The stereotype didn’t coalesce out of nowhere spontaneously and entirely out of the imagination of privileged assholes.

No, it came out of propaganda, but go off on this imagined past that neither of us actually experienced.

Nice, another person that doesn’t care about accuracy of information in their arguments.

MILF- Machinist I’d Like To…

That’s not true though. I am a skilled machine operator, and I was hired with zero experience and trained on the job because there just aren’t enough trained operators locally available in my industry.

historically a lot of those jobs were populated primarily by high school students

TIL McDonalds didn’t used to be open during the day because the majority of its workforce was in school.

I will never put a light mode display in my car. I will take an analogue dial over something that burns spots into my retinas when I’m trying to drive. Even with dark mode, the amount of ambient light coming off that thing is gonna bother me at night.

We need to downgrade everybody’s headlights while we’re talking about personal preference too. If the car behind me has lights that are so bright they cast a shadow over my own headlights, they’re too bright.

Right wingers when someone left of centre appears: I don’t think you’re right but you make valid points on xyz

I see you haven’t met my family.

Just like learning how to cook for yourself is a poor solution for people who live in a food desert or don’t have access to a kitchen, sure.

People forget its bread and roses

So, I’m afab and probably agender, which is where the confusion is coming from. I’m on estrogen and progesterone because otherwise my cycle is stuck to ‘on’, so even my relationship with hormones is complicated.

Neither of these things directly tell me my subconscious sex, but when the testosterone makes me feel awful, or when being treated and seen as a woman makes me feel wonderful, or when estrogen gives me mild waves of buzzing bodily euphoric, I make inferences about my subconscious sex from that.

See, none of that resonates with me at all. Going off my meds makes me feel terrible, but that’s from the resulting anemia. I’ve tried living as a man, I’ve tried living as a woman, I’ve never gotten that “yes, this is me” feeling that people talk about. I don’t know what “psychological self conceptualization” as a gender means, because it’s all uncomfortable for me?

It feels like what you’re talking about is the university course and I’m still in primary education.

When I say gender identity is biological, I am talking about what Julia Serano calls “subconscious sex” which she also sometimes interchanges with “gender identity”, which is basically that innate and unchanging sense of your sex / gender.

Okay, but what about those of us that have never had an innate and unchanging sense of my sex/gender?

I’m with you on this. My childhood church was christo-fascist, and it was my wide wanderings on the web that showed me a different way was possible.

It has a fair share of copypasta, and I am curious what would make copypasta a meme, but not a twitter screenshot.

That doesn’t match up with what KnowYourMeme.com says

Memes are broadly defined as culturally transmitted information or ideas and beliefs that can be spread from one organism, or group of organisms, to another.

American culture is changing. It used to be that family bonds were the tightest, and we had generational housing, but that started going away during the great depression when a lot of family farms shut down and people lost the house they’d been in for generations. We also don’t like to talk about the amount of generational trauma that came from both the world wars, and that was another nail in the coffin of family life. The most recent blow has been the economy, where both parents need to work and don’t have the time to build the bonds with their children that are needed for a tight-knit family unit.

The title literally says it’s a secret. If he’s not the only one saying it, then it’s not a secret, and the title is dishonest.

It’s one of those things you kinda had to be there for. Japan used to be practically synonymous with new tech, and now it’s just been baked into the aesthetic of the genre.