We went through the process several times, including one that failed post-birth (bmom changed her mind), so you are 100% correct about the expense and emotional demands. My feeling is that they went into this with good intentions but poor due diligence, rationalizing the YouTubing as a way to pay for the care he…

Re-homing the kid is absolutely the right thing to do, but it’s the right thing to do because this lady did not do a good job of evaluating how hard it would be to care for the kid and she adopted a kid she should never have adopted in the first place. And yes, that can and does happen to people who are giving their…

I absolutely agree that it was right to rehome the child. I’ve seen friends struggle through the adoption of special needs children through an international process (Korea and China) and it was hard on both families - especially the one with older kids who then had an “oops” pregnancy months after their adoption was…

Contra points is queen mother of the darkness, breaker of lobster daddies, freer of incels, and patron saint of the mouth feel.

Heheh well technically for me it would be duckduckgo-fu, but then again I’m a privacy weirdo so I try very hard to avoid Google.

I guess I don’t have the google-fu that you do. When I googled it a bunch of unrelated things came up. 

A quick search reveals that AGP stands for “autogynephile”, which is an long-discredited archaic term mostly used by TERFs and other anti-trans folks. The idea is that there are “true transsexuals” who transition young, and “autogynephiles” who transition older and who are not really trans, but rather transition as…

Thanks for this, and yes, this pivot began during a depressive time for him, with life changing events. And, sorry about your uncle, it’s hard to see people struggle though their issues, especially when they turn not to their family, but to strangers

My 2¢ FWIW, feel free to dismiss:

ContraPoints is GREAT GREAT GREAT at challenging Gender Critical views. Really brings it all down to earth.

Yep. I read a lot of these TERF screeds as kind of “they’re choosing to be women now so they can reap what we’ve sown.” Like, a cisgendered man would suddenly decide to give up his entire identity in order to “take” what feminists have labored to achieve.

It is nearly impossible to convince some people that others aren’t looking for “special treatment” they just want the SAME treatment.

Allow me to share a lesson I learned when my brother fell into depression, eventually being radicalized into the alt-right, prior to taking his own life.

That zero sum mentality is honestly such a challenge. It’s how we end up with this All Lives Matter bullshit, because people are so worried that someone saying Black Lives Matter must imply that their own life matters less in that moment.

This:

“Instead, point out how boring it is to think people should be punished if they don’t conform. How tedious it is to think that the contours of your own thought enclose all that is worth knowing. How embarrassing it is to be cruel.”

Yeah, I could easily see the doctor registering Edward Masen as deceased (which, you know, not technically wrong) which would then exempt him from the draft. And if he immediately changed his last name to Cullen, you don’t need a social security number to attend college and earn degrees - he was undocumented. The…

I don’t know any of the deep lore or details of the series; my theory hinges on the answer to this question: What is the source of information that Edward kept inheriting his own money as a different person?

The government isn’t giving out support. I work at a non-zoo cultural institution and we’re about to collapse as well, we’ve been begging for help but the government is too incompetent and doesn’t give a shit. I would have hoped the situation in Germany would be better but perhaps not. Although, I do wonder if this is…

The issue is being able to pay for the food, water, electricity, vets, and other care for the animals without the venue from guests which is required to meet that budget.