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[–]our_team_is_winning 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Michael Skindell, who is gay and has championed gay rights in the past. He is now sponsoring bills which would force women to use the bathroom with men against their will.

I saw his meltdown but didn't know anything about him. Thanks for this info. So he's Ohio's Scott Wiener.

Gay men here, please tell me how forcing women to share bathroom with perverts benefits you? Because I don't think it does. I don't expect gay men to even like women as friends, but I do like to think the gay men on this forum respect our right to privacy. Can you explain men like Skindell (what a name, SKIN) and Wiener (name speaks for itself)?

[–]BEB 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

OMG, Ohio has a Scott Wiener?!?!? (crosses self hurriedly) And he is also gay?!?!?

WTF.

Gay men - you better make your voices heard pretty damn soon, because Scott Wiener in California and this Michael Skindell bully in Ohio are passing/attempting to pass laws that will make normal Americans think that there is some kind of Gay Male Super Plot to enable pedophiles to Q Anon American kids. Wish I were kidding...

[–]PatsyStoneMaverique 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Honestly, I think some terribly incompetent PR consultants are to blame for a lot of this behavior. They get told to act out like this.

[–]BEB 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I can't imagine any image consultant encouraging Skindell's ridiculous behavior. If they did, they're beyond incompetent, because Michael Skindell just looked like a giant baby throwing a giant mantrum.

[–]PatsyStoneMaverique 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I'm not an expert on this, but politicians like Joe Wilson have built careers on outbursts like this in the past. I think your average Democratic politician is so far removed from normal life these days they just don't understand that their policies are unpopular within their own party.

Skindell misread the room and cast himself in the wrong role. Not unlike PA House Rep Brian Sims a couple of years ago, who uploaded a video of himself on Twitter offering a cash reward for the names and addresses of some teenage girls (minors) who were protesting outside of an abortion clinic. Not the move! It ended up being referred to the police.

My point being, Democrats are so out of touch it's destructive. My personal opinion: this is what censorship does to you. You cloister yourself away from the world and lose touch with reality. I don't think these politicians have ever seriously considered the idea that they might be wrong.

[–]BEB 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

What an idiot. But yes, Biden-Harris having that White House Transgender Rights conference, or whatever that lovefest was just now, probably irritated many Americans.

I'll bet even lefty types are also starting to wonder why NPR, the New York Times, Nature, Netflix, National Geographic, etc., and ad nauseam, won't STFU about GENDER, GENDER, GENDER.

[–]PatsyStoneMaverique 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I've been wondering for years now ☹️

I checked out the Blocked and Reported reddit sub someone linked here and they had multiple threads wondering what the fuck happened to NPR.

It has to be donors.

[–]BEB 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

NPR used to be sneeringly called National Petroleum Radio by some on the Left.

In my experience (of decades), NPR has never been the unbiased journalism it so sanctimoniously pretends to be, but it was never as blatantly shilling for its donors as it is now - National Pharmaceutical Radio is now more like it.

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

It does feel like the masks are coming off in society these days.

[–]boypower 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Gay men have been the free-for-all punching bag of social media for quite a while. In the early and mid 2010s, articles about gay men being racist and gay men being misogynistics were all the jam. Accusations of transphobia came later on. Eventually the cis white gay man became this horrible privileged demon that was not only criticized by the right (for being gay), but also by the left (for being cis, white, gay and a man). That feeling of not being good enough for anyone and always being criticized has caused plenty of gay men to feel so inadequate about themselves that they react to their low self-esteem and (unfounded) guilt by doing stuff like this idiot. Though I don't know if this specific scenario fits him, as it's more of a teen/young adult kind of thing, so who knows what this guy's issue is.