by Kayla’s Artwork aka virtualmartyr

      • subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        13 days ago

        I’m of two minds about why god would make people like us. Though bear in mind im not at all a believer.

        I think about the movie Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Theres a scene where a kid asks the one black guy if god made him black, and why. The response was, “Allah loves wonderous variety.”

        On the other hand I think in a well run universe an intelligent species with a genetic binary sex expression would be hard coded to gender expression. Since it isnt I can only conclude that god is lazy and indifferent.

        On the other other hand I think dysphoria is a result of social pressure to enforce gender coding on children from birth. And traditional god fearing family structures force it hardest.

      • EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        13 days ago

        Yeah. I imagine if god(s) exist, they’re either psychopathic, or utterly incompetent. But since I’m an atheist, my view is that it’s just “shit happens”.

        • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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          13 days ago

          It’s not that bad, just inconvenient. I do appreciate how it’s given me a unique perspective on many things and helped me figure out things I wouldn’t have otherwise. However, on top of the bigotry that’s only gotten worse since I came out, I also needed to put in a lot of effort to reach the baseline mood that others have by default. The years I spent discovering and figuring out how to deal with my dysphoria severely impacted my academic career. I probably lost half a decade as a result, and most of it was unavoidable, as I really couldn’t have figured things out more quickly.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      13 days ago

      I bowed to cishet normativity and well that didn’t go well and so here I am straight as a fiddle