vlr people are going to keep adding things to player names until they're fully unrecognizable. every player will be bot-suffix someday

on it.

no way number 1 cned fan is based & sillypilled. srsly your taste is so fun tricot especially.

1. xiu xiu - girl with basket of fruit
2. godspeed you! black emperor - lift your skinny fists...
3. swans - soundtracks for the blind
4. ethel cain - preacher's daughter
5. xiu xiu - plays the music of twin peaks

i promise i don't have depression

love of my life ethel cain mentioned hello

FIRE also you spelled atrocity wrong

JIK then NFR is the funniest pairing to me for some reason. critically hated then adored

oh definitely the first one. it's really rare in medicine to just 'leave it alone' with anything, right? with pretty much anything, if there is reason to believe treatment will help, medical professionals will research and eventually offer it to patients. even if that isn't under the umbrella of "disorder", it still warrants treatment

I feel like you're taking intuition too far here. In my view, desiring medical transition isn't fundamentally different from any preference a person has, in their own appearance or like, what sports they like watching. There are some preliminary studies drawing correlation between brain structure or hormones and gender dysphoria, but whether that is true or not, there's nothing fundamentally insane or invalid about medical transition. You want something, so you get it. The real difference is that we place such importance on the purity of the body. And yeah, there's real reason for that - as you said, surgery always has many risks and self-harm can be very common in trans people - but it's also kinda fake. There's no real reason that it's right or wrong for someone to have a penis or not. Some people really hate it, and whatever the cause of that, except in rare cases of mental derangement where someone is not fit to make medical decisions, there's nothing wrong with allowing them to change their body. As I said before, transition in every way has been shown as the most helpful response to GD. And as others have said, the regret rate for bottom surgery is less than that of knee surgery. The world is weird, and we've constructed this system of gender that makes random things seem ordered, and if your experiences don't fit into that order, it is made to seem unnatural and grotesque. Science is trying its best

i mean i'd be fine seeing it as a mental illness - it's probably not incorrect - but there's definitely some issues with the associations that creates. the thing is, gender dysphoria is not the same as schizophrenia, bpd, depression, or anxiety. i see this comparison made with schizophrenia and eating disorders, which appear very similar to gender dysphoria: the mind perceives something to be true that isn't true, or wants something that isn't objectively good. the difference from those disorders is that the best treatment for gender dysphoria is to affirm those impulses, not to stop them. that's based on the same evidence i pointed to earlier.

before writing this, i had thought that gender dysphoria wasn't considered a mental illness, but looking at some medical journal entries, it might be? definitions of these terms vary slightly and they're changing all the time, so shrug.
regardless, i think the main thing to emphasize here is that GD has similarities and differences with other mental disorders.

1. it causes periods of pain, discomfort, and sadness - similar to anxiety, depression, bpd, and other "mental-state" disorders
2. it is insistent and not easily fixed - most disorders require treatment through therapy or medicine and a long period of professional attention to see good progress
3. many disorders can be interlinked - GD often causes increased depression and anxiety, as well as being correlated with autism spectrum disorder and specific examples of trauma or past experiences
4. mental disorders often don't have a defined, isolated cause - a depressed person can have MANY reasons they feel the way they do, based on their experiences, worldview, lifestyle, or health
   this comment is getting far too long but you get the idea: there's also differences in how mental disorders work and should be treated. please, if you are interested in the subject, look at the studies from medical journals on the topic. not just GD, but mental illnesses as a whole, it's all very interesting. thanks for giving me the chance to give my uninformed opinion <3

i still think the idea you're proposing here is transphobic, but transphobia has a very broad definition, and its definitely different from the blind hatred and disgust that most transphobes have. its transphobic since it disagrees with gender transition in a real setting, simple as that. but yeah its not as egregious and hateful as others.

