Katrisia

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[โ€“] Katrisia@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago

Maybe there was a group therapy and the exercise was writing the monologue they wake up to down...? Then they of course reflected together why those were not useful messages and they learnt better ways to address their worries. (Let me dream).

[โ€“] Katrisia@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

I'm not a trans person, but maybe my experience will help. I thought for some years, when I was young, of having children because it was what my mother told me that gave happiness and even value to a [cis] woman. She criticized [cis] women who had no [cis] husband, who were lesbian, who were childless, etc. She even pitied them saying things like "poor Whoever, she ended up unmarried" or things like that. It was like living with a typical 19th century woman in a way.

So I internalized things, but then I started hitting adulthood and I started to question them. First the deal with heteronormativity and stuff. But then I questioned the idealization of pregnancy and motherhood. Oh, boy! It's a deep topic when you dive into it, but some highlights.

First, feminism has a lot of resources about how pregnancy is a very complex and even risky biological process and it is very subjective (and it should be subjective) if it is enjoyable or not; that is, some might enjoy it (and that's great news), but others might suffer or hate the whole process and that doesn't make them mean, evil, ungrateful or whatever (it's super valid not to enjoy it too). That made me think of it in a colder, more medical and more realistic way: it's a thing bodies can pass, there's no obligation, there's no magic, there's nothing. The aura, the mystification fell. It was a choice. Should I make it still?

Well, that's my second highlight: the morality of creating life. After some years, I concluded I had no right to impose life unto other. It sounds dramatic, but really, why should I bring another person to this life (especially to these times, but always)? To meet some social standard?, some biological tendencies that I might adopt blindly as rules (no, thanks)?, some narcissistic dream of seeing myself replicated? Philosophical antinatalism reaffirmed my thoughts as I haven't found convincing any "refutation" of it. And thus another myth fell: that we ought to reproduce. We don't; it might even be morally problematic or wrong (which is my stance).

And by questioning the aura, the aesthetics and even ethics we impose on pregnancy and motherhood, by making all the issue "naked", I noticed it was not appealing to me anymore. I'm tolerant as most vegans are tolerant of meat-consumers, like "you do you", but really it's kind of horrific to me sometimes as an idea. It feels like a science fiction thing. You can read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley in an antinatalist light and that's the vibe I sometimes get from people who manically (as Viktor) rush to have "babies" for the ideas behind (the baby shower, and the little objects, and the beautiful flowy dresses, and...), only to find out, like Viktor, that creating life should be about the responsibility and the creature and not the ego, the fanciful life, etc.

So I'm childless by choice. No crave from the uterus (lol) nor other misogynistic and outdated descriptions; and no unhappiness. I do have a partner, but I know I could be happy with just friends too. I can gladly say my mom was wrong on these ones. I found being a happy woman is not about fitting into these (honestly closed) boxes.
The end. Sorry for the long comment.

[โ€“] Katrisia@lemmy.today 4 points 4 weeks ago

Yes. Yesyesyes. I'm so tired...

[โ€“] Katrisia@lemmy.today 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Maybe I'm a gloomy person in a very unfortunate part of the world, but it's wild to me that someone thinks like that and not think immediately in sexual violence, kidnapping, human trafficking, etc. The standard of beauty near me is whiteness, of course, and beautiful white girls disappear a lot more than they should given the percentage they are among the population. Yes, I'm close to a sexual trafficking hot spot.

And for men there's less danger but it's also not perfect. Nobody's safe in the times being...

And it doesn't have to be crime, regular people often get a grudge over those things! Envy and resentment are powerful emotions. Also, there will always be the assumption that life was indeed easier for you and that you don't deserve the fruits of your efforts. These ones may seem like trivial social conflicts but, in a psychologically vulnerable person, they can be crushing. (Let's say, a guy loses his friends because they're all musicians and they think he got an offer unfairly because of his looks and they think he's some kind of "sell-out" or poser, but maybe our guy has been dealing with depression already and now he's mega depressed).

It's probably easier in average, but... yeah, the world is big and there are a lot of contexts.

I don't like money nor I'm overly interested in it, but it's probably the cheat-code this person is thinking about. People with money can fake their looks (surgeries are crazy these days), can buy popularity, can buy careers, can buy many many things. If you don't care about authenticity and only care about the results or the appearance, money is the answer. Just be an aware narcissist and know your limits. For example, if you buy a position of power in the tech industry, but are not very smart, do not give a complicated conference or you'll show the truth (e.g., Elon Musk and the dozen of times he's been exposed as a pretender, even in games).

Yeah...

[โ€“] Katrisia@lemmy.today 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Healthcare for Argentina? Milei is destroying public welfare. That's for other oligarchs. $40B in exchange of... Well, Milei is acting unhinged and won't explain, but probably lands, water, lithium. Trump bought something, we just don't know what yet.

[โ€“] Katrisia@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

And including CDS in the next DSM would help a lot. We need to identify people with the CDS profile as the things that work for them are (slightly) different from ADHD's.

[โ€“] Katrisia@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

No, I like reading and writing here, but I spend a lot of time watching short videos. It's a constant bombardment of interesting facts (mixed with some news, memes, trends...); it's stimulating.

[โ€“] Katrisia@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

Both the psychiatric medication and the mood fluctuations (in this case, from your depressive episode) can alter sleep and dreams. Also, if you're AFAB, your monthly hormonal cycle can also alter your dreams, especially before menstruation.

[โ€“] Katrisia@lemmy.today 35 points 2 months ago (9 children)

He had shitty opinions, we know. I won't follow them. I will have empathy and I will not celebrate his death. Still, I think the world's population improved with one less hateful person around.

[โ€“] Katrisia@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

Colonization made strange things happen. Once, for example, Spain recruited indigenous warriors from Tlaxcala (Central Mexico, allies of theirs since their battles against the Mexicas/"Aztecs") and went to the Philippines, and there they fought Japanese pirates and samurais, basically.

Accurate info here.

[โ€“] Katrisia@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

Intellectual snob.

Pseudo intellectual. Pseudo polymath. Pseudo erudite...

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