Quote:it boiled down to the community pushing an idea of "transitioning earlier is better" extremely hard and blaming themselves for her suicide because of that
Well the whole idea that "transitioning earlier is better" is BS because 1) everyone lives in different circumstances financially, socially, mentally, etc and 2) those circumstances dictate whether or not transitioning will be a traumatic experience or even dangerous. It's a case-by-case basis. And it's BS that they're blaming themselves on reddit. I dunno who said what was "a good idea" when or how loudly, but her parents are the asshats here.
That kitten is still going and seems to be getting better and his health hasn't deteriorated any more. I noticed it's eyes were really red so that explains why it had them closed up. He is eating a considerable amount of soft and hard food. After he urinated on my couch it seemed he wasn't using the litterbox but searching around yielded no places he or the other kittens defecated. I'm hoping he's able to pass stool and if he is he must be going in the litterbox. Will see about setting up a vet visit but I'm going to look into options or places that might offer a discount for trap-neuter-release and vet care for those rescuing feral kittens.
I'm not only providing them with shelter and feeding them but am also going to take care of them and nurse them back to health, provide vet care, spay-neuter them, attempt to socialize or partially socialize them, litter train them and attempt to find homes for them.
(01-04-2015, 01:53 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:Time to stay away from reddit, trans subreddits have lost the respectful conversation they had about leelah. I don't care how much self-blame you have, you don't tell a community of suicidal teenagers that the suicide of a star of their community was their fault.
-No link to thread
-No context
-No information about who "leelah" is or we should why we care
This is not how you make informative posts. Â Anyone who isn't an active member of this subreddit isn't going to know wtf you're talking about and isn't going to want to spent the time to go digging and find out.
Do people really not know who she is? Her suicide note was published everywhere. She killed herself and left a suicide note on tumblr blaming her parent's abuse.
(01-05-2015, 02:11 AM)RachelB Wrote: [ -> ] (01-04-2015, 01:53 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]kinkinkijkin Wrote:Time to stay away from reddit, trans subreddits have lost the respectful conversation they had about leelah. I don't care how much self-blame you have, you don't tell a community of suicidal teenagers that the suicide of a star of their community was their fault.
-No link to thread
-No context
-No information about who "leelah" is or we should why we care
This is not how you make informative posts. Â Anyone who isn't an active member of this subreddit isn't going to know wtf you're talking about and isn't going to want to spent the time to go digging and find out.
Do people really not know who she is? Her suicide note was published everywhere. She killed herself and left a suicide note on tumblr blaming her parent's abuse.
And by everywhere you mean "in a few places in the US, on Twitter and on Tumblr".
(01-05-2015, 02:11 AM)RachelB Wrote: [ -> ]Do people really not know who she is? Her suicide note was published everywhere. She killed herself and left a suicide note on tumblr blaming her parent's abuse.
Nothing about it in my newspaper
I usually watch a half-hour of CNN everyday before I go to work, but I've been too busy to do so recently. I don't visit tumblr except when someone links me to something directly and I avoid twitter as much as I do reddit.
(01-05-2015, 03:03 AM)delroth Wrote: [ -> ]And by everywhere you mean "in a few places in the US, on Twitter and on Tumblr".
I've seen it all over main stream news.
to be honest, rachelb, she's only all over north-american news, and mostly in the US. There aren't any news stations in canada, even, that I know which are running stories on her, but all of the southern regions of canada get our news from the US anyways.
Apart from the snippets of what I saw from my Tumblr friends (and my lack of watching the news except for like once or twice a month), I didn't really know what was going on with her all until I looked it up.
 Kinda yesterday news but Citra seems to be able to go ingame now for the first time in a commercial title:
(01-05-2015, 09:43 AM)Link_to_the_past Wrote: [ -> ]Â Kinda yesterday news but Citra seems to be able to go ingame now for the first time in a commercial title:
This has me excited.
completely unrelated: I love sawtooth waves. I mean, I mostly use inverted sawtooths because I forget to draw proper sawtooth waves but still