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[–]zerosis[S] 50 insightful - 1 fun50 insightful - 0 fun51 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

God I hope it will be over sooner rather than later. They're going after women and LGB people because they're easy targets, but they're honestly going to hit a brick wall if they try to force this extremism on the world at large outside of twitter/LGBT groups. People like myself, who was until recently on board the TRA train, are waking up to how homophobic and dogmatic the TRA movement really is. The wide-scale and disturbing erasure of lesbian and gay identity is in full swing and it's so painful to watch.

Even if it is a futile fight, I won't give up the values I've learned from this. I'll always remember what the gay community used to be, how strong and proud we could be together before we were sabotaged by this movement. And I won't buy into an ideology just because some authoritarians masquerading as progressives are screaming that it's right.

[–]windrunner 45 insightful - 1 fun45 insightful - 0 fun46 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

What bothers me is the amount of gay people and lesbians who are still eating this T shit in the community. Sure, many might be afraid to disagree with anything for fear of backlash but the ones who actively work to accomodate this bullshit thinking they're being the "good guys" and "fighting for human rights etc" is honestly alarming. It's alarming how they don't see what's happening.

[–]SpatOuttheKoolaid 30 insightful - 1 fun30 insightful - 0 fun31 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Some of the ones that are still advocating for the T have been in long term serious relationships and have missed the radicalization over the last few years. They haven't been in the dating scene and haven't heard the constant "lesbians must accept girl dick" etc. I know people who are trans slactivists (aka not much beyond social media posting about those "damn terfs/JKR") that would absolutely be considered "terfs" if they knew what they were talking about, basically. Hell I was the same way until I attempted to get more involved in the community and found all the drama

[–]Ricky_Ticky 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I was about to write exactly the same :) I considered myself trans ally by default and had no idea what's going on until recently

[–]jjdub7TERF (Trans Exterminating Reactionary Fascist) 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If I ever hear the term "genital preferences" out in the real world, I'm going to punch whoever dared say it.

Anyone know if the gay panic defense still works for gays?

[–]joogabahGay shows the way 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Those who value truth have to be willing to lose friends and family. I'm not religious, but I think that is the meaning of Luke 14:26 (taking this as an allegory since Christ in the Greek is Logos - or logic/reason). That is very hard for anyone to do.

[–]Ossidiana 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They're going after women and LGB people because they're easy targets

Exactly. They're going against easy targets. Here I thought mysoginy was ending, but nope, it's just as present as it was centuries ago.