Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Propagandhim]

Never. I'm a hardline anarcho-communist and a trans woman...

As a disabled transgender woman living in rural Newfoundland who depends on the government for a pittance of an income...

Yeah, there are certain kinds of threads I have to avoid here for my own mental health. I am a disabled trans woman living with her parents in her mid thirties who will never be able to work for an income ever again. I rely on a pittance, and a large chunk of that money goes toward gaming because I have the privilege of being fed and housed by my parents.

Being on disability while also being a communist is incredible. You want everyone else to work under the thumb of centrally planned labor assignment, while you are exempt from laboring in that system?   What a revolutionary idea.  Why didn't I think of that. 

I've suffered with borderline my whole life. That emptiness still eats me alive every day. I fight so hard. I'm so self aware. And yet, every relationship and friendship I've ever had have fallen apart in front of my eyes and I can't understand why.

It's them, not you.  It's never you.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2023-is-nearly-half-done-how-are-you-feeling-about-it.731508/#post-107477229

Fiancée broke up with me after we had just picked out a house and she'd gotten approved for the mortgage and we were about to start planning our marriage and filing for a spousal visa for me to move to the UK with her so I'd say it's been pretty fucking shittacular.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-hate-catastrophizers.758320/#post-111139669

I have BPD and a ton of trauma and do exactly this. There's no amount of rationalizing in the world that can stop it or calm it down. When a situation feels out of my control, the only thing left to do is spiral until it sorts itself out in some way. Have so little trust in the world or the way events play out that even the slightest inconvenience feels like my world is ending. I'm sorry that it's frustrating to you and many others, I truly am, but believe me, it sucks to be on this end of things as well. Life feels miserable like this.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-any-of-your-friends-conservative.938442/page-3#post-126386454

Never. I'm a hardline anarcho-communist and a trans woman. I would find it hard to be friends or even friendly with people who don't believe I should exist, hate poor people, believe in nationalism/patriotism and think capitalism is the best way of possibly doing things. I'm further left than even the most liberal of parties in my country and it's hard to be friends with people who think the current system works best.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/non-us-era-what-are-your-greatest-concerns-right-now-of-how-it-will-impact-your-country.1029096/#post-131292558

Living in Canada as a disabled transgender woman, I am terrified that the already on track to win extreme right wing movement will be emboldened and strengthened. The cost of living for people living on benefits as I am is already way too high, and a conservative victory in the upcoming election will possibly take those away from me, as well as my health care and hrt. I cannot work, and people like me in both a trans sense and a disabled person sense will be demonized by the government and the general public far far more than we already are, as Canadian culture always mirrors the USA. Trumpism is already running wild here. Look at Alberta. Not to mention how terrified I am for my transgender friends in the states. I feel utterly sick and hopeless.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/canada%E2%80%99s-ndp-to-vote-%E2%80%9Cno-confidence%E2%80%9D-in-trudeau%E2%80%99s-liberal-party-government-likely-setting-up-an-early-2025-election.1066527/#post-133276728

As a disabled transgender woman living in rural Newfoundland who depends on the government for a pittance of an income, this truly is the fucking scariest timeline. PP terrifies me. Everything about the global rise of fascism and conservatism terrifies me. There's nothing I can do. There's nothing any of us can do to stop us from going back 50+ years socially, and people are frothing at the mouth.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-ever-made-someone-in-your-life-feel-neglected-because-of-your-gaming-habits-how-do-they-react-to-overly-long-play-sessions.1074069/#post-133943187

My gf plays just as many games as I do. Sometimes we play together, sometimes one of us watches the other, and sometimes we play alone. We are in a long distance relationship so I've only ever felt like the shared hobby has brought us closer. The one time I've been able to make the trip across the ocean to see her, we played through all of Sackboy together and it was a magical experience.

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/poverty-check.1106412/#post-135656589

Yeah, there are certain kinds of threads I have to avoid here for my own mental health. I am a disabled trans woman living with her parents in her mid thirties who will never be able to work for an income ever again. I rely on a pittance, and a large chunk of that money goes toward gaming because I have the privilege of being fed and housed by my parents. Some of the things I see here wouldn't be attainable in my wildest dreams.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ever-date-someone-that-looks-like-your-ex.1116165/#post-136135788

Not visibly, no, but they are both tall British women so I think I have a type regardless

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-was-diagnosed-with-bpd-when-i-was-21-and-i-do-not-wish-this-illness-on-anyone.1137459/#post-137176371

I've suffered with borderline my whole life. That emptiness still eats me alive every day. I fight so hard. I'm so self aware. And yet, every relationship and friendship I've ever had have fallen apart in front of my eyes and I can't understand why. I don't have the type of BPD that makes me lash out, or get angry. I have massive mood swings but they go from euphoria to soul crushing sadness. I feel like I have a void in me that cannot be fixed or filled, no matter what I do. Life just feels pointless. So I live for my partner. Which I know to most people would be "unhealthy" and that I'm doing it wrong. But it's the only thing I've found in this world that helps numb that pain.

