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[scriver]

Personally I don't get the whole body shaving thing either, but then again, I'm blessed with body hair as soft as a kittens. I've never found it to be unattractive in women either, though, neither to look at or to touch.

[scrdest]

Eh. I generally go bald on occasion for funsies.

It looks almost fetching.

Spoiler: HAGE (click to show/hide)

Halloween. Walter White. Breaking Bad.

I was silly enough to shave off my goatee and rely on pastels instead.
Makes me look like I'm missing crucial skills in the cake-eating department.

You look pretty damn good bald.

I have long-ish hair because short hair looks ridiculous on me.

[Bauglir]

Spoiler: :D  Tea party with Soli on the Vectorship~ (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: And the Soliship! (click to show/hide)

Dat interior decorating. What game?

[The Fool]

Sweet Lord of the Holy Roly Polar Bear, Fool, you're adorable.

210 lbs? Jesus Christ, you must hide it in the 8th dimension or something because you look like a stick. An adorable, adorable stick.

wahrgarble

* Descan blue-screens.

Thanks Descan. Most my weight is because of my height and strength. I just find it amusing because I'm going to be a 6'4", kinda muscular woman.

Dat interior decorating. What game?

Starbound.

[Jopax]

So a She Hulk

Anyways, back from the haircut and the walk, both were happy stuff. The haircut especially, the girl that was cutting my hair was super cute and had this even cuter focused look on her face while she was working, and at the end, when I said she did a good job she flashed the faintest "Fuck yeah" smile :3

Then came the walk which was properly tiring, but I saw an awesome quarry/lake just outside of town that I haven't been to in years, took some pretty nice pictures too, gonna have to sort them out and then post some of them too.

Now it's time to hit the shower and then do some painting, god damn this is a great day so far

[Reverie]

Sweet Lord of the Holy Roly Polar Bear, Fool, you're adorable.

210 lbs? Jesus Christ, you must hide it in the 8th dimension or something because you look like a stick. An adorable, adorable stick.

wahrgarble

* Descan blue-screens.

Thanks Descan. Most my weight is because of my height and strength. I just find it amusing because I'm going to be a 6'4", kinda muscular woman.

Ooh, another trans person! I think we have a large presence on these forums :O

[scrdest]

Sweet Lord of the Holy Roly Polar Bear, Fool, you're adorable.

210 lbs? Jesus Christ, you must hide it in the 8th dimension or something because you look like a stick. An adorable, adorable stick.

wahrgarble

* Descan blue-screens.

Thanks Descan. Most my weight is because of my height and strength. I just find it amusing because I'm going to be a 6'4", kinda muscular woman.

Ooh, another trans person! I think we have a large presence on these forums :O

Not necessarily larger than in an average population, it might be just that people here are rather accepting of trans people and a bit more than usual tightly knit, so people mention it more frequently.

[The Fool]

Ooh, another trans person! I think we have a large presence on these forums :O

* The Fool throws a trans-dimensional high-five!

[GiglameshDespair]

Flandre, The Fool, AlleeCat...

There's a lot of trans people here.

[kaijyuu]

I occasionally wonder about myself in that regard, being that I follow several feminine stereotypes.

To answer that, I look deep within. I always come up with "nope, I'm a dude."

Doesn't mean I don't want to look cute and squee all the time though.

[Pnx]

I don't really care what gender I am. It doesn't feel like an integral part of my being the way it seems to be to most people.

I mean to me, I don't know why people make this big of a deal out of it, on the one hand you've got all these people who are so concerned about it that they go through hormonal therapy and then some really flipping serious surgery in order to change their gender.

Then on the other side you've got people who seriously freak out about people doing this, and say, "No, no, no, you can't do this because of... reasons." and are willing to torment the other group over it a whole hell of a lot.

And I just find myself wondering to both groups, "Why are you making such a big deal out of this?"

[MaximumZero]

I don't really care what gender I am. It doesn't feel like an integral part of my being the way it seems to be to most people.

I mean to me, I don't know why people make this big of a deal out of it, on the one hand you've got all these people who are so concerned about it that they go through hormonal therapy and then some really flipping serious surgery in order to change their gender.

Then on the other side you've got people who seriously freak out about people doing this, and say, "No, no, no, you can't do this because of... reasons." and are willing to torment the other group over it a whole hell of a lot.

And I just find myself wondering to both groups, "Why are you making such a big deal out of this?"

From what I understand, trans-people have their brains wired to be different from their bodies. Imagine looking in the mirror, or in photos, or into other peoples' perspective of you, and seeing a person that isn't who you really are. A lot of peoples' brains are screaming, "I'm not a boy, I'm a girl!" But, the body is a boy, which is inherently wrong to the brain, and will never feel right until it is changed (and even then still doesn't always feel right.)

[Pnx]

Yeah, I get that there's this whole innate compulsion that tells trans people that they're in the wrong body type and such. The thing is... how I can put this?

It's like if your car is painted red and you feel it absolutely has to be painted blue no matter what, and then other people are making a big deal about the sanctity of your colour scheme, and how you can't be a colour swapper...

To me it just feels like an incredibly cosmetic and shallow detail about myself.

[Darvi]

Everybody who has ever read Homestuck should now go and watch the latest raocow vid.

[MaximumZero]

Yeah, I get that there's this whole innate compulsion that tells trans people that they're in the wrong body type and such. The thing is... how I can put this?

It's like if your car is painted red and you feel it absolutely has to be painted blue no matter what, and then other people are making a big deal about the sanctity of your colour scheme, and how you can't be a colour swapper...

To me it just feels like an incredibly cosmetic and shallow detail about myself.

(Bear with me, here, I'm going to use stereotypes to make a point.) The difference is that people treat you different if you drive a red vs blue car. If you drive a red car, people expect you to brofist, drink beer, grow chest hair and a beard, enjoy sports, wear pants, pee standing up, and only own one pair of shoes. Furthermore, the red car constantly tries to con you into doing certain things, because the car is full of advertising all the time. You hate this fucking car. The damned thing is a gas guzzler with monster truck tires, a stereo set to full blast that you can't turn down, and a rebel flag painted on the doors. This car doesn't fit you. You're not comfortable in pants, don't want to grow a beard or chest hair, don't like sports or beer, and like shoes. What you'd really like to drive is a nice, blue sedan, with heated seats, regular sized tires, and advertising for stuff you're actually interested in, like that new romantic comedy that just came out instead of BLOODSPLOSION II: THE BLOODENING. You tell a friend about wanting to change cars, and they get extremely upset with you, calling you names and shunning you. You still look at all the blue cars at the lot, though, wishing you could drive one, no matter how many people try to pass laws against you driving a blue car, or how many friends you lose because of it. The feeling's never going to go away.

Your gender is a small detail, right up until it's not. For some people, it is the thorniest issue that they face in their lives, mostly because some people make a huge deal out of it, particularly lawmakers. Expectations and gender roles still run rampant, and until we can demolish the cultural barriers that have been around for hundreds of years, this isn't going to change, and it's not going away anytime soon.