(Psst. The idea that right-wing beliefs were merely "level-headed and cautious" is mere apologia for bigotry. You were a kid, so you couldn't see the right wing for what they actually are, but they've always been incipient fascists. Conservatism is the evil that dare not speak its name.)
If your intentions really are good, comparing young women's justifiable mistrust of men - an increasingly loud subset of whom seem to feel life was much better when women were confined to the home - to incels' rank misogyny seems a sure way to be misunderstood.
You don't sound imaginative yourself.
In what way could that possibly be 'for better'?
Seems pretty unambiguously horrifying, confirming all our worst fears about the ability of hate propagandists to build mass consensus for fascistic persecution of vulnerable minorities in the 2020s.
Are you really a 'loather of fascism wherever it lurks'?
Because I have to say that your rhetoric regarding welfare claimants doesn't sound all that far removed from the kind of things a fascist might say. At least you had the delicacy to leave 'life unworthy of life' as unspoken subtext, I guess.
You must indeed be quite a bigot if Stonewall's pathetic capitulation to the anti-trans moral panic corrupting the (already immensely corrupt) British establishment wasn't prejudiced enough for you so you had to go directly to a literal hate group for an unadulterated dose.
Truly contemptible.
It's very disrespectful to deadname and misgender transgender people even if everyone knows they're trans and knows the deadname, just so you know.
Maybe someone who posts words about redeeming the soul of America in their profile might want to avoid this kind of transphobia in the future?
We don’t particularly need to grapple with that, no.
I assure you that no trans person who’s remotely been paying attention is going to forget the role of the media in promoting misinformation, spreading anti-trans animus, and distorting lives and identities regardless of the meaning of ‘deadname’.
(I think people should decide for themselves to what extent they might want to reject earlier parts of their lives or actively integrate them into their self-narratives and doubt most trans folk would disagree with that? Although honestly it’s not clear what you’re trying to communicate here…)
Frankly that‘s very obviously not what people are suggesting when they object to deadnames in the current sense.
Rejection of a mere signifier (and the attached symbolic meanings relating to what kind of person one is and who gets to define that) doesn’t entail rejection of a phase of one’s life.
Is it your contention that it’s acceptable to challenge the NYT when Lawyers, Guns and Money does it but for some reason it’s beyond the pale when the hoi polloi on Bluesky do it?
That’s going to require some unpacking.
I hadn’t taken you for quite such a ruling-class lackey.
If you’re honest then you’ll have to conclude that enablers of and sympathisers with Nazis aren’t so very different from the Nazis themselves, so your statement is pretty redundant.
Fairly sure you can’t, actually.
This contradiction makes them feel immoral, dirty, compromised and uncomfortably ambivalent.
Which in turn only makes them dislike us more as the source of these uncomfortable feelings.
I think they‘re caught between
a) the understanding that the beliefs they claim to espouse require them to regard us as equals and defend us
and
b) their actual feeling that we’re freakish, embarrassing, and inconvenient. Really, wouldn’t the world be so much nicer without people like us?
wow libs on this site really hate trans ppl huh
1) Everyone’s arguing about “misinfo” like it’s a content problem. But the next wave is a perception problem: AI swarms can manufacture the feeling that “everyone believes this” before anyone can even fact-check it. The weapon is synthetic consensus. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
Honestly, this is a gross article if you read all the way to the end.
The author thinks it’s weird that the IOC *isn’t* doing genital checks and suggests without any real justification that female athletes whose genitals look relatively more masculine have an ’unfair’ advantage and can be excluded.
This public banning of trans women reinforces the perception that trans people are fake and don’t deserve rights, therefore manufacturing consent for further crackdowns. It’s another step towards our destruction.
You frankly ought to take a good look at yourself if you’re going to be so dismissive.
In case you hadn’t noticed, attempts to eradicate trans people are in full swing in multiple countries and we’re one of the main scapegoats in this incarnation of fascism.
The racist implications of the IOC’s new policies are clear, but it’s frankly grotesque to claim it’s not about trans athletes when we can no longer compete at all. It’s like you’re saying we don’t even matter.
Disgraceful behaviour from someone who wants to claim you’re on our side.
Trans people want the puberty blocker ban lifted and we want trans kids to have free access to blockers and HRT.
We don’t want a sham trial run by shady, morally bankrupt ghouls who are a disgrace to their profession. The trial is both sickeningly unethical and methodologically skewed by design.
I don’t think that attribution is wrong, but it is incomplete.
Since it’s not just fear but visceral hatred that won’t abate with familiarity. In fact, it makes reactionaries even angrier when they see us happy and accepted.
Liberalism doesn’t have enough time for malevolence. Too optimistic.
trans day of visibility is such a quaint concept. remember back when we thought if everyone could just see trans people being normal human beings then *of course* they wouldn't want to hurt us anymore?
No.
They’re just covering their asses with a bunch of weak, pro-forma objections which will never translate into any serious attempt to rein in the rogue state of Israel.
I've said it before but if we can't solve the disinformation problem, we won't solve anything else.
Climate change, inequality, fascism... in all cases the powerful are working to detach the majority of people from reality so that they are never challenged. And it is working.
Trans men are essentially banned too unless they agree to compete in the women’s division and don’t take hormones, as basically no trans man would ever want to do.
They can’t take testosterone because it’s long been banned as a form of doping, which is ridiculous and transphobic.
Are you really surprised that you don't win a lot of points for only collaborating with fascists some of the time?
It's kind of upsetting that you posted a couple of generic images that don't even directly mention trans people in a thread reporting the deaths by suicide of two trans kids.
Does it not strike you as rather insensitive? Cis people will claim to have our backs yet won't even mention us by name.