Here Ben tells Ari to go fuck himself. Maybe he will once he's done with the Instagram filters.
I've made no secret of the fact that I find Drennan extremely creepy, but Ben Ryan has been kinda creepy/chaserish towards Drennan in the past, tbh.

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Werq, Ari. Rock all the lewks.
This is the monstrosity Ryan is encouraging here:

And this one I found quite interesting. Note that Ari's threat to release DMs gets him to back down right away:
@AriDrennan Replying to @benryanwriter: this is not what I said, Ben, and if you mischaracterize my private remarks further I will post our DM's
@benryanwriter replying to @AriDrennan: Okay, I deleted that tweet about what you said to me over the weekend.
Is this person denying that there's a connection between Gender dysphoria and autism? Literally the largest study to date has claimed this
This is really pretty pathetic for a "science writer" too - what she is describing as "unthinkable" is really the process of differential diagnosis - or at least, the principle behind it - which a science journalist should know is best practice.
Speaking of Vanessa, she's also a former anorexic. Quite the mental health history, this one. (Move over, Ben Branstetter!)

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Former anorexic, so I know exactly what I'm saying when I tell you: Nah
She is rude too.
The AP does not have a right to broadcast troop movements to enemy combatants.
"ceasing" lol. Think you meant "seizing" there, Tony. You just won an award for "journalism," remember? Try to keep up.
Speaking of the Brains Trust, I looked into that "Mira Lazine" troon recently - the Brains Trust's newest member, if I'm not mistaken. What I found was quite interesting. Basically, he confesses to "transition" being a sort of self-castration, a means of relieving sexual compulsions and the disruption caused by being oversexed/an incorrigible pervert. Want to record this for when Tony’s newest “legislative analyst” starts to claim authority/respectability.
archive of article in question;
direct link.
Before I started transitioning, I was horny. A lot. Just about every day, one minor thing would remind me of my kinks and I’d be done right there. I’d need to masturbate to get relief – otherwise, it’d be there constantly annoying me throughout the day. Whenever I got done with work, I had to masturbate. Whenever I finished chores, I had to masturbate. It was just a constant cycle of dysphoric arousal.
It was also a very one-note experience. Masturbation and sex were solely about seeking sexual release – a one-and-done orgasm when I was cumming, and that was it. There wasn’t much else to it – it wasn’t an experience, it wasn’t overwhelming, it was just a bit of orgasmic pleasure that I was working towards, and that was it. Coupling that with the immense dysphoria and discomfort I felt with the acts, it felt more like a bother at times than something I could actually enjoy.
A lot of other trans women report this exact thing as well. Many detail being forced to the whims of testosterone, not able to have much control over when they get turned on or how. Whenever it happened, it was completely out of their control.
"Dysphoria" = negative feelings towards own overactive/deviant sexuality. ("Whims of testosterone," lol, how eloquent, and you poor baby.)
Let’s pause and take a moment to understand just how sex feels for a lot of pre-transition trans people. The feeling of using body parts you’re dysphoric about to arrive at orgasm, the feeling of having that take over your whole body, the experience of going through a sexual release that feels like it was never meant for you… it can be a lot, both physically and emotionally. It can also be a major turn-off.
So when you first begin to experience the effects of transitioning for the first time, it can be liberatory. You begin to feel what it’s like to belong in your body for the first time, to not feel like a stranger in your own life. Sex becomes enjoyable again as it’s more in line with who you truly are – you’re beginning to experience it from a new perspective where you can enjoy yourself.
Note that in the first paragraph here, what "dysphoria" really means is a feeling of disgust/shame at an overactive male sexuality. In the second, transition is "liberating" because, having been chemically castrated (in effect), sex is less of a disruption to other areas of life, and the pervert troon feels more like a "normal person."
From this, your sex drive may begin to go up again, to the point of enjoying sex and masturbation again. It doesn’t happen overnight, but gradually you become more and more interested in getting it on again.
Sex is no longer all-consuming, he feels healthier. But this isn't because of any innate womanhood, it is simply because the male hormones that fed that behaviour have been disrupted.
While these are only a few examples from the small amount of medical literature on transgender sex and pleasure, this data illustrates the main point at hand: transitioning seems to help trans women’s sex drives, at least those on estrogen. It, of course, doesn’t take a scientist to figure this out. Any number of trans people could relay their own experiences on the matter, but it does help to illustrate the point that transitioning helps with sex.
"help" - reduce libido and compulsive/controlling sexual urges by reducing testosterone and compromising sexual function with titty skittles. Note that last sentence: this is not uncommon - straight from the horses' mouth.
I actually found this quite interesting, because from the outside looking in, I would have thought "transitioning" was more about enabling sexual deviance (and I don't doubt that it is for some), not about a (slightly) more socially-acceptable way of treating deviant sexuality, instead. Thanks, Mira!