I need some help

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[–]FearfulFriend[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

When do you bring up gender ideology with strangers over the phone? Is it part of your job?

I must be caught in the middle age-wise, old enough to wonder how something that just got invented five minutes ago has suddenly become mandatory, but young enough that most of the people I know are going along with it. I mean I WANT everyone to be safe from violence and be treated fairly in housing/jobs/education/healthcare and not be discriminated against based on how they look, which was what I thought this was right up until Trump's inauguration brought the insanity out of the woodwork. Well! Time to go downtown wearing a pussy hat and waving around a copy of Harry Potter and seeing who gets more triggered, the conservatives or the liberals. :/

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

No, it's not part of my job ;-) I'm just a naturally chatty person and somehow find a way to work the horrors of gender ideology into conversations.

Based on what you've said, I think you are at the age where some of your contemporaries have been swept in by gender ideology and some haven't.

I think we all want transgenders to have every human and civil right and to have an equal shot at happiness as everyone else. They just can't take ours.

I guess you didn't hear that pussy hats were banned from some Women's Marches not because of conservatives but because transgender activists said that a pink hat with cat ears were, wait for it... TRANSPHOBIC. So both your Harry Potter book and your pussy hat would trigger them, but do it anyway!

[–]FearfulFriend[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

yes, the women's march/pussy hat/transphobia thing was what peaked me. "Wait, there are people with penises telling people with vaginas what to do. Where...have I heard that before...? OMG MIND BLOWN"

[–]BEB 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I heard a female professor (Georgetown?) being interviewed about the first Women's March and in her opinion it was an expression of pure pent-up rage on the part of women. Like Trump's remark was the last straw for millions of women who'd spent a lifetime putting up with being harassed and condescended to by men and so the Women's March was kind of a primal, communal scream.

And then the trans activists had to take it over and now it's lost just about all the steam...