Media & ArtsAnyone else bothered by gay stereotypes in media not going away, and in some times being heightened?

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[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Thank you for your response. It's really thorough and you've got an interesting perspective.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I have no way of proving this anymore, since r/GenderCritical is banned and I didn't save an archive of my comments ... but there was a large discussion thread at the time GenderTrender got banned from Wordpress. It was in 2018, shortly after GallusMag revealed all the dirty details about Jonathan Yaniv.

It was all blowing up among GC circles and on social media, and random people were getting banned from Twitter and Facebook. Users were speculating about what was next.

I looked into Wordpress investors and the portfolios they maintained, which companies and boards they were a part of, and who they had invested in previously. I found a trend and commonalities. Among other things, Facebook and Twitter had been slowly updating their TOS and banning users over the prior year, Wordpress jumped the shark.

I predicted Medium would be the next site to start publicly censoring. Within a month or two, Medium released new TOS protecting gender identity, and started banning users.

Facebook and Twitter went all-in soon after, and stopped being passive and started aggressively making changes. Reddit had already been shitty, but I feel like their narrative accelerated right around then also. The groundwork had already been laid. Opinions that were not pro-TQ+ started being cancelled like an avalanche, and there was nowhere to turn because all the other major companies were doing the exact same thing.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

What I don't understand is why this is happening? What the hell is going on in Silicon Valley for them to collectively decide that they'll go pro-trans? Is it a Big Pharma thing, or a way to sneak men into positions that they'd had to acquiesce in the past to women as a part of a diversity hire? I really don't see what's in it for them.

[–]reluctant_commenter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I mean, it seems like there's a ton of money involved. In the US at least, billionaires own pretty much all the major media companies; you can even play a guessing game with your friends, "Which billionaire owns X company?" And most billionaires are focused on their ongoing aggregation of wealth. The medical pipeline of transgender-related medication and surgeries-- starting kids on puberty blockers, then testosterone/estrogen, etc., and encouraging surgeries-- sends a steady stream of customers to for-profit companies that those billionaires own. There are some articles I've read about the money aspect of it, if you're curious I can link some.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I believe you. It's like the saying goes: Just follow the money.

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

Absolutely, US money and billionaires are a HUGE part of it. If anyone is curious about the rabbit hole I went down, it led to Automattic Inc. They funded the majority of big-tech companies in the past and present (at the time).

I'm sure thing have gotten worse and more "diversified" since then, I just haven't had to the time or energy lately to sink into going down the rabbit hole again.

Follow that money trail u/lovelyspearmint. It's there. As to why Silicon Valley? It's the start-up capital of the tech world, and all the major players have base offices here. This area is a beacon for mass-distribution to the people and internet, which means the world can hear even the tiniest message. If all the investors say "make sure this message is/isn't part of your repertoire", companies will in order to survive, and then eventually the people running it will start believing it themselves since everyone around them is spouting the same. That's the nature of propaganda.

To u/reluctant_commenter's second point, the medical pipeline of ANYTHING in the USA ... it's disgusting. Medical and insurance industries in this country are for-profit, not for-citizens, and cancel culture is causing corruption among even those who swore to be ethical. It all just keeps feeding itself, and TG is the latest nutritional source.

Please do share some links! Newer people need to know, and those of us who already know, we need to not forget.

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

Ok, don't have a lot of time right now but here's some links I sent someone else before!

Also: probably worth making a post about this at some point? I think there are more likes besides these, I would recommend starting with the Sue Donym articles.

Okay, here's one of the articles I was thinking of, probably the best one to start with: https://archive.is/7tIce

Sue Donym is an anonymous writer who actually has a saidit account and posts his/her writings occasionally: u/suedonym1984

Google "billionaire trans medical industry" and you'll find a bunch more articles. I'm just gonna throw out a few, but bear in mind that some of these have a religious-right bias:

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

These are all opinions, if I had the time I could dig up links to support them but... here I go:

----The international/global left has invented a system of sexual ethics that suits their desired economic structure and biases. They see same-sex attraction, really all sexual attraction, as inherently dangerous and under need of expression in order to avoid you doing something crazy or becoming violent.

That's the only common thread to current LGBT umbrella really shares. Reading the subtext: sexual weirdos who need to be accepted so we don't kill ourselves or abuse children.

----As for the censorship, it was this global left gearing up for the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Most of the backbone of the internet is American.

American Republicans control the conversation on social media thoroughly. They have turned trolling into a philosophical discipline (seriously, I could get into a lot of detail on this.) They are so effective they essentially replaced the news media for working class Americans between 2016 and 2018.

The Democrats had no chance at all of victory without massive changes to the entire online space, which took about a year for them to enact. Democrats are dependent on narratives of oppression and triumph, large public outcries, and protest movements to gain and maintain power. They are dependent on traditional media totally.

This covered everything from Reddit quarantining subs, to Google changing search algorithms, to web hosts booting their own customers.

What is common now was still shocking two years ago. That's how fast things changed.

Because it worked.