Lev Mirov

I want to be radically neutral about other people's appearances and choices but it is so hard for me to get used to it when a youtuber starts cosmetic botox for the first time and suddenly their face looks ... Uncomfortable to be in. All I can see is the muscles that used to move.

I hate that I care about this, but I had Botox for migraines at one point and while it was worth it at the time and I am glad I did it, it also has left a permanent asymmetry in one eyebrow, I don't care but I would care a lot more if I had gotten botox to look different.

I literally can't get my correct gender marker on my corrected birth certificate (X) because my state driver's license can only be F or M, which functionally means I'm not allowed to vote because my IDs don't match which is a felony, but somehow being nonbinary isn't part of my trans oppression?

I also cannot get a passport until there is a final decision on whether or not X gender markers are legal so I'm just stuck with a bunch of ids that do not and now cannot match

I cannot laugh at the very sad anti-spice post going around because the worldview of anti sexual pleasure Christians is so incredibly damaging. Yeah their husbands are bad at sex. No they don't communicate about it or google basic sex ed. They also don't believe in divorce. It's pretty terrible.

Trying to get rid of or hide romance novels so their reluctantly coupled friends and unenthusiastically conceived daughters don't seek out better, expect more from men, demand respect and dignity from their society and religious group, isn't just pathetic. It's also the impulse of an evil heart.

I cannot laugh at the very sad anti-spice post going around because the worldview of anti sexual pleasure Christians is so incredibly damaging. Yeah their husbands are bad at sex. No they don't communicate about it or google basic sex ed. They also don't believe in divorce. It's pretty terrible.

When you tell people they need to prepare their entire lives to go into an experience of extreme vulnerability totally unprepared and with NO conversations or negotiations with the person they are being vulnerable with, most of them end up fucked up about it. Even me, who knew that was bullshit.

I cannot laugh at the very sad anti-spice post going around because the worldview of anti sexual pleasure Christians is so incredibly damaging. Yeah their husbands are bad at sex. No they don't communicate about it or google basic sex ed. They also don't believe in divorce. It's pretty terrible.

They are trying to make sure every other woman in the world is trapped in an abusive, controlling, unsatisfying relationship with someone who doesn't understand consent because of the sunk cost fallacy, that's diabolical, not funny.

Every time a democrat endorses a policy that is harmful to trans people, they're literally now signing up to do murder. Not like, abstractly. Someone is going to die early because of the literal, physical cumulative stress from how hard it is to exist like this even if the policy isn't enacted.

I will never rest until transphobes are stressed out and dying young of cardiac problems and from spending so much of their lives broke, sleeping in their cars, afraid to go outside, unable to participate in a civic society with those beliefs, the way they want to drive us to extinction.

Every time a democrat endorses a policy that is harmful to trans people, they're literally now signing up to do murder. Not like, abstractly. Someone is going to die early because of the literal, physical cumulative stress from how hard it is to exist like this even if the policy isn't enacted.

I struggle to imagine this really happened, which is what I think whenever these people talk about their children. I know my parents didn't know me and never tried to, but that never stopped them from making up shit about me if asked.

It should be legal to feed rotten eggs to scholars who change the spelling of an author's name in their bibliography. Do not fucking "standardize" someone's name in the bibliographic entry, the name as presented on the title page is the bibliographic entry!!!!

Me, downloading a file titled "69. Russian gays, lesbians and transssxuals.pdf" from a .RU hosted book database because it is a scan of an academic research text, despite all evidence to the contrary like the weirdly sexy cover: maybe it's time I finally get a VPN

I really need researchers who talked to "anonymous community members" of violently oppressed groups in places where their discovery could result in death to fucking pass an IRB ethics review first about not saying "yeah I talked to people there :)" like it doesn't endanger anyone you spoke to.

I know ten thousand people will be like "HIV is survivable now", but hundreds of thousands of things that were an almost inevitable death sentence are now survivable, from premature births to celiac disease to HIV. Astounding.