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[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

lead otherwise pretty miserable lives feeling like everyone is against them

That really hits a chord. They spend their time imagining all sorts of victimization. We took a trans identified girl on a family vacation and we traveled some real redneck parts of the country. Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody gave a shit. She worked herself up into fits worrying about imagined hate and violence that never manifested. It seems like a terrible way to go through life.

They were just regular losers trying to compensate and find an easy way to social success, instead of doing the work to get fit, learn to socialize,

I had thought of that too. Both of them are pretty plain people. Unattractive, unintelligent, and generally uninteresting. They adopted an identity that made them special. Although I'm not sure I agree they can simply fix it. Improve themselves, sure, but they only have so much to work with. Like lipstick on a pig.

[–]The_Best_Yak_Ever 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Touché… it actually does make me feel for them in that sense. Like, the ones I knew suffered from the same reality. No matter what you do, you’re a 79 Toyota Celica, and no amount of work will ever make you a Ferrari… but I have to imagine there are lots of average looking people living great lives, free of the self-imposed misery of the victimhood lifestyle. It’d be really depressing if not.

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sad, isn't it? People doomed to be mediocre, or worse, their entire lives. Some win the genetic lottery and some don't. The transgender ideology is innately self terminating however, when everyone can be special by identifying as special, nobody is special, and worse, perverts and sickos denigrate the entire 'brand.' Not entirely unlike why stores often rather trash food than give it away to those in need, they don't want to associate their product with poverty. And transgenderism has got a lot worse associations than that.

[–]The_Best_Yak_Ever 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A friend and I were just talking about this… she’s someone who’s stunning… but we were talking about how to us, the world seems so friendly. Like, in our interactions with strangers from wait staff to cashiers, people are just generally nice to us! It’s easy to believe that the world, or at least, our place in it, is a decent place full of generally good people. When we brought in a guy friend of mine, we were shocked to learn what it’s like to “be invisible.”

I think when you dress up and act like a deranged clown, already primed to believe the world is chock full of sadists and bullies, it becomes the perfect self fulfilling prophecy. Paranoia will always find fuel to send itself into orbit. And when you believe the world is generally cruel, and look and talk like a crazy person, you will see exactly what you’re looking for, driving yourself further and further away from society and happiness, and closer and closer to the true social pariahs… those associations you mentioned. I think you’re right. Such a chain of behavior is ultimately self destructive and self terminating.

Jeez… now I feel sad. It’s not exactly comforting to ponder how you dodged a genetic bullet to the brain pan by sheer fucking luck, and how it colored your worldview. There but for the grace of god go I… dressed in a skirt… and demanding to be treated like a pretty princess… *shudders *