Edit: Seeing a lot of people come in here talking about exes with borderline. Please don't turn this thread into a reddit "BPD loved ones" space. I know it's a difficult mental illness to understand but I'm begging people to be patient with people like me. It's so common to see us stigmatized and turned into monsters. It hurts.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-study-investigates-how-long-it-takes-to-get-over-an-ex-partner-on-average-it-took-about-4-18-years-for-the-emotional-attachment-to-dissolve-halfway.1135419/#post-137067888

It'll be 2 years since my ex left me and some days I still hurt like it was yesterday. I'd definitely skew this higher.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-political-era-2024-ot1-starmergeddon.928968/page-158#post-138599871

I am so angry, so confused, so sad, so terrified. I'm not currently in the uk, but my partner lives there, and my heart is breaking that I can't do anything but watch while the government keeps removing her rights and protections. We just want to live and exist.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%9Cnever-go-to-bed-angry%E2%80%9D-is-probably-the-worst-commonly-given-relationship-advice-i-have-ever-heard.1174068/page-2#post-139088637

I disagree, but only because I know that doesn't work for me on a personal level. I can go from 0-10 in an instant. I spiral out of control whenever something is off or wrong in the relationship. I'm the kind of person who absolutely needs to talk things out *as* they come up, otherwise the trauma of my past and the experiences I've had will all compound on top of the current problem and I fall apart. Going to bed "angry" means I get no sleep, I just cry and toss and turn and wonder why my partner won't talk to me about it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-ehrc-publishes-interim-guidance-effectively-recommending-a-ban-for-trans-folk-from-any-gender-bathrooms-plus-other-fuckery.1174317/#post-139092147

My heart continues to break for my partner who has to deal with this every single day. That the island I will someday call home with her is so openly hostile to the both of us, just because of who we are, along with so many of our friends and family, and the trans community as a whole. They are on the wrong side of history, but this onslaught is just so overwhelming.

These m2f people of gender always have these impossible long distance relationships that ALWAYS seem to break down just before they decide to take the big step of living together. 

My theory is that the reality of suddenly having to suck she-cock kicks in and they realise that they don't actually like cock and that the "woman" they're about to move in with is not actually a woman in their estimation and they have to abandon ship before they have to admit they also might not be a woman.

[Boredfrom]

Maher deserved the call out but is funny how much ERA opinions change in week by week basis.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bill-maher-responds-to-larry-davids-hitler-essay-mocking-his-dinner-with-trump-i-dont-need-to-be-lectured.1174122/

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-was-diagnosed-with-bpd-when-i-was-21-and-i-do-not-wish-this-illness-on-anyone.1137459/#post-137176371

I've suffered with borderline my whole life. That emptiness still eats me alive every day. I fight so hard. I'm so self aware. And yet, every relationship and friendship I've ever had have fallen apart in front of my eyes and I can't understand why. I don't have the type of BPD that makes me lash out, or get angry. I have massive mood swings but they go from euphoria to soul crushing sadness. I feel like I have a void in me that cannot be fixed or filled, no matter what I do. Life just feels pointless. So I live for my partner. Which I know to most people would be "unhealthy" and that I'm doing it wrong. But it's the only thing I've found in this world that helps numb that pain.

Edit: Seeing a lot of people come in here talking about exes with borderline. Please don't turn this thread into a reddit "BPD loved ones" space. I know it's a difficult mental illness to understand but I'm begging people to be patient with people like me. It's so common to see us stigmatized and turned into monsters. It hurts.

[Boredfrom]

Sometimes I think about Eric Idle and the way he said "Don't blame the audience for not laughing at your jokes, get better material," very transformative of how I view comedians complaining about cancel culture and not being allowed to make racist jokes

But people that complain about those jokes are not usually the audience, mostly assholes outside that audience. If people didn’t laugh on that joke, they wouldn’t tell it all, you dumb cunt.

[benji]

How many comedians complain about not being "allowed" to tell racist jokes versus how many are complaining because they don't find the jokes to be racist?

[Boredfrom]

Usually, the comedians that are proPC and self censorship are usually the biggest sell outs and whores in the industry. 

And not even ERA can found them funny, because they get back to less PC unfriendly stuff, even if just to “complain”.

[Polident]

The comedy these types recommend is always weird shit where the person talks to the audience like they’re talking to their therapist.

[Besticus Maximus]

James Acaster is as funny as finding a lump

[Daffy Duck]

One positive is that I've noticed more people being supportive of trans people.

