artist is PapadamnNoire

  • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 hours ago

    My life experience as a 5’5" trans gal:

    As a repper: “why does my family have to be so short? This is awful. No one will take me seriously.”

    Post-transition: “I won the god damned lottery.”

  • fireweed@lemmy.world
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    It drives me crazy how hung up people get over the 6’ label; it’s mostly dating app bs. The guy in the comic is taller than both of the women, which is generally all that’s required to be successful in the dating pool. Sure some women are insistent about the 6’ limit, but so what? Given how many people refuse to date outside their race/religion, you’re already not going to attract everyone, so if you’re under 6’ add the height-obsessed to that list and move on.

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      That’s why in Uno reversing that shit. Im a short guy and im not matching with any lady under 5’10"

    • Kilgore Trout@feddit.it
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      The morale is to not use dating apps. They are all owned by the same company, whose goal is to be profitable by making you addicted.

      edit: the rationale behind my comment is that I have read often these insane requirements on e.g. Tinder, but have not yet met a woman in real life who talks like that.

      • DeLancre@piefed.social
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        Nah, I was joking. I tried 3 apps this month:

        1. Fet — shows you ads on every move. Even to check your gallery you need to watch full screen ad. Patched this out by luckypatcher - still shows ads now and then. Swaps are limited in free account. No commenting either. No one answered to my messages, nor messaged me. Uses imperial system instead of metric, you can switch it if you verify your account apparently, but I couldn’t: my country not supported.
        2. Bumpy — couldn’t bare onboarding video that bugged out and started showing each time I launch app. Like, straight up unskippable video about “how great this app is” for about 3 minutes. Also, profile strictly moderated, couldn’t even put my discord/telegram, got blocked. Also-also, uses imperial system instead of metric (I live in Europe) and you can’t switch it at all.
        3. Velvet — paid account required for most things, “Delete account” button throws 404 error (you can’t delete account), “Support&help” doesn’t react (probably dummy button and not mapped anywhere), there no profiles unless you max out range (capped for free account at 50km I believe) and then it will show one profile - app just a fraud.

        So yeah, nah, I’m done for now. It’s not even dating itself that sucks, but even experience of getting there.

  • xkbx@startrek.website
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    I used to think I was a hot commodity in the gay community until I realized it was only the ugly old guys hitting on me. Never the hot young ones. Let me tell you, my illusions were shattered. But then I got older and the young hot ones started giving me fuck-me eyes and now my illusions are back again

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlM
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      I’m 53 and what the kids call omni. Once I hit my forties i was suddenly getting hit on by young CIS men, young CIS women, young trans men and young non-binary folk. Not young trans women though. Only trans women close to my age showed interest, and only if I pursued first.

    • protist@retrofed.com
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      7 hours ago

      As a 40 something bi man who’s single again for the first time in 18 years, I’ve been shocked by the number of twinks who have assertively pursued me. Never in a million years would I have anticipated this

    • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 hours ago

      Yeah, when I started getting visibly grey hair the baby gays started to gravitate towards me. I’m still a little mystified by it TBH, I guess I have the Dommy Mommy thing down pat, lol

      • Xenny@lemmy.world
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        The overly empathetic compassionate people pleaser to mommy domme pipeline is real

    • Broadfern@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Sounds like the whole time you were/are the cup of tea of many people, even if they weren’t yours :)

    • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip
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      Sometimes a fine wine needs a little more time on the shelf. Time to pop that cork baby