Just like with most discussion subreddits there are so many ideas and statements that are regularly posted and reposted here over and over again. Usually it’s ranting about dysphoria, neopronouns, xenogenders, trenders, broadening and muddling of the definition of transgender, and other lovely shit like that. And occasionally I see statements like this:
- “I don’t understand how a trans person can deal with dysphoria so long and only start transitioning in their late 20s, or 30s, or 40s”
- “I don’t understand how a trans person could have sex using their AGAB genitals without dysphoria stopping them”
- “I don’t understand how a trans person could have dysphoria yet get pregnant or get someone else pregnant”
The latter two statements are often made in regards to people who do this post-transition or mid-transition, but I’ve also seen them made about people’s actions pre-transition. And these statements are usually upvoted or are followed by commenters who agree with them. Well, I agree, too: you don’t understand. It me. I’m trans person. I am 30 (started transition at 28), have two kids that I made by having sex, and them there sexes I had weren’t my first or last. I would like to explain my experience to you because I feel like it’s important and because I believe that your lack of understanding is because, although I’m not that much older than you, I grew up in very different times for trans people than you did/are. I think this could be a pretty interesting look at our different perspectives due to generational difference. I’m worried I’m gonna come off sounding super presumptuous, but, oh well, I wanna write this out. This is of course mostly directed at the 89% of the sub who are under 24 years old and even more specifically directed at the 47.4% who are under 18.
This is hopefully going to be a TLDR version of this post I made a while back on my main account, but I’m long-winded and this might go on too long. I’ll try to be concise.
I was born in 1991 in the deep south of the USA. I had very strong feelings of dysphoria since I was young and by the time I was 8 or 9 I had dealt with the pain of it and had it trouble me long enough to know clearly how I felt, and I prayed to God to change me into a girl. I promised to sacrifice whatever I needed to for him to make it come true. I spent hours some days trying to sneakily tuck using regular sc
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Antichrist Superstar sounds absolutely awesome.
I'm not specifically talking about the musicianship, nor the songwriting, nor the lyrics... all very nice, sure, but those aren't the heart of the matter. I speak only of those wonderful "sonics". Not strictly the technical engineering stuff, nor strictly the musical performances, but the sound design. Mood. Movement. Light, shadow, space, texture - ACSS is a feast for the ears and it's not discussed often enough in this regard. I'm going to try to fix that tonight.
Tonight I'm dimming the lights, clamping on my comfiest headphones, lighting up only the blackest of candles, and slipping into the vibrant, dangerous, warm, kind of pointy, and downright apocalyptic soundscape that is Antichrist Superstar. I'll be sharing some thoughts here on the album's release, the technical and aesthetic aspects of the production itself, how it's constructed, and why it was special both in the year of its release and to this day. Why? Because ACSS is 25 years old and I didn't get it a present yet, so this tribute is the best I can do. The sun's setting on 2021.
So let's head on over to Hot Topic and buy a few vials of Crave candy (my favorite was Nightmare on Orange Street), order an Arch Deluxe and Super-Size it, because tonight we're partying like it's 1996 by listening to the one and only Antichrist Superstar. Let's. Fucking. Go.
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A Not Brief Yet Still Incredibly Narrow History of Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar:
Reconstructed Entirely From a Fan's Fuzzy Memories From 25 Years Ago.
And That Fan Also Did Absolutely No Research Whatsoever - Not Even Verifying Basic Facts on Wikipedia.
So Eat Me.
It's the year of our Lord 1996, and mainstream hard rock music is in an uncertain place. It's been two years since Kurt Cobain died and essentially took Seattle grunge with him, but we're still two years away from the summer of 1998, when Limp Bizkit prophetically emerged from a literal giant toilet at Ozzfest '98, thus signaling the start of a bumpy few years for rock music, to say the very least.
In between these two tragedies, the dominant trend in mainstream rock was "Alternative", which is another way of saying that there was no dominant trend. The Smashing Pumpkins, White Zombie, Weezer, Sonic Youth, The Butthole Surfers, NIN, Ween, RHCP and, sure - Marilyn Manson; all of these bands were unceremoniously lumped into one amorphous movement called "alternative rock" despite rarely having muc
... keep reading on reddit ➡I just watched Guillermo del Toro’s new Nightmare Alley. Luckily, because Criterion has recently been highlighting the original, i saw it in anticipation of the remake. But maybe it was unlucky.
