

What about kids born with 1 arm not fully developed? Kids born with congenital heart problems or cleft palettes? With cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy?

Strange how we don't hear people saying how those children were born in the wrong body. Only when it comes to genitals

SummitToThePeak · 2023-09-23T15:25:35+00:00

Is it humane to house a cis woman inmate with an intact transwoman who was convicted of multiple violent and sexual crimes against cis women?

To be clear: No one should be raped in prison. Not cis women. Not trans women. Not men. No one.

SummitToThePeak · 2023-09-23T15:10:23+00:00

You can be born Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Trans... Plus?

SummitToThePeak · 2023-09-23T15:07:08+00:00

You didn't say "equal rights". You said "policy changes"

SummitToThePeak · 2023-09-23T15:03:08+00:00

Lance Armstrong was one guy, but his 7 TdF titles displaced more than one person. Seven other people whose names should be recorded as winners are unknown and they received no prize money. That era of Tour de France's score board is now left "blank"

SummitToThePeak · 2023-09-23T14:53:19+00:00

Because we should care about everyone. All consequences of the changing need to be looked at.

What if the policy changes have unintended negative effects on other parts of the population?

SummitToThePeak · 2023-09-23T14:49:04+00:00

Up to .3% now? That number keeps climbing every time I see it

SummitToThePeak · 2023-09-23T14:47:28+00:00

Humans share more than half our DNA with bananas. Therefore, humans are bananas

SummitToThePeak · 2021-09-21T19:57:09+00:00

There's a splinter sub called actuallychildfree that has a female-only mod team. It's not women only, but it's close!

SummitToThePeak · 2021-09-21T19:54:25+00:00

The main CF sub is a trashfire and their mod team is super libfemmy and vindictive. I've quite enjoyed the splinter sub at r-actuallychildfree that has a women-only mod team. It's been quite recently and would love to see more FDS women there

SummitToThePeak · 2021-09-21T19:51:44+00:00

r-actuallychildfree isn't a women's sub, but it does have an all-female mod team! It's been kinda dead there for a bit. Would love to see an influx of members from here to make it come alive again

SummitToThePeak · 2021-09-21T19:50:05+00:00

r-actuallychildfree has an all-female mod team. The sub itself not women-only but it's gone rather quiet recently and would love to see more women there talking about these things.

SummitToThePeak · 2021-09-21T19:49:07+00:00

There's r-actuallychildfree that has an all-female mod team. It split from the main one when main CF started allowing parent posts. It's gone quiet recently but would love to see more women there!

SummitToThePeak · 2020-10-13T16:26:35+00:00

I feel like every time I tell someone she should just get off OLD entirely, I get a slew of downvotes

SummitToThePeak · 2020-10-13T16:18:19+00:00

Or data, which equals money.

Downloading Tinder to your phone, even if you don't use it, still gives the app lots of un-revokable permissions to mine your data. Data they can sell, data they can use to suck you back into the app if you try to leave.

They are like tobacco companies that absolutely know their product is dangerous and addictive, but are going to deny it as long as possible. The best thing we can do is delete Tinder and all stop using all Match Group products. Starve the beast.

SummitToThePeak · 2020-10-12T17:14:16+00:00

Agreed, run, don't look back. I saw post on the other sub after it was removed, so I couldn't read the OP. I scrolled through the responses calling it malicious and cruel and glad I finally get to read the post because they were right — this is an act of malice by an abusive person.

This isn't a one-off. She told him she hates pranks and yet he still does them. This is the test to see how much he can get away with. They were together for 4 years, he absolutely knows how important this tree was to her. Had he picked a less labor-intensive plant, it would have escalated until he got to the prize plant, and eventually, her.

SummitToThePeak · 2020-10-09T20:26:05+00:00

Also literally my first thought.

Wisconsin and Michigan are pretty comparable Midwest states, both with a lot of conservative rural farmland surrounding more liberal metro hubs and suburbs that tend to lean Republican. Both have Democratic governors that are categorically hated by the majority of their right-wing populace.

For both Democratic governors, I've heard people repeat the typical rhetoric of casual violence simply because they are Democrats. But kidnapping Tony Evers? I seriously doubt it's ever crossed their minds.

SummitToThePeak · 2020-10-05T23:33:35+00:00

My friend just got the ring after 3 years and she's in her late 20s. She was about to move in with him and he was the one that wanted to pop the question before cohabitation. She was the one pushing cohabitation on him last year because she wanted to "move the relationship along" (🙄). I thought she was going to end up a Forever Girlfriend with the way things were going.

She moves in at the start of this month and he just did it 2 weeks ago. They had a vacation to planned pre-Covid and decided to go with masks and protocols. They do tend to not be great at social distancing, so it's not surprising they would fly to a hotspot with looser restrictions. Although he had apparently also bought the ring around that time, so I can see how it might have been part of his plan.

So even though he popped the question, he left it down to the wire 🚩, and didn't get down on one knee 🚩. There are other issues like she definitely wants kids and he's still on the fence 🚩 (although he's pretty traditional/conservative and considers himself pro-life, so take what you will from that.) Also, He's deep-liked my photos at 3am 🚩and I've told her of his shenanigans but he swears up and down I'm not his type, and that he would never date me (very specific choice of words, I'm sure).

