Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I'd be in favour of banning anyone who signs up and heads straight to a trans thread tbh.
/intolerant
/intolerant
I'd be in favour of banning anyone who signs up and heads straight to a trans thread tbh.
/intolerant
Here's the thing, you don't need to explain why you don't fancy someone. Why would not being attracted to a trans person be any different?Victimhood is when anything and everything that is contrary to your transgender beliefs and agenda is considered and treated as transphobic. A man who is not sexually attracted to a trans woman is transphobic!
Why were they allowed to fuck up pages and pages of this thread before being banned?They HAVE been banned
But its always transphobes who get to run wild like this. Let a trans person make the call!!Mods are stretched kinda thin these days.
id have probably kicked them off the tread rather than warning them but armchair moding is easy
its usually pretty clear on the first post whether someone is trans or a transphobe.Well unless they are trans/nb/etc and looking for a safe haven, in which case have a hobnob, don't lend anyone a fiver
its usually pretty clear on the first post whether someone is trans or a transphobe.
yep - we just get accused of making everything about trans as if being trans doesn't interreact with everything else in our lives.Actually I hate the idea that we have "trans threads" that are the only place it is acceptable to mention being trans or nb or other gender-fluid/genderqueer type identification
It's like corralling us all into a pen so that people know where to find us to have a go.
yep - we just get accused of making everything about trans as if being trans doesn't interreact with everything else in our lives.
my colleagues talked about their partners all the time and so did i when they were women, before i transitioned but as soon as i had a male partner i became incredibly self conscious and went out of my way to try to not mention him. It was ridiculous. And of course some colleagues preferred to refer to him as my friend.It smacks of the old thing back in the '80s and even later where people would say stuff like "I don't mind if someone's gay as long as they don't shove it down my throat" (har har) and then go on to talk about their wife and family and their heterosexual lifestyle while if a gay acquaintance mentioned having a boyfriend (if he even dared bring it up in conversation) it would be met with disdain or even outright hatred.
Shut the fuck up, stay in the closet, don't make anyone feel uncomfortable with your odd lifestyle type of thing.
How did we white people learn about racism? We let black people be the experts.
How did men learn about sexism>? They listened to women.
Trans people try to tell you someone is a transphobe and you all go, well maybe they might have a point, lets see what they say next....
I get what you're trying to say, but I think we should listen to anyone who's actually been affected by an issue, revolutionary or not. Some people might not have the wherewithal to be revolutionary, but they still deserve a voice.I don't think it's that simple at all, and that identity politics categorisation tendency that underlies your post is also massively problematic.
What 'black people' do we listen to? Nation of Islam? Or just any of them? Ditto with women, which women, etc etc.? It's only a slight step to talking about listening to 'community leaders'. Reducing it all to 'just listen to X' isn't radical or revolutionary politics, it's identity politics.
Maybe you didn't mean it to read so simplistically, but unless you're a liberal (maybe you are?) we should listen to and work with revolutionary POC, women and trans people, not those who just happen to tick some box of identity.
Fair enough.It depends if we're talking about just personal experiences or wider political stuff I guess?
I don't think it's that simple at all, and that identity politics tendency of categorisation into singular groups that underlies your post is also massively problematic.
What 'black people' do we listen to? Nation of Islam? Or just any of them? Ditto with women, which women, etc etc.? It's only a slight step to talking about listening to 'community leaders'. Reducing it all to 'just listen to X' isn't radical or revolutionary politics, it's identity politics.
Maybe you didn't mean it to read so simplistically, but unless you're a liberal (maybe you are?) we should listen to and work with revolutionary POC, women and trans people, not those who just happen to tick some box of identity.
I don't think it's that simple at all, and that identity politics tendency of categorisation into singular groups that underlies your post is also massively problematic.
What 'black people' do we listen to? Nation of Islam? Or just any of them? Ditto with women, which women, etc etc.? It's only a slight step to talking about listening to 'community leaders'. Reducing it all to 'just listen to X' isn't radical or revolutionary politics, it's identity politics.
Maybe you didn't mean it to read so simplistically, but unless you're a liberal (maybe you are?) we should listen to and work with revolutionary POC, women and trans people, not those who just happen to tick some box of identity.
Mmm, I agree with a lot of what you're saying in those first couple of paragraphs but equally when people from marginalised groups say that traditional left groups feel dismissive of their concerns, they're often not wrong are they?
ID politics thread >>>>I don't think it's that simple at all, and that identity politics tendency of categorisation into singular groups that underlies your post is also massively problematic.
What 'black people' do we listen to? Nation of Islam? Or just any of them? Ditto with women, which women, etc etc.? It's only a slight step to talking about listening to 'community leaders'. Reducing it all to 'just listen to X' isn't radical or revolutionary politics, it's identity politics.
Maybe you didn't mean it to read so simplistically, but unless you're a liberal (maybe you are?) we should listen to and work with revolutionary POC, women and trans people, not those who just happen to tick some box of identity.
yeah go ahead and completely miss my point. Yes i was trying to keep things simple. And you had to interpret it in the worst way possible. Of course, you assume i'm a liberal, aren't trans people liberals, right? Aren't we all identity politics warriors right? fuck off!! I don't need your half assed support.I don't think it's that simple at all, and that identity politics tendency of categorisation into singular groups that underlies your post is also massively problematic.
What 'black people' do we listen to? Nation of Islam? Or just any of them? Ditto with women, which women, etc etc.? It's only a slight step to talking about listening to 'community leaders'. Reducing it all to 'just listen to X' isn't radical or revolutionary politics, it's identity politics.
Maybe you didn't mean it to read so simplistically, but unless you're a liberal (maybe you are?) we should listen to and work with revolutionary POC, women and trans people, not those who just happen to tick some box of identity.
Quite entertained today by a number of tweets showing transphobic lesbians suddenly clocking that their complaining about trans women being recorded officially or seen as children's mothers might just have an impact on non-birthing cis lesbian parents, including the below:
If you refuse to accept that a word can have both a biological and a social meaning, and if you think precise definitions of words are more important than people's happiness and social/legal recognition, then of course only a biological parent can be considered a mother or father.