So like I said in my previous comment, no one is driven by such strong compulsion that they must sexually assault someone. Being a pedophile is not a sexual orientation it is literally a desire to commit sexual violence. If someone told me “I am so driven to commit acts of sexual violence against rhe vulnerable that I am voluntarily putting myself into a mental health facility” my first thought would be that I hope they are being involuntarily held.

Pedophilia is not a disability. No i am not being ableist by directly correlating pedophilia with rapists. They are literally obsessed with rape. They see children as a means to an end for their personal sexual gratification. I would react to someone saying they are a pedophile the same way as if someone told me they desperately want to sexually assault someone.

Being a pedophile is not a sexual orientation. It is not a sexuality.

I strongly, strongly dislike the way you are framing pedophilia. All CSA is based around the vulnerability of the victim. Child sexual abusers are aware of what they are doing. No one is driven by such strong compulsion that they must sexually assault someone. It’s exactly as evil and wrong no matter the age of their victim. All CSA is wrong. All sexual abuse is wrong.

Providing the general public with convincing text generation has been an absolute unmitigated disaster for humanity.

Did you actually read the African human rights commission link? It specifically says that there legitimate LGBT people in the area who need help. It is calling out scammers because their scams will be used to dismiss actual queer refugees who actually need help.

If you want to demand further verification you can ask moderators of this community or others to do that. You can also ask gofundme to do that. People have already done both of those things in the past and she has been verified to be a real person. To do this bizarre public condemnation ritual cause she once went to a refugee camp that has had scammers there is just wrong. It’s an extreme overgeneralization and the way youre applying your “evidence” basically works to dismiss the entire country as a scam. Which obviously isn’t true.

She isnt in Kakuma, she was in the past. Your other comment also seems to be just listing random cases of people suspected of scamming and not actual evidence about Cyara herself. Her gofundme posts the actual wire transfers themselves. She routinely posts pictures of herself and has been verified several times by other moderators. I have communicated with her over text several times about possible routes out of South Sudan to a country where her rights would be respected.

I understand the need to vet these kinds of posts. But no not every person who has been to a particular refugee camp is automatically a scammer? Like saying “This specific refugee camp has been scamming the queer community for literally years at this point” is wild. Are you trying to say its not a real place? Or that no actual queer people can possibly have gone there? Merely ever having been there once means you’re a scammer? Like that’s not proof of anything.

I commented this on a previous post about pregnancy dysphoria. Still holds true to how i feel,

I’ve mostly made peace with the fact that it will never happen. It hurts very badly sometimes but it is what it is. I really want to be a mom one day, and when I am able to I will love my children with all my heart. For me, being a mom is my life’s dream. I wish I could conceive my own children but, I can’t. Someday it will be a reality for women like us but it’s not there yet and I’m really not holding out any hope that it will be within my life time. Even if it does happen in my lifetime I don’t want to spend my life waiting for something that is unlikely to ever happen for me. Focusing on how ultimately being a mom itself is my dream has helped me cope. Because that is something I can work towards today.

I really strongly empathize with this pain though. I’ve cried myself to sleep over it many times. I hope you’re able to find what helps make it easier for you.

I love Sailor Jupiter. Just finishing season 4 with my friend right now. Sailor Mercury will always be my favorite I think haha

It doesnt matter really, evidence is really irrelevant to the entire thing at this point. The people tuning in do not understand what autism is to begin with, let alone what evidence would even mean in this context.

I won’t be surprised when studies show in a few years a large drop in Tylenol use during pregnancy (probably overall use too), and the diagnosis rate of autism continues the overall increasing trend (as we become better at diagnosing it).

I cannot wrap my head around where this was coming from or how you could possibly believe this was supportive. She made a post about a validating experience with a date, and you immediately thought to counter her validation? How tf is that supportive

Ah, I see they adapted their on-boarding program from the police recruitment process.

Super cute! Hope you have a lovely day 😊

Cold water, separate white items. It really only takes a couple minutes. Eventually even if there isnt an immediate stark change in tint on the item, over time it’ll steadily become more and more off-white. It looks noticeably worse imo.

If only Carney was a good politican who had helped Canada in literally any way since taking office. At least he sorta looks good in comparison to a dementia riddled fascist, I guess. Fascists will see this as Canada bowing to the king.

