Collective blame is always immoral. It's a failure of your ability to imagine individuals instead of a collective. 

Your bias muddies your ability to acknowledge the existance of individuals in Gaza who did not cheer and would not cheer, so you personify "Gazans" and pretend all of them are simply an appendage of a broader nationperson. But collective is not a person. And so blaming all of a people as if "the collective" took some immoral action will always be wrong.

I have BDD, but it's unrelated to my being trans (I think I have a lazy eye but I don't)

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You will never pass and also are ugly!! 😠😠😠

I'm not an ovarit lurker, but i can try to be mean to you, i guess

This article says the following: 

[One study's] sample included 627 transmasculine and 325 transfeminine individuals who were children or spouses of active-duty, retired, or deceased military members. . .[It] found that the 4-year gender-affirming hormone continuation rate was 70.2% with 81% for the transfeminine group and 64% for the transmasculine group.

So, this lines up with your experience. Though, it is possible that some of "non-continuing" people are not "detransitioning" but rather not taking their meds because they had an "enby awakening" or lost their meds and are too ADHD to refill a prescription or something. And this sort of phenomenon could be happening moe in one group than the other. Later in the article...

From 1972-2015, 6793 people sought gender-affirming services at the multidisciplinary gender identity clinic at the VU Medical Center in Amsterdam. . .Seventy percent [(which is 4755 people)] were started on hormone therapy and 78% of this group [(which is 3709 people)] went on to have gonadectomy. Among those that underwent gonadectomy, rates of regret were 0.6% for transwomen and 0.3% for transmen with an average time to regret of 10.8 years.

So, this one has a higher sample size, and shows that (at least for gonadectomy) regret rate is higher for MtF. Imo, this is especially notable since gonadectomy for FtM is a more invasive operation than MtF. Though, it is still potentially simpatico with the previous study's findings (and your observations) since it could be that the transmascline people who wind up regretting are more likely than the transfeminine to proceed to surgery before they develop regrets. BUT THEN...

The largest study to look at detransition was the U.S. Transgender Survey from 2015 which was a cross-sectional nonprobability study of 27,715 TGD adults. This survey included the question “Have you ever de-transitioned? In other words, have you ever gone back to living as your sex assigned at birth, at least for a while?” The survey found that 8% of respondents had detransitioned temporarily or permanently at some point and that the majority did so only temporarily. Rates of detransition were higher in transgender women (11%) than transgender men (4%).  

This one has the opposite sort of findings to the first study, and a much larger sample. Personally, this jibes with my own observations, but I also know way more trans women than I do trans men, so I'm more likely to see a trans women detrans than a trans man detrans.

Fami seems like the least likely to abuse me, so her

I'm only dysphoric if people perceive me as failing to be a woman, so I have one whenever I give up and go man.

I love intros!!!

I'm a bookseller so they often have stuff that's professionally relevant, like publishing history or similar stories or blurbs that are nice to regurgitate to customers.

Also, it's just fun to get booklore even if it's useless

People tell me a lot they think I have autism, but that's just cuz I say my "inside thoughts" out loud. I definitely do not have autism, so at least in my experience, people don't know what they're talking about when they figure you're autistic. That's not to say you're not autistic, just that other random people aren't gonna be able to figure it out for you.

If you're getting this kind of feedback a lot, you probably do have something behaviorally atypical going on, so it can't hurt to get a psych work-up. It's always better to know what you have so you can better navigate your difficulties.

And if you do have autism, don't worry about it. The nice thing about from-birth mental disabilities is that once you get diagnosed it'll just be the same thing you always had, but now you know how to handle it better. It's not like once you get diagnosed you suddenly become more autistic 😉

Clearly, It's ranking how likely they are to score a babe at the club

It might not be about bloodline for a convert. Brad is not a convert. He's a Jew through matrilineal descent aka ethnically Jewish aka Jewish "by blood". He's pretty obviously not a part of Jewish culture (considering he calls himself "half-Jewish"). The only reason to think he reflects badly upon you cuz you're Jewish is if you think there's some standard of "Jewish behavior" that gets passed by blood.

