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My gf who goes to a different Lemmy instance said that I'm way more badass than this guy actually
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As my gf says, I wanted you because you're all man
Lmao said no woman ever
Don't ask me what I identify as
But he also says
Don't call me cis. I don't identify as cis
Top genius here
I hate guessing.
Don't ask me what I identify as
I try to accommodate everyone.
I have a client who goes by they. I see I don’t do they.
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People complaining about being called cis will never stop being funny. This fear of being seen as anything but "normal" is literal middle schooler shit, embarrassing.
We don't know what you look like bud. You're on the internet.
Cis fragility is a sight to behold
If you'd humor me for a paragraph of soapboxing:
I call the whole discourse "fellas, is it gay to drink pink lemonade?" Like if I were to ever write a book on the topic that's the title. It's incredibly freeing to not sweat whether I'm going to be perceived as queer for doing something I like. I can dress how I please. I don't need to get my gender affirmation from an outside source. If you can accept that gender is something you self-identify, then you don't need your girlfriend to tell you that you're a man nor randos who come up to you. If they leave then you're still a man. If you were 5'2 and undesirable - even if you were a piece of shit and didn't know it you can still be a man. He can be more attractive than me and more worldly successful, but I'll still feel bad for him for grasping at frivolity to justify why he has some hang up about the term cis. "I act like a man" probably comes with plenty of trauma, frustration, and pain for him and the people around him.
. It's incredibly freeing to not sweat whether I'm going to be perceived as queer for doing something I like.
I've never been super concerned with how people see me but over the past couple years I really stopped giving a shit and it's great. I paint my nails, wear dresses, leave my long curly hair down (and still have a goaty and traditional masc frame.) I refuse to call any of those things fem because I like them and I'm not fem therefore they must be gender neutral.
Side benefit is my wife has some really comfy cloths and some of them fit me so now I can steal her stuff too.
10% bf
He's lying, I can already see the dialog tree:
No I haven't done a DEXA
No I don't actually work out anymore but I used to do high school wrestling and the coach there told me I was 6% bf and I'm a bit chubbier now so 10% seems right.
What do you mean I've been lied to?
As I said I go to the gym, I'm not a cardiobunny.
Why do you want to know how much I squat?
Why do you say that I don't lift?
Why do you want to know these things I'm a manly man not a soyboy cuck beta like you. 
He might be in decent shape but yeah, that 10% body fat is almost certainly nonsense. I'm 6'1 and work hard to be part of the swoletariat around 200 lbs. and probably somewhere close to the 15% bodyfat range if I had guesstimate.
225 at 6'2" and 10% bf is almost literally Arnold fucking Schwarzenegger. He's either an active competition level bodybuilder juiced to the gills or he's full of shit.
I knew someone who cared a lot about bf snd got down to 5%.
It did not look healthy. Mostly dehydrated.
It's definitionally not healthy. I've been sub 10% body fat as part of a personal goal/experiment before and it's pretty fucking awful and totally unsustainable. 10-15% is maintainable for most people and you still have visible definition....but when you'e talking about stage ready bodybuilders or even some more modern shirtless scenes in movies it should always be stressed: they've literally starved themselves in preparation for this brief few minutes/hour long window. Absolutely nobody in the world looks like 24/7 365. It simply isn't possible even with drugs and even if it were nobody would want to live that way
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I don't identify as cis
So you're trans then?
most cis people don't introspect and come to an understanding about themselves and attach to the category label
in his mind he's not cis, he's "normal".
i'm a white american and i've disincorporated those characteristics from my identity but my politics don't change my skin color or give me a pile of money to renounce citizenship.
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"I don't identify as cis" bruh imagine being more annoying than any tumblr user
Homeboy is just posting fanfic of himself for the whole world to see. Why yes, I sleep in a massive bed with many naked ladies.
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See it's people like this that make me feel like I'm a fucking brain genius. Bro i graduated 4 years late and never did post secondary education.
Hmm "cis" seems like it's from a different language like latin or some shit "10 seconds of googling later" oh the first use of cis with regards to gender was in the early 1900s
Why can't people just learn first then have a stupid opinion after?
Why can't people just learn first then have a stupid opinion after?
Because that's wisdom
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I had a look at their posting history and after about 30 seconds - I found something funny.
They are a conservative but they support unions. etc.
Calls for Starbucks boycott grow amid aggressive union-busting activities - Hexbear
I’m not a fan of their coffee at all. I work in sales, so if a customer wants it. I buy it but otherwise I skip them.
I don’t like their union bashing but I’d have to be a customer to boycott it.
I’m a conservative but I support unions. It’s a check and balance to the system. We need strong unions. I also fully support unions being on the board of companies.
I could rant how I dislike boards. They’re supposed to keep things running and they do a shit Job. They do a great job of making everyone focus on the ceo who is controlled by the board.
This person can be radicalized
if by radicalised you mean becoming a brown shirt, then sure.
he seemed too stubborn to listen to basic good faith advice on how to treat minorities without prejudice in this thread. He might like unions but so do natsocs when theyre doing natsoc stuff.
Easier to radicalize someone capable of empathy tbh
Not saying this person's impossible, maybe someone can get through to him logically why his white perspective is limited. But in my experience it's very difficult to teach cishet white males empathy if they don't get their themselves.
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"Women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence."
:copium: women are drawn to me
all the dudes want 2 B me, all the same dudes want 2 F me.
It's amazing how some simple questions about what gender means can get someone to show their whole ass.
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angrily emphasizing how much of a big strong man you are definitely means you're very confident in being a man, huh?
the most truly masculine men i've ever met never felt the need to be this aggressive about how strong and manly they are.
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In 6’2, 225 pounds with about 10% body fat. I- am 100% Eligible for the dunk tank folks!! Thats right step right up!
Very tempted to @ them here and say "Since you're not at all fragile about your manly cis-ness you won't have any issue with posting pics of this extreme hunk of manly man-ness." so they can shrivel up like a corncob and disappear.
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Absolute 
here.
I am a cis man, but there where multiple times where I got misgendered as a woman, despite having a three-day beard. I don’t buy the whole you can always tell.
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Genuine question: what's the best way to cut through this kind of talking point?
The best I can come up with is "terms created by marginalized people to describe how people do or do not relate to mainstream society are different from terms imposed by the majority society to coerce marginalized people into a box, and refusing a label in order to obstruct understanding isn't the same as refusing a label imposed by majority society". Like, I don't see any problem to use words used to describe the "normal" identity (cis, hetero, etc) for people that do not express any desire to deviate from the "normal" identity in any way for the sake of improving the understanding of marginalized people. But I'm not sure that's convincing to someone who doesn't already agree (perhaps not for the sake of convincing the person you're arguing with, but the onlooking bystanders).
It's just such an annoying tactic because the bad faith is usually obvious but it's hard to clearly formulate why. I guess it basically just boils down to "more allowances should be given to the people on the bottom than the people on the top", but some of the people on top never stop complaining about that.
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when i got to the bit about "i dance like a man and take it like a man" or whatever performative signifiers he's grasping at, all i could hear in my head is the hook from 1963 hit Walk Like A Man, featuring the powerful falsetto voice of Newark's native son Francesco Stephen Castelluccio aka "Frankie Valli" in the Four Seasons. if you remember, he also played Rusty Millio in The Sopranos.
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everyone step aside, 'unquestionable man' coming through!
As my gf says, I wanted you because you're all man. My last gf said the same thing.
This is a bit
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