I think the fear of death or the tearful misery of being chopped in half are pretty humanizing. After all, I am human, and I don’t like being chopped in half.

Wind Waker begins with grandma giving you your tunic for your twelfth birthday. :3

It’s early morning for me, it’s not fair.

I think that wandering into a house fire, then saying “whoa, why’d you douse me?” is pretty silly behavior.

Is David Thorne not doing a kind of performance art here? He’s being deliberately obtuse, and he’s turned it into comedy.

With that logic, everything is art.

Not necessarily, no. I think nagram has summarized my feelings on it, though.

dancing with vestibular senses

I’m not sure I understand this one. The audience is just watching, aren’t they?

That would be a kind of performance art.

Sitting down is feminine.

That’s why I’ll never sit down, ever.

Restaurant? I’ll eat at the bar.
Plane? Flight attendant better knock me out.
Roller coaster? My gorilla grip strength will do just fine.
Friend’s car? I’ll stand in the trunk.
Getting into bed? I let gravity rotate me, stiff as a board and fully clothed so no burglars can steal my chastity.

I think there does come a point where stupidity and malice are basically the same thing.

I think people just don’t like being told what to do. Like, there are a lot of behaviors you can trace back to someone just being personally aggrieved that they ought to change anything.

That said, if anyone else is reading, the em dash is a clue that you use to diagnose with—you don’t have to stop using it.

It can be. Depends on why they’re doing it.

I found this one.

1. Assume interesting shapes

Hard to understand geometry can inspire curiosity. Intrigue her by adding more complexity to your configuration!

2. Playfully interact with her as different people

Hate to break it to you, guys, but not having a personality isn’t going to impress anyone. What will impress a lot of people is having 7, 8 or 9 different personalities that come and go as the mood changes.

3. Get close!

Close bonds often reflect a close geography, so try to be in the same room she’s in as much as possible. If she wanders into the kitchen for a soda, wander in yourself to wash your hands. If she’s talking to a friend in the hallway, talk to a different friend in the same hallway.

4. Be funny

Comedy can be extrapolated from this base formula:

P = ¬P

Such an expression being true would require the dissolution of all fundamental axioms of logic and reason, and is therefore funny. Try explaining this to her.

5. Be mysterious

Nothing is more sexy than a masked man of mystery. Show her how mysterious you are by playing ominous sounds while describing a job you don’t know you have, and people you don’t remember speaking to!

6. Be

The best way to make yourself available to a woman is to have an existential presence in our natural world.

7. Share the things you have in common

Impress her by ovulating with her!

8. Don’t be afraid to be saucy

Demonstrate your wild side by flopping about or rubbing against nearby objects and furniture.

But don’t get carried away. Being too floppy can be off-putting. Try to match her level of floppiness.

9. Gifts make the heart grow fonder

Gifts are a great way to establish a connection and to show how much you care. Try giving her the gift of self-love, or the depth of pure sadness. You could also teach her to be less co-dependent!

10. Try MDMA!

Ecstacy looks really weird in movies. This could be a great way to experience something new together!

I skimmed this, but only because my brain is huge and I already know everything you’re saying, and also I’m busy trying to locate a methane leak in my kitchen. Even so, I think you explained this fine. Don’t worry about it. Rest easy and get yourself calm. :)

You are kind of confusing a systemic critique with some kind of personal attack against individual people.

From what seems like a decent enough article on Gender Abolitionism:

Rather, any conception of gender would arise from within, and be part of one’s self-identity, rather than a tool used by society to prescribe a role or identity.

That “prescribe a role or identity” is why it’s useful to get rid of. It leaves people with more freedom to form their identities, not less.

It can be aggravating to be told that something you worked hard to figure out doesn’t matter

I very much like the gender identity that I have; there’s nothing wrong with that.

Oh, don’t get the wrong idea! I just need it to intimidate people.

ohoho~

I listen to him~ but only through the little speaker I’ve hidden in his wallet

You might be interested in this VSauce video on the philosophy of definitions, which isn’t specifically about the trans argument.

But, I also side strongly with wpb’s comment. The political advantage is to make them look silly, and not because we really care about the definition of “woman” any more than our simple “whoever wants to be one.”

What did she mean?

She meant god.

If you listen to some people talk about evolution or ancient mysteries of the body, they love describing things by their supposed purpose.

I had a long argument with somebody once, trying to convince them that sex wasn’t for babies, even though that’s what it often results in.

So like, evolutionarily, sex produces babies, that’s why “it” “cares.” But, a bird doesn’t need to know what sex is or why it should want a baby to be motivated to do the thing that makes one. Similarly, a bee doesn’t need to know that it’s spreading pollen around, it just wants that sweet little flower juice.

I don’t remember why this argument was important to have, but I do remember them just not getting the distinction between “does” and “meant to.”

There is if you know where to look, but yeah, I feel you. I want to wear long flowy coats and such, but they’re all cut at the goddamn hip.