Forever Imploding

Me at target trying to understand how $2 + $3 + $1 came to a total of $287.25

They are on a phone call

when god closes a door i lock it

we’re stuck in here together bitch what now

ok but this is cute

expected Boomer joke, pleasantly surprised

40-year-old man: “Why won’t you consider dating someone who’s 40 years old?”

20-year-old woman: “Why won’t you?”

40-year-old man: (head explodes)

As someone who works in retail, let me tell you that it is exactly like this. Its been over a year of this pandemic and people still do shit like this all the time.

I can’t tell you how much I’ve wanted to yank people’s mask to cover their damn faces. Especially the nimrods that are walking around with their flipping noses hanging out

Me working in the hospital

Handy guys building stuff for their pets are so wholesome 😭

@catsindoors thought you could like this video maybe

This video was already in my likes! This guy clearly loves his cat so much, and look how happy Bucky is… definitely a good rainy day video, it makes me tear up.

I’m a cis-gender man which basically means that, when I was born, the doctor went “It’s a boy!” and when I was old enough to understand I agreed with him.

The thing is, I don’t know why I feel like a man.  I was teased and bullied for it a lot when I was little.  I’ve never had stereotypically American male interests.  I never cared about sports or cars or guns.  I was more interested in music and cooking and the arts.  I’ve always been emotionally in tune and sensitive, even when I did my best to suppress my emotions to survive a childhood of abuse from other children.

It’s not physical either.  I don’t feel like a man because I have a penis or a beard.  If you put my brain in a robot body or any other body, my essence would still feel male (I assume).  I literally can’t imagine what being any other gender would feel like, since I feel so acutely male.

I think that’s why the concept of being transgender always made sense to me.  I’m a man.  I don’t have any bloody clue why I feel like a man, but I don’t feel that it’s tied to my body or my interests or the way that I’ve been treated.  I feel like a man because of something beyond that.  Something ephemeral.  So, why couldn’t others feel the same?  Why couldn’t a person who’s been misidentified as a girl feel like a boy for the exact same nebulous reasons that I do?

And, since gender really doesn’t make any sense to me anyway, why couldn’t there also be people who feel as if they don’t have one?  Or who flow across genders like a ship on a map?

Are there people out there whose sense of their own gender is inseparable from their physical form?  If you put those people into robot bodies or, simply, other physically different bodies, would their gender identity also swap?  If so, why?  Are they actually more lost in their gender identity than I am and they need to hone in on the physical in order to anchor themselves?

Why do people feel like they are the gender that they are?

This is very soul filling to read. Thank you

My grandfather, who had a difficult time coming to terms with it when I came out, has been working very hard to understand me and my experience. About 5 weeks ago, he asked me, almost offhand, “why are you so sure that you’re a man?”

And I replied, “well, I could ask you the same thing.” And I moved on, continued, tried to explain why I feel the way that I do, but I don’t think he heard any of those things that I said afterward. 

Because six days later, we talked about it again, and this is what he told me: 

“I couldn’t stop thinking about what you said last week. Because all my life I identified it as ‘these are the parts that I have, and so I am a man’. But you’re living proof that gender is not limited to what is attached to your body, so I asked myself, why am I a man? And all I can say is ‘because I have no idea what it feels like to be anything else’. I cannot imagine what it’s like to be a woman. Or neither, or both, or any other gender. I have always been a man.”

And I replied, “that’s exactly what it feels like for me.”

So, shoutout to my cisgender grandfather, for stumbling upon the essence of being trans accidentally, with very little help from me. I love you, grandpa.

watching cis folks suddenly and comprehensively grasp the inessential nature of gender is always a joy

I know that “ACAB” is an acronym for All Cops Are Bastards but every time I see it I still think Assigned Cop At Birth

“Sir… Ma’am… it’s a cop.”

“No!! Surely there’s a mistake!”

Shawty got them problematic jeans

i feel like all you really need to know about the history of psychiatry in the US is that there was once a diagnosis called “drapetomania” which was ostensibly a mental illness that caused slaves to attempt escape 

Your tax dollars at work, America.

i’m losing my mind

I didn’t even think about this, super interesting read

Gonna have to argue with the “cops don’t get paid shit” narrative

I shared this on Facebook and my mom and dad liked it lmao

#i’ll ask a rich person where the trash is#and they’re like ‘oh right here’#then lead me down 2 hallways through a secret passage and into a cellar#and the trash is in the farthest corner of the cellar in its own closet#and it’s sensor-activated

why are these tags so funny

In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit but in his face.