DimlyLitFlutteringMoth

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, estrogen does make you lose considerable muscle mass. That really, really shouldn't be surprising. I used to be able to do overhead shoulder presses at around 40 kg without deliberately maintaining muscle mass. After 10 years of estrogen and antiandrogens, I can't do 18 kg and that is with active training including a much more careful protein-based diet.

All your example suggests is that the 6'3" trans woman can do is... Something a 6'3" woman can do. Cisgender people aren't discriminated against because of their natural height, their frame or their reach either, but applying that to a trans woman for something as non-competitive as yoga is all kinds of weird.

While frame doesn't change much, it becomes much, much harder to use that frame, which becomes a considerable disadvantage. Muscle mass of trans women is less than cis women, our T levels (if properly suppressed) are drastically lower than that of cis women.

Or, to be as pithy as your final comment. Bones and the muscoskeletal system have mass, WTF?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

(I know this because it strikes me as neat - swamp witch vibes)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mildew is clearly a trans femme non-binary name though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Trans guys please stop bullying me because of your taste in names 😭

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ahhh, I knew I was forgetting the third in the trinity of trans guy names

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But, if you feel the need to make up little conspiracies about everyone being hasbara, I'll wish you well and move on with my day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Just stating how it is. There is so much, rightful, support for Palestine here and it isn't being suppressed.

Does the UK and Europe suppress protests? Absolutely. Look at what has happened with climate focused organisations. Look at what has happened with trans rights.

But, thankfully, that isn't happening for Palestinian causes and even the explicitly anti-Israel protests against council use of Neptune Intelligence Computer Engineering go ahead without issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Not sure how talking about local and country-wide support for Palestine, and against the zionist genocide enacted by Israel, makes me supportive of Israel but everyone is entitled to their opinion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I would love to know a trans masc called Steve. I do know multiple Haydn and Rylan though! Most of the trans femmes I know either pick a perfectly fine normal name or they are a flower. So many Rose.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Yeah, Israel is shit, but unless you have a video for each of these protests being shut down in this way, that just isn't the norm. Plenty of pro-Palestine protests and meetings here; outside Barclays, protesting specific businesses, sharing information in our most popular streets for tourism and shopping, musical protests at art galleries. Plenty going on, never even seen a police presence at these.

Not to say it isn't happening, but trying to paint Europe as some pro-Zionist totality is weird.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Mildred is a fucking great name. Airyn is a bit rougher, but in general I feel that us trans femmes have absolutely nothing on trans mascs who really do go wild with their names or end up as one of the 75% of trans guys called Ryland, or a variation thereof.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 month ago

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

 

Not keen on the bigoted ruling from our supreme court which removes existing rights from transgender people and polices cisgender expression?

Protest by Cabaret Against the Hate Speech this Saturday.

 

Just sharing some thoughts on this as I procrastinate weekend working.

I am a relatively new player to FFXIV. I started earnestly about a year ago, after getting to around level 35 in the MSQ way back in 2015. Before FFXIV, my main MMO was Guild Wars 2 for around 9 years and prior to that WoW for around a similar amount of time.

As I progressed through the earlier expansions I was assured that the story was fantastic, even if major leaps in logic

spoilersuch as the construction of the huge Talos to reach Mount Gulg or Varis suddenly believing in the need for rejoining or Zenos turning up at the conclusion of Endwalker

were prevalent in all expansions.

I was also lead to believe that Dawntrail was going to be absolutely awful with terrible writing and a slog on the level of post-ARR. But, honestly, that hasn't been my experience so far. I have just finished the level 91 journal and I am finding the story of Dawntrail quite refreshing after how WoL-centric the previous expansions were and I am enjoying the world building being a bit more subtle and delivered via small character interactions rather than being beaten over the head with exposition for cutscene after cutscene.

I have been warned that there are moments where the narrative tension is sapped, but that was also really prevalent in Shadowbringers (as a Viera player, Rak'tika Greatwood was beyond disappointing) and Endwalker

spoiler(much of Elpis and Ultima Thule)

I've also heard so many complaints about the balance and game design that I am just not really understanding. Perhaps I really need to dip my toes into Savage to understand this, but looking at the concerns it seems very quaint compared with the balance issues in other MMOs (looking at you Guild Wars 2)!

Maybe things really will get monumentally worse and I won't enjoy DT by the end of it, but I am enjoying DT considerably more at this stage than the other expansions aside from Shadowbringers.

I will try to remember to come back and share thoughts when I am done!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/31596335

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