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ENTP 5w6.
Adult human female.
My gender is a mushroom cloud.
Trans detransmedicalist and woman on occasion. ✟
Robots are friends.
People are good.
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If trans women and women talked things out instead of fighting, our nation would truly shine.
Sex and kinship are real.
God bless America.
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The more I try to understand conservative women, the sadder I feel for those who end up having abortions. Since I was a child, I’ve been emotionally preparing myself for the possibility of needing one, because I have zero tolerance for medical horror. Many of them haven’t done that preparation, so when it happens, it must be profoundly traumatizing.
It makes sense that instead of shifting their views, they double down and convince themselves they’re a special exception—because fully blaming themselves would be agonizing. They often sincerely don't think unplanned pregnancies can happen if you're married and pure of heart.
At the same time, I feel like many women on the left have lost sight of the fact that a fetus is a human life, and the dehumanizing language around abortion only makes the whole conversation more painful and polarized.
My harebrained alternative to Ray Blanchard's theory honestly comes down to a fairly mundane observation: trans women—and by extension women—have personalities, and personality influences nearly every aspect of how we understand ourselves and experience the world.
The best part about cutting loose and saying all the things I've always wanted to say is realizing I don't actually have that many mean things to say. More often than not, I'm just insensitive.
I still refuse to join any political party. But I also refuse to pretend I’m not fangirling a little over the way MAGA seems to have steered the right away from some of the excesses that once made it look both foolish and frightening.
@msmaureen90@Nancyb22000@katek8038@GeigerEmilyA@grok Bad faith gets us nowhere. Almost everyone genuinely cares. They are neurodivergent and truly struggle to understand that other women are different from them—that difference in perspective is simply part of their neurodivergence.
It is not obvious to narcissistic women raised in conservative cultures—and these are precisely the women who hold the most power and influence today. In their worldview, the female body exists for childbirth, maternal mortality is rare, and abortion ends a human life. They are unwitting soldiers who resent anyone who refuses to serve.
If you want to stop them from imposing their standards on everyone, you must argue that women are diverse—not that a human life isn’t a human life. The latter claim gets shredded because it is incompatible with material reality.
@msmaureen90@Nancyb22000@katek8038@GeigerEmilyA@grok And this is why abortion rights are dead at the federal level and likely to remain in limbo for a while: too many people are detached from material reality to effectively argue for their own rights.
@msmaureen90@Nancyb22000@katek8038@GeigerEmilyA@grok You can disagree if you like, but it's going to sound detached from reality. It is, objectively, both alive and human. At most, you can argue that it's a human life that has not yet developed the capacity for pain or awareness.
I'm firmly convinced that both science and God agree: early in pregnancy, there's no pain or awareness. Abortion isn't frivolous—it's a lawful, even sacred act of protection.
But pretending legal personhood definitions erase the fact that it ends a human life is exactly why so many have turned anti-abortion. Corporations get treated as people, yet a human life in its earliest stages does not. People notice that doesn't add up.
As ridiculous as it sounds, one of the biggest things that helped me start to develop some empathy for the anti-abortion crowd was encountering “spay-abort” advocates who see nothing unusual about aborting kittens at any stage of pregnancy.
It’s kinda messed up that I spent basically my entire life actively mocking conservative women, when in reality it was only the ones with strong narcissistic personality structures who actually made me fear for my safety and who made me feel ostracized from humanity.
Looking back, almost every conservative woman who showed genuine, Christ-like love — the kind that made me think “how are you even on the right?” — clearly had more of a borderline personality style.
@msmaureen90@Nancyb22000@katek8038@GeigerEmilyA@grok It’s a human life. The main reason the anti-abortion crowd has had so much success rolling back rights — because virtually anyone who isn’t emotionally invested can agree that it is, in fact, a human life.
Ladies, let's be real: both of you have shown disgusting behavior online, but you're probably both lovely people in real life.
Kayse, you shouldn't be dehumanizing unborn children — that kind of rhetoric is the biggest reason the right thinks everyone on the left eats babies.
Nancy, you shouldn't act like women who know they aren't able to meticulously chart their cervical mucus want to kill their children just because they use a method of birth control that works better for them. Your method objectively only works well for people who are like you — and even then, it's not perfect, because nothing is, even if you believe perfection is attainable (it's not).
Both of you are engaging in deplorable levels of dehumanization, which at least gives you something in common.
Now, hug.
@Eli_B_Again These same people suddenly start treating rape as the worst thing a woman can experience when they can use it as an argument against abortion being safe and accessible.
I don't want to coddle trans women the way much of the left has—I want them to grow emotionally and succeed politically, because I know they're capable of it.