Just an effeminate man. I don’t know if sexuality has much to do with it, but I’d say the majority of femboys are gay/bi with a minority being strictly heterosexual. To be real blunt, imagine the exact inverse of a tomboy, and you’re probably pretty close to a femboy. I like some p girly things, I like to wear skirts and dresses, but I also have a masculine side to me.

correct.

It seems like you’re really close to figuring out why a massive portion of the United States is willing to vote for anything as long as it’s not the status quo.

It’s really scary over here and only going to get worse. I didn’t hear a single word for our trans brothers and sisters at the May Day protest I briefly attended. I managed to stomach about thirty minutes of the hour and a half affair, and while the topics of conversation went extensively through everything else Trump had done, like his attacks on migrants, federal workers, and the economy, his attacks on trans rights weren’t brought up once.

Guess I now know why. Do not expect the white moderate to do anything to save you, they will abandon the trans community in a heartbeat if they feel like it will let them return to normalcy.

I mean, GI already died and came back once, so maybe

I don’t think it’s widespread or mainstream, but speaking as a femboy, we are fetishized a lot in general. Even normal people often just assume I’m hyperhorny, like the only reason I’m femmodeing is because I want cock. The creepy part about the right-wingers is they see us as “failed males” and specifically get off on the idea of asserting their dominance over us. There’s also a lot of dehumanizing and degradation that I see those types engaging in, beyond the typical “slut” that normal people do. They want to sexually abuse and violate femboys to feel better about their own fragile masculinity.

I’m very glad I live in a solid blue state and can go out safely, I think if I lived in a right-wing state I wouldn’t feel safe going femmode outside.

It’s actually very difficult for them to look up what tariffs are, because they read below a 4th grade level and are functionally illiterate. Most explanations regarding tariffs that I have read seem to assume a European high school level of reading proficiency.

Trump’s opinions are always based on who he last talked to.

Yeah, and I feel like we don’t abuse this fact enough for good. Sure, if he talks to Putin today he’ll flipflop, but right now it seems like Putin is foolishly scorning Trump. If members of the EU can just constantly talk with him, maybe they can try and stay the most recent person he’s talked with.

Really blows my mind that there hasn’t been any push from the left to just manipulate this idiot. Literally the most easily manipulatable president in U.S. history, but for some reason we’ve allowed right-wing grifters a monopoly on his dementia-addled rotten brain.

Modern America is what happens when you completely suppress all leftist voices for generations. You can’t be too surprised that nobody alive knows how to fight back, our government either imprisoned or killed everyone who could. In a real country, you’d have labor unions coordinating to ensure not only that protests received turnout, but also that the workers could protest without fear of losing everything in their lives. That is frankly never going to happen here.

If you are an immigrant, that means you successfully managed to leave from one country to another once. I would highly recommend trying to do so again. When peaceful protest fails, it makes violent protest inevitable, and when that occurs the U.S will be even less safe than it is now.

Considering a lot of us were projecting that the U.S. would begin arming Russia and the war would end quite dramatically in Russia’s favor? Yeah no change is a massive silver lining.

Not entirely sure what the term would be, but feminine men exist who are still men and are not trans. There are also trans women.

as one, I’m cool with the term femboy. I think there’s still a few people who’d have an issue with the term, but we kinda have our own subculture established and everything at this point, so feels like a strong contender for the label.

As I was sitting at my desk with some tea and a stroopwaffel, one of my coworkers commented that I “really knew how to live.”

I honestly feel like Smith gets a real bad rap from undereducated progressives. He would also have hated what the United States has morphed into, and I’m sure he’s spinning in his grave over people using his economic theories as justifications for pure laissez-faire capitalism. “The Invisible Hand of the Market” that conservatives use to justify trickle-down economics and often attribute to him isn’t even really his, it’s from a batshit insane later guy called Paul Samuelson! Smith only referred to it in the context of international investments, never this idea that “domestic corporations will always do what is good for the public.”

I don’t agree with everything in Wealth of Nations, but it seems a lot of people just dismiss Smith completely out of hand. We should talk about him just like we talk about Marx, his work is not useless nor trivial.

One of the wild hypocrisies of living in Capitalism is simultaneously hoping that an entire economic industry collapses, because it clearly deserves to do so and is not at all sustainable in it’s current nonsensical state, while also not wanting any of the innocent workers like Heather to get impacted in the process.

It sucks that it’s going to take even more suffering and people losing their jobs, but AAA Western gaming has gone full enshittify and needs to be weeded out by the roots. We basically need another crash on the level of the 90s before the C-suites at these shitty companies finally realize they have no goddamn idea what they’re doing and they need to listen to their developer teams again.

It already happened in the past and had dramatic consequences for trade in the U.S., that being “The Great Depression.”

We already know what happens. It didn’t stop someone from deciding to do it again.

My company has zero wait times and is a non-profit that gives money to children.

It’s the callers. There are a lot of people who are genuinely terrible and seem to feel like it’s okay to treat anyone they think is beneath them as terrible, to say nothing of the insane sexism/racism that people like to spew.

Here comes the boom!

Are you really that surprised? I regularly see people even on Lemmy talking about how much they wish they could disconnect from everything going on and live a quiet peaceful life in the country. That’s essentially what all these people have chosen; they have decided the world is too scary for them and they don’t want to process it anymore. Things will continue to get worse for them, and they won’t have any idea why.

couldn’t be me, desperately craving validation

Look if the mattress store is out of business, why do I always see lights on inside after 8:30 PM?

He backed down before Trump even yelled at him, this was never going to actually happen.