Why do you think your friends and aquaintences got swept up in the gender craze and you didn't?

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[–]blahblahgcer 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

So I did fall into the trans mess when all my friends did (I was nonbinary for a year). None of my other friends have detransitioned. Everyone is a full blown TRA.

I think for me it's because I had a lot of chance to hear differing views. I was raised by the internet and my very conservative church. So I was very used to hearing differing views. There was a point I was both an active tumblr user and an active /r/tumblrinaction user lol. My private high school also had a lot of logic and philosophy courses.

I still fell into the bandwagon, but even then, I was way more critical than others. I tried to dismiss my opinions bc they were considered transphobic, but eventually I couldn't anymore.

I think there's a problem with society where we can no longer have debates or discussions about anything at all. Anything is immediately touted as somethingphobic. And I think I managed to escape that with my upbringing. For example, Gay rights? I heard why it's bad from my family/church and heard why it's good from the internet and others, and decided for myself that I support gay rights. This is true for a lot of subjects. I try to understand the other side and why they believe in what they do. Unfortunately, trying to do that makes you a phobe or whatever.

Nowadays people are told "if you're not this, then youre a bad person, and if anyone is this, you should hate them and never listen to them". It's exhausting.

[–]lefterfield 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

So much this. I find it disturbing that many of the people I talk to on social media will say things like 'Trump/Conservatives wants them dead'. I am definitely not a conservative or fan of Trump, but having bad ideas and implementing bad policies is not the same as wanting people to die. But if that's the mentality you take when listening to opposing arguments(if you even listen) then you have NO IDEA why the policies are bad or why you oppose them. Nor do you really know why you support your own.

I think this is what it ultimately comes down to. If someone is willing to listen and debate rationally, they won't fall for the gender cult.

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

'Trump/Conservatives wants them dead'. I am definitely not a conservative or fan of Trump, but having bad ideas and implementing bad policies is not the same as wanting people to die. But if that's the mentality you take when listening to opposing arguments(if you even listen)

This is an aside, but i wish those dumb assholes cared 1% about the hundreds of poor iraqis we killed as they do about pronouns in the bathroom, and whether men have pregnancies.

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

For sure :( Because that's usually what it is for them - Trump/Conservatives don't "respect the pronouns" and thus want them to die. None of them are in any danger, none of them will ever be in war or live in a country where homosexuals risk being beheaded... yet they're so privileged and self-absorbed they could give a shit about people who ACTUALLY need help.

[–]fuckupaddams[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There was a point I was both an active tumblr user and an active /r/tumblrinaction user lol.

I feel that hard. I got sick of that subreddit though bc of all the blatant fucking sexism eventually. But I get the general concept of being on both ends simultaneously lol

[–]blahblahgcer 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I still browse it occasionally but it can be too annoying sometimes lol

[–]redditbegay 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This, we have a generation of mentally regressed coomers who have no ability to think for themselves, they latch on to the first group think they find, whether it is TRAs or neonazi activists. We can see this all over the internet, or just over a few minutes on Youtube. I think its proof that our education systems have regressed into full fledged cavemanism. And we need a NEW system for our future generations to thrive.