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[–] Moose@moose.best 83 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Guy with a nuralink cut me off in traffic, so I took out my flipper zero and made him gender dysphoric.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

this shit ain't nothing to me man

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 days ago

Threw the opp into the particle collider,

watched his ass get pulled apart into a million pieces

Turned his sorry ass into some data

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I love/hate that it sounds totally plausible that brain implants will be vulnerable to flipper zero attacks.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

It's a near certainty, if you want your brain implant to be able to communicate with any device outside your skull. If it has Bluetooth or NFC then that's a vulnerability vector.

[–] supernicepojo@lemmy.world 112 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I cast Body Dysmorphia as a cantrip! Roll to save!

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's definitely at least a 2nd rank spell.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, that is the kink shame level 1 spell

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Vicious mockery is deffo a cantrip…

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

You're a short motherfucker and nobody likes you!

flute noises BITCH!

Everybody says, "Look how fucking short that guys is."

And that stops you from forming meaningful relationships.

When you were born everybody thought that you were just a head

But then the doctor said, "WAIT!

This stupid, motherfucking, tiny, short-ass baby Got a tiny, little, itty-bitty body

And I hate it!"

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ninjabard@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

LOOT THAT BODY

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Oddly appropriate lyrics in this context omfg

[–] theyllneverfindmehere@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

This feels like a whole mixed bag of a message, IMHO. Hey learn empathy, but also witches ~~make folks trans~~cast body dysmorphia. Maybe I'm missing it.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 23 points 2 days ago

The witch turned the creep into a woman and the spell was complete by the time she flew away. Unfortunately, like many women, the creep was born with the body of a man (she’s AMAB). Maybe the witch could have changed her body, too, but that would have made things far too easy, given that the point of the curse was to teach her empathy.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Witches do all sorts of things for curses, that doesn't necessarily mean that the conditions don't exist outside of witch curses. I don't think many people would disagree that being trans sucks, though, they just disagree about what it actually is and what to do about it.

[–] UberKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago (4 children)

i disagree, being trans is great

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

How many trans people would choose to be trans, instead of being assigned the gender they're transitioning to at birth? Obviously that doesn't really work vor enbies, but AFAIK enbies are a minority among trans people.

[–] UberKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 days ago

i would not be who i am without my life experiences transitioning. asking me to imagine being born differently is asking me to imagine being another person. no, i would rather be myself.

there are many, many enbies. while the amount is probably below 50%, they are trans too and their experiences should not be sidelined.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Heck, that would have worked for this enby, but after two years of hormome therapy the dysphoria isn't as bad as the social anxiety from living in this nightmare country.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Me. Before I transitioned, and in my early days of transition, sure, I'd have made that choice if it were available to me. But now, years in? Fuck no. I don't want to be cis.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yo! For which post/comment did you ban me from blahaj instance? And without any communication?

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Being trans sucks, like being left-handed in a world for right-handed people does.

There is nothing inherently wrong with it, the problem is all the people trying to police your body.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

IMO, being trans would be bad even if other people were all supportive. Transitioning is a lot of effort and no one ever wants to have dysphoria.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This was the turning point where I started actively defending gays about two decades ago. Before then I didn't really care I was younger and it wasn't really in my life.

But if you're going to tell me that some middle/high schooler is going to choose bullying by assholes by announcing (or someone finding out) that they're gay there's no fucking way you're going to tell me that's by choice. Leave the damn kid alone.

Of course there's more details than that but that's the gist of it. It's hard enough as it is leave them alone, it's none of your business.

[–] UberKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

you are acting like being trans is some kind of disability or flaw, when it is not. consider if you said “all people blind at birth would rather be born with sight.” that is certainly not true, as for many it’s a key facet of their being despite making life more difficult.

[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Sure but if you need to take a bunch of medicine and do surgeries you that’s not a net positive, medicalizing your body has serious repercussions involving post op care, up keep, it’s expensive and your body is no longer autonomous, it’s reliant on the pharmaceutical industry or shady DIY “treatments”

I am physically disabled from birth I’ve had to take handfuls of meds daily and had to have extreme surgery… I don’t know any disabled person who would choose to be disabled

[–] WhiteRabbit_33@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If everyone was supportive, I think it would be fine. It'd be seen like needing glasses. We just need this relatively easy medical care and it's far less effort if intervention is done before puberty.

Transitioning socially would be less of an issue too since it'd be seen as just something that happens sometimes and has been normalized.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Counterpoint: I need glasses and it kinda sucks. If I could just choose to be born with perfect eyesight, I would. And bad eyesight is generally much easier to diagnose and the treatment (either a prosthesis, i.e. glasses/contact lenses, or just getting lasik) is much faster than gender transitioning.

[–] panathea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago

🏳️‍⚧️🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So you rather not be born the sex that you identify as?

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

Not who you're asking, but I wouldn't have wanted to be born cis

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 16 points 2 days ago

One witch made one man trans. It doesn't mean that the mission of all witches is to give out gender dysphoria, nor does it mean that trans people are trans because a witch did it. Life assigns these sorts of things apparently at random anyway.

I mean, a true sceptic could imagine that the witch in this comic had no magical power at all, but her words filtered down through the man's psyche to where he has always been struggling with his identity, and they gave him the excuse to face it.

[–] diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

I think it pokes against a popular idea of transforming into opposing sex. So many men imply that they would be transformed into a hot attractive woman. Not an unattractive one.

[–] FriendFatale@leminal.space 10 points 2 days ago

i hate this

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 days ago

My first thoughts went to a hyper-fixation on weight and presentation/musculature/grooming. All the negatives of being/wanting-to-be a woman today, with none of the perks, and potentially no resolution.

[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 2 days ago

magic isn't real* that egg was already cracking

*except for flying on brooms

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 10 points 2 days ago

That moon hair is hilarious in the second last panel.

[–] RevolverSly@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So, really nothing changes

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're downvoted, but as far as the behavior of the cursee is concerned, nope. She's still the same jerk she was before, just with a different gender. It isn't said whether or not her sexuality was changed as well.

[–] RevolverSly@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

What I trying to express is: men also have self perception body related issues and often, that's the root of insecurities towards women.