The anti-trans bigots overplayed their hand and I think they now are high on their own farts because they saw this as a big win and more people, people who just didn't care (in a good way), now see the bad guys really are.

Quite.

[Rendle]

What is the good way to be apathetic to someone's suffering? Can someone tell me what that means, seriously? I want permission to not care about Gaza (the good way).

[Potato]

One positive is that I've noticed more people being supportive of trans people.

The anti-trans bigots overplayed their hand and I think they now are high on their own farts because they saw this as a big win and more people, people who just didn't care (in a good way), now see the bad guys really are.

Quite.

This is the level of delusional you need to be able to convince yourself a chick with a dick is biologically a woman.

[Polident]

What is the good way to be apathetic to someone's suffering? Can someone tell me what that means, seriously? I want permission to not care about Gaza (the good way).

Try pretending Gaza is in the Congo or Xinjiang?

Sent from my iPhone.

[Eric Cartman]

There was a girl once who went around saving wasps in jars for holy purposes. And that girls name was the Wasp Factory! Who was also a boy. Except the Wasp factory was an actual child and not just what the middle aged man from the internet said he was.

under rated literary reference post

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/making-200k-and-still-not-upper-class-how-skyrocketing-living-costs-are-redefining-wealth-in-the-u-s-as-people-earning-six-figs-are-still-struggling.1172568/page-3

It's not supply and demand that determines wages. Besides, that's not what the person you quoted is discussing. They're talking about the valorization of medical professionals as if they are the only ones upon whom society's mere existence hinges upon.

Again, it's class division. Stop engaging in it. And maybe reflect upon and thank some other workers in your community for the services they provide us all.

What are wages based on, Nepenthe?

Also, AI is universally bad as it creates an infinite supply of generated art for cheap reducing demand for low effort artists

[Eric Cartman]

I desperately need someone to ask her what wages are based on.  Look, I don't ask for much.  Please, if anyone here has a Resetera account, I beg you, ask.

read a book nigga

[Eric Cartman]

Fiancée broke up with me after we had just picked out a house and she'd gotten approved for the mortgage and we were about to start planning our marriage and filing for a spousal visa for me to move to the UK with her so I'd say it's been pretty fucking shittacular.

Yeah, there are certain kinds of threads I have to avoid here for my own mental health. I am a disabled trans woman living with her parents in her mid thirties who will never be able to work for an income ever again. I rely on a pittance, and a large chunk of that money goes toward gaming because I have the privilege of being fed and housed by my parents. Some of the things I see here wouldn't be attainable in my wildest dreams.

[Eric Cartman]

What is the good way to be apathetic to someone's suffering? Can someone tell me what that means, seriously? I want permission to not care about Gaza (the good way).

no ethical consupmption under capitalism, so you might as well pay over the odds to a scalper for a switch 2 forza kart horizons edition


like jesus died for our sins, so it was a big waste of his efforts if you dont steal and rape and shit

[Eric Cartman]

Friday night at 10pm. They really couldn't wait to speedrun this shit. Trans folk couldn't even have a single weekend break from it all.

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre/interim-update-practical-implications-uk-supreme-court-judgment

On bathrooms:

In workplaces and services that are open to the public:

• trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women's facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men's facilities, as this will mean that they are no longer single-sex facilities and must be open to all users of the opposite sex
  
• in some circumstances the law also allows trans women (biological men) not to be permitted to use the men's facilities, and trans men (biological woman) not to be permitted to use the women's facilities
  
• however where facilities are available to both men and women, trans people should not be put in a position where there are no facilities for them to use
  

"A trans woman may not use the women's bathrooms, yet may also not use the men's bathrooms, yet also may not be barred from using bathrooms."

Uh-huh.

Bonus: lesbian groups may not be able to decide if they are trans-inclusive or not based on a pure "as written" interpretation of the following paragraph:

Membership of an association of 25 or more people can be limited to men only or women only and can be limited to people who each have two protected characteristics. It can be, for example, for gay men only or lesbian women only. A women-only or lesbian-only association should not admit trans women (biological men), and a men-only or gay men-only association should not admit trans men (biological women).

Surprisingly, this seems to be a clause that is most open to legal challenge to me, as surely an association has the right to call itself "trans inclusive" ?

They're pushing for a total exclusion of trans people from societal participation. We have words for degenerate pond scum like this. Well, one-word really.

TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

Sometimes I am genuinely baffled at how fucking poor retarderas basic reading comprehension is, assuming they are actually reading the shit they post and not just recycling it from twitter now they cant just excelsioref a thread

In workplaces and services that are open to the public:

• trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women's facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men's facilities, as this will mean that they are no longer single-sex facilities and must be open to all users of the opposite sex
  
• in some circumstances the law also allows trans women (biological men) not to be permitted to use the men's facilities, and trans men (biological woman) not to be permitted to use the women's facilities
  
• however where facilities are available to both men and women, trans people should not be put in a position where there are no facilities for them to use
  

'public' toilets:
SHOULDN'T let trans people use toilets intended for the sex of their transitioned gender as that is always illegal
IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES it is legal to prevent trans people using toilets of their birth sex
IT IS ALWAYS ILLEGAL to not provide any facilities at all for transgender people so you can't apply both of the above criteria to have a no trans workplace

Is that really that fucking hard to decode?

Using toilets everywhere is also not a human right, theres plenty of shops that dont have 'public' toilets for example

Same deal with the 'associations' clause posted - it says if you want to create a 'protected class' type association, you can do that, but you can't then say people who are legally not in that protected class are also allowed in

[Eric Cartman]

Bit weird people always demanding nuance about sex as being a broad spectrum between two poles therefore those poles don't even really exist immediately resort to an extreme binary of give us exactly what we want or you're literally committing a genocide, innit?

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/indie-pub-raw-fury-expresses-frustration-with-shadow-drops-%E2%80%9Ceverything-else-more-or-less-gets-buried%E2%80%9D.1174416/

Fuck them devs

[Boredfrom]

Is a pretty stupid complain given how little people will care either way for their indie game. People are not going to sing praises for Post Trauma because Oblivion remastered wasn’t released this month.

[DavidCroquet]

Maher deserved the call out but is funny how much ERA opinions change in week by week basis.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bill-maher-responds-to-larry-davids-hitler-essay-mocking-his-dinner-with-trump-i-dont-need-to-be-lectured.1174122/

I thought the Maher thing was…fine? I took his summary to mean that people should be more concerned about Trump. He’s not some doddering dementia patient that the left likes to fantasize about. He is a conscious actor and unwilling even give lip service to being more chill in a private conversation with someone open to being convinced.

In the end, Bill said he was not reassured, after all. 🤷‍♀️

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/at-77-she%E2%80%99s-as-fit-as-a-25-year-old-what-her-body-tells-us-about-aging.1174434/

Pictures in the article show she's on life support. Stop lying 🤬

[killamajig]

Sometimes I think about Eric Idle and the way he said "Don't blame the audience for not laughing at your jokes, get better material," very transformative of how I view comedians complaining about cancel culture and not being allowed to make racist jokes

But people that complain about those jokes are not usually the audience, mostly assholes outside that audience. If people didn’t laugh on that joke, they wouldn’t tell it all, you dumb cunt.

[Alpacx]

The comedy these types recommend is always weird shit where the person talks to the audience like they’re talking to their therapist.

An actual church sermon is less preachy than those comedians' sets

[Daffy Duck]

this is all so fucking stupid

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uk-ehrc-publishes-interim-guidance-effectively-recommending-a-ban-for-trans-folk-from-any-gender-bathrooms-plus-other-fuckery.1174317/

Yes, yes it is.

As always, cruelty is the point

They said the line

Yes, but also worse.

This is trying to dictate to people what their gender identity is AND what their sexual orientation is.

And then is telling people how they have to behave based on what they've *assigned* you.

Are you a lesbian who finds trans women attractive? Well then you're bisexual and you are no longer to be part of the lesbian association you were in.

They're not just segregating *trans* people, but also the people who find us attractive. Can't have people empathetic to us making bigoted lesbians feel bad about their bigotry.

Well duh, of course you aren’t a lesbian anymore because you like men, you are therefore bisexual.

See this is where all this bollocks just stops making any sense when they try to explain it in this way

They (the government) are managing to fuck this up though and it’s hilarious, it should just be as simple as you’re trans, you use the gendered toilet that you were born as, it should be that straightforward.

[DavidCroquet]

yeah, the whole “in some cases, trans men can’t use the woman’s restroom” almost feels like malicious compliance??? like, if this is supposed to be government guidance, wouldn’t it behoove them to explain what those cases are in detail.

[killamajig]

Yes, but also worse.
This is trying to dictate to people what their gender identity is AND what their sexual orientation is.
And then is telling people how they have to behave based on what they've *assigned* you.
Are you a lesbian who finds trans women attractive? Well then you're bisexual and you are no longer to be part of the lesbian association you were in.
They're not just segregating *trans* people, but also the people who find us attractive. Can't have people empathetic to us making bigoted lesbians feel bad about their bigotry.

 
News Flash: Real dykes never thought you were part of the lesbian club, Groomerize.

[Besticus Maximus]

Why can't we just be whatever we say we are because we said it   You don't see Keir the nazi going after Nepenthe for saying she's a leftist 


Because of this I have to sit here in my own filth all day every day and nobody even cares or notices