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Antiboyscout wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 6:35 pmRecent articles stating that if you don't want to have sex with a trans person then you are a bigot
I did some googling and didn't find anything like what you're suggesting.
Yes, transpeople occasionally rant about how much it sucks that most of the people they would like to date don't want to date them and sometimes this frustration boils over into wishing the world was different than it was...but honestly, that's true for 95% of the population. How many of us haven't occasionally cursed the fact that we're too fat/short/old/sick/unfunny/whatever to attract the person we really want?
I wish the world was different, so I can relate. At the same time, you just gotta have faith. People like that do exist. They're out there. I'd totally date a woman who'd transitioned. Yeah, doesn't bother me she once had balls. Seriously. Does that make me a member of the LGBT community? Even though I'm sympathetic to them, but don't identify that way? I have shipped men together in fanfics and wrote them, you know... and that wasn't mere prose, either.
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
LittleRaven wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 7:36 pm
How many of us haven't occasionally cursed the fact that we're too fat/short/old/sick/unfunny/whatever to attract the person we really want?
You now understand the entire basis of the progressive inter-sectional movement
What are you even talking about? Conservatives have their standards, as do "progressives." This was a thing going back to the 19-fucking-20s! Some conservatives don't date a "libtard," same for progressives dating a "Republicunt." It varies, and it's a human thing, not a political thing.
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
Yukaphile wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 8:35 pm
What are you even talking about? Conservatives have their standards, as do "progressives." This was a thing going back to the 19-fucking-20s! Some conservatives don't date a "libtard," same for progressives dating a "Republicunt." It varies, and it's a human thing, not a political thing.
Feeling held back by whatever you are or identify as and then demanding what you feel you've been denied
Antiboyscout wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 8:44 pmFeeling held back by whatever you are or identify as and then demanding what you feel you've been denied
That's not a left/right thing though. That's just a human thing. Whether it's coal miners on the right or bi-sexual trans college professors on the left, people are always eager to feel aggrieved and demand the universe make it better.
Identity is more than just sexual/gender. And life is stacked against us all in many ways past that. Life is unfair, it's a harsh world, and all we can do is try and be awesome to one another - and we can't even do that right. You don't understand me, a center left liberal, at all.
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
Yukaphile wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 9:10 pm
Identity is more than just sexual/gender. And life is stacked against us all in many ways past that. Life is unfair, it's a harsh world, and all we can do is try and be awesome to one another - and we can't even do that right. You don't understand me, a center left liberal, at all.
By historical standards people are awesome to one another.
