LifestyleHad a phone date with a new guy ruined over trans rights when neither of us are even trans

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[–]joogabahGay shows the way 25 insightful - 10 fun25 insightful - 9 fun26 insightful - 10 fun -  (12 children)

Oh, and the Right never suffers from totalitarian/authoritarian impulses. Just freedom and democracy - a clean record.

[–][deleted] 20 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

Lol. The left is basically using the right playbook right now, don’t feel good, does it righties? Extremists are extreme, water is wet. I don’t think these people remember how much “god hates fags.” Where do they think extreme activism comes from? I laugh when I see blame being placed in false dichotomy haha

Right wingers said gay men deserved to die from damn aids and did fuck all to stop it. How can you blame gays for liberal views after all that? It was a very logical outcome.

[–]joogabahGay shows the way 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Here here. For what it's worth, despite how they self identify, I don't see trans as part of the Left. I see them as a Trojan horse of gender stereotypes from yesteryear, and a reaction against women's and gay liberation. (Actually, many of them openly identify as conservative).

[–][deleted] 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Trans people are by and large quite regressive. And a lot come from very religious or homophobic families. Many served in the military. So blaming progressives is not really useful if we want to figure out how to live in this world. Transgender is actually the opposite result lesbians and gays wanted. We wanted to be okay not fitting gender roles that go with our sex, not to BECOME gender roles. Lol.

I think lots of trans people are straight people who don’t fit in trying to find somewhere to go, which is sad

[–]joogabahGay shows the way 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Remember "The Gendercator"?

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

Lol, no, what’s that?

[–]joogabahGay shows the way 9 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

"Synopsis: The Gendercator is a satirical take on surgical body modification and gender. The story uses the “Rip Van Winkle” mode l to extrapolate from the feminist 70s to a frightening 2048 where politics and technology have conspired to mandate two gender “choices”: Macho male or Barbie babe. In this dystopian future, those whose gender presentation does not comply will be GENDERCATED.

Distinctions: The Gendercator is the only film ever accepted, programmed and then cancelled from San Francisco’s Frameline Film Festival in 31 yearsdue to an email campaign consisting of 130 identical emails."

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

Lol, wow. Gender identity lovers sure don’t know how to take a joke. Lololol Imagine if our gay asses couldn’t handle some shitty jokes? These people need to buck up because they are not going to survive this world if they are that easy to trigger.

They also hate drag because they don’t get that either. I’m not a huge fan of drag, myself, but I get that it’s supposed to be funny and entertaining and if we can’t laugh at stereotypes we are screwed

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

No, the left goes a lot farther than using the right's playbook.

Refusing to engage in a debate and preventing the other side from expressing their opinion is far beyond what this society ever experienced in term of assault on free speech.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have some thoughts that are just my thoughts on shutting down debate, I’m not a trained person.

The reason there is no debate is because what they want is so completely illogical that they can’t actually debate it in any real way, in terms of gender identity anyway. I think a lot of the prevention of speech is due to social media, which ironically allows each person a voice that they use for groupthink. Also I think a lot of the gender identity people quite literally have nervous systems that are in fight or flight a lot, and it’s hard to think and speak from that emotional space. I wouldn’t be able to debate if I always felt personally attacked either. “Triggered.” We laugh about being “triggered” but it’s a really miserable thing to go through and these people should have been helped with calming that nervous system response before they were given the okay to trans anything. Also, many people yelling at other people in these arguments are quite young and inexperienced in living in the world.

In the last 20-30 years the way we communicate has radically changed. With social media platforms like twitter and Facebook, but especially twitter, people are engaging in instant and ceaseless attacks on individuals or their workplaces, organizations etc. We are not used to handling personal disruption at that level. In our entire history as a species we have never had the power to connect this many individuals into the same network at once, with pictures, videos, words, but we have also never been so alone and touch-starved.

People are grouping together to feel a part of something, especially people who have lacked a voice in the mainstream for the last century. It’s like separate ideological groups have literally become Borg cubes. Lol. It’s actually really interesting despite it being so horrible. I don’t remember right wingers being particularly openly to free speech that was not their own typical opinions, and if the major media companies were owned by right wingers we would be seeing the same shutdown of debate from them.

[–]FrenchiePup 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Which is why I am not on Twitter, besides an inactive account so I can read posts without being bothered to create an account after a few clicks.

My Facebook is dead as well, just as Facebook.

Reddit was fun until the screeching minority decided to trash it.

But I think a large portion of the left has gone totally bonkers with their obsession to counter Trumps whatever he does, good or bad, and same with his supporters. I'm at the point where I had to completely sealed myself off of their insanity. To the point that right wingers look like sane and balanced people to me, now.

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

I think what we should learn from the tendencies of the right and left in power over the past two decades is that power corrupts anyone, and we should instead hesitate to give anyone more power. Both sides have exhibited the same characteristics when they come into cultural/political power.

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

OP is clearly not suggesting the adoption of extreme exceptions.