It's ok to be strange. It's ok to be bizarre. Be free.

I do not understand the desire for everybody else in the world to act exactly like you. Variety is the spice of life.

People can be strange or bizarre if they want too but they have to understand it means some people won't like them, especially if their shtick is deliberately making people uncomfortable and being annoying.

> I do not understand the desire for everybody else in the world to act exactly like you. Variety is the spice of life.

I don't want people to act exactly like me. I greatly appreciate the existence of people different from me with differing points of view and differing nations with differing cultures. This doesn't mean I have to like one specific archetype that I feel acts obnoxiously.

Why do you feel uncomfortable? Why do you think anyone is trying to make you feel uncomfortable?

The author quite literally mentions that part of their motivation to do things is to make people want them to stop, not to mention the deliberate and conscious choice to write the article in lowercase.

It's also natural to be uncomfortable because of the various references to sexual fetishes throughout the article.

I don't see any references to "sexual fetishes" in the article.

That's impressive considering the article mentions "feminizing" things in big text the moment you load the page.

"feminizing" doesn't refer to a sexual fetish, it just means making something more feminine. Do you assume that something being feminine is automatically sexualized and fetishistic?

I knew you were going to say this.

"Feminizing" doesn't inherently refer to a sexual fetish but context matters. I invite you to examine the article more in depth, look at the chatroom conversations and then come to your own conclusion.

I'm right there with you. The people above your are being intentionally obtuse. Go to the "about" page, and follow the link to the "wonder" page. Scroll all the way down, and you have your answer.

fuck off

No. I will continue noticing patterns.

tbh i think you just hate trans people but you're afraid to say it directly

> to make people want them to stop

in the sense of "writing a brainfuck compiler in ed," not in making them so uncomfortable they beg for release. plus, "feminization" is not a fetish, at least in the sense of making rustc say "i love you;" that feels incredibly uncharitable.

You're being intentionally obtuse, you know what they meant when they wrote that and you're pretending not to.

i was being charitable, not obtuse. a great number of my closest friends are trans; no element of their experience as i observe it fetishizes the very concept of transition, and those who've spoken to me about it are quite opposed to the "pornification" (as opposed to even sexualization) of trans people (particularly women) by the community itself, and others. if you're at all curious, i thought [0] was pretty informative.

all that to say, trans people (or anyone) shouldn't need to qualify their position (or very lighthearted, energetic opinion piece) with some genericizing disclaimer as to their identity, intents, etc., on the very basis of their identity. live and let live (i.e. fuck off)

[0] https://tr4nbie.substack.com/p/cat-ears-skater-skirts-and-kn...

It's because of the autogynephilia. Most of the men who desire to be women, or at least, their male gaze fantasies of women, are driven to this by erotic desire.

I am sorry that you consider queer hackers having fun to be strange.