pooberbee

Stigma is the singular of stigmata.

I believe everyone should have free, unlimited access to any cosmetic surgery they want.

I know a few people who do it. I'm not sure what to do. One guy, it seems like that's the only tone he knows, and he'll lecture me about whatever the topic of conversation is. It's like he imagines a strawman and then argues against it.

Yes, but this community is a women's space, so posts are focused as such.

Use the name and pronouns they gave you. Kindly mind your own business.

As they become more authentic businesses, they become less authentic human endeavors.

Around here they call them little libraries, they have roofs and doors (like a little house), and the books still get beat the hell up because hardly anyone wants to read YA Christian romance novels or F-tier dover math books.

A right angle exists between the radius of the circle and the line tangent to the circle at the point that the radial line intersects it. So we can say the radius forms a right angle with the circle at that point because the slope of the curve is equal to that of the tangent line at that point.

It's fine for you to conform and set those goals for yourself, but please don't put that on others. Not passing doesn't make a person nonbinary.

I've been reading the book Come As You Are, and I really recommend it. The author explains that there are really two systems at work in sexual desire, essentially the accelerator and the brake. Things like seeing someone who is physically attractive, reading erotic fiction, or a nice, romantic dinner might press the accelerator, while performance anxiety, feeling like you or your partner needs a shower, feeling unsafe, etc. might press on the brake.

Furthermore, different people's accelerator and brake respond to different stimuli, and they respond with different sensitivity. So some people respond more strongly to brakes than accelerator, some respond more strongly to accelerator than brakes, and lots of people (about half) are somewhere close to the middle on both.

I personally have an accelerator a good bit more sensitive than my brakes, which sometimes makes me feel like my sex drive is careening out of control. My partner, comparatively, has more sensitive brakes, and their experience is often that they WANT to be aroused but aren't.

For me, just having a clearer picture of what is going on is empowering. I'm looking forward to reading more of the book, but it's already helped me understand that I'm not broken for wanting "too much" sex, and my partner's lack of arousal isn't because they aren't attracted to me.

Something similar for me but opposite, childhood trauma gave me anxiety over others' emotions, even positive, strong emotions make me anxious.

What makes me strong is that I can change. I can learn to make space for my and others' feelings, and we can process them. Even my anxiety is just a feeling that doesn't control me; I decide what to do.

A Celeste dash mod would be amazing! I am terrible at Celeste, but dashing is so much fun! I bet it'd be wild in 3D!