By going and observing you are implicitly endorsing that there is some value in what they do there. You might ideologically disagree, but even by observing it you’re showing that what they do is worth observing.

I use a similar logic with fascists. Its not a bad thing to be informed on how fascists and terfs think. As a community we can best protect ourselves by understanding who seeks to attack us and defending ourselves accordingly. Thats one of the reasons communities like blahaj.zone are so important. No corporations can come here, and terfs and fascists are banned wherever they appear.

There is nothing of value in what happens in that community. TERFs dont hate us because they have a rational framework of disagreement with us, they hate us because we are trans. They despise that very core of who we are. It’s not like there are any grounds for discussion with them. I can’t convince someone who hates trans people that trans people do not deserve hate. They weren’t convinced to begin with. They hated people who are different from them, people who do not fit into the boundaries of sexuality and gender they see as sacred. There is nothing to be gained from speaking with them. There is nothing to be gained from debating them. There is nothing to be gained from paying attention to them. I can tell you right now what you will find there. You already know what you will find there yourself. It serves nothing to look. You’re only inflicting actual real psychological harm on yourself by going there, and giving them attention only feeds their desire to cause you pain. They hate us. They want to call us slurs to our faces to make us feel bad about ourselves. They delight in our suffering. They know that trans people go there, that is ostensibly the point, and they love that, they love that trans people go to that community and suffer real psychological harm from engaging with them.

Ive argued with many a terf and transphobe in my day. Along with loads of racists and misogynists and homophobes and fascists. I spent a significant part of my early 20s arguing with them. And I’ll be honest and tell you that frequently engaging with and seeing and hearing the things they say hurt me and traumatized me on deep foundational levels that I am still working to heal from. It is categorically not worth it. It’s not worth it. They dont care what you think, they want you to read what they say and be in pain because of it.

You have to respect yourself enough to stop. I know that sounds harsh, and I genuinely dont mean to be harsh. It just comes down to that. You are worth more than a source of pain for ravenous bigots. You dont deserve to be subjected to that every day. The world is full of joy too. Trans joy is real. I find my time far better spent engaging with trans solidarity and joy. You should block the site and move on. The temptation fades with time. You have to choose to look at better things.

What a cute and meaningful story. Those moments of feeling affirmed and understood are so important. It can be so hard to feel welcome to womanhood.

Apology accepted. I appreciate you taking the time to respond and say that.

I dont understand why you felt the need to add the first part, as though anyone struggling with infertility is unaware of how difficult it is.

I’ve mostly made peace with the fact that it will never happen. It hurts very badly sometimes but it is what it is. I really want to be a mom one day, and when I am able to I will love my children with all my heart. For me, being a mom is my life’s dream. I wish I could conceive my own children but, I can’t. Someday it will be a reality for women like us but it’s not there yet and I’m really not holding out any hope that it will be within my life time. Even if it does happen in my lifetime I don’t want to spend my life waiting for something that is unlikely to ever happen for me. Focusing on how ultimately being a mom itself is my dream has helped me cope. Because that is something I can work towards today.

I really strongly empathize with this pain though. I’ve cried myself to sleep over it many times. I hope you’re able to find what helps make it easier for you.

We do agree. I only said anything in the first place because I didn’t really see this post as advocating an anti-voting position. I would see anti-voting agitation as more along the lines of “Do not vote. Voting itself is harmful.” As opposed to “voting doesn’t work” or “voting is ineffective” which I see as more along the lines of criticism of electoral democracy and agitation for collective action.

Voting is fine as long as you are aware that it does nothing to materially prevent fascism. It can’t hurt anything to write something on a piece of paper. But the problem isnt really people like you. Its liberals who believe that voting is the be all end all of their political responsibility.

Electoral democracy is ultimately a misdirection. Capitalists are the actual sources of political power in western democracies. They unfortunately have a vested interest in the state getting more fascist and actually have the power to effect that change. So long as everyone looks down at the ballot box and then goes home to do nothing of material difference for the next 4 years, fascists will only continue to gain ground until they can do away with the misdirection of electoralism entirely.

Voting cannot be the only thing you do. Or you are effectively doing nothing. Which you seem to understand, but liberals do not. They actually want all other forms of political action banned. Because liberals ultimately protect capitalists, who are the real sources of political power. Leftist political action is a threat to capitalists. Thusly, liberals condemn it and recommend voting instead.