Fucked-up idea: horror game where you get constantly misgendered, pregnant, terrible experience with pain relief (barely any), but luckily kid (or kids!) come out fine. Then you get postpartum depression or psychosis.

The mechanics would be managing money, stress, physical pain, mental pain, rising rage, exhaustion, fear / worry, and miscommunication of varying types with everyone. Oh, and sleep, personal hygiene, food, water, and where you put your keys. You have ADHD, btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ZGK1bJWGs

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"Talk about UBI, UBS, contraception (LARCs especially -- even just mentioning they exist is great!)
Chronic illness and chronic pain (again: mentioning it exists is honestly better than nothing. People seem to assume it's "for attention" rather than... really quite unpleasant and why pretend anything about it?)
Uhhhh. Remind people to drink some water, stretch, change their underwear, wash their face (you do NOT want blepharitis), take antibiotics and other antimicrobials exactly as prescribed, and wear sunblock. Just once in a while prompts, like, rotating them out can really help a lot of people.
I'm interested in the philosophies of anime character relationships, conflict resolution, and whether people can be categorised similarly to other systems, like digestive microbiota.
E.g. you mostly have bacteria, fungi etc that live in your guts and go with the flow, with a smaller portion which actively promote your bodymind's health and another that actively harms it / cares more about their own immediate survival than yours (and theirs)."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xENxXCFlOg4
https://www.patreon.com/MichaelBurns420
Something something WiseCrack, corporate layoffs, no severance pay, company and capitalism wealth hoarding anti-human crap. I hate business, can you tell?

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Even thiccer linkdump https://lgbtqia.space/@MxVerda/114728598025839940

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People look for context cues on expected reactions. Offer an apology (outside Canada) and people are primed to assume fault of some kind.

https://peoplepsych.com/why-say-thank-you-instead-of-im-sorry/ and https://www.theplainsimplelife.com/say-thank-you-instead-of-sorry/ and https://hartsteinpsychological.com/when-to-say-sorry-or-thank-you

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The vagina is acidic to prevent harmful bacteria overgrowth or (any?) yeast or fungal growth.
The uterus isn't as acidic afaik, so it's more vulnerable to infections from any microorganisms that get that far.
Microorganisms are bacteria, viruses, fungi, yeast, protozoa, and probably more because the tree of life is a fucking forest.

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Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, or PID, can lead to infertility btw, if that's something important to you.
Sexually Transmitted Infections, or STIs, can malinger, so please test regularly for them (or whenever you remember) when you can.

Older term: STDs for Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
A disease is a collection of symptoms (maybe? Pls feel free to correct or add nuance) whereas an infection is a situation where harmful microorganisms reach a noticeable population inside a living creature.

The vagina is acidic to prevent harmful bacteria overgrowth or (any?) yeast or fungal growth.
The uterus isn't as acidic afaik, so it's more vulnerable to infections from any microorganisms that get that far.
Microorganisms are bacteria, viruses, fungi, yeast, protozoa, and probably more because the tree of life is a fucking forest.

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Hell, the name 'miscarriage' itself is victim-blamey. To carry out a process or a sentence is to do something successfully or to completion. To miscarry is to 'fail' at doing that thing.

Consider the phrase 'cervical incompetence', when describing the cervix. The cervix is the... it's either the bit facing the vaj or the tube between the vagina (tube past the vulva lips) and the uterus ('womb' connecting the Fallopian tubes to the vagina).

Uhhhh, anyway, cervical incompetence is when that tube is weak or weakened and lets too much into or out of the uterus. I think it's a pregnancy (obstetrics) thing, but it might cover stuff like Pelvic Inflammatory Disease too.

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IDK how people affected by it directly or indirectly would feel, but a Miscarriage Day might also help some people.

Apparently there is stigma about experiencing pregnancy loss.

Regardless of cause or intent, not just anti-medical abortion people but some people victim-blame anyone who goes through a spontaneous abortion, including people who wanted to be pregnant.
('Abortion' means to end something before the expected finish. Spontaneous means sudden. A spontaneous abortion is when your body ends a pregnancy without your input.)

Not all pregnancies are viable, not all pregnancies remain viable, and abortion is a human right for anyone who can become pregnant.
Children are a goddamn gift! Forcing someone to care for another human when they're not willing and ready is horrifically cruel to all involved.

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@daedalean @jwcph the more I deal with anyone at work, the more I realise most allistic people need to literally see consequences right in front of their noses before ... idk, "allowing themselves...?" to see that you were right.

There is no win condition in my experience. I hope there is for other people, but for me, saying something meant getting blamed and saying nothing meant getting insulted.

It's not enough to communicate a problem brewing.
You need to do so politely (in a way that doesn't imply Any Blame for their fragile fucking egos),
at the right time (so they aren't distracted or irritable and will blame you for "not explaining it right"),
in a way that they understand (ideally through aphorisms and/or making pop culture references to things you had forced down your throat for decades),
*and* you need to be Someone They Respect.

So get fucked if you're disabled, BIPoC, queer, immigrant, ND, etc or even just ONE of these things.

Oh, and have the right accent and be conventionally attractive -- but not too much, you %$£^%.

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