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Cake day: May 11th, 2024

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  • Her symptoms were similar to mine when I had anemia last year. I remember being like “maybe this is what getting old is like” and then I had a routine physical and whoops my vitamin d and iron were in the shitter.

    I think if you’re in your 40s and experiencing brain fog, memory problems, muscle loss, you should not just assume it’s normal aging. But there are a lot of things it could be. It’s useful to know it might be hormones, sure! Maybe people who don’t get anemia are living life on easy mode, but I don’t know how much I should generalize from my experience.


  • The comments on that article from trans women who experienced similar positive changes from taking estrogen make me think it’s a very complicated issue and people might have different solutions to similar problems. But it might still be useful to give it a shot. Just, no guarentees. Someone said that T and E aren’t exactly opposites, like men and women aren’t really opposites.






  • I get reminded of this quote from their studio exec:

    “You can say, ‘Okay, we are exploiting, you know, child labor,’ right? Or you can say: we are offering people anywhere in the world the capability to get a job, and even like an income,” Corazza said. “So I can be like, 15 years old, in Indonesia, living in a slum, and then now with just a laptop, I can create something, make money, and then sustain my life.”

    When I read that quote a few weeks ago, I thought about how that’s the kind of argument people who travel abroad to rape kids use to justify themselves.

    It feels related to this, somehow. Maybe something about how children are treated like a disposable resource or an object to be used unless the person who owns them (parents?) are powerful, well to do, white, etc, etc. And that’s because their owner is those things, so they’re valuable property. I’m not sure if I’m articulating myself well. Too much sun.






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