• Harold_Penisman@lemmy.world
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    …how does a trans person get this way? Seems like a huge lack of self-awareness or some kind of disingenuous grift.

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            I mean I go pretty effortlessly closeted at work as a non-binary trans person even though my hair is a neon rainbow and people clock me as both male or female on occasion. Coming out of the closet to some select folk tends to elicit way more blindsided surprise then seems reasonable given I don’t think I could look more stereotypical enby if I tried. My conclusion is cis people in general are pretty trans blind outside of the binary. Infra and Ultra gender sounds about right.

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      Well you see the normal children are just interfering gender identities. So really the normal must be some sort of mix of them all (maybe gender fluid?)

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    Ayo I gotta respect the psychotic level of cognitive dissonance she has. Thats such an unashamedly hypocrytical stance I cant even argue.

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    There’s no such thing as a normal child. That’s the problem with conservative’s expectations.

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      Kids are weirdos. I love it, we should encourage it. Kids love each other without seeing prejudice, I love watching my toddler play with other kids, they don’t give a shit about gender or color.

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        Same, and I may feel a certain way about the kid as a cranky old man who hates kids, but I never let my son see this and encourage him to like everybody.

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    Aren’t there conervative teachers too? Based on their anwser, just going off what the image tells me, there are two possibilities:

    Yes -> Being trans is what the children want, after all they are presented with both options. Not presenting the option denies them happiness.

    No -> Being ‘woke’ is what comes naturally with education. There must have been something like the first ‘woke’ teacher and all the other educated people where like ‘Yes, he’s right.’. Conservatives should just educate themselves.

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    That’s one of those rage bait memes used to drive engagement. I realize I’m doing it now, but at least it’s to point it out. It’s essentially bot trash

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    The rhetoric that you can somehow make kids trans that would otherwise be cis just by exposing them to new ideas is getting extremely tiresome. Everyone should know that’s not true by now. I’m convinced the people posting memes like this know they’re full of shit and are just dog whistling that they disapprove of anyone different than them, a la homophobes talking about how gayness is “unnatural” when that’s observably false in actual nature.

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      The rhetoric that you can somehow make kids trans that would otherwise be cis just by exposing them to new ideas is getting extremely tiresome.

      Once kids are able to relate confused inarticulate feelings with coherent patterns of behavior, they can begin to conform.

      Sometimes, that conformity means adapting their presentation and physiology to their new gender. Formerly cis-presenting kids transition under this model.

      Other times it means internalizing their anxiety and closeting themselves to avoid social stigma. Cis-presenting kids delay and decline to transition under this model.

      A Woke Teacher encourages the former while a Based Trad Teacher encourages the later.

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      In Caitlyn’s case, it seems to be disapproval of people like herself. Even after coming out and transitioning… still seems to hate herself.

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        She’s definitely not in a good place. The people she preaches to are primed to think she’s at best a pitiable freak and mentally ill for being what she is but she’s addicted to being their pet trans woman because she’s so keen to feel more somehow respectable than other trans people.

        It doesn’t seem like at all a healthy place to be.

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      you silly, don’t you understand, someone “finding themselves” is actually just being lied to by big identity, that spiritual retreat that they had last week was probably a scam from even bigger identity.

      /s because i haven’t hit my quota for today.

      also tiny rant, literally everything is fucking unnatural, go get dysentery, and die in a ditch from sepsis. THATS NATURAL.

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      An interesting observation from another source: since being straight and white is now the worst thing ever and we, especially the males, are now responsible for absolutely everything that goes wrong anywhere in the universe and everyone hates us for that, any kid unfortunate enough to find themselves in that predicament is going to identify as just about anything else in order to retain some degree of popularity.

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        The only one who feels that way is you. Even then I really don’t think you actually believe that.

        There’s nothing wrong with being a straight white guy. I am one. The issue comes when you fail to recognize that gives you a huge advantage because you’re seen as the default, perfect combination of traits in the eyes of many. You’ll be treated better than others in some forums, on average, just for being you. People who hear that and then say “nuh uh, actually its the other way around because you people are fighting against the status quo. Also you’re brainwashing kids by exposing them to viewpoints I disagree with.” are the problem.

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        damn you must not go outside much.

        You should try it sometime, the amount of straight white guys that are outside is probably about the same as the amount of straight white guys that are alive right now.

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        Have you tried acting trans simply for popularity sake? I am genuinely curious if it’s something you would be willing to try and ultimately what your take aways on the experience would be.

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    What a fucking hag, she does know that In the Flesh shouldn’t be taken as a statement of intent right?

    Are there any queers in the theater tonight?

    Get them up against the wall!

    There’s one in the spotlight, he don’t look right to me, Get him up against the wall!

    That one looks Jewish!

    And that one’s a coon!

    Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?

    There’s one smoking a joint, And another with spots!

    If I had my way, I’d have all of you shot!

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        Roger has some strong opinions, but if you think he is a hateful person then you’ve absolutely misunderstood him.

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          At least in the last 4 years, the guy’s sounding like a Russian plant. Somehow pinning the blame for the Ukraine invasion on NATO and saying Ukraine needed to reach out to Russia and work with them to end the conflict.

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          I don’t think I’d describe him as ‘hateful’ but his comments on Ukraine were really disappointing.

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    So she’s saying she’s not inherently a woman?

    Because every trans person I know is inherently the gender they say they are.

    I guess not Caitlyn?

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    I want to downvote this so bad but it’s in the right sub so I can’t! ☹️

    (Clarification: I want to downvote it because the meme is so hateful and ignorant)