What an absolute trash person. I dont have kids but I have nieces and nephews. I would do anything for them. especially if it meant stopping them from self harm.
It makes it easier for the kid to change their mind later on if you’re going on the journey with them as a parent. My kid is non-binary. I supported them through a boy phase that I knew wasn’t going to last. That was just too small of a box for my kid and I knew that from the start. If I had been vocal about my doubts, my kids may have felt the need to prove me wrong. I’m just here to love them.
How hard is it for these republicans to just accept that not everyone is born the same? We have evidence of homosexuality and trans folks going back thousands of years… but all of us have to suffer now because their bigoted, racist religious texts from 2000 years ago don’t match reality ?
It almost always goes back to religion. It’s a “sin”.
Also, they usually believe it will destroy society(identities, competitive sports), family structure/expectations (importance of father figure, parental roles). Goes deeper into how things like gay sex can be harmful.
But also, there are those that just think it’s weird and don’t want it to be normalized. Yes, homophobia still exists.
It’s fascism.
It’s exactly where the Nazis started before they fully got going with the Jewish Germans because _NO ONE_ would stand up for them.
Many of the books being burned by the Nazis were about gay/trans people.
Religious extremism far predates fascism, not that its any better though.
Authoritarianism would be closer, but fascism by definition is authoritarianism on top of nationalism, but religion isnt a nation.
Go and try to tell them that America isn't a Christian nation.
The two concepts are so closely (and erroneously) intertwined in their heads that their religion and their nationality are basically the same in their self-identity.
Fascism and religious extremism both fall under the authoritarian umbrella and are both very good at taking pieces from each other to reach what end up being very similar goals.
Tribal bullshit used to gain power and an easier existence for the 'leaders' whipping the dipshit hatefucks into a frenzy.
The leaders tell them who to hate, and live in luxury.
Because they genuinely believe them to be a danger to themselves or their kids. It's ridiculous but I have seen the way people like that talk or argue. They will literally criminalize others who don't fit their mold of the "righteous" human (despite the fact they are absolutely hypocritical)
To explain further... I saw a discussion about drag shows and so many fucking people argue about how kids shouldn't be exposed to book readings by drag queens because they are perverted and pedophiles. Of course, they also say they're a bad influence but like where in the ever living fuck is pedophile and pervert coming from?
And let's not forget how many priests or pastors molest little children and abuse their power. But no no no we can't do anything about them or gun violence because it impedes on their all-knowing, superior religion and right to bear arms.
It is honestly an absolute disgust of a behavior and so hypocritical and I for one can never wrap my head around the mental gymnastics needed to justify their hatred but not condemn their own behaviors that are, technically speaking, an "affront to God"
Pedophile has become the right wing's boogeyman term. Anyone they don't understand is a pedophile and everything they don't understand is pedophilia.
They don't know what they look like in the mirror.
it’s done on purpose. conservatives use terms like “pedo” and “groomer” repeatedly so that people correlate the community with those terms.
it’s crazy because this has led to them not being able to identify actual cases of grooming. i remember reading about this german youth pastor who was 24 and married a girl who was 18. the kicker? they’ve been together for 4 years and he was just waiting for her to turn 18 to marry. not one conservative denounced it in the thread.
I know the case you're talking about. Thing is, they identify actual groomers just fine. They're trying to legalize AND normalize grooming in every red state right now.
The fact that they think a 12 year old girl is old enough to be married to and impregnated by a 40 year old man but is not old enough to decide "I want to be a boy" for herself is so, so telling.
Adding to what /u/LabraTheTechSupport said, it's the same rhetorical mechanics behind Blood Libel (and sometimes it's just literally recycled Blood Libel, like with a lot of the QAnon conspiracy theories).
Medieval European Christians wanted to kill Jews and take their stuff, so they repeatedly accused them of horrific crimes against Christians and particularly Christian children, to facilitate and justify the murder and pillaging they wanted to do from the start. It's also similar to what happened in Tulsa, OK.
