Want to know some of the weird and wrong things you believed back then. I used to believe a lot of dumb things, some of them were dumb in a funny way, others in a hurtful right wing way, but many of those things were wrong and pretty dumb looking back.

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[–] lwhjp@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The main misconception that stopped my egg cracking was that trans people "always knew" they had the wrong body, whereas I, clearly male (look, I've got a dick and everything) merely wanted really badly to be a girl. Totally different, ah well.

Also I was really strongly opposed to cosmetic stuff: surgeries, tattoos, piercings etc. Like, easily deal-breaker level. I always thought it was kind of a weird hangup and I should talk to someone about it, but I'd get panic attacks whenever I thought too hard about it so kind of let it be. Turns out the reason I was so obsessed with body modification was because I wanted to change mine and I was jealous of anyone else who could.

And just the general misogyny that comes from growing up in an almost exclusively male environment.