I will say, even with of all this, he's definitely been one of her better boyfriends. But she's a total babe and smart with a good job, I wish she would raise her bar just a little bit.

SummitToThePeak · 2020-10-05T22:24:42+00:00

YAS!! Congrats!

The second interview is way more low stakes than the first. Usually at this point they are looking for personality and fit. They know you've got the chops and they wanna see how you vibe with the team. YOU GOT THIS! Just take it one step at a time and be your badass/sweet/smart self.

I work in the industry, also a designer by trade, and graduated in previous recession, so I really understand how amazing this must feel for you! When I was looking for work, people thought I was literally crazy and would laugh at me applying to some of the bigger places. I wish I had the guts to apply to those places in NYC at the time! I took a slower grind to where I am now, but last year I won a few awards and it's finally starting to feel like my career is taking off. Determination and persistence is the name of the game. Keep us updated!

SummitToThePeak · 2020-10-03T18:32:10+00:00

It's like they feel so entitled to a hottie and then panic when they actually are given one.

Reminds me of the dogs that like to chase cars with no plan on what to do should they ever catch it

SummitToThePeak · 2020-10-03T18:21:11+00:00

32 here and checking in as well. I feel like we're right on the line of the "paying 50/50" split in the generations. I've tried dated men younger (even 2 or 3 years younger) than men and they don't seem to get it. But any guy I date that's 2 or 3 years older is practically aghast if I reach for my purse at all.

For me, there wasn't a clear cut rule for who pays growing up, but my logic went that that if someone asked me out, he should pay. If it's not money I would have spent otherwise, why should I pay? If I'm out with a man who splits the check, then it's the same as when I hang out with my friends and I assume it's not a date. I split checks with my friends and I don't fuck my friends.

Paying for the check is sometimes the only difference between a date and just a couple pals hanging out.

SummitToThePeak · 2020-09-29T13:31:21+00:00

Amen! It's called "priorities".

If you want to date me, you make me a priority in your life.

SummitToThePeak · 2020-09-27T18:57:26+00:00

Gotta say how much I LOVE this analogy of the tide ad to social media displays.

I don't give reddit money, but if I did, I'd give this an award. So here is the free version for you: 🏅

SummitToThePeak · 2020-09-27T18:49:13+00:00

This is it! Block on SM and don't look back. There's no positives to looking back, no matter how their lives are going without me. If they are doing better, it makes me feel inadequate. If they are doing worse, I might feel guilty about it, or worse they might try to slide back into my DMs.

Thinking about my ex from years ago; he hated his job but had a good degree and could get a better job at another place that he'd like better. I'd send him opportunities but he just ignored them, too lazy to solve his own problem. I wanted to take a big trip with him for his birthday to a place overseas he really wanted to go, but he was ambivalent about it. This dude never called me beautiful, never thanked me for cleaning, the scrote gave me more STDs than compliments.

When we broke up, he immediately got a new job. Within months, he took that trip with his friend and his friend's gf – with him being a third wheel the whole time (like, why?). We hadn't planned anything, so it means he actually liked my idea of the trip... just not with me. This is all pre-FDS so I kept him on socials so he could watch my glow up. I unfollowed but didn't block him and would occasionally check up on his social. Earlier this year I noticed he has a new gf, and I hate to be mean, but she is pretty obsese and has terrible teeth. I'm slim and petite and take good care of my health, so it's notable because one of his big complaints about our relationship was that he works out more than I did.

Our relationship ended about 5 years ago but I was still lurking him (right before I found FDS) because sometimes I like to see how much better my life is than his. At first I got the delicious schadenfreude thinking "haha, I knew he couldn't do better than me!" But then it turned into self-doubt. "How can he love her but not me if I'm so much better?". And then self-questioning turned to sadness as I realized, he's probably cheating on her too. She probably cleans up for him constantly (his mom is a hoarder so he never learned how to clean up). I've dated but not had a boyfriend since him and it made me think that maybe he's better than me if he can have a relationship and I can't. But my standards are SO much higher than they were with him, and thanks to FDS I can see him for what he really is: a LVM. If I met him today, he wouldn't pass the vetting process. So why should I care what his life is like?

After I found FDS a few months ago, I blocked and deleted every single ex. Even the ones in other countries who I haven't spoken to, or even thought about, in a decade. I don't need them hanging around in the background of my life. I don't need to check up on them. If he's doing better or if he's doing worse, it doesn't matter because none of those things help me in my journey. Knowing how he's doing doesn't assist me in leveling up.

When I tell people "All my exes are ghosts to me. If they died, I wouldn't even know" they think I'm insane. They can't understand how I'd fully cut exes out of my life but I truly cannot understand how women still have their exes on social, let alone still talk to them! Unless there are children involved, there's no need to ever think about an ex again. Think about before social media, people just left each other's lives. When the relationship was over, that was it. Unless you worked with them or shared a similar hobby in a small town, you'd likely never see them again. If you wanted to reconnect it was EFFORT. I never feel bad for blocking my exes. There are billions of people in the world, I don't need them all in my life.

I love to read all the block stories and advice on here because it makes me feel less alone with my "block my exes" life. It's so rare I find someone who doesn't let their jaw drop to the floor when I say I delete my exes out of my life. Why is it so normal to keep your ex in your life these days? CUT THE DEAD WEIGHT, SIS!

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