The "Be Your Authentic Self" Lie

 

The "being your authentic self" gambit has been used by the beauty industry, the diet industry, and the plastic surgery industry forever. Consider the idea that if I were to lose weight, get asteroid-sized silicone breast implants, dye away my gray hair, remove all my body hair, and wear a crap-ton of makeup to hide my complexion flaws while covering my naturally scanty eyelashes with long false eyelashes, I would magically become my true self. It's bullshit. I'd just be a smoother, thinner version of me with fake boobs, dyed hair, apparently flawless skin, and long, fake eyelashes. I'd still have the same problems I have now, but I'd have to spend a lot more time maintaining a ridiculous illusion of youth while forcing myself to conform to a rigid set of beauty standards. Been there, done that. No, it didn't make me happy. It was an insidious lie.

The gender cult version of this lie is even worse because it pushes people with gender dysphoria to rush into extreme, irreversible, harmful measures to ease their distress with themselves. One can stop dyeing their hair and wearing excessive makeup, stop removing all their body hair, stop engaging in rigid, punitive dieting routines, and have breast implants removed. It is impossible to reconstruct functioning reproductive organs that have been removed, cross-sex hormones cause lasting and sometimes permanent alterations to the body, and puberty blockers are not the benign, reversible drugs that the pro-affirmation gender disciples want people to believe they are.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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Joe Biden: Out of Touch and No Friend to Women

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xzKpYD534ig

Joe Biden is so out of touch. 

The choice was between him and Dump. The other parties count for nothing in the US. Many of us who voted Biden did so because Dump is a frothing-at-the-mouth, raving lunatic and is stupider than a box of turds. I'm also gobsmacked at anyone who claims that Dump is any friend to women. The man is the walking embodiment of sexual harassment, and everyone forgets his statement about punishment for abortion. If Dump were still in office, he would 100% be supporting Putin.

To be honest, I mostly expected Biden to be a non-entity. He has proven himself to be quite the puppet for the Kweer Klown Kommunity. 

I'm well to the left as far as welfare issues go, but at this point, the right makes more sense with the LGBTQWERTY lunacy. However, aligning with the right too much will hurt the LGB and women in the end. 

Women come out as the losers at either end of the political spectrum. The left can't tell you what a woman is. The right knows what a woman is: it's that lesser human that belongs in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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Delusional TIM

 

Okay, I have to admit, they probably do have the Blahaj advantage. I have no idea what Blahaj is, so I'll give them that one. 

Where do they grow these fresh boobs? Out in the garden or in indoor planters?

Inquiring Slys want to know.

The Never-Ending Hyperbole of Chase Strangio

 

https://elizamondegreen.substack.com/p/dear-chase-strangio?s=r

And now, just for fun, here's Cheese Stringio in he/him's infinite wisdom. 

Cheese, old chap, as a woman who has gone through menopause, I am a woman who can't get pregnant. I have never gotten the impression that anyone is saying I should pretend I don't exist or should stop existing. 

Women are allowed to discuss menstruation without having to acknowledge that there are People Who Don't Menstruate. In fact, I want women to discuss menstruation. It's high time it stopped being a taboo subject. Lay off the hyperbole.

Your Terven Pal,

Sly

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Peter Pan Syndrome + Trauma = Gender Medicine for Females

A response to the following post from Eliza Mondegreen's Substack post about E. Page's interview in Esquire Magazine.

 https://elizamondegreen.substack.com/p/i-could-not-picture-myself-as-a-woman

"I could not picture myself as a woman aging."

The title suggests a degree of Peter Pan syndrome as well as untreated trauma and psychological issues. E. Page discusses panic attacks and eating disorders. Somehow, the cure for these issues is a mastectomy and cross-sex hormones to emulate the appearance of a male. E. Page does not look so much like an adult male as an androgynous adolescent. 

Androgynous adolescent is the goal appearance of many females with restrictive eating disorders (anorexia.) 

I was 32 years old when I was sexually assaulted in 1997. At that time, the En Vogue treatment was to prescribe drugs (SSRIs and benzodiazepines.) Not one doctor listened to me when I told them that I had been sexually assaulted. Their goal was to shut me up.

