Super relatable. I never realized why I hated clothes shopping for the first 30 years of my life. I dreaded it, nothing ever looked good to me. All completely uninspiring.*
Then I found women's clothes, then my egg cracked.
You know what I hate now? My very limited monies to actually buy all the cute feminine clothing I want. I'm in a debt from a spree I went on a few months ago x.x
Except suits. Call me crazy but I love women in suits. Formal attire looks so much better on them. I'm totally mixing a bit of shirts, ties, jackets and such into my everyday look, albeit feminine cuts.
While my Trekkie side offers Michael Burnham (Discovery), Kira and Dax (DS9), Seven of Nine (Voyager), Una and La'an and Nurse Chapel (Strange New Worlds). I'm surely forgetting a bunch.
How about Arya Stark and Brienne of Tarth (Game of Thrones)?
No, the reason she used "storming the beaches of Normandy" and not idk, "the beaches of Da Nang", is because Normandy is associated with the beginning of a turn in fortunes of that conflict which ultimately led to Allied victory. Nobody would fucking care about Normandy if the Nazis won.
Not that it proves anything, but both my (boomer) parents have apologized for being a selfish generation that left us a fucked up world. They were both right-leaning too.
So, at least some of them recognize a difference in opportunity and quality of life between their generation and subsequent ones, and feel remorse over it.
It's a crossover meme from trans/gender-nonconforming spaces. We have ways of finding humor in what is often an frightening and deadly serious situation (being trans in this world).
One of the in-jokes we have that I saw quite a bit on reddit, is that especially trans women and femboys "are all programmers or IT people" and being technical minded, use Linux. (I'm a trans woman who uses Fedora... Hi)
I think there is also the political and economic association that comes with FOSS -- it's a sort of disruption of the norm in capitalism, which is to have proprietary secrets as a store of value. FOSS challenges the notion that the fruits of labor should be privitized. In that sense it's a radical movement, always has been, even if it has been adopted by the world at large.
Trans folk are as a rule, politically left-leaning, it seems these days we must be to exist, and so FOSS like Linux naturally appeals to the community.
Obviously there are going to be many non-technical trans people, and tech trans people alike who use proprietary OSes; and conversely most Linux users aren't trans or GNC. The meme isn't meant to be taken literally or to change anyone's beliefs or actions.
I feel like all of the arts are that way. You can either put yourself in the mindset to be receptive of them... or you can't.
But I've had many enriching experiences by taking a chance on art forms and genres I never supposed I would like, including those I had some bias against.
No, I'm sorry, if a person was bullied for a year, that was the time for "due process" to protect them and society by preventing further harm. Now it is too late.
They caused someone to die by their violent actions, I am fully in favor of violent retaliation here, and as I said not looking to be convinced otherwise.
There are some things our society gets right, and some things it gets wrong. Passivity in the face of violence is a mistake IMO.
I have to admit, one of my first emotional responses was anger. I want vengeance. When will we see the day the bullies, abusers, murderers, and their enablers receive justice?
Not civilized "justice" in court rooms, on pieces of paper, with well-dressed men and women arguing politely over legal arcana.
Blood for blood. There should be a mortal fear that if they harm one hair on our heads, something worse will happen to them by far.
Don't tell me this won't bring anyone back. Don't tell me to be better than our enemies. If you will assault someone over their skin color, gender, sexual orientation, you don't deserve the breath of life.
Super relatable. I never realized why I hated clothes shopping for the first 30 years of my life. I dreaded it, nothing ever looked good to me. All completely uninspiring.*
Then I found women's clothes, then my egg cracked.
You know what I hate now? My very limited monies to actually buy all the cute feminine clothing I want. I'm in a debt from a spree I went on a few months ago x.x
Except suits. Call me crazy but I love women in suits. Formal attire looks so much better on them. I'm totally mixing a bit of shirts, ties, jackets and such into my everyday look, albeit feminine cuts.