Gender-affirming photo 'restoration': why memory-hole reality when you can edit it?

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[–]The_Best_Yak_Ever 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why even bother at this point? Why not just clip out a picture of 25 year old Jennifer Connelly and just say it’s what you “identify” as? It’s about as honest. I’m only being a little facetious. If it’s okay to re identify yourself because you were “born in the wrong body,” why can’t I say that I identify as Enrique Iglesias (yeah, I’m a Hispanic dude, so why not?)?

This is where it all falls apart for me. We don’t all get to be Chris Hemsworth and Taylor Swift. That’s the bottom line. We don’t all get to be hardcore warriors or pretty princesses. How you feel or identify just doesn’t override reality. In fact, the more you consider it, the sadder and harder it becomes to go along with.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It needs to override reality. But everyone is so loyal to the system that they convince themselves either that it doesn't need to or that it already does.