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Douyin makeup getting rebranded as K-beauty…

Oh yeah, I’m of the opinion that the whole system of therapy is fucked and that good therapists are fairly hard to find in a system which seeks to uphold the hegemony of a conception of “wellness” under the doom-spiral of capitalism. My last therapist was an older white person who had absolutely no advice for me dealing with a horrific anxiety disorder, severe OCD, ADHD, autism, and constant retraumatization from covid, capitalism, and the difficult family situation I was living in. She actually victim-blamed me once in the aftermath of a moment of physical violence and then when I confronted her about it later, she denied it and tried to gaslight me. She also kept harping on about me wearing a mask and taking covid precautions. I also had no idea of how to even breach the subject of being a Chinese trans person with her. It was such a bad experience that it put me off trying to find a therapist again for months, and now I’m trying again but with OCD-specific therapy this time.

Wuhan family let’s go, my mom was there just a few weeks ago.

Haven’t been to Yunnan myself, but my parents have. They seemed to like it. According to them, the climate was quite temperate compared to the rest of China (which can get boilingly hot in the summer) thanks to the mountains.

Because “America” is a settler colonial entity violently occupying many Indigenous nations and the Black nation in diaspora.

The wall is too kind for these murderers.

I’ve watched a few of those videos, they just made me nostalgic. Hopefully someday I can go back for a visit, it’s been a while.

You said it “probably” doesn’t taste anything like paneer.

You’ve self-admittedly never tried it, and now you’re shitting on people who just want to enjoy their cultural cuisine in a vegan way. You’re really dipping into reactionary anti-vegan territory here.

I’ve seen Indian vegan cooks use tofu as a paneer replacement. Sure, it may not taste exactly, precisely, you-can’t-tell-the-difference same, but I think it is kind of stretching it to call it “massacring” the dish. Indian vegans who grew up with palak paneer will try to veganize it so they can enjoy it without the cruelty. It’s not that deep.

Also, if vegan influencers put out garbage food then non-vegan ones do too, lol. How many different food influencer videos are there about steak when it’s just a slab of flesh that’s seasoned with salt and pepper, at the end of the day.

I eat plain tofu raw I love it so much. Tofu tofu tofu tofu tofu

maybe they can try not supporting the IOF next time

4b is radical feminism and based on bioessentialism. The movement is explicitly trans-exclusionary and transmisogynistic. The Cut article literally says as such.