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The way you change your immediate reactions to things is that you catch yourself having an uncharitable/bigoted/overly judgmental thought and you catch it and replace it and then you do that a hundred times a day for your whole life and eventually one day like five years later you realize that you think differently now and you’ll always be working on something but that’s how life goes and that’s fine.

Say you have a bad habit of thinking all other people are stupider than you and want to respect other people’s intelligence more.

So you start paying attention to your immediate first reactions to things. You notice that when other people around you are struggling with a math problem and ask you for help you default to seeing them as annoying and stupid.

Instead of chastising yourself for having that thought, interrogate it. Replace it. Think, why do I assume people with different strengths are dumber than I am? I need help sometimes too. I’m glad they’re comfortable enough with me to ask me for help. I’m glad I’ve got a reputation of being the math guy and can help people with that.

And the first time, perhaps the first few dozen times, it’ll feel disingenuous. The cynicism in your brain will fight it. But in time it’ll become as easy as breathing. First thought, replace thought.

And then one day you don’t need to replace that thought. That might be a month from now or twenty years from now. And it’s annoying to get there. But you do get there.

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Tumblr you are SLEEPING on this band!

A bye bye bye parody from the Stacy's dad guys (Sub-Radio) - bi bi bi

And even Lance Bass approves!

And before people start dragging them for queerbaiting or whatever - the singer is actually bi.

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rubyvroom

Okay honestly, "whatever your gender is I'm gay for you" is the best possible description of what it's like to be bi. Congrats.

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duckdotcom

traditionally the dead would be buried with coins on their eyes or in their mouth so that they could insert them within the 10 second countdown to continue playing and cheat death yet again. the practice fell out of fashion largely due to the invention of the home console

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cryptotheism

Father John Yogurt was defrocked from the clergy today for being asexual, following a papal ruling that "vows of chastity don't count without temptation." The Pope later commented "You gotta have that dog in you"

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This is a huge part of why listening to public trans discourse as a trans biologist is infuriating. 4chan OP is based AF.

Never thought I would see the sentence "4chan OP is based AF" be used and I especially never thought I'd agree but here we are

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butchhatred

[ID: 4chan greentext by Anonymous posted on 09/26/21(Sun)12:53:35 with the number No.22485290. It has an image attached that is so small and long that only the fact that it has several rows of text and images is intelligible. The greentext reads:

">>22484916 (OP) #

You can't change your biological sex? Interesting, biology is the study of the interactions of various material components of the body. So if you change the materials of your body, you change your biological sex

>But I mean the DNA!

The DNA only exists at all through its expression. The DNA is worthless, a little string of molecules in your cells. The only aspect of it that matters is the proteins it programs the creation of. The only reason these proteins matter is for creating proper material for specific tissue growth patterns and hormone production. Thus if you change these patterns from the outside, its as if you had those same genetics, rendering the genetics irrelevant through being overridden

>But it's not pure, it's external, it's not a natural aspect of the body

The internal and external of the body are illusions created by the ego. You're psychologically fixated on this aspect, forgetting that your body requires a proper external environment to function, and this environment being removed for even 10 minutes results in immediate death. External influence on the body if it's generated from within the body and desired, is much the same as eating healthy foods and becoming satiated and strong. My body craves estrogen, and luckily I got it through modern medicine. Trans women of the past had to get it through pregnant horse piss techniques and herbal techniques

The issue with TERFs is that they appropriate science and yet are not scientists, they misinterpret the scientific implications of various facts they learned in highschool level biology, and think they are intellectuals. TERFs are the fedora tippers of gender theory and should be forgotten and ignored" End of ID.]

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