Yes or No: LGBTQ groups should focus more on helping young LGBTQ youth with getting cars, stable housing, education, and less on emotional support, building "community"

Pennygadget · 2024-11-14T14:04:27+00:00

I think both are important. Ironically, part of the reason LGB groups like GLAAD pivoted towards simping for the trans cult was because people in this country became more accepting of gay and lesbian relationships. Most young people who come out as gay/lesbian nowadays don't get tossed into the streets by their families. And the gay marriage fight was won. So the LGB advocacy groups pivoted towards "trans rights" to raise money.

Right now, the focus should be on divorcing the LGB from the TQ. Because gays and lesbians don't deserve to get caught in the trans backlash

Pennygadget · 2024-11-13T21:16:52+00:00

Not necessarily. A few democrats in office have trans kids they parade around for clout. And one female senator (Karen Berg) continues to play handmaiden for trans ideology even after it lead to her TIF daughter's suicide

Pennygadget · 2024-11-13T21:14:24+00:00

This. Female voters have been talking about this for years. But Democrats just dismiss us as conservative bigots who want trans people to die. Or, like you said, they write us off as morons who are just too stupid to understand the complexity of gender.

They refuse to listen to women on this subject. The republicans swoop in to acknowledge our concerns. And then they're surprised when a large swath of liberal/democrat women hold their nose and vote for Trump

Pennygadget · 2024-11-13T21:04:32+00:00

That comment by Gaines was one of the most epic burns I've ever witnessed. Summer Lee is such a disgrace. Selling out her fellow women for head pats from perverted White men in drag

Pennygadget · 2024-11-13T21:01:38+00:00

We all knew the left would screech about the evil White Karens ruining democracy instead of admitting that the Democrats fucked up so bad that Donald Trump seemed like a desirable candidate

Pennygadget · 2024-11-13T03:58:43+00:00

I've lurked into some old libfem haunts since the election. And they absolutely refuse to admit that the democrats have any responsibility for how this turned out. They just wail about racism, sexist Black/Latino men, and how they're so scared that their queer & trans friends are gonna get genocided.

The far leftists live in an entirely different reality than the rest of us

Pennygadget · 2024-11-13T03:54:04+00:00

If we women threatened suicide over hurt feelings, the misogynists would just laugh and tell us to go for it. Only the gender-specials get coddled for obvious suicide baiting

Pennygadget · 2024-11-12T21:02:57+00:00

""""Speaking to The New York Times on Wednesday, Suozzi said: “The Democrats have to stop pandering to the far left.""""

Women have been screaming about this for YEARS! Jewish voters have been complaining about far left pandering for years as well (even more so after all those little Nazis colonized college campuses after 10/7/23). But Democrats didn't heed our warnings until Donald Trump and the Republicans kicked their asses last week

Talk is cheap. I won't believe that these Democrats have learned their lesson until they take decisive action to prove it

Pennygadget · 2024-11-12T20:57:20+00:00

Fuck Patreon. They seem to have a laser focus on canceling GC women.

I'll send Reduxx a small direct donation in solidarity

Pennygadget · 2024-11-12T20:55:44+00:00

And, as a rich white boy, his only pathway to victim status is putting on a dress and claiming to be an oppressed trans-girl

Pennygadget · 2024-11-12T20:35:36+00:00

You're probably on to something. Nobody would feel sorry for him if he was just another rich white boy with daddy issues. But now that he's a sad trans-girl, he gets to rake in those oppression tokens

Pennygadget · 2024-11-12T20:33:16+00:00

Isn't Musk German? So would his kids have German citizenship?

Pennygadget · 2024-11-11T19:54:29+00:00

I think its different when it comes to men's facilities. Of course men and boys have a right to boundaries and privacy. But this issue is different for them because women like Buck Angel and Ellen Page aren't a threat to them. And most TIFs are passable (so they won't feel the distress of seeing an obvious woman in there).

Having a third space is a fine compromise. But most public places aren't equipped to install a third bathroom

Pennygadget · 2024-11-11T05:37:35+00:00

""I really hope people won't be cowed by the "my trans neighbor tried to hang themselves yesterday, plz donate" stories that are multiplying across the Internet. This is a rare moment to wake people up.""""

In this economy, people have way less patience for whiney, gender-special e-begging. Normal people can barely afford rent and groceries. So its hard to feel sorry for some dipshit on the internet screeching, "OMG give me money!! I'm a queer trans-woman and I need money to afford spinny skirts and to move out of my parents house because my transphobic granny voted for Trump and I feel unsafe!! Plz donate before I kill myself!!!!!"

Pennygadget · 2024-11-10T05:50:52+00:00

"Boy" is a slur now?

