I need some help

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[–]BEB 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I have friends and family who will literally do the opposite of what they think people want them to do, so your theory about going all in on the support making her pull out sooner might be right.

I must be really lucky (or just old) but there is no one I don't feel comfortable being openly GC around. I think it's the old part: as another poster on here said, 2nd Wave feminism inoculated a lot of us oldies against Queer Theory.

But I bring up the gender ideology issue constantly in interactions with strangers, now because of COVID, over the phone, and only politicians' offices seem to be supportive.

Most normal people in the US, in my experience, have just begun to notice that something is off, and, far from buying gender ideology, seem to think it's one of those crazy fads that will fade.

[–]FearfulFriend[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

When do you bring up gender ideology with strangers over the phone? Is it part of your job?

I must be caught in the middle age-wise, old enough to wonder how something that just got invented five minutes ago has suddenly become mandatory, but young enough that most of the people I know are going along with it. I mean I WANT everyone to be safe from violence and be treated fairly in housing/jobs/education/healthcare and not be discriminated against based on how they look, which was what I thought this was right up until Trump's inauguration brought the insanity out of the woodwork. Well! Time to go downtown wearing a pussy hat and waving around a copy of Harry Potter and seeing who gets more triggered, the conservatives or the liberals. :/

[–]BEB 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No, it's not part of my job ;-) I'm just a naturally chatty person and somehow find a way to work the horrors of gender ideology into conversations.

Based on what you've said, I think you are at the age where some of your contemporaries have been swept in by gender ideology and some haven't.

I think we all want transgenders to have every human and civil right and to have an equal shot at happiness as everyone else. They just can't take ours.

I guess you didn't hear that pussy hats were banned from some Women's Marches not because of conservatives but because transgender activists said that a pink hat with cat ears were, wait for it... TRANSPHOBIC. So both your Harry Potter book and your pussy hat would trigger them, but do it anyway!

[–]FearfulFriend[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

yes, the women's march/pussy hat/transphobia thing was what peaked me. "Wait, there are people with penises telling people with vaginas what to do. Where...have I heard that before...? OMG MIND BLOWN"

[–]BEB 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I heard a female professor (Georgetown?) being interviewed about the first Women's March and in her opinion it was an expression of pure pent-up rage on the part of women. Like Trump's remark was the last straw for millions of women who'd spent a lifetime putting up with being harassed and condescended to by men and so the Women's March was kind of a primal, communal scream.

And then the trans activists had to take it over and now it's lost just about all the steam...