The Family Unit is Transphobic and Must be Abolished, Says Transgender Activist | Women Are Human

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[–]TheOnyxGoddess 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

TRA campaigns are normative-phobic. I can make claims too, but at least mine aren't outrageous.

[–]BEB 17 insightful - 3 fun17 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

So just in the last few days: prisons and the words "woman," "breast milk" and "mother" have been declared transphobic.

In the meantime, magazines aimed at young women are telling us to go ahead and fantasize about eating people.

I'm now at the point where I think a lot of this is a stealth campaign by the conservatives of the world to make liberals looks so ridiculous they will never hold office again.

[–]bopomofodojo 12 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I'm now at the point where I think a lot of this is a stealth campaign by the conservatives of the world to make liberals looks so ridiculous they will never hold office again.

Considering who owns the media (hint: it's billionares, who by definition are "conservative" i.e. not-left-wing, or at least not actual Marxism/Dialectical Materialism/Change the economic system left), yes. And it's not even stealth.

All culture war bullshit (whether religion, race, gender, etc.) helps the ruling class, i.e. the rich. It keeps working people divided into bubbles/tribes constantly at war with each other, preventing us from developing class solidarity. This is why it's so pushed, why it ramped up so much recently. The Internet, as it existed in the 2000's and (very early) 2010's, when populated by normal people instead of geeks, was their worst nightmare. All the dreams about what the Internet "could be", the grand knowledge-scape populated by equals - that is directly contradictory to the goals of the ruling class. It had to be destroyed. Enter idpol.

[–]BEB 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you! I have been saying the same for years.

I used to listen to NPR (considered mildly Left) and also far-Left radio programs (well, far Left in the US, which is probably far Right anywhere else ;-) but, especially in the last few years, I've noticed that so much of their focus has switched to identity politics.

Now, some of these journalists I think are genuine about their views on race and "gender," but ruthless opportunists like Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, and NPR, are receiving donations that have influenced their content.

For instance, Amy Goodman/ Democracy Now! is a big pusher of gender ideology, including having on the ACLU's resident nutcase, Chase Strangio. Look at Democracy Now's donors to see why.

Amy Goodman has long been accused of limited-hangout, and definitely she's using her status as one of America's few "independent" journalists to destroy true social justice from the inside.

[–]Archie 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Many TRAs previously were conservative incels. There's a real pipeline from one to the other.

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

I'm going to make sure I make those claims. I sometimes wonder if this major ID politics is something pushed by the conservatives to make sure liberal people stay out of politics, but if so it sort of gets my hopes up that the conservatives actually have control of this situation and will shut it down, they hate the things happening right now which also affect them too? But no, more likely people are this stupid. Someone theorises that it's ramped up more in the media, they could be right as it keeps everyone divided and distracted.

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

I think there's a way more sinister motive behind this, past the money to be made from transitioning children. Trans-humanism? Lower the birth rate? Women's bodies being made into commodities?

Whatever it is, conservatives, often no friends to women, might jump on board with Big Gender once they too think it's the best (or most profitable) way forward.

[–]akkordeonplayer 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Note they support abolition of prisons— which will essentially legalize rape.

[–]censorshipment 2 insightful - 7 fun2 insightful - 6 fun3 insightful - 7 fun -  (2 children)

I don't understand whatever he's saying, but I personally want to abolish the "nuclear family" bullshit. As a little girl, I had dozens of female sitters until I was a teen. Nowadays, kids are mostly with their mothers and partially with their fathers. That's not enough support. Parents aren't enough. Not even parents in same-sex relationships although I've read those couples raise happier children than hetero couples.

[–]jet199 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I think you are thinking nuclear families or extended families are an either/or thing.

Actually nuclear families are the building blocks of extended families, you can't have the former without the latter.

Children from single parent families do worse not just because they only have one parents but because they are also far more likely to be socially isolated due to things like time poverty.

[–]MarkTwainiac 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Children from single parent families do worse not just because they only have one parents but because they are also far more likely to be socially isolated due to things like time poverty.

And it's not just time poverty. Solo-parent families are also much more likely to live in economic poverty than two-parent families as well.

However, the info on both time poverty and financial poverty should be couched by the fact that nowadays 23% of solo parents are living with either one or both their own parents, which can (but doesn't always) mean the household has more financial means and is able to offer the child/children more adult time.

A growing number of solo parents today co-habit with partners without marriage, some of whom came into the relationship as solo parents themselves; and frequently in such a situation, a solo mother will have one or more additional child with the new partner. These types of arrangements have the potential to be beneficial as well as deleterious to the children

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/04/25/the-changing-profile-of-unmarried-parents/

Actually nuclear families are the building blocks of extended families, you can't have the former without the latter.

Yes, this is true. But the idea of extended families used to be based on the premise that each nuclear family would consist only of one mother and one father. In an era when the rates of divorce and re-coupling, co-habitation without marriage, and women having multiple children fathered by different men are all very high, what "extended families" mean and look like is far more complex. Today's "extended families" can benefit children, but they also have the potential to be worse for kids in various respects.

One more thing about "time poverty": if the adults in a child's home are abusive, as many unfortunately are, the less time and attention kids get from them is probably better.