THIS shit is why the Democrats got MASSACRED by the Republicans on November 5th. I can't believe they're dumb enough to keep doubling down on this nonsense

Pennygadget · 2024-11-09T16:07:16+00:00

Fair point. If she had done Rogan's show, it likely just would have given the Trump campaign more soundbites to work with. Because Biden dropped out so late, Harris didn't have time to bone up her skills at talking to people who disagree with her (and that was one of her weak points to begin with). So she spent most of her short campaign just singing to the choir

And, like you said, the argument that kids should be medically transitioned and boys should play in girls sports falls apart under even the lightest scrutiny. And Rogan was certainly going to push her on that

Pennygadget · 2024-11-09T14:09:06+00:00

The Harris campaign was so tone deaf that they collected celebrity endorsements and had Harris rub elbows with Beyonce and Taylor Swift while Trump and the Republicans listened to voters and focused on rallies and meet-and-greets. It was such a stupid strategy during a time when the economy sucks and the democrats have been criticized for their elitism

Also, the Harris campaign really bungled it when they decided not to do Rogan's show. It may not have saved her campaign. But it would have gotten a large swath of swing voters and conservatives to sit down and listen to her.

Pennygadget · 2024-11-09T13:57:18+00:00

I'm also old enough to remember when the left/Democrats were the defenders of free speech, women, and the working class while Republicans simped for corporate interests and campaigned to ruin Ellen Degeneres' career because she made a sitcom about a lesbian

I'm also old enough to remember when the ACLU had integrity and defended free speech even when it was difficult (ie defending the rights of Nazis to express their views).

Its wild to see the parties flip the way they have in my lifetime. And mostly because of some pervy men in drag

Pennygadget · 2024-11-09T13:48:08+00:00

True. But, if I were the POTUS candidate and that was my intention, I would just choose a qualified Black woman without making a big deal ahead of time by saying, "I'm gonna pick a Black lady to be my VP! Look how wonderful and anti racist I am!!"

By preemptively announcing it, he doomed whichever woman he picked to being called a token diversity hire regardless of her actual qualifications

Pennygadget · 2024-11-08T23:17:01+00:00

Sadly, so many left leaning spaces are so toxic nowadays. If you express even a mildly unorthodox opinion on an issue like trans stuff or the war in Gaza, you're either immediately blocked or dog-piled by people telling you that you're a bad person who loves genocide and wants trans people to die. And then there are the endless purity spirals and games of Oppression Olympics and the risk of getting canceled if someone digs up a spicy joke you told on LiveJournal when you were fifteen

In contrast, right leaning spaces are far more forgiving and welcoming to folks who are politically homeless. In my experience, most right leaning spaces won't immediately bite your head off for saying you're pro-choice or that you don't like Trump. They provide a safe space to land and speak your mind if you've been burned by the left. And I think that had a huge impact on this election

Pennygadget · 2024-11-08T23:06:53+00:00

Most normie voters don't know about shit like the Twitter files. So they were more focused on kitchen table issues like the economy and making sure their daughters don't have to undress with males at school

Pennygadget · 2024-11-08T23:03:40+00:00

"""I have a strong suspicion that our first female president will be a Republican."""

Same.

Pennygadget · 2024-11-08T23:01:23+00:00

I saw someone online sum it up rather well:

"The democrats lost because women pay rent and buy groceries more often than they get abortions"

Even women who are pro-choice are going to gravitate towards the issues that impact them on a daily basis. And for most of us, that's the economy and crime (and the gender issue if we know anyone currently in prison or someone in school who was screwed by Biden revoking Title IX)

Pennygadget · 2024-11-08T22:54:25+00:00

And it didn't help that Biden straight up said that she was a token diversity hire.

Pennygadget · 2024-11-08T22:51:41+00:00

Trump didn't suppress TIP voices last time. And he likely won't do it this time. Those idiots will shoot themselves in the foot by constantly screeching about a "trans genocide" that clearly isn't happening

Pennygadget · 2024-11-08T12:30:06+00:00

Fantastic interview!

Kara is so on the money about why the democrats are failing so hard. They've turned their backs on women and the working classes in favor of simping for Big Pharma, Big Tech, and hanging with celebrities. Not to mention their concerning crackdowns on free speech.

