Are Cuba and Vietnam considered good or bad? Nicaragua? How about the new coup leaders in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger? Any successful revolution has demonstrated the necessity of authority, to enforce an ideological will on society and stop the bourgeois class from re-appearing requires authority. Any revolution with be authoritarian, even and especially if it is the oppressed overthrowing the oppressor.

Sure, say you don’t like China, the Soviet Union, or the DPRK for your own reasons, but why use a term that encompasses any successful revolution, as even the CNT-FAI was finding a need for things like secret police during the awful times of a revolution.

You should maintain your site culture, but there’s a reason anti-communists and fascists use the term tankie as well, it’s imprecise and volatile.

Edit: I apologize if this is not a post meant to invite discussion, I just don’t see this perspective shared very often in these conversations.

Get a trans friend to help you do it then, or just a gender bender friendly friend. Or keep my voice in your head, saying “DO IT NERD!!!”

It’s okay! I’ve been doing this for years and started in bumfuck nowhere and lemme tell you: nobody cares. Just go grab a medium or so sports bra and check it out, no words needed, nobody will care. Not even those conservative white women with nothing better to do than shop.

I get gender euphoria all the time, baby, nothing better than living my life. Most recent I’d say is swimming topless with my friends today, just felt like one of the girls.

First time, I think, is when I was very young and “played Pokemon for my mom”. I’d do that alot actually, it just meant I’d play the girl character and not save my game.

My first conscious time was when I was with friends and I bought my first bra, a sports bra, it was great :) I’d wear it to uni under hoodies all the time (spring included).

Wow, that takes a really strong person to not even take just half. Big ups to you for that willpower