Living In The Past

[Duchess]

I have tomboy tendencies, I always have, but I have never wanted to be a guy. Gawd. I love being a woman.

[sally]

I have a childhood friend who's daughter transistioned before it was cool. My friend would come over here and cry to me that she lost her daughter, but has to accept the crazy shit. She didn't allow her to start doing the hormones and steroids until she was 18, but the side effects ( other than becoming a different gender) are horrible and you can't just stop taking it. There is nothing to take lightly about it, that's something that needs to be decided as an adult and even then it can have both horrible mental and physical effects.

[BlueTiki]

I have tomboy tendencies, I always have, but I have never wanted to be a guy. Gawd. I love being a woman.

My point. I wished I was a boy when I was young.  You said it best . . . Boys were way more fun to hang out with, than girls.  And it had nothing to do with sexual desire.

Once I started hanging with girls who did "boy" things, that wish vanished and I was happy to have found friends who weren't afraid to do "boyish" and adventurous things.

I learned what inclusiveness was . . . by being a tom-boy . . . and the only obstacle I couldn't conquer as a girl . . . was the urinal.

Except for washing my hair.  Remove the mint cake first, though.  Pro tip!

[aussiefriend]

I got to the point of removing things that dont add value for me. Sure, it’s noble to have a cause, and I still help charities with cash, kind and manual labour; that’s a bit of enrichment.

I realised at some point though, questioning things that are far, far out of anyone’s control, was just adding to the negative, no matter how noble it felt.

I still vote with my vote, I still vote with my feet and my dollar, that’s about it. It’s taken me a while, but I can actually clear my head enough now to even ignore an itch. No thoughts, no headnoise, just nothing

I do volunteer work too. I think sometimes when you donate money you do not always know where the money is going and then they never shut the fuck up bothering you for money in the future.

[BigMark]

No shit, the NRA would try to shame you for more money, fuck that.

[Duchess]

then they never shut the fuck up bothering you for money in the future.

I once donated to the Red Cross, it was so long ago that I can't even recall what it was for, and they haven't given me any peace since then. It defeated their entire intent because I will never donate to them again because of that.

[sally]

Same with St. Jude's. From what I can tell it is legit, but quit sending pictures of kids with cancer already.

[Duchess]

 sending pictures of kids with cancer already.

Many of the animal charities do the same damn thing. I don't want to see pix of starving/abused animals. That stuff sticks in my head.

[MirahM]

AAAAHHHH I made my mom turn down the volume on that animal commercial around Christmas time, it was excrutiating to listen to.

[Duchess]

Lots of people can't stand it and turn away like we do. They are defeating their purpose.