How to undo half a century of hard slog to improve the lives of LGB people

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[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah[S] 25 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 0 fun26 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It's already being used by anti-gay commentators as "evidence" of the legendary slippery slope. And it's not like they don't have lots of other material to back up their claims. And the problem is that in the case of TRAs and the industry that's grown around them, they really ARE coming for the kids.

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's already being used by anti-gay commentators as "evidence" of the legendary slippery slope.

But, outside of a fringe minority, how many people care though?

The ones who push shit like this use to be highly partisan, culture war obsessed, outrage clickbait shit.

They are just being used as fuel for the people who are already homophobic justify their beliefs.

Nothing more, nothing else.

[–]SerpensInferna 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

From what I've been seeing online, a lot of people outside of the regular homophobic crowd are not taking well to this at all.

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But this is to be expected, in the same way people complain about nudity and sex on Pride every year.

The politicization of this in an effort to paint gay men and gay rights as pedo adjacent, on the other hand, is very fringe.

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

is very fringe.

Is it though? I've been seeing it in places I wouldn't necessarily expect, outside of the usual far-right haunts.

Unfortunately I don't think progress is a straight line, and acceptance for LGBT such as it is, is far from solidified. I can easily see it sliding backwards again if things like this continue.

The message from the LGBT+ crowd has changed. It's no longer "we're not weirdos or predators, we just want to be like everyone else". It has become threatening, even violent (note the TRAs attacking women, and men in women's sports), and focused mostly on not only trans issues but also on transing the children. It's not about equal rights, it's about special privileges and treatment, and that has been a main reason I've distanced myself from the "community" in the past 2 years.

This does not bode well at all for us. Gay people in bubbles in liberal cities have no idea, sometimes intentionally, of what else is going on in the world. Symptomatic of this is the utter bewilderment and shock when Trump actually won the Presidency in 2016 - all the signs and reasons were there, but people chose not to acknowledge it.