and while i'm here i'll make the argument against what you're saying:
gender transition has been repeatedly shown to be the most effective medical treatment for gender dysphoria. being fully honest i can't be bothered googling to get these sources, but if you google studies on gender affirmation therapy, hormone therapy, and overall wellbeing of trans people, it's near consensus that these all have positive effects.
that's the argument for supporting medical transition including hormone blockers, hormone replacement, and surgeries.
there's also the argument for social transition: that regardless of overall outcomes, people should be given the freedom to express themselves exactly how they want to, including changing their appearance, name, and pronouns. this is presumed to maximize wellbeing, as well as being in line with our understanding of freedom as a human right. love <3

just saying words and hoping they work as insults

transgender! people hate things that are unusual

elmapuddy alt account

yeah u changed the argument. u just want to argue as much as possible

cant make bitches on vlr happy. you agree with them once and they find something else to argue with u about

i really wish he did :( its been kinda annoying how middling his recent stuff has been

on a post about conscious rap canyon somehow found a way to complain about carti and uzi yet again. anyway jumpoutdahousejumpoutdahousejumpoutdahousejumpoutda

on a post about conscious rap canyon somehow found a way to complain about carti and uzi yet again. anyway jumpoutdahousejumpoutdahousejumpoutdahousejumpoutda

idc about rap beef i think we should all stop caring about 1-upping each other HOWEVER it is so funny that cole's first response is just to go through kendrick's discography and basically give his personal rating. most of the time you seem people attack the person themself, but cole and kendrick aren't really on bad terms and kendrick doesn't have some awful past to bring up, so we end up just reviewing music instead of beefing. this is all especially funny when its Kendrick Lamar that you're targetting. i can't think of anyone with a more consistent, universally loved, and critically-acclaimed catalogue, and cole decides his best chance of winning the beef is to call TPAB overrated and sleepy. like huh??? there's like 100 people in the world that agree with him, and millions who dont

can we just be happy for once. all of us

welcome to music its awesome

ethel cain / preacher's daughter

WRONG they look fire

jumpoutthehousejumpoutthehousejumpoutthehousejumpoutthehousejumpoutthehouse

in conclusion: taylor swift is lebron james

lana del rey is top 5 most influential artists of this century

not to play defense for the biggest artist in the world but the deep cuts go crazy!!! she has at least 3 really solid albums in evermore folklore and red, and soooo many songs that are decent-good that aren't big hits

was this written with carti in mind

"just noise" is such a strange way to say this??? im down to say kanye is overrated (especially now), but the production & soundscapes have always been the best part of his music, even through the mess of the last 6 years. by this point, the main criticism is just how long every album is & how messy every creative decision he makes is

will be true in like 5 years. can't speak much on cole but kendrick isn't likely to be making his best projects for too long, especially since he's moving towards pglang and making music much slower than before. denzel has been getting better and better last few years, next albums should probably be his best

the genre itself must be, but to be a pop artist you just have to take some kind of "influence" from the trends of pop music which is very vague, and doesn't necessitate artist popularity

LETS GOOOOOOOO

RA won more rounds soooooo

REALEST. didn't know there was so much taste on vlr

1. Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
2. Liturgy - 93696
3. Olivia Rodrigo - Guts
4. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes
5. Boygenius - The Record

i just know there's so much less popular stuff that i missed this year. that jane remover & the underscores album look reallyyyy good

hazelnut praying its not too late

navi fans linking losses to prove how good their team is 😭

thank you shroud

your brain needs study

MCU avengers? you need to change yourself

GOOD POST KEEP IT UP

SHES SO HAPPY SHE GOT HER TWITTER CLIP

PIN THIS FOREVER

idk about that one

they were kicked for misogyny. https://twitter.com/nerwds/status/1712186197165167039?s=20 is the main tweet i think

there's an argument for the other 3 fnatic players, but alfa really hasn't been up there for long enough to warrant goat mentions. leo might have merit but i feel chronicle is just flatly more goated out of the fnatic players. less & aspas r good picks though for sure

yeah

seeding match all good

"on my level" 🤓

second game of gc and all you've posted is just calling all gc players shit in ranked terms. you're sexist and really bad at it

richter scale hopium