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[–]Poppy29252Natal Cat Woman 23 insightful - 3 fun23 insightful - 2 fun24 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

After a while all I could think of was "Why am I talking to these children, and why on earth are they allowed to set the tone of these discussions?"

Yes. I have always felt and wondered the same thing and it drives me fucking insane to think some angsty pre teen is the one calling me a transphobic nazi TERF.

I interacted a bit on the super straight subreddit while it was up and a TRA said relationships should be based on romantic attraction, not sexual. After I asked why they said I should be put in horny jail.

It just pains me too much to believe that could be an adult.

[–]Midcentury[S] 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

They often haven't even had a relationship before, let alone sex. Its all theoretical to them. Its increasingly hard to not be all like "when you grow up and have sex, you will think differently"

[–]deliciousdogfoodmy name isnt a puppyplay reference i swear 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I feel like they're emboldened by the continuous push to understand exactly why people think and feel the way they do. They think science and theory can fully explain something that I swear to god either cannot or should not be quantified via science.

I'm all for the search for truth, but right from the getgo I knew that the only practical application to researching the exact science of human attraction would be to try control people. It's dangerous knowledge and we're already seeing it be used to dehumanize and reduce the complex relationships between people to electrical pulses in the brain that can be manipulated by "therapy".

As an afterthought, the more we reduce all things of wonder about humanity to meat, bone, and hormones the more we're going to have increased suicide rates and movements like this desperately trying to make themselves feel special by putting others down. I feel like there isn't enough real, good natured endorsement of just how miraculous life is at a base level in education, which in turn births situations like this.