THE GREAT BOYCOTT - a megathread on woke companies to boycott and their alternatives.

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[–]zeusdx1118 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Was it really Netflix pushing it, or just the author that Netflix decided to publish the work of?

It was Netflix. This wasn't just one show. This has been their entire supply of entertainment lately.

The same problem of attraction there exists regardless of whether one is transgender or not.

Yeah but this was not about a gay male student being in the boys locker room. This was about allowing a pre-op, trans-by-title-alone, male liking, girl into the boys communal showers. Let's not distract from that. You're convoluting it.

Ok so let's have this talk.

This was not even an adult, who in complete mental and physical maturity decided to go forward with the operation and become a real trans person of (as close as they could be) the opposite sex. This was a child, using nothing but title to identify as trans (through gender alone), making an issue out of not being allowed in the high school locker room with boys, and then violently lashing out with physical harm to bully others into getting her way.

In support of real trans people (transexuals) who go through all the steps to identify as the opposite sex, the argument here still stands. These issues are not about gender. They're about sex. That is where the line is.

Gender has nothing to do with the issue here. No one cares about "transgender" peoples' gender roles, hypermasculine/hyperfeminine facades thrown up out of insecurity, or personal identity perceptions. Nobody wants these people wandering around in the wrong locker room just because they're insecure with their own bodies. That's not an excuse to put the general public's sense of safety and security second. Gender is a concept. It is not a tangible element to base something off of, unlike sex.

Genderdysphoria is classified as a mental disorder, and therefore is for all legal and medical purposes a case of delusion. To make the issue even more transparent, if it weren't considered a mental disorder, there'd be no legal reason to accommodate it at all. To go even further, while disability laws require businesses and such to accommodate the disabled, those accommodations are only required to be reasonable for the business or such to provide, and forsaking the general public as a cost in doing so is not reasonable.

[–]Aureus[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Hey, I just want to say you're totally right about Netflix. I can't imagine trying to watch most things on it. I don't know what the other poster is on about.

[–]zeusdx1118 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks. We would be downvoted on Reddit for even discussing the logic around this subject. I probably ranted a little because it's like, "Finally an opportunity to talk about it without being censored!"

I think the ban wave over there is really about suppressing discussions so people don't have the option to talk through thought processes though. Anything that might point out flaws in mainstream campaign agendas is censored now. It's like a wierd political coup thing going on lately.

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

You're absolutely right.

I wish I could say it's just the admins, but a lot of mods are very censorship-happy. Like you said, you can't have free thought without free speech, and mods locking threads and banning users has led to a stifling of free speech on reddit.