Should Chapter 262 page 17 panel 3: "complements" be instead "compliments"?

gotta flip her over three times before the USB will fit

artist's twitter caption: 背教 (apostasy)

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I read somewhere that the use of "A" for alpha in Chinese culture comes from Japanese application of American-originated A/B/O porn tropes to BL porn

I don't have a way to verify this but it is hilarious if true

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<3

surely this is only one tentacle...?

A daily intake of 1200 kCals??? Isn't the recommended daily intake for an adult woman like 2000 kCal? 1200 would be enough for like a 12-year old

Starving yourself isn't a healthy way to be (and isn't the best way to sustainably lose weight, either, since it can fuck up your metabolism)

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apparently you're required to use that stance for that competition. The guns are ultralight low-recoil air-guns iirc

I feel like if you got confused you could just look at the taglist. It's right there

Also, lmao at the people complaining about mc's design. I guess that's the difference between "yuri" and "lesbian"

Transcendent Egg posted:

To be transgender is to contradict the social forces that assign gender (male, female) to infants. This contradiction is necessarily socially contingent.

I agree that gender is social, since gender doesn't exist, but saying being trans is based solely on rejecting social expectations is flat out wrong. While gender is a lie, your biology is real and many trans people main source of dysphoria is disconnect between what they feel their body should be and what it is. Even without social expectations they'd still want to change it, because it feels wrong. There's no society at play there. So saying that being trans is all about rejecting social forces is pretty much straight saying people who mainly are unhappy with their biology aren't trans.

If you are trans you necessarily reject social expectations to be cis. Being unhappy with your biology is to reject the social expectations that you be satisfied with your biology. If you were to live in a counterfactual reality where there is no such expectation, then there would be no necessary rejection of expectations. But we live in a society (bottom text) and so it is, in this context, necessarily a rejection of social expectations.

[edit: what this means is that even if wanting to change your body is entirely internal, you still live in society. society is gonna look at you and say "why are you contradicting us, fuck you"]

Also, gender being social doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Gender being social means it is a process that doesn't need to exist.

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I don't understand the discourse that says "you're only /actually/ trans if your sense of your gender isn't affected by how people treat you" because gender is social. No one is born with a gender; we (society) assign gender to babies and when it grows up it will either accept or reject this assignment. No one's sense of gender is unaffected by society and social relations. I'm not gonna (for example) contradict some cis guy's gender like "you only consider yourself a man because masculinity was imposed upon you from birth. If it weren't you wouldn't have formed a male gender identity", I'm gonna have some good faith that he's done the introspection that I'm in no position to do for him.

We cannot really say that gender is entirely social. Gender roles on the other hand, are entirely social. Things like clothes, how we are "supposed to behave", what we are supposed to like, can all be viewed as completely arbritrary, and therefore, as a construct. And the "assignment of gender to babies" are more like imposing expectations of gender based on genitalia.
Gender also has a biological and psicological aspect. It is extremely hard to properly convey to a cis person, as trans, how it actually is to feel unconfortable with your body. Something like it doesn't match. This manga shows it very clearly with the table scene. You can see gender dysphoria being manifested towards the primary and secondary sexual characteristics. But it goes way deeper than that. There is also, yes, the social aspect, but they are only a part of the whole problem.
I hope I could clarify a bit on what you don't understand.

First, I can assure you that I am well acquainted with gender dysphoria. I do not require your assistance in this respect.

Second, you misunderstand what I mean in saying that gender is social. This may have been my fault for being imprecise. What I meant is that every person's conception of their own personhood with regard to gender (to whatever degree it is in conflict or accordance with the hegemonic ideology) is irrevocably molded by the social forces of the society they reside within (because gender is socially reproduced and enforced). To say that a person is only trans if their gender is pure of social influence is therefore patently nonsensical. (Also, when I said "I don't understand" that was polite for "this is wrong and incoherent".)

To be transgender is to contradict the social forces that assign gender (male, female) to infants. This contradiction is necessarily socially contingent.

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I have a post caught in the spam filter. Is this where I contact Dynasty?
Edit: seems to have gone through now

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I don't understand the discourse that says "you're only /actually/ trans if your sense of your gender isn't affected by how people treat you" because gender is social. No one is born with a gender; we (society) assign gender to babies and when it grows up it will either accept or reject this assignment. No one's sense of gender is unaffected by society and social relations. I'm not gonna (for example) contradict some cis guy's gender like "you only consider yourself a man because masculinity was imposed upon you from birth. If it weren't you wouldn't have formed a male gender identity", I'm gonna have some good faith that he's done the introspection that I'm in no position to do for him.

Chiaki's relationship with his dad is really compelling, and his friendship with Takatou is super heartwarming.

Even though this was 85 pages long, I feel like this kind of introspective story could have benefited from somewhat slower pacing. Maybe that's just me, though.

This is nitpicking, but Chiaki's doctor talking about "an SRS" was a little awkward and funny-sounding. A knowledgeable physician would be more likely reference the specific procedures (top surgery and hysterectomy) rather than "the surgery".

And, as someone who would prefer to not be perceived, being a closeted trans streamer sounds like a special kind of hell.

After some investigation it seems that there's precedent for Dynasty using the looser "lady office worker" definition for OL: Still Sick, Kobayashi, and I Love Cinema are tagged OL for characters that are R/D lead, programmer, and manager, respectively. If this is the case I think the tag should have a description noting this

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Does this series count as "Office Lady"? (doesn't OL mean like low-tier feminized secretarial and clerical work, rather than archetypically masculine roles such as sales? maybe the dynasty OL tag just means "lady office workers"?)

hehe her tail

As you say, heavensrun, the new She-ra is powered by love, or in other words by emotional attachment. There's a theme of adora having to "let go" of attachment in order to properly fulfil her duty (see her conversations with Light Hope and Shadow Weaver on the topic). Mara in their final conversation denies that Adora's duty requires her to sacrifice herself and her own desires, and it is through Adora's attachment to catra that her duty is fulfilled. I will concede that this theme could be more clearly shown, but we are explicitly told it.

The shift from the old She-ra form to the new one represents Adora slowly learning to allow herself to have emotional attachments to other people: what allows her to access the new form in the first place is her concern for Catra. The new version also only shows up once Adora and Catra are on the same side. It makes sense thematically for Catra to have some level of dislike for the old She-ra form, but not for the new form, imo.

dark skin??

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no sunscreen allowed??? to what end?????

trim your fingernails, Kyouko, for Sayaka's sake