It will suck when the old wizard gets tired of being a frog and realizes he doesn’t have the limbs to turn himself back into a human.

I don’t want to say “I told you so”, but I told you so.

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policies to increase visibility to destigmatize trans people

Causing children to be confused about their sexual identity by indoctrinating them with queer theory is not merely “increasing visibility to destigmatize trans people”.

First link is a retracted study

If you look closely, the redacted part was personal information that participants in the study may or may not have consented to share. So it was redacted for their privacy. It’s explained, one link away.

the other is an article about gender dystrophy becoming a more common diagnosis as it’s become easier to identify than before. At no point does the article support your bigoted hypothesis that it’s all down to indoctrination.

It shows how the number of minors receiving hormone therapy for gender dysphoria have been increasing between 2017-2021. An increase in gender dysphoria among the youth correlates with the push of queer theory in schools.

Bullshit.

Fine, you can believe what you want.

A Ph.D. in political science doesn’t make you a doctor

I didn’t say he was a medical doctor.

Aand there’s the “gay people rape children” smear 🙄

I didn’t say that. I was speculating about what might motivate someone to push such ideologies. It’s worth noting that John Money (who coined the term “gender role”) and Alfred Kindsey were both pedophiles. So it’s not completely out of question.

Citing from John Money’s Wikipedia page:

Money stated that pedophilia, among other chronophilias, could be characterized as combining “devotion, affection, and limerence”, “comradeship with a touch of hero-worship” and ultimately as “harmless… in most instances”.

Wow. This guy is disgusting. This is what you show me to SUPPORT your argument??

I have no idea what’s going on in these people’s heads. Maybe it’s money. Maybe the women who participate in this hate little boys. I don’t know. But considering the outcome of this ideology, I’m certain that they are motivated by selfishness more so than helping kids.

BTW, if I was him, I wouldn’t mention “pedophile” and “God” in the same sentence. What with the Catholic Church being the biggest child molester factory in the world and most other Christian, Muslim and Jewish denominations having more than their share of rapists too.

“A God-sent” is another way of saying it “would make them very happy”. Maybe said person doesn’t believe in God at all.

Now please leave me alone and have the day you deserve.

Likewise.

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Just because you’re used to things working a certain way doesn’t mean that it has to be that way.

True.

Similar arguments have been used against things like abolishing slavery, women entering the workforce and the concept of secular education.

Slavery as it existed in the 1700s wasn’t abolished because the rulers had an epiphany and realized the errors of their ways. It was (mostly, not entirely) abolished for practical reasons. Institutionalized slavery still exists. You have prison labor in countries like the US. We also see outsourced slavery to more degenerate countries like China, where they do have actual slaves or laborers who are slaves in every way but name. Have you ever heard of slave free cotton, or slave free cocoa? These words exist because slavery is not gone. Companies and us consumers around the world are indirectly benefiting from slave labor till this day. I have to look long and hard to find stuff that are more ethically produced, you should know that it’s hard. We also see sex slavery, which intersects with the porn industry. Some of the women in porn could be trafficking victims. I wonder if liberals who goon to porn understand that.

Women working corporate jobs has brought a lot of economical advantages, no doubt. They pay taxes, they increase productivity, they saturate the job market, etc. But it came at the expense of the family unit, and birth-rates. You have a rising percentage of older people needing care, and a less percentage of younger people to care for and replace them. This is one reason why many western countries are inviting immigrants, to keep things sustainable. But for how long?

Women working is not a new phenomena. Child-rearing, taking care of the husband, taking care of the home, and doing everything a housewife does is a full-time job. It’s an honorable job. You seem to have no issue with a woman being obedient to a boss in a corporation, and keeping a smile at all times lest she gets fired. But if it’s her husband that she obeys, you suddenly get your panties in a twist.

Just like allowing people the gender identity that feels natural to them and respecting that reality.

It’s so natural in fact, that we have an unprecedented number of “trans-youths”. I wonder why. Maybe previous generations were just too scared to get out of the closet. Or maybe, it is because young boys and girls are being indoctrinated.

Again, same old “society can only work if we don’t change it to be more open towards people different from me” bigoted bullshit that has been spouted since marginalized people first started getting any rights.

Go and tell that to Ukraine.

You are accusing me of being biased, meanwhile these articles are extremely biased.

I already elaborated on this in previous posts, but the gist of it is that you cannot build a society with all its various systems without having a practical conceptualization of what humans are. This is why your idea of gender-nonbinary, which is impractical to accept wholesale, will never go beyond the bedroom, niche parts of the medical industry, and maybe some transtoilets here and there. 99% of the world will still run based on the concept of two sexes, because it aligns better with reality, because it’s what’s practical.

In times of prosperity, you can afford to play around with these ideologies (at the expense of some boys and girls), but once that prosperity ends due to war or similarly unfortunate events, all these ideas go out the window!

It’s reality. Men who want to be like women, and vice versa, are finding out the hard way.

I’d rather be called a bigot than denying reality to satisfy the desires of fetishists online and the medical industry.

Imo, the biggest tragedy are all the kids that get groomed into undergoing “treatment” for gender dysphoria. Like puberty blockers and even surgery.

I was banned once for saying “there are only two sexes”

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even here

Here is especially bad.

Yeah, this comic could reflect the feelings of women who were unlucky enough to meet such outrageously bad people, or at least have the fear of meeting such a person.

But to say that this is the rule is, I feel, a stretch.

I can’t relate at all either from personal experience. My concern when reading something that I cannot relate to is that what I’m reading could have been astroturfed. We are in a pseudonymous discussion forum where anyone can LARP as anything and make shit up. It’s not a stretch to say that this vulnerability could be used to further agendas through manipulation in an organized manner.

There are a few ways to verify what people are saying, that I know of. One is to use established studies, and another one is to use anecdotes. But if all I have is hearsay from some internet account, then I can’t take it as truthful until I have something that can verify it. It doesn’t mean I will discard what people say, or not take them seriously, but I will exercise caution.

Anyway, upon further reflection on what people have said, I am inclined to take the concerns that OP (and others here) express more seriously. It’s wrong to say that these people can never exist, and I would not like to invalidate the fears that some women have for such people. I simply reacted based on my own anecdotal experience, but other people can be more unlucky than I, and may develop said fears.

I think @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee expressed what I wanted to say better than I did. Yeah, calling you a schmuck was unnecessary. Sorry if that offended you, no really.

That’s absolutely disgusting behavior. Maybe I’ve been lucky with the people around me.

I understand what you are saying, and I don’t want to invalidate your concerns. I can see now that this comic resonates with women more than it would with a man.

I don’t have to be a woman to know that men generally don’t respond like that. This is silly.

I’ve never seen a man respond like that to being rejected, ever.

lol @ the schmucks feeling threatened by men giving their opinions or feel the need to preemptively post personal attacks.

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Lmao!