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[–]Bright_paintingLoad, lesbian biologist 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

From what I have experienced, most people know that biological sex is real and is confused/not comfortable about all the trans stuff; but they don't say anything in fear of being called out. In this situation, the emperor is naked and no one, not even a innocent child, dares to say a thing.

[–]julesburm1891[S] 22 insightful - 4 fun22 insightful - 3 fun23 insightful - 4 fun -  (10 children)

It’s funny you mention that. Later in our phone conversation, my mom was talking about her last year of teaching. (It was two years ago.) She said she showed her kids a picture of C.S. Lewis as a part of a lesson and said “He wrote a lot of books for adults too.” Apparently several kids piped up with, “You can’t assume someone’s gender.” My mom was floored and just said, “Who on earth told you that?” The kids said it was another teacher at school. My mom replied, “You all know perfectly well this is a man” and the kids were pretty much like “yeah you’re right.” I guess even indoctrinated kids know the real difference here.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That’s scary that those kids felt the need to call out their teacher for rightly stating that a male author is male, but good on your mother for standing up for reality. Wished all teachers were like her.

[–]our_team_is_winning 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Kids just randomly pipe up that C.S. Lewis might not have been a man???? A Christian theologian no less. Oddly enough, he married a much younger Jewish girl (who converted), and sadly she died first despite being much younger.

Is this the norm now with everyone? Teacher mentions (shuffles deck) G. B. Shaw. "They might have been trans!" (Shuffles deck) Jonathan Swift. "Why are you assuming he was male?"

This is just STUPID. And the kids knew it, yet said it anyway.

[–]julesburm1891[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My mom’s hypothesis on this was that they wanted to see how far they could push her.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What kinds of people in society benefit from children not being able to recognize and name males and male body parts? Hmm...

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

:/

[–]usehername 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What country? Jeez that's creepy. They're just repeating the talking points even though they know it's nonsense.

[–]julesburm1891[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

America. My mom taught with some crazy SJW the last four years of her career. She thought it was just him being a loon. It wasn’t until our conversation that she realized this is an actual thing being pushed on kids and in several institutions. Needless to say, she was furious.

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

Is she taking any steps to combat this, like speaking with the principal?

[–]Rag3 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The kids are indoctrinated so young. :( So creepy that they answered like that.

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

Sounds like Stepford Children.

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

In my experience, most people don't understand gender identity/ ideology and don't want to. I have friends in their 30s who have asked me "What's transgender?" It's not that surprising if you consider that this terminology was all codified on social media and in academia and has only entered the mainstream in the last few years.

Many people - particularly those in older generations, are uncomfortable with anything to do with gender and sexuality and don't want to know.