Both: What if we reframed the issue as "AFAB rights", "AFAB spaces", etc?

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[–]questioningtw 19 insightful - 2 fun19 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Honestly...I am deeply worried that it is becoming the norm to completely deny reality. Look at all these people that think 5 G causes cancer or that Covid is a hoax. There is nothing transphobic about acknowledging biological reality.

[–]worried19 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It can't last. This is an untenable position for the long term. I think we just happen to be in the middle of a bizarre moment in history. The pendulum has to swing back eventually. Hopefully not too far, though. I don't want the legitimate progress trans people have made to be erased.

[–]questioningtw 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I sure hope so. I think though what scares me the most though is climate change and how fast it is accelerating. It is like, instead of being obsessed with gender identity can we focus on actual existential crisises'? Because the pendulum will swing to the right hard if people see leftists as not caring at all about the enviroment, economy, actual human rights and justice.

[–]littlerbear 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I mentioned this on FB a few days ago. Lefties are standing around arguing about pronouns as the world burns, hollering about men getting cervical cancer as we get ready to sacrifice 15K kids and teachers to covid to shore up the economy, canceling people for talking about biological reality while in the US 5 million people are on the verge of losing their health insurance. So, yeah, the left has really lost the plot.

[–]questioningtw 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was reading this book about Leni Reifensthal who was Hitler's filmmaker basically. Pre War Germany was actually extremely liberal, but the liberalism was starting to morph into hedonism and people started seeing the left as amoral and not caring about workers. This along, with the Wiemar Republics very weak laws that could have prevented extremism is what lead to Nazi Germany. Now that is an extreme simplification of a complicated event, but it is scary seeing this happen in real time. Oh and we have climate change on top of everything.

[–]tamingthemindradfem (GC) 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well said. Meghan Murphy recently did an interview with Elias Williams and they touched on this.