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[–]StillLessons 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Great comment.

It's not that people on the fringes should not exist. People on the fringes of society have existed for the entire history of humanity, and societies figure out better or worse ways of handling that.

What has so many of us so pissed off is the use of force to declare the fringe to be the mainstream and the resultant punishment of the traditional majority to mandate not just acceptance of but obedience to the fucked up thinking these people are expressing.

I have said for years this is a mental illness. I have great sympathy for those with mental illness. I want them to learn to be happy. But this crew doesn't want to learn to be happy among their peers. They want society to obey them. Their endpoint is that their fucked up thinking is the norm. No fucking way. I'm sorry they think in a way that makes them miserable and I wish them the best speed at figuring out how to escape that thinking. But enforcing their own fucked up ideology on to others is both radically stupid and radically evil. It's stupid because even if it works, the people working so hard to become the enforced ideological center are going to remain miserable. Guaranteed. Fighting reality will do that to you.

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

You're right about the mental illness part. But remember illness means illness, not a personal/character failing. A mentally ill person can't help it, and the self-help toxic positivity will only make them feel either attacked or like bad people.

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

As a bi-polar and ADHD person since the 80's, mental health is super close to my heart and I have worked hard online to try and get people to understand there is no difference between mental and physical health, they are both parts of your body and mostly are fixed the same way, meds, diet, and exercise.

You hit the nail on the head and said it better than I. When the 1-5% think they deserve to be treated not as just the majority, but ABOVE everyone else, special rights, pedestal because they are SOoOoOoo brave for faking they are a girl. Nearly as bad as the TikTok medical issue fakers... you know the autism, neurodivergent, multiple personalities, etc... because just like LGBT this is en vouge right now. We used to call that cosplay.... that's about it.