Translation: "I get to decide whether you're worthy of your own identity"

IMHO, respecting gender identity shouldn't be attached to passing purity tests, and it shouldn't be a prize that cis people hand out to whoever qualifies as "gold star" trans people to them.

Do better.

You point out that she's a garbage person, which is true.

If that's a purity test for using proper pronouns and chosen names, how is that any different from MAGAtry?

She's a cunt, he doesn't pass, I don't agree with her politics, I don't like the way he dresses...

Don't get me wrong, Caitlyn Jenner is an absolute piece of shit... But that's completely separate from the fact she's trans.

IMHO, the second "allies" attach qualifiers before respecting someone's identity, you're giving MAGAts a golden ticket to do the same.

Being cis, maybe it's not my place to say... But I'm going to anyway.

I am super disappointed in all the self-proclaimed allies that are using the recent Caitlyn Jenner drama as an excuse to run wild with misgendering and deadnaming her.

"It would be better if Metallica covered it"

Oooh fuck off.

You know, he's got citizenship and I feel like he's been fully reprogrammed at this point, but how Canadian can my husband REALLY be, if he dislikes Log Driver's Waltz?

Me, quietly thinking to myself:

"Sarah McLachlan doesn't age. I'm really starting to think she's a witch or something".

Out loud: "she doesn't AGE."

Husband: "She really doesn't. Is she a witch?"

#Junos

The Drake thing was weird.

"Men in the music industry don't make it easy for women"

*Proceeds to make it all about himself*

LOVE Shawn Desman though.

Nelly Furtado is such a goddess. Pisses me off that she got bullied out of the public eye.

Glad to see her at the #junos!

Oh I know

I lived down there for 12 years, most of my friends live in Minnesota.

It's just night and day between the two. Hate, rage, incoherent rambling, etc... Vs well spoken, thoughtful, joyous and kinda dorky.

Like... Warm, dorky dad energy.

Love it.

THAT PART THOUGH.

Watching the #Junos, and just... Man, I love Mark Carney.

Not in a weird, culty way, I just love his face. His JOY.

What a world we'd live in, if more world leaders knew actual joy.

Just remembered that it's St Patrick's Day...

Because the radio station is playing Pipe Dreamz (techno "Scotland the Brave") as part of their themed mix.

Oh, and now Cotton Eyed Joe.

Nothing says "driving the snakes outta Ireland" like a Swedish band parodying Americans.

Western countries routinely destabilize non-Western countries and then wonder why there are so many refugees

That's an option?? Thanks, I'll look into that!

Eh, figure skating is at least as expensive.

While we definitely have some assholes, I always found it to be the exception, not the rule.

I was poor as dirt as a kid and had to bust my own ass to afford it, was surrounded by OBSCENELY wealthy people... Who were really nice to me.

Yes, I'm crabby.

Not thrilled with the way blocking works here.

Blocked someone who felt the need to come at me with that nonsense, now getting inundated with other replies to her.

I don't have the spoons for that shit.

When I moved to the USA in 2006, it was already CLEARLY on the path to the current situation, but no one cared to hear about it.

Much easier to be offended by a foreigner saying "this is how you get Nazis", than to look at what's happening, I guess.

But sure, blame Trump. Anything but society.

And much like men who shout about how they're not the problem... Americans should be more focused on addressing the issue in their tracks, rather than prioritizing how they, personally, are perceived by everyone outside that group.

We don't want to hear it. Sorry, not sorry.

Much like the problems of predatory men/toxic masculinity aren't going to be solved without addressing the culture supporting it... downplaying everything that led to Trump winning ALSO won't solve the problem.

This will not die with him.

It smells exactly the same as "not all men" and "but I'm one of the good ones!".

Trump didn't happen in a vacuum, and 2/3 of that country didn't have enough of a problem with him to vote against him. Full stop.

30% approval rating right now is INSANE.

This also didn't come out of nowhere.

I wish that "well meaning" Americans would understand just how sick many/most Canadians are of hearing "don't blame me/us/is just one man/the majority don't support this", etc.

If you're going to randomly engage a Canadian in that vein, don't be surprised when we don't want to hear it.

(Cont..)

tweet from lisa desjardins reporting SOTU might be up to 3 hours long

It’s both funny and cosmically correct that the U.S. men’s hockey chodes will have to sit through 2+ hours of rambling from their addled little king while the U.S. Women’s team gets to skip the speech and party with Flavor Flav in Vegas

Oh god. I can't even imagine.

I had to leave all the "international" RV camping groups I was in on Facebook, because literally everything turned into "let me talk about my guns".

Ugh.

I was gaslit for over a decade whenever I'd point out "this is how you get Nazis", or talk about the very real parallels that were cropping up.

A country can't spend that much time and effort on completely dehumanizing entire groups for decades, then blame it on one person who wasn't even active.

Sigh.

This is not about "how Canadians feel", it's about actual lived experience and observation down there.

"He" didn't do this. He's merely a symptom of a much, much bigger problem, not the disease itself.

Where we are right now was clearly where things were heading even back in 2006.

Now, I have to think... If I was a raging bigot, I think I'd go elsewhere, you know?

If I was the kind of person that screams about "chemtrails", not sure I'd want to stay somewhere that's all about education, conservation, respect, etc.

But .. No.

See, the weird thing here is that literally every Provincial or National Park employee we've ever met has been a nerd. Usually environmentalist, etc.

The parks often have a pride flag somewhere - if not right at the entrance - and there's usually one of the "all welcome" progressive signs posted.

*part

That absolves an awful lot of Americans of the past they played in the current situation.