Was trolling through egg_irl and decided to check someone's comment history. Wonder why there is such a link between hardcore anime pornography and transgenderisim.

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[–]luckystar 30 insightful - 1 fun30 insightful - 0 fun31 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Egg-irl and related seriously should be shut down. I always found it cringey when people glamorized cutting, anorexia, and other mental illness. But at least back then it was known that that stuff was bad and "pro ana" would get you banned from platforms pretty quickly.

Now egg-irl is the "pro-ana" of trans, and yet they're being coddled and protected while the people saying "hold up, it's totally normal to like anime, you don't need to chemically castrate yourself" are the ones being insta-banned.

I found r/transDIY the other day, it's absolutely horrific. Between trans subreddits/twitter "confirming" and "validating" literally every gender related thought as "Yup, you're trans", places like "transDIY" teaching youths how to medicate themselves with drugs from the internet, and "informed consent" clinics that don't even require ONE mental assessment before handing out drugs like candy... it is absolutely insane to pretend we aren't barreling towards having droves of unhappy detransitioners in coming years, having permanently damaged their body and had that choice validated by society and the medical establishment. Terrifying.

[–]LoganBlade[S] 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I’m gonna share something personal here so stick with me. About a year or 2 ago I got sucked down the trans rabbit-hole. Someone had commented r/egg_irl under something completely unrelated and I wondered what it was as I liked the r/me_irl and I was expecting a stupid subreddit like r/breadstapledtotrees. So I started trolling through r/egg_irl and looking through some of the posts. I thought they were a bit funny so I subscribed to it.

Over the course of a week or 2 I was a frequent user. I was going through a really rough time in my life. I had just switched schools and didn’t have a lot of friends and people to talk to. The subreddit and coddling convinced me that all my depression and issues were because I was “born in the wrong body.” Taking advantage of perfectly normal traits like playing female characters in videogames sometimes and playing dress up in a fairy dress when I was a kid to convince me that I was transgender.

I fell for it hook, line and sinker. I began to use Reddit almost exclusively for trans related subs. I got hugboxxed in and eventually stumbled across r/transDIY. I had been convinced I had a ticking clock as to where the damage done to my body by testosterone would be irreversible and I would be a bearded man for my whole life.

It all fell into place. I could solve all my problems and be happy if I just took 100mg of Bicalutamide and 4mg of estradiol daily. Now being a fool with more money than I knew what to do with thanks to good financial habits I bought drugs from one of the recommended stores and a few weeks later, with no customs issues or anything I had a package at my door.

So I started taking them, and for about 2 weeks I felt better. It was around this time I heard about evil, bigoted TERF’s. I scrolled through some of the subreddits. Namely r/gendercritical and r/itsafetish. They created a tiny seed of doubt and uncertainty in my ideas and convictions.

Anyways, after about 2 weeks my eyes turned yellow from jaundice. I went to my doctor and told her everything that was going on. She was horrified about how easy it was to just get these drugs. Now she sent me to get blood tested and I had elevated levels of some engzyme or something. Turns out I had liver toxicity. Nothing to worry about but I definitely shouldn’t be drugging up on theses. Especially not without close medical supervision.

So my plan now was to go get a recommendation from a therapist. I was lucky and didn’t get a “gender therapist” I got a serious real deal therapist. One who also works with murderers and pedophiles on weekdays and does just normal therapy on weekends. She along with the guidance of r/GC and r/IAF forced me to confront the fact that I wasn’t actually transgender and I was falsely attributing my issues to it and deluding myself into thinking I was. Along with a pile of other issues ranging from issues with my father to a serious pornography addiction and some anxiety and depression along with some heavy stress.

I went into it with the initial plan of making fun of TERF’s and getting a recommendation from a therapist. I can happily report now I have absolutely no desire to ever “transition” and I’m now free of any liver toxicity or pornography.

r/egg_irl and the other trans subreddits are a grooming tool for young people in hard places in their life, it offers them a perfect solution to their problems and all they need to do is take the magic cancer pill. It upsets me to think of the young people pouring in there every day who don’t have the support structures I do.

[–]reluctant_commenter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I appreciate you sharing your story! I'm really glad you had a therapist who helped guide you to working on your issues, as opposed to getting lost down that path.

[–]taylorgodiva28 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Finding a good therapist is really important. Can you introduce me? https://geometrydashscratch.io

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How come reddit is a mainstream site while 4chan is not, even though both contain hardcore shit like this?

[–]Shinjin_Nana 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I also feel there's a link between the childish animu face and pedophilia, especially if that's all you've been exposed to since childhood.

[–]funky 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wonder why there is such a link between hardcore anime pornography and transgenderisim.

Masculinity, anime, and gender dysphoria, an analysis of media-induced transgender identification: http://archive.md/OMD78

[–]LeaveAmsgAfterBeep 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can actually explain the link a bit. A lot of the fetishes you see loudly in the egg T groups are popular on the hentai fetish boards (or were maybe 10-15 years ago) on 4chan and similar boards. Reddit is essentially very similar in nature to 4chan but substantially less porn. They all would gather and encourage each other in their fetishes on the fetish boards. I was a teenager at the time and was horrified that when I got away from 4chan it was still around on tumblr, reddit, twitter, every other smaller social media site when possible, support groups online, and in real life.

The theory about rapid onset GD shouldn’t be thought of about only teenage and college age girls, but like any social contagion phenomena like men in fetish circles though obviously the presentation is different and the AGP connection still exists. Or otherwise at risk, mental illness, developmental conditions, etc.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've read from autistic people who have a hard time discerning emotions that they like anime because the character's emotions are more clearly defined. I think if you start there (exposure to large groups of autistic people/link between autistic people and gender non-conformity to start), dissect the sexism inherent in most anime, the influence of porn in anime/on the brain, you can kind of see how people go down that rabbit hole.