So, yes it is weird. Doesn't matter if you're part of a "historically mistreated" group or whatever bullshit. It's dumb to think black people should prioritize "shopping black." It's dumb to think Mexicans should love spicy food. It's dumb be especially bothered when a Jew "acts cringe" and bend like a twig to social pressure. If you're not fetishizing Jewishness, you'll feel the same about somebody acting a pussy, whether they're gentile or Jew.

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It's absolutely fetishizing. Not in the sexual sense; in the dotty & obsessive sense. If you have a notion about how a certain ethnicity ought behave, and you delight when they match it and cringe when they deviate, that is fetishistic.

The fetishistic part isn't in cringing about "your group," it's in defining "your group" ethnically. It's the attributing of expectations to strangers because of their bloodline.

Liberal take. If you don't want people to make fun of you for fetishisizing your ethnicity, why are you in the subreddit of a hyper-liberal streamer?

It's not just outside culture, it's also just a feature of Judaism (the religion) and of the broader culture. There's many commonplace traditionalist notions—like the tribal unity captured in "K'lal Yisrael" and the mitzvah of "Ahavat Yisrael"—that push Jews into their insular, tribal, even racist notions of bloodline reverence. And many of these sentiments are so ancient they could arguably predate Jewish oppression.

There's many Jews, especially American Jews, that fight quite strongly against these racist ideals, but it even here in America it leaks into the more liberalized versions of Judaism. I grew up in towns full of Jewish people, and most of my (reformed) Jewish friends (especially young girls) had it hammered into them to feel guilty even thinking about marrying outside "the Tribe." My orthodox Jewish friends were constantly aware that if they married out, they'd just be straight-up disowned.

Overall, not a very healthy mindset for our increasingly globalized world, and something the "omniliberals" should absolutely be against.

It's "allowed." It's just incredibly weird and unhealthy to feel so invested in a stranger because of their ethnicity. But you're allowed to be weird and unhealthy, ofc

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Stop it :(

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That's pretty deranged.

Though, I do have a funny story about something like this because the other day I was enjoying my toy for a while and when I came My eyes rolled into the back of my head I moaned super load and I convulsed for a few seconds. Got really tingly feeling in my hands too. Going into convulsions never happened before and dumb I'm feeling satisfied. Upvote 704 Downvote 97 Comments

If anybody would like to read more about the specific timelines of the revisionism of Shylock, Shylock by John Gross is really great! I found this old review that goes over the gist of his arguments, but I recommend the whole thing.

Again, you're using the individual parts of the term to infer its meaning. Idioms shirk their constituent parts to take on a specific meaning outside any of them. "Pounds of flesh" are not gradual; they are sudden, and catastrophic, and they happen after you get something good. Saying that "pound at a time, you chop away parts of your soul" is an instance of "losing a pound of flesh" is like saying a plank of wood is a porch. Sure, if you have enough planks you could make a porch, and if you squint and turn your head the two might look similar, but nobody really sees them as the same thing.

I guess I get the "mirror image" thing, but this only makes sense if you already (a) fully know the story of Shylock, and (b) understand what she means in her own  way of using the idiom, that nobody else uses. If you lack either of these, it just sounds like she's comparing herself to "that thing from the play with the evil Jew."

Also, as a reply to your edit 2 posts ago for the "hath not a Jew have eyes" thing, it hasn't been debated "for centuries." Shylock only started getting portrayed sympathetically in the 1800s, and was also portrayed as a total, obvious villain (literally by the Nazis for propaganda) concurrently with the sympathetic versions. "Sympathetic Shylock" is a very modern interpretation, and nobody started debating it until the mid 1900s when it popped up as an obvious cope by progressive thespians to pretend their favorite author wasn't racist.

Or if you want a serious answer, "Genocide Reviews"! If he branches out to other commonly denied/downplayed atrocities, like the Armenian Genocide or the Trail of Tears, then he could probably tap more into the normal "history fact YouTube" audience. It also has the benefit of fostering more of an audience that's enthusiastic about factual accuracy and humanist considerations, instead of one that just likes his takes on a specific geopolitical issue.