I'm trying to imagine literary classics in 50-100 years time using ey/em/eir
my academic heart is screaming at the made up nonsense/grammatical ignorance. How can people keep a straight face! If my children asked me to call them EY I'd be on the floor (good thing the only word they know so far is mama!)I’ve always voted Labour - although didn’t mind Lib Dems under Clegg so much actually - but I’m rapidly approaching the conclusion that in the next election my vote goes to whichever party will stop this nonsense. If that isn’t a left leaning party then so be it. However it is such an awful conclusion when you consider this could mean voting Conservative after the way they’ve handled Brexit and Covid it really isn’t an easy pill to swallow. Such a horrible predicament to be in.
From what I've read of your posts - not just on this particular issue - you really strike me as someone who doesn't have a bad bone in their body. What has brought this on?
Thank you! I think it's just because I've started to speak up more and more in my personal life and people who I would generally consider to be like- minded are drinking the kool aid.
“Please respect the fact I am my own person with my own brain which I will use to make my own mouth, teeth and tongue to formulate the words I want to say”.
Are you trying to cancel them, or end the friendship because they disagree with you like we have seen time and time again from people on the other side of the argument? If you’re not, then you don’t sound intolerant to me at all.
Maybe on Twitter and the like.
Got to be honest I’m coming close to this point. I’m starting to find people I know repulsive with all the stuff they’re posting and I just don’t know how I can stay friends with people who think it’s fine to chuck my/women’s rights away at the demands of a small but loud minority. I’m really not one to fall out with people about politics - have friends from all over the political spectrum - but how is everyone else dealing with this?
I don’t know if this is down to luck, my family or friends, or down to the fact I don’t use any social media except to have a nose - but I’ve disagreed with friends and family on this issue, on Brexit, on how I was going to vote in the last election, on race issues and other stuff. Apart from the day of the Brexit result when one friend was angry to the point they didn’t speak to me for most of the next day but went back to normal the day after, I haven’t had any falling out or major issues. I do wonder, and still do, whether it’s down to lack of Facebook and Twitter because if I was dealing with as what you and others have described, seeing constant post after post banging on about something, “funny” memes which are actually insulting, generalisations, downright lies and self-indulgent “if you think X then please remove yourself from my life” posts, I think my friendship group and how I view my family members would be a LOT different as to what it is right now. So I don’t blame you. But outside of the online world, they’re not really conversations you constantly have unless the topic is brought up - and it also might be because people are a lot less confrontational face to face than they are online. From my own POV, I make it clear what my opinions are on things, but don’t go into depth about it sharing facts and figures to people like I would on here. If someone shoehorned politics, for example, into every conversation, my friendship with them would dissolve quickly but I don’t know anybody like that. My stepbrother has a few pro-Corbyn rants on a family group chat but they don’t last because we have other things to talk about. I can very well imagine he is a bleeping NIGHTMARE on Facebook, but I’ve never seen it nor have any idea if he has one!
I’ve only watched half of it but it seemed fairly alright to me, don’t agree with what they’re saying at all but it didn’t seem offensive
I think you're right about this and also I think this emboldens people to be much more extreme? I've spoken about the trans stuff with two of my closest friends in person before and it has never turned nasty even though they very much disagree with me, but seeing them posting ALL the time about TERFs and stuff is making me really think about how long I can stomach it. In person, I usually avoid topics of disagreement with close friends because I don't want to fall out about it and ultimately if you're all set in your views there's not much point in discussing it, but the ability to just post extreme infographics all the time is really turning me off people I care about. And definitely making me think differently about them. It's getting really hard.
I’ve said before I’m starting to see my teenage female cousin reposting and retweeting all the “cute” band “woke” virtue signalling infographics and I think they (teens in general) are heavily influenced by that kind of information because they are of an age where they have had smart phones since they were like 8 years old. It’s becoming the “done thing” to retweet, repost what your friends or favourite influencers are. There doesn’t seem to be much personal critical analysis going on on all these gender and social issues, imo. It’s all about being “relevant” and “virtuous” these days, as seen by the mass pile ons that happen on social media.
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Maybe on Twitter and the like.
Is anyone else sick of the trans demanding that the whole world bow down to them on social media...... fuck off
Trans acting superior duck off queens. Then they try and lump us gays in with them.www.datalounge.com
Just what we didn't need: a Trans rom-com
Directed by Billy Porter no less.[quote]What If? follows a popular high school senior who falls for a transgender girl at his school. Friends on the internet encourage him to take a chance, and the ...www.datalounge.com
The LGB Alliance is not transphobic – we are just trying to protect ourselves
We, a group of lesbians, bisexuals and gay men, were proud to found the LGB Alliance, Ireland, last month. Imagine our surprise, then, to read Emma Kelly’s article expounding we were a transphobic ...www.datalounge.com
Columnist Suzanne Moore quits The Guardian amid 'transphobia' row
Death of free speech at the Guardian as columnist Suzanne Moore quits after 300 staff sign petition against her claim that gender is more than a 'feeling'The newspaper which presents itself as a ...www.datalounge.com
Does it annoy you to see straight men and trans men looking to hook up with each other on grindr?
There are a lot of both - straight men wanting to score some tina, and trans men wanting their vaginas filled.Does it bother you? Annoy you?www.datalounge.com
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That’s just from one website.
And a gay men’s magazine is currently getting ratioed the hell out of them for bowing down and grovelling to the trans cult on Twitter as I type...
I wonder is it down to internalised homophobia or feeling solidarity with them because they're believing the narrative about trans people being the most marginalised group in the world ever
I’ve known similar. I act ‘innocent’ and ask them if they feel any less homosexual when with a guy and they go down on his tina which turns to ‘confused’ as they sputter no and try and explain why “it’s not the same”.
