Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️

I'm Valerie, and I'm 28. I like anime/manga/video games, and will have takes about them. She/Her

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

Blue Cross Blue Shield, and all privatize health insurance carriers, are genuinely pure evil.

The US would be a monumentally better place if we nationalized free and effective healthcare to keep it away from corporate greed and gave health insurance executives life in prison.

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

@redrum_panda This same thing happened to me! It really sucks and deals an extreme amount of psychic damage to your conception of your own worth. Sorry it happened to you!

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

@eatmysxcks @aliumrapture Yeah the CBT discourse that got spawned the last couple of days has definitely not brought out the best and the brightest to defend their points LOL

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

Like no sweetie CBT doesn’t inherently empower abusers you’re just dumb

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

So many people on this hellhole of a website just LARP being leftists via anti-intellectually challenging established norms for its own sake.

Like absolutely do a feminist or marxist analysis of power structures but actually critically think about it first, it’s the bare minimum

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

@aliumrapture to cope at their own pace. You fail to acknowledge the people it does meaningfully help. Allowing people room to process and not be as despondent and spiral on a regular basis gets them back to a baseline that they can then operate through and build from.

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

@aliumrapture I am operating in good faith, your arguments are just bad. Your framing itself is bad faith itself. CBT isn’t “teaching them they are helpless” or “disempowering them.” Thinking otherwise is ignorant at best. It is one method of allowing people to get their life back on track…

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

@aliumrapture Giving people coping tools is not gaslighting? And “what should not be reconciled with” is often a ridiculous overreach. Please tell me further that you’ve done no reading or research and are going based off of vibes and preconceived notions. You are an anti-intellectual.

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

@aliumrapture upon them that’s pretty inarguably a good thing. Again, psychiatrists and therapists can’t change the reality of an unjust society, but that can offer tools and suggestions that help people do what they have to do to survive.

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

@aliumrapture space where they may not have other options. No therapist or psychiatrist can meaningfully change a patient’s material conditions and framing it as predatory and gaslighting is non-factual.

If people are able to more readily tackle the challenges our amoral society foists…

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

I think the world would be a better place if empathy and the attempt to understand were our first instinct when interacting with others.

People are just so mean and condescending for no reason anymore.

Anything to feel superior to other people I guess.

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

@drumm_colin I have been trying to communicate the weaknesses and condescension in your approach to communication with others, and you have tripled down with an off-putting sense of hubris. I apologize for wasting both of our time.

I mean no ill will, have a nice day!

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

@drumm_colin As for the putting people down part, this is blatantly untrue. You’ve been using pejoratives all day and if you choose not to reflect on your own language and find any potential fault in it, I think you should!

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

@drumm_colin For the unethical part, I genuinely think you’re making up a person that doesn’t exist. Most people are likely looking for solidarity for actual helplessness that they feel. People should take steps to improve their life, but a support system and feeling heard is a big part there

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

joy that I have.

To any other trans folks who this happens to come across, you’re so beautiful and so worth it. Please live on and love on, both inwardly and outwardly. Share joys and laughter and sorrow with others and just experience what life can offer. We will make it!

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

As I approach my 9th month of HRT, I find myself reflecting on what these last 9 months have represented to me.

The first and foremost above all is joy. I get to for the first time in my 28 years of life get to be myself. That’s such a profound experience that…

[Valerie 🏳️‍⚧️ @whimsymoder]

adding to my life have made my life better in so many ways that I will never be able to truly understand or appreciate. Nevertheless, I am so thankful.

I want despite all that is happening in the world for other trans folks to be safe and happy and experience the same…