Hello, my name is Cris. :)

I like being nice to people on the internet and looking at cool art stuff

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  • When your experience seems totally alien to any you’ve seen around you it can be disorienting, and folks often try to figure out how they fit in 🤷‍♂️

    That’s pretty normal, and personally I find it kinda heartwarming watching someone find that others share similar experiences, and gaining new words for their experience basically in real time

    As someone who has been through that process of figuring out how to articulate my experience and understand it, I know it can really help you process your identity






  • Not the person you replied to, but I’d like to offer another perspective

    There’s a difference between describing things, and giving someone credit.

    Hitler loving his dogs doesn’t make him not responsible for heinous crimes. It seems odd to me to suggest we not acknowledge that that’s what people who do monstrous things look like

    They’re messy and complicated and have traits most would assess as good, and in many ways that only adds to their danger. They don’t look like storybook villians, they look like human beings. They love dogs. At times they say reasonable, even compelling things. They make art. They had childhoods, and families, and loved ones. They suffer and bleed and experience joy like any human being does. And the closer you look, the more human they get.

    And then they kill 17 million people.












  • Cris@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhy the ultrarich come after trans people ?
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    6 days ago

    There are a lot of other good answers, but it seems worth remembering lots of poor powerless folks hate trans folks too.

    Part of the reason they’re coming after trans people is because it’s human nature to hate or fear those you don’t understand and who are different. A dark, and sad part of human nature, but part of human nature nonetheless

    All the other stuff folks are talking about is also a true, but it’s not like they’re unique in their contempt for people who are different