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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • Any promotion of the concept of gender and gender roles is a bad idea imo.

    I wholeheartedly agree with what you said there! (even if it might not be what you meant)

    We should treat children (and people at large) as neutrally as possible and wait for them to decide for themselves.

    Like no expressed expectations, just some tools to understand who they are :)

    Gender and gender roles have always been there, what’s promoted is understanding of these concepts and self determination.

    Genderbread person

    What’s the issue with that?

    It’s pretty neutral and just defines some terms (sex, gender identity, gender expression, romantic and sexual attraction) and not much more imho.

    Regarding gender roles…

    To me this feels as a non-issue. Trans folks don’t have much in terms of representation. It’s a natural pattern to try to identify with figures that look the most like you. A tomboy girl and a transmasc boy can at the same time identify themselves with e.g. Mulan without impeding on each other’s interpretation, can’t they?







  • I agree that a professional diagnostic is important in order to confirm that one has ADD/ADHD and that - amongst other things - one should avoid to self medicate.

    Otoh it can also be quite a hard diagnostic to get depending on your age, gender, and which symptoms you get. A lot of people fall through the cracks and struggle to get an official medical diagnosis and we shouldn’t completely invalidate patient knowledge of themselves.









  • It’s quite simple actually.

    Or is it?

    Do you take into account that:

    • Most processed food are created around the bliss point in order to make it as addictive as possible.
    • Fresh food being more expensive and/or more time consuming to prepare than processed alternatives.’
    • the existence of food deserts.
    • advertising pushing unhealthy and addictive eatings habits down our collective throats with little to no regulations (why not do what we did with alcohol/tobacco in a lot of countries?)
    • bad habits formed during childhood such as empty calories used as rewards, etc.

    Imho everyone can put the fork down as in everyone can stop smoking or doing any drugs really. It’s possible but demands an extra effort that not anyone is able to put in at any given moment (without even taking relapses into account).

    To me it really has some “it’s your fault you got conned” vibes ^^’