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[–]PatsyStoneMaverique 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Laughs? It's your site now, do what you want to do. They seem like a bunch of sociopathic trolls. Is the only purpose for this sub still existing to "vent?" Meaning laugh at the mentally ill?

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I always thought it a good source of distilled arguments I don't necessarily have the insight to compose myself. Like this response to common arguments that try to attribute heterosexual paraphilias and phenomena to gay and bi people. Arguments that can easily influence other LGB to turn against one another and ourselves have to be countered some way. Other forums are majorly inundated with TRA, religiously conservative, and even the radfem and SuperStraight perspective on sexuality. Consider how each of those perspectives can uniquely mutate and derail that particular argument above. TIA(a haven for the remaining GC on reddit) is mostly gone now, and AGB is coming. While conservative forums(forcibly cut off from the view-moderating centrists on mainstream sites) are becoming more and more insular and homophobic in their thinking at the same time they are capitalizing on anti-trans sentiment. I'm increasingly struggling to see how LGBDTT is not useful. If anything, it's even more so now.

[–]reluctant_commenter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

https://saidit.net/s/LGBDropTheT/comments/9eyt/mod_update_june_24th_future_of_the_sub/yfl6

(Also, that comment you linked to is awesome! And I agree with your assessment of related online discussion groups.)

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, it's pretty good.

It's an argument I hear over and over again. But logically, it just doesn't follow, yanno? In so many of these cross-cultural examples of pederasty, it seems they lose interest as soon as their targets start maturing and gaining adult features. But that's not how sexual attraction works. I don't know about anyone else, but even as a kid, I was rarely interested in others of my own physical developmental stage(pre-puberty), but instead crushed on teens and full-blown adults.

These arguments would only make sense to someone who has a rather warped view of what being homosexual or bisexual is. I get the feeling that their internal definitions include choice con sentiments like "nihilistic degeneracy", "sexual abuse trauma" and "moral subversion" but never plain "same-sex attraction". I swear though, sometimes I think many libs think similarly too, but they just react to it differently. Like, "have compassion/empathy for the freaks; They're deconstructing our repressive social norms" or something dumb like that.

Sorry for the rant.

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

I swear though, sometimes I think many libs think similarly too, but they just react to it differently. Like, "have compassion/empathy for the freaks; They're deconstructing our repressive social norms" or something dumb like that.

EXACTLY. I have become so much more suspicious of self-proclaimed liberal "allies"; I do think a significant number of them probably think like this. It's incredibly condescending, to say the least.