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[–]MatthewofHouseGraySuper straight ally :) 19 insightful - 3 fun19 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/kjowy0/comment/ggzc20w?context=1

I got massively down voted due to this post of mine because I dared say the way it is about the gender surgeries.

[–][deleted] 27 insightful - 3 fun27 insightful - 2 fun28 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Jesus christ..

It's really interesting to see the dissonance between the downvotes and the actual comments. Usually if someone's opinion is truly shitty or unpopular, the comment gets downvoted and the replies are expressing disagreement. With this, there are a ton of replies agreeing with you and the initial (also downvoted) comment.

They can brigade and virtue signal all day but they don't have as many people on their side as they think and they can die mad about it.

[–]MatthewofHouseGraySuper straight ally :) 23 insightful - 2 fun23 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

"They can brigade and virtue signal all day but they don't have as many people on their side as they think and they can die mad about it."

In my opinion that's the main reason why transgenders don't splinter off to be in their own group. They know the majority of the "pride" support is being towards the sexuality aspect and both ends of the political spectrum tolerate them at best, so they're just leeching of the sexuality aspect because their own group would never get the amount of support. I live in a rural conservative area and most of the anti-pride hate I hear from people is towards transgenders, not towards sexualities. I can easily make the assumption that a LGB pride group would be accepted by far more people over the current group because people are more tolerant towards mainstream sexualities than what they are towards transgenders and the other newfangled terms which are popping into existence.

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Agreed. Most of the newer distaste for the 'LGBT community' is really a dislike of TRAs and the pronoun patrol. Not to mention the general, visceral aversion people have to being told 'some women have penises' and 'some men have vaginas' and 'if you wont fuck a trans person you're a bigot.' No one's truly buying it. Even the people who do buy it can't commit entirely because the minute they actually see a bepenised 'woman' or a 'boipussy' they recoil instinctively.

TRAs know they cant bully away millions of years of evolution so they leech off the gay rights movement.

[–]bopomofodojo 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Not to mention the massive TRA uptick after the legalization of gay marriage in the US. This was absolutely their moment to pounce - acceptance was at an all-time high, and the LGB movement had just won its big victory. It was the perfect time for the deranged, under-surface simmering of TRAs to jump out and abuse the good-will with their "we're the next progressive good, support us!" parade.

It's backfired, spectacularly, no matter how much they try to deny it. And it hurts the LGB community too, in ways that will take years or decades to become clear.

Narcissists ruin everything.

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Oh my God you're right. We were doing well then they had to come along and fuck it up. I hope it won't take long for this trans nonsense to fizzle out. Especially once more people detransition and more LGB people realize how deeply homophobic the whole ideology is.

[–]8bitgay 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Usually if someone's opinion is truly shitty or unpopular, the comment gets downvoted and the replies are expressing disagreement. With this, there are a ton of replies agreeing with you and the initial (also downvoted) comment.

I've noticed that too! The thing is that when people get outraged (especially if the comment get shared in other subs) they'll downvote and move on. So often there will be later replies agreeing with the initial comment that aren't downvoted, because the outraged people aren't coming back to the thread to check new replies.

When the comment is genuinely bad, people who get to the thread later tend to disagree with the initial comment too.