• inkzombie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    lol when I asked my gay brother to put effort into my name and pronouns he cried and said I was emotionally manipulating him

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      I’m a cis gay dude with a trans sister. Your brother is a jerk. I wasn’t perfect when my sister came out to me, but I put in the modest amount of effort to reframe my internal concept of her to reflect her true self. I did so because she is important to me and I want her in my life.

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      You are joking that this didn’t happen, but I wanted to do the exact same thing when my parents were screaming at each other

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    If it was due to malice and not forgetfulness, why didn’t they just confiscate the air horn?

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    In Colombia we have this tradition of making “old guy” dolls that are burn on new years eve with messages from all the things we want to left behind. When my cousin changed his name, we named the old guy with his dead name and burned it.

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      Cool, i didn’t know this tradition was also done outside of ecuador. Do you also burn it out on the street and jump over it?

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        Don’t remember the jump over part. It’s funny talking with people of Equador, it’s like eeey we do the same thing here! Everytime.

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        I think it’s been adapted enough to be safe.

        My (white American) family has something similar, but probably has a common origin:

        On Jan 1, we will have a fire. Fireplace, fire pit, even a candle. We then write our regrets on paper and burn them. It’s private, and you don’t have to share what you are burning, but you can.

        We’ve been doing this since I was a child.

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        Mind your local laws regarding burning things out in the open. But i think it would be super cool if people started adopting this. I don’t know how similar the tradition is to the colombian one, but in ecuador the doll is called the “old year”. It’s stuffed with old newspaper and sawdust, clothed in old, unusable pants and shirt and wears a papier-mâché mask of whatever you want. It’s common to put a mask of a politician

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    When someone I know changed her name, her parents decided that they would use a new name but it wouldn’t be the one that she wanted, it would be similar. So my friend called their mum Carol, instead of Caroline, and the problem quickly solved itself.

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      In some families, this would lead to a cold war where they just keep using the wrong names for each other until death.

      Future generations grow up thinking those are their actual names because it’s what they’ve always called each other.

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    Modern problems require modern solutions. I feel like I should do this with faux brainwashed idiots every time they want to spout off one of their sheeple talking points

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        Leslie Jones providing an equal and fair treatment to all, regardless of whom hired her - I’m down with that.

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      Is it the outcome you’d expect, or the outcome you’d enact, if you were to find yourself on the receiving end of a much needed correction?

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      Hmm, if only there was a name for the type of situation that occurs between people where one side is tolerating abuse purely for monetary compensation. Also, potential - not guaranteed. They could be broke AF at the end because of the amazing healthcare system.

      But sure, tolerate the abuse, transphobia, misgendering, deadnaming, and what not - because they are your parents and you may get some coins for it. Yeah, no.

      If your (birth)parents/family/friends are that shit - you don’t need them. There’s a whole community that’ll welcome you as you

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      Oh, so you should let them hold abusing your sibling over your head for money? You shouldn’t stand up for the weak if the powerful might not reward you for it?

      You are why the world is on fire. Millions of boot fellating cowards like you.

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      Imagine being a coward cause you might not get mommy and daddy’s money when they die

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      Lmao, as if they will leave you anything. It’s not rare for parents to decide to blow all of their money on travel around the world and leave their kids with nothing. Their generation is proud of pushing their problems onto their kids and leaving nothing behind.

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      If they were that much inclined then they shouldn’t have deadnamed/misgendered in the first place, even after being told so many times.

      If they were gonna disown for that, then they’d have done that either way anyways. Might as well get some nice improvement by removing that deadnaming and misgendering.

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      “This whole hutch and all the china in it can be yours!”

      I have no idea what to do with the endless reams of stuff my parents will leave behind. I want to be disinherited.