Are these people serious?

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[–]chandra 72 insightful - 1 fun72 insightful - 0 fun73 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

I've said it before and I'll say it again - the only people who could believe this are

  • 'enlightened' teenagers who want to question everything about society and don't have the sex/relationships experience to know better (possibly haven't even finished puberty)

  • trans people who are personally invested in this being true

  • maybe also some bisexuals who can't relate to monosexuality

I had similar 'enlightened' views about polyamory before I had any relationship experience. 'No one person can satisfy all your needs,' said teenage me, 'so it makes much more sense to be poly.' Turns out in the real world most people don't have time for more than one relationship (let alone one with kids), most people only get deeply attached to one person at a time anyway, and you can't easily debate yourself out of feelings like jealousy just because they're not logical.

A sliver of real world experience will destroy an entire blog's worth of theory when it comes to sexuality.

[–]8bitgay 28 insightful - 1 fun28 insightful - 0 fun29 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

'enlightened' teenagers who want to question everything about society and don't have the sex/relationships experience to know better (possibly haven't even finished puberty)

This explains a lot about social media and it's really bizarre to see actual adults aged 30+ who should know better retweeting these teens.

Social media would be less awful if they restricted it to adults only. Or at the very least make 18- accounts invisible to people who are 18+ and vice-versa.

[–]chandra 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

My thoughts exactly. I think if you could filter out under-18s and trans people you'd rarely see any of this radical trans nonsense.

And the frustrating thing is that I think most of these woke trans-ally teens are genuinely well-meaning. Love hearts not parts, be as accepting as possible, don't make anyone feel excluded. They legitimately don't understand that sexuality doesn't work that way. But they cross a line when they start trying to police other people's behaviour and desires.

[–]8bitgay 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think the dichotomy is really bizarre. On one hand you see woke people making a big deal of men who date women aged 18~20 (young but perfectly legal adults). But at the same time they're ok with bringing actual teens to graphic discussions about sexuality.

[–]INeedSomeTimeAsexual Ally 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A fast theory for why teenager are for such a radical acceptance and tolerance: due to adults giving them (valid) restrictions and expectations. They hate these so they want places with no restrictions (that's why the trans and sexuality stuff are usually umbrella terms and big spectrums) and no expectations (that's why tucutes are so popular).

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

so basically adolescence1101

[–]insta 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

My thoughts exactly. I think if you could filter out under-18s and trans people you'd rarely see any of this radical trans nonsense.

Only for now. It's just a myth that people suddenly just grow up and drop their ideology from college. Sure, some people may change some ideas but this concept that young adults believe in crazy stuff then turn 18,21, or 25 and suddenly think differently just isn't true.

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

I think they might mellow out on this issue though. I guess it depends what's actually happening with these teens pushing the whole 'genital preferences are bigoted' nonsense. If, as I suspect, their openness to trans people and their lack of genital preference is just something they're faking for the sake of being progressive, then they can probably only keep it up for so long.

Obviously the trans people themselves are never gonna drop it though, their sex lives depend on as many people believing this crap as possible.

[–]rockhard288 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The only people who retweet/repost that are the porn models and the wannabe porn "model" sex addicts.