Earl (06-30-2020)
Earl (06-30-2020)
domer76 (06-29-2020)
This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.
This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.
Last edited by Hawkeye10; 06-29-2020 at 08:26 PM.
This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.
Earl (06-30-2020)
Well, presently young women athletes—at their expense, are having to entertain their delusions and how far do we go with accommodating their imaginative pronouns? Some of these people insist on being called a certain thing and get triggered if you use the wrong word.
Maybe some degree of arbitrary norms are necessary. Or we can go the full Mad Hatters Tea Party route.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
I already piped in on my opinion on the athletics issue. That deals with sexual dimorphism, not gender. Plenty of trans folk dislike this campaign also, and the sports associations that have caved on this have their heads up their asses. But I suspect if and when it hits their pocketbook, they'll reconsider. It will kill women's sports if you have to be born with a penis to win them. Maybe it's all a conspiracy run by enemies of Title 9, and the destruction of women's sport is the goal.
The few I know only get annoyed when people deliberately and repeatedly 'misgender' them. They don't GAF about honest mistakes or forgetfulness or whatever. I don't think it costs anything to make an attempt. You'd perhaps be annoyed if someone deliberately got your name wrong all the time? If so, wouldn't you be 'insisting people call you a certain thing'? But most of us make some effort to remember the names of the people we interact with. People change their names for other reasons (marriage, etc) and we make the effort to learn their new name. I just don't see why calling people what they want to be called is so onerous an accommodation.
I don't know that arbitrary norms are the opposite of full mad hatter, and when I see the general quality of discourse online, it feels like the tea party started long ago. Of course one can go with a slippery slope argument, and I certainly understand the inclination. I saw a boy who self identified as a cat manipulating his parents with screaming threats of suicide because they didn't want to buy him a magazine, while wearing ears and a tail (a look that only works on Japanese schoolgirls) in public, and it just about broke my liberal sensibilities right there. At the very least, that boy is setting himself up for a hard life. If it were my kid, I'd have taken away his phone/internet for a year, but I watched these poor parents trying to be good liberals and having no tools for dealing with the little shit. And trans folk, when they choose to live out their identities in public, are setting themselves up for some difficulties as well.
I think a lot of this anti-trans rhetoric comes across as a lack of compassion. They become the enemy that must be defeated and dehumanized rather than a group that have some tough mental challenges. Their suicide rates are quite high compared to the average, they pay a pretty high social price for trying to live out their identities and so on. It's easy to abstract them if you've never met one or really listened to their stories. Personally, I think living with gender dysphoria would suck pretty bad.
My trans friend... I knew her as a he for 12 years before she told me. It was a tough switch for me to make. And I didn't understand why she never told me, since she was one of my closest friends. But it isn't an abstraction for me. The vibe I get that a substantial slice of America wouldn't mind if the trans folk did all commit suicide rather than (gasp) be extended the simple courtesy of calling them what they want, comes across seriously messed up to me.
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Tranquillus in Exile (07-01-2020)
I thought they had a staggeringly high suicide rate.
And I've seen them flip back and forth between male and female personas, ... depending on which gender is most advantageous in the moment. Which is what it's really all about, ... co opting gender for power and privilege.
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"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
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