Throughout the story I was put in comparative mode, seeing all the parts that were the same and what changes were being made. I want to discuss Nightmare Alley in these terms as i walked out feeling that if both iterations’ strengths were combined it would make a masterpiece of horror noir, but apart they are two fine films holding what the other lacks.
I came out of the ‘47 version excited for the remake because it was the kind of film that should be remade: a flawed film with an amazing script and cast, held back by the technical filmmaking and censorship of moral codes of the times. Not that the filmmaking is ‘bad’, necessarily, just that it does the minimum. And it is still relevant today, where a new hay day for hucksters and grifters has emerged as entertainment turned cult. Del Toro should bring exactly what was dormant in the original with his talent for horror. The main example i went in thinking about was the pivotal symbol of the Geek, the rock bottom carnie job of eating live chickens and things, being held captive like a beast and being paid with alcohol to feed their addiction. The original never actually shows it. And del Toro’s version illustrated exactly why the story benefits when it does. The savagery and pain in the geek we see, in a disturbingly held shot of the act, lingers over the film, which is important since, really, the arc of the story is very predictable. We know what it means when Carlisle witnesses this; we stay not for a twist but to see the downfall happen before our eyes.
The remake succeeds in looking fantastic and amplifying the overt horrors in the script. The damnation haunted house set is belief-suspendingly garish and spooky. Dr Lilith is more terrifying and inhuman feeling. The violence is really, really violent. But I say overt because for some reason del Toro, a great filmmaker who’s worked with fantasy, did not take up the hallucinatory, psychological horror played with in the original. That one used the medium to gaslight the audience as well as Carlisle, who gets lost in the lies. And the remake even highlighted the threat of this by giving it a name. And that’s most of the remake— the now 2h30min story has more expository dialogue and setups, then removes the payoffs. Del Toro did not cleanly navigate what was rec
... keep reading on reddit ➡All Afab bodies belong collectively to the feminist hivemind and by CHOOSING to transition you are STEALING your body away from me and other wlv (women who love vaginas). Why would you BETRAY us like this?! Why are you doing this to ME?! manipulative crocodile tears ensue
What do you mean YOU feel betrayed and objectified? You don't really feel that way Only cis white women get objectified sweatie
You're lying when you say you don't want the attention, why else would anyone transition and go out in public ? To go to the supermarket? Bah it's obviously a lie to hide your fetish for being acknowledged as a man/woman! trans people don't need to go to the supermarket! I see all of those delivery trucks with trans on it that deliver your sick groceries - what unbelievable privelge you have to own so many trucks!
No I don't need to listen to trans people or Drs about the trans experience ew that's propaganda! I talk with my radfem bookclub and they all agree that transgenderizm is a psyop by ((influencers)) to attack white fertility. Real women and men are being replaced! It's like invasion of the body snatchers
Look tranners my Feminism needs for you to be okay with being treated like a sexualised underclass of soulless freakshow toys to cis people (especially cis women we are extra oppressed so we get to do extra objectification as a treat) - we can't have cis women's rights unless there's someone below us getting all the violence we'd otherwise get - that's your place transes so go on do your bit for feminism. No we can't just advocate against all objectification or assult we need to allow a little bit of it because... um.... reasons
You should be GRATEFUL you transes are always trying to TRICK us into sleeping with you by saying things like "hello I'm a trans woman and I've been happily married to my wife for 10 years" or "please stop misgendering me I am not a man, You're making a scene Ms Rowling this is a Harrods "
Now off you go and remember your body isn't yours it's ours and the states and if you make the wrong choice like trying to change your goddess given sex or not pumping out a new white generation of child brides and soldiers then we get to take that autonomy away from you - that's just how feminism works okay sweetheart
Do your worst!
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.
I won't be doing that today!
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
You take away their little brooms
It was about a weak back.
And then shook his arm really fast.
(True story, please groan with me.)
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
There hasn't been a post all year!
