Ever since I was a young kid, I thought that being perfectly androgynous would be hella cool.
Being free from gender roles was one thing I always wanted, and I just wanted be seen as *majestic* and *intimidating* as an adult.
Noble and admirable. Gender roles are easy. Hence the jokes and often serious commentaries about the confusion surrounding trans and other non binary gender ideas. People like things they understand- which of course makes most people like things that are like themselves. Gender roles are simple- “I am a <blank> and my jobs are this, I act like this, and I dress like this. If I do these things I will be accepted and have a good chance at success...” etc. If we give up trying to make sense of everything and just go with it- things become much more interesting. People become freer to be themselves and live the lives they would want- but that’s why we have advertising and nuclear families and traditions and so forth. A majority of people don’t actually know what they want unless you tell them what they are supposed to want.
It’s seen often with the very successful- those who have spent most of their lives studying and working at lofty ambitions and have had little time for true self discovery or awareness tend to be staunch consumerists and into fads and trends. They accumulate wealth and possessions, do what they are “supposed to do,” have kids they hardly see or interact with compared to care givers and boarding schools because they probably didn’t really want kids- they wanted a legacy or they just knew they were supposed to do it. “I’m X years old... I guess I’ll marry this person because I’m supposed to get married..” sentiments like this are a sign of a person who doesn’t know how to make themselves happy- what they want- and is just doing what is supposed to make you happy.
Lower classes emulate the wealthy for these reasons- so and so celebrity wears this or eats this so I will too because they have the life you’re supposed to want and so should emulate. This song talks about this car or this drink and behold- soon it will be everywhere- because what better way to live life than to do what someone else says you should? And it applies to gender too. Act this way, dress this way, be the person you are “supposed to be” the person you were “born to be naturally..” and it’s bullshit because people aren’t born- potential is born- people grow and develop with time and experience. They either become who they wanted to be- or they become who they were told they could be. I hope you got to be the person you wanted to be.
Honestly, as I get older and the weirder the looks become when I try to describe what I do with my time, the more I enjoy most of the reactions. Most just seem lost and it's funny/fun/both explaining it, but once the audience becomes old enough, it usually becomes something like "that's nonsense" or "staring at a screen is a waste of time". That last one bugs me more than the first, as most every day I spend 20 minutes, 2-3 times a day, just to adjust when I want to shift a currency. Usually these times are a few hours after a market opens as you go between the US, Europe, and East Asia. Then... there was last week, where I didn't keep up and did real damage to myself. I caught up with it about 4 days, but by then most the damage was done.... parked my shit, gonna chill for awhile. As much as I hate my phone, neglect it, and let it die, at least the damn thing still sends me notifications so it's like a double-reminder when it's on. As I finally switched phones last week, I kinda lost
the "get off your ass" part.
Should have never had to have it, should have just paid attention, but it's lack did nothing but damage... besides perhaps a teaching moment.
Also, for some reason, people keep thinking I'm looking at the stock market because I have stocks.... That's not why at all. I'm just looking for minor discrepancies that can be exploited. I might increase my portfolio by 0.2% on a really, really, really good day... it's usually a tenth. I adjust the buy/sell numbers by what amounts to pennies/nickels on the dollar a day, playing little things that look like irrational behavior. While it's easier to move the money around, as unless you trap it in someplace that just went through a regime, there is no real penalty for moving it, you also will never see the potential gains of the stock market. Had what I did at the end of last week and the beginning, I would have lost just under 2% instead of the 4ish% I lost. Given the shitty profit, that'll take awhile to recoup.
I also prefer that daily slow growth, so this unpredictability is pissing me off. I know though, a country is going to lead the charge and this will rebound, and if I guess right, I can easily make that money back... the question is guessing which country and when.
Side note: the money might move 1,000x a day, I get notifications for when the top points are hit, or the low points are hit, and can then decide... I don't get a notification for every goddamn transaction, that'd be exhausting. It's already difficult enough bouncing around between a few currencies with that amount of transactions, if I flooded it with every country it would be like 200k transactions and 100+ notifications a day.
Side note 2: I guess a country going bankrupt, while not trapping it, would amount to the same as a regime. Even then, most can't bottom out like that through bankruptcy (the currency), as most are used by a few countries so one can't totally tank.
It's crazy how this went from a gender joke into finances, but whatever, when @guest_ does what @guest_ does, combined with a sprinkle of my funk, sometimes these are the results.
Lol. The two are intrinsically linked. But to your reply- haters gonna hate. You’ve got a system and if it works it works. People are out there staring at screens all day to ring up burgers, staring at screens to manage things and people that don’t need that layer of management.... a good deal of jobs are just about looking busy and running out the clock. Get your money man. In a gold rush they may call the guy not mining gold a fool- but who’s the fool when the hills are packed with panhandlers and you’re running the one saloon in town or exploiting another market while everyone else is distracted by the gold? Get it man. Do you.
I genuinely can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, but I hope it is because it's a very exhausting joke. Even "Why did the chicken cross the road?" had more interesting and funny variations.
Oh yeah I was 100% sarcastic. I can even prove that, go to /fun/561899/ for another example of this same overused joke. And a comment by me pointing it out.
Being free from gender roles was one thing I always wanted, and I just wanted be seen as *majestic* and *intimidating* as an adult.
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHA good one lel
Should have never had to have it, should have just paid attention, but it's lack did nothing but damage... besides perhaps a teaching moment.
Also, for some reason, people keep thinking I'm looking at the stock market because I have stocks.... That's not why at all. I'm just looking for minor discrepancies that can be exploited. I might increase my portfolio by 0.2% on a really, really, really good day... it's usually a tenth. I adjust the buy/sell numbers by what amounts to pennies/nickels on the dollar a day, playing little things that look like irrational behavior. While it's easier to move the money around, as unless you trap it in someplace that just went through a regime, there is no real penalty for moving it, you also will never see the potential gains of the stock market. Had what I did at the end of last week and the beginning, I would have lost just under 2% instead of the 4ish% I lost. Given the shitty profit, that'll take awhile to recoup.
Side note: the money might move 1,000x a day, I get notifications for when the top points are hit, or the low points are hit, and can then decide... I don't get a notification for every goddamn transaction, that'd be exhausting. It's already difficult enough bouncing around between a few currencies with that amount of transactions, if I flooded it with every country it would be like 200k transactions and 100+ notifications a day.
Side note 2: I guess a country going bankrupt, while not trapping it, would amount to the same as a regime. Even then, most can't bottom out like that through bankruptcy (the currency), as most are used by a few countries so one can't totally tank.