foxglove (she/her)

This sounds a bit related to David Graeber’s concept of “Bullshit Jobs”.

Honestly, desire is a justification on its own. If you have limited resources, then it’s really about whether you can afford to prioritize those desires or not. For those with enough money, desire is enough of a reason to justify a purchase.

Without enough money, the question is whether the desire outweighs other more practical ways that money could be spent. When I was depressed sometimes I would make irrational spending choices because it helped me feel good and even helped me pretend I was not as poor as I actually was, by spending the money irrationally I could create the illusion of having more money than I had. This was a dangerous game, though.

That all makes sense, desiring looking at something beautiful or attractive.

Re envy: that’s interesting, so you would like to be able to be like women in that you would like to be able to be beautiful, delicate, desirable and so on?

I think some men can be considered beautiful and desirable - I’m sure women would describe men like Pedro Pascal as being beautiful and desirable 😅 But I hear what you mean that in general women are seen as desired and men as the one desiring, in a sense. I think that’s largely social, though I do think estrogen does create traits that we might see as beautiful, such as soft skin, for example.

I guess I wonder if you have any examples of beautiful, delicate, or desirable men, and whether you would prefer to be that, or if you could press a button if you would just choose to have been born a woman instead?

That’s interesting, why do you think in video games you want to play a pretty character that can wear gorgeous outfits?

Izzard identifies as genderfluid[94][95] and calls herself “somewhat boy-ish and somewhat girl-ish”.[18] She uses the word “transgender” as an umbrella term.[96] When asked in 2019 what pronouns she preferred, Izzard responded, “either ‘he’ or ‘she’” and explained, “If I am in boy mode, then ‘he’, or girl mode, ‘she’”.[97] In 2020, she requested she/her pronouns for an appearance on the TV show Portrait Artist of the Year and said she wants “to be based in girl mode from now on”.[98] In March 2023, she announced that she would begin using the name Suzy in addition to Eddie, saying that she is “going to be Suzy Eddie Izzard”.[2][1] Explaining that she had wanted to use the name Suzy since she was 10 years old, she added that people “can choose” which name they want to use to refer to her,[1][2] and that she would keep using Eddie Izzard as her public name since it is more widely recognised.[99]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Izzard#Personal_life

for the lazy ^

Have you ever worn women’s clothes outside that, or wanted to? How has it felt if you did?

!egg_irl@lemmy.blahaj.zone

What do you already have on hand? What tools and materials?

If you had a cinderblock, log, car-jack, or other heavy / sturdy item, you could use that to rest the sofa on temporarily while you work on it. Since it’s a sofa, you could even just tip the sofa on one of its sides (if there is room). Even a stack of books could work, assuming nobody sits on the sofa or uses it (which is a good idea while it’s being repaired). Either way, you probably don’t need to buy something to rest the sofa on.

In terms of re-attaching the leg to the sofa, it depends on what you are working with, whether there is a way to screw something into the leg. Imagining a wooden leg, I could imagine drilling a hole into the leg and into the sofa, then driving a wooden dowel into the leg and putting wood glue into the hole and around the dowel and then softly tapping the leg into the hole you made into the sofa - the dowel going in the hole, I mean. Sometimes screws can be driven in at angles, or you can make or use brackets that screw into both.

it would help if you could clarify what you mean by wobbly or buzzy … maybe some examples of songs or segments that have the sound you’re describing?

is this song wobbly or buzzy?

Might also x-post to !dadforaminute@lemmy.world if you don’t get responses here.

TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising

I guess the stageists were right, liberalism always does come next. (\s)

is there a way to de-paywall 404media.co?

don’t forget: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/14544266

so you’re saying you picked a transphobic username as a cis man, then kept it when you transitioned less than a year ago?

And no, I make a terrible ally 😉

I feel like an average guy and I met my wife on a dating app

trans women don’t usually call themselves “an average guy”, it shows you identify as a “guy” and not a gal, for example.

Are you saying you’re a trans woman?

🤣

I would name my child Fatalitee.

that’s high praise 😳‼️🙈