I experienced panic attacks approximately every 20 minutes from the time I woke up to the time I went to sleep. Did I consider suicide? Hell yeah I did. It wasn't only the doctors that didn't listen to me either. My own family members told me that I had "gotten over it" when I was sexually assaulted fourteen years previously and I'd get over it again. I never mentioned it again.

I do not respond well to psych meds. SSRIs make me manic and psychotic, two things that I am usually not. I have paradoxical reactions to benzos. Valium is the only one that doesn't trigger rebound panic attacks, and it makes me thick as a brick. These drugs are not a solution to trauma.

After a year of struggling with no help whatsoever, one day the panic attacks stopped. I gave thanks to whatever powers there may be. I have no intention of arguing whether or not such powers exist. That really isn't the point. 

I wonder if my sexual assault happened now if I wouldn't have been pushed in the direction of transition even though I never expressed a belief that I was male or a desire to be male. I had a deep-seated hatred of my body that was there before the assault and was exacerbated after the assault. I was fully aware that what happened to me happened because I was female. Not because I "Identify as" female, but because I am objectively, biologically female. 

Never mind that I have never wanted to be male (other than when I was menstruating, a hell that I endured once a month for 40 years, and even then my proclamation that I wished I could turn into Guy rather than Sly was mostly a joke.) I genuinely wonder if the Gender Idealogues wouldn't have used the behaviors and distress of a trauma sufferer to push me down the path to transition and I wonder just how many trans-identified females are also suffering from PTSD.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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Dumb Identities: Demi

 

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Why do we only see demi-girls and demi-boys and never demi-women or demi-men…

 auntiewanda

Because the gender trend is Peter Pan Syndrome in action.

Ain't that the damn truth? 

"Demi" is such an unnecessary concept. I never thought my dislike of casual sex and hookup culture was a kind of sexual orientation, for fuck's sake. Spoilers: it isn't. 

Demi is one of those dumb identities proposed by Kweer theorists. Not a hypersexual hoochie mama or himbo always on the prowl for your next hook-up? You're not simply selective or anything so boring as that. You're Kweer!

I'm not "kweer." I'm not demi-anything. I'm a heterosexual female who dislikes hookup culture. If I'm going to be sexually involved with someone, it needs to be someone that I have a strong bond of trust with. At this point in my life, that's nobody on the planet.

Not being interested in sex these days doesn't make me Kweer either. 

I'm still simply Super straight, and I'm good with that. 

It's fine to be Super-Gay or Super-Bi too. 

If you want to call yourself "demi" something, you do you. Whatever gets you through your life. I find terms like "demi" meaningless and unnecessary.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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Only One Kind of People Become Pregnant

 

Nary a one of these people with long hair and heavy makeup will ever become pregnant. I wonder why.

The following is a comment I left on a post about the current danger to reproductive freedom in the United States. The spam filter ate my comment, but I always copy my comments because of aggressive spam filters. I am overall in agreement with the post. It was the title that made me balk. 

http://mckennadeanromance.com/first-they-came-for-the-pregnant-people

I agree with your thoughts in the post but had my doubts when I saw the title. There is only one kind of "people" that becomes pregnant: females. No male will ever be pregnant. 

I cringe at so-called "inclusive" language in women's healthcare that erases the very people said healthcare is supposed to be there for. A tiny minority of trans-identifying females (transmen) become pregnant. "Inclusive" language would add transmen rather than erasing women. As for people identifying as nonbinary, they are still either male or female. There is no third sex.

This rant isn't directed at you, only at the wording in the post title. As I said previously, I agree with the content of the post. It was well-written, detailed, thoughtful, and thought-provoking. I'm simply frustrated at the way identity politics erases women, who face prejudice because of our sex class, not our gender identity. 

Women. The word you're looking for is women.

Dumping tRump is also a great idea. Let's keep him dumped.

While we're at it, here are some more people with long hair (no makeup, though) who could never get pregnant, even if they used she/her pronouns.

~Sly, Wishing the Gender Woo-Woo Would Fizzle Out Already~

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