Bastard-in-armor - Not Your Boyfriend (I'm A Woman)

my central padmé take is that she is someone who constantly and increasingly feels like she has blood on her hands that she can never wash off. this is the core of her deal to me. ever since i started seeing her like this she has never ceased to make perfect sense to me

People are judged by physical traits and I can't get over that

Not in the blackpilled-incel-grr-women-will-never-fuck-me way, I mean, in general, you're truly limited by your physical appearance and physical traits

There is simply nothing you can do to remove those traits from people's perception of you without being in a situation in which they are entirely removed in the first place -- e.g., posting anonymously on the internet

Even on the internet, you can see how people's perception of each other shifts based on what information they have on how they are physically in real life ("oh, that person is probably white," or, "oh, that person is probably a 40 year old man," or, "oh, that person is probably trans")

I've been guilty of this too, but it's kind of insane

how much of a sin it is to simply have a certain body, to have certain genetics, to look a certain way

I even see this in LGBT spaces to an extent

People going for "masc"/"fem" looks and wondering why they don't pull it off

Because you lack the physical traits associated with the look you're going for. that's it. that's what people are judging you by.

Trans people being obsessed with "passing"

again, it's about these arbitrary physical traits associated with the gender you're transitioning to

it's endless

it's literally just how we are as a species

what was that study?

we judge people within 5 seconds of meeting them?

how do you judge a person that quickly without basing it on entirely off of their physical characteristics?

you don't

even things like how they carry themself are arguably physical characteristics and don't tell that much about personality or how they think or what they've done in life

that's all

we're obsessed with looks and aesthetics as a species and that's not changing

it kind of makes me feel a bit unironically transhumanist at times

or even thinking that something like people opting in to an ideal simulation with other people would be kind of a good idea

but until all physical characteristics are choices for people in some way we're always going to have this problem because humans have brains that specialize in pattern recognition

if you're trying to get into the head of your story's antagonist, try writing an "Am I the Asshole" reddit post from their perspective, explaining their problems and their plans for solving them. Let the voice and logic come through.

I wish I could be obsessed with like planes or something but instead I have to be weirdly obsessed with human sexuality (???) Why did you guys do this to me?? I am not an alien or a robot, by the way.

wizard101 character creation: choose your favorite animal

pirate101 character creation: choose how your parents died

When dad sevika helps with homework

Confession: when I was younger I would often roleplay as male characters so that I could (attempt to) romance the female characters. AMA

It’s so crazy how you can measure the shifts in culture based on which race Ariana is pretending to be