Maybe this loss will be the wakeup call they need. But, sadly, I doubt it

Pennygadget · 2024-11-08T02:44:50+00:00

And so many of these TIMs have stories of being constantly sexually harassed/assaulted (by men and women) after they transition. Even though most of them look like Homer Simpson in drag

Pennygadget · 2024-11-08T02:40:00+00:00

Watching TRAs and the Hamas fandom melt down has been the silver lining of Trump's victory

Pennygadget · 2024-11-08T02:38:46+00:00

Trans people and their cheerleaders are so entitled that they think its an act of violence any time you tell them "no"

Pennygadget · 2024-11-08T02:31:50+00:00

I've been lurking in one of my old libfem haunts to soak in some schadenfreude. And their insane rants exemplify why Trump managed to sweep the election via a silent majority who kept their votes to themselves. These people are so disconnected from reality its unreal. I'm seeing women wail about how they're sooooo afraid for their queer/trans friends (as if Trump is planning to haul them off to gas chambers). Going on about what a glorious candidate Harris was (LOL). And how anyone who had concerns about shit like crime or immigration are just stupid bigots who hate Mexicans. And, of course, there are TIPs fretting about not being able to get their hormones

Harris lost because she spent more time rubbing elbows with celebrities than interacting with regular people while Trump did the inverse. She also lost because the modern left is a disorganized mess of competing special interests and endless games of Oppression Olympics

Pennygadget · 2024-11-08T02:19:36+00:00

I don't want to judge her too harshly for the hiatus because we don't know if she's going through something IRL. But I hope this is a wake up call for her to accept some mod assistance

Pennygadget · 2024-11-08T02:14:44+00:00

Same. She built a great, user-friendly site.

Pennygadget · 2024-11-08T02:13:43+00:00

Unfortunately, playing favorites will always be a problem when there is only one mod (even if she genuinely is trying to be unbiased, it can be hard to be 100% neutral). So I hope she eventually gets an assistant mod or two to help her out

Pennygadget · 2024-11-06T10:01:58+00:00

The Founding Fathers were totally trans! They wore knee socks, frilly shirts, and curly wigs! 🤣

Pennygadget · 2024-11-06T07:49:27+00:00

Jesus. That picture at the top of the article is a total jumpscare. It looks like a shot from that horror movie "Smile"

Pennygadget · 2024-11-06T04:01:20+00:00

That's a good point. She couldn't see the shit storm coming from other major events. But she could proactively choose to sit out on the direct aftermath of the election

Again, I can't entirely blame her for it. I don't think I'd want to moderate ANY online space post election regardless of who wins

Pennygadget · 2024-11-06T03:57:18+00:00

""""I am concerned about how Harris will do on the international stage. Not only about the ramifications for other countries, but also more selfishly how it'll affect the willingness of Americans to elect another woman. """""

Ditto. Much as I hate to say it, most countries are run by shitty men from cultures that don't respect women. A female POTUS would not only have to be qualified. She would have to radiate scary, battle axe, "take no shit" energy in order to go toe to toe with hostile male leaders. Hillary Clinton has that. Tulsi Gabbard has it. But Harris just doesn't radiate that kind of "don't fuck with me" energy.

Yeah. Its unfair. But these are things we have to think about when the next POTUS might have to negotiate with men who run misogynistic hellholes like Afghanistan or Iran

Pennygadget · 2024-11-06T02:16:05+00:00

I've also had my comments erased for fat jokes (mainly one about that NB chick on SNL) and jokes at the expense of a TIP's appearance. I'm guessing she doesn't want to make body shaming women a habit on the site? Or maybe it's a personal trigger for her?

In any case, there ought to be a middle ground between expecting us to behave like church ladies and letting Ovarit become a more girly version of Kiwi Farms. LOL

Pennygadget · 2024-11-06T01:01:26+00:00

I get why she over-mods a bit. If she let's us get to uppity, use words like "troon", etc she risks losing server services for Ovarit. I don't think she has the resources that the Kiwi Farms owner has to fight back against a targeted campaign to shut down the site for "hate speech"

On the other hand, you're right about the timing being strange. I don't see why the election should be any more difficult to moderate than other controversial time periods (like the direct aftermath of October 7th or Harris replacing Biden as the nominee). Even the worst people on Ovarit are annoying at worst and not downright abusive or hateful.

Pennygadget · 2024-11-05T20:24:14+00:00

"How do you do, fellow girlies?"

Pennygadget · 2024-11-05T20:17:47+00:00

Not to mention the obscene costs of basic necessities like rent and groceries. A working couple could generally afford to buy a house in 2016. Now? Even couples with dual incomes and good jobs can barely afford a 2 bedroom apartment

Regardless of whether or not that was Biden/Harris' fault, it happened under their watch. And Harris doesn't seem to have any clear plan in mind to fix those problems

Pennygadget · 2024-11-05T20:09:24+00:00

I don't begrudge her needing a break (especially with a contentious election going on). But I worry about these hiatuses becoming more frequent if she doesn't get more assistance

Pennygadget · 2024-11-05T20:00:32+00:00

Hello from Ovarit!

Pennygadget · 2024-11-05T19:52:57+00:00

I hope this is it and it's not a prelude to the site shutting down or being sold to someone else

Pennygadget · 2024-11-05T19:46:58+00:00

I thought she had assistant mods. But I guess not? Or maybe they suddenly quit?

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