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Karst

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  1. Just because someone else is having worse issues than you doesn't mean that your problems aren't worthy to be addressed or don't deserve sympathy.

    (This is a logical fallacy known as the Fallacy of relative privation or "appeal to worse problems".)

    In any case, to what degree someone benefits or is oppressed due to a specific combination of identities can really vary from person to person.  It's a clear fact that some groups of people are unfairly discriminated against, but it's impossible to know what someone's life circumstances are like based solely on the kind of things you mention on a census form.  And as Mark said, it's not like you can just add together all of someone's labels and easily calculate how much privilege they have.  You're not choosing advantages and disadvantages in an RPG here.

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  2. I don't want to have children for a few different reasons.

    - I just don't think that I'd be a very good parent.  I like to have a lot of alone time, something that isn't really conducive to raising kids.

    - I'm AFAB, and the idea of being pregnant horrifies me.

    - There are some health issues in my family that might have a genetic component, and I don't want to pass them on.

  3. I'm aro/ace, and I figured out the "ace" part before the "aro" part.  It might just have been that the queer pride group at my university had some detailed resources on asexuality.  I've had a couple of crushes in my life, but I've never really felt the desire to have a long-term romantic relationship.  Maybe having one or two fleeting infatuations kept me from realizing that I'm not all that interested in dating or marriage.

    For me, being both ace and aro simplifies my life in some ways, but it also sometimes makes me feel that I'm missing out on a vast range of human experiences.  I'm spared from the bad parts of sexual and romantic realtionships, but I'll never experience the good parts.

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  4. I'm on the autism spectrum- I was diagnosed back when it was still called Asperger's.  I've also suspected for a while that I might have dyscalculia (basically math dyslexia), but I've never been formally diagnosed- I've just read some medical articles about it, and some of the symptoms are things I've struggled with since childhood.

  5. On 7/4/2020 at 5:09 PM, rabbitastic said:

    I've had some gender identity adventures, but right now I'm a cis lady. I sometimes experience body dysphoria. I have PCOS! My medical condition causes my hormones to be different than what is considered "appropriate" for a woman.  I have grown more body hair and in more places than a lot of my cis peers.  My voice deepened a little, and the weight on my body actually shifted some too. My muscle to fat ratio changed; I usually call it my second puberty ?

    To me, it's not surprising that I have had conversations with trans women where we're able to bond because we've struggled to hide naturally occurring bits of ourselves to blend in with women who are considered more socially acceptable.  I am, however, aware that my rejection would not be as severe as a trans woman's if we both forgot to shave for example. :C

    Hmm... I think that's part of why I don't refer to my dysphoria as gender dysphoria although it is linked to my gender. The origins of the term 'gender dysphoria' also make it feel like the wrong term for me.

    This is a fascinating perspective to me, because I'm a transmasculine person with something similar going on.  I found out a few months ago through a blood test that my body produces significantly more testosterone than the female average- not exactly an intersex condition, but not quite "normal", either.  I'd suspected that something was going on in that regard for a while-  I have more body hair and a noticeably deeper voice than most cisgender women.  The thing is, none of this causes me any dysphoria, since I'm happy to have a more masculine body.

  6. On 7/10/2020 at 8:25 PM, DeltaV said:

     

    It would be interesting if there was a culture where women had shorter hair than men. I vaguely remember that Spartan men had all long hair, but the married women had short hair.

    Actually, in traditional Maasai culture, men wear long hair and women have short hair.  It's done in order to resemble lions.

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