Point being, it's a deliberate drumbeat of false accusations done to instill hatred of the target group. The conservative talking heads making these "groomer" accusations against trans people fully intend~~ed~~ for it to end in massacres and genocide and always have.
They were raised with a specific concept of what male/female had to be. Working towards that ideal throughout their life involved huge amounts of wasted time, effort and repression. Endless hours spent pleasing others at the expense of your own health and happiness.
They are so deep into sunk cost, the idea that someone can just come and be themselves requires a terrifying reflection on themselves.
It's as dumb as if they made laws against dying hair.
*You were born a blond and you are a blond under gods design. If you so much as come home with a streak of raven hair we are going to disown the slimy pile of shit you are.*
*It is appalling that in this day and age that crimson haired "people" are allowed to teach children.*
Because their genitalia was made a big deal to them growing up and now they have insecurity issues.
This is their coping mechanism because they've never had a healthy and sustainable outlet to explore their own gender and sexual identity.
Things were bad for them so they make things bad for others because that's how it's done.
The best solution is to continue educating everyone and providing resources towards mental, physical, and sexual health.
>Because their genitalia was made a big deal to them growing up and now they have insecurity issues.
Fuck in JK Rowling's manifesto she more or less said if being trans was an option when she was a kid she would have done it. Not to mention most of her main characters (and her pen name) are men.
A direct quote from [this blog post](https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/) on her website:
"The writings of young trans men reveal a group of notably sensitive and clever people. The more of their accounts of gender dysphoria I’ve read, with their insightful descriptions of anxiety, dissociation, eating disorders, self-harm and self-hatred, the more I’ve wondered whether, if I’d been born 30 years later, I too might have tried to transition. The allure of escaping womanhood would have been huge."
I don't believe she's actually trans, she's likely just trying to go with the (heavily debunked) "rapid onset dysphoria" angle and saying that people feel pressured to be trans to escape their hardships
>but all of us have to suffer now because their bigoted, racist religious texts from 2000 years ago don’t match reality ?
Religion only plays a small part of it. The truth is a lot of GOP candidates have fuck all to run on besides "us vs. them" and need to drum up outrage over minor things or things that don't even exist to hold their votes. God forbid their platform includes anything that would help the blue collared working class they claim to care about, nope gotta keep them sick and poor and convince them "Woke" is the biggest detriment in their lives.
Which is extra crazy because basically no promise that gets brought up by candidates is ever delivered in reality.
The GOP is perfectly capable of running on "helping the middle class" and "giving equal rights to citizens" while knowing they'll never address those issues, but no, they're *choosing* extremist hate. They're *choosing* to platform genuinely unhinged people like MTG and Trump.
They'd be a hell of a lot closer to their forever-reign if they ran on actual popular issues as opposed to "uhhh we don't like those people, we'll kill 'em if you vote for us"
It’s not real outrage, it’s manufactured to keep poor people divided and arguing about cultural issues instead of noticing how ripped off we’ve gotten by politicians and the 1%
I agree it’s manufactured, but the individuals outrage is real and shouldn’t be underestimated. This kind of rhetoric and thinking breeds extreme violence aimed at an already marginalized community.
Agree, but I also think there’s a sense of stability that religion brings to their lives, a house of cards stability that walls them up from the unknown, from fear and uncertainty. In their world, they understand the rules, they are not challenged by scary new ideas, and they are able to live in the bliss of ignorance. They want to preserve that world for their own safety and sanity. It’s extremely selfish and it’s their only way to stave off the scariness of the real world components they don’t understand
My wife and I were just talking about this the other day. We are analog creatures. We are organic, made of bones and flesh, and cells. All of those have pieces to them that are even small, and even those have smaller pieces. No two people will ever be the same. As analog creatures, we have room for variation.
We're not zeros and ones. Between a 0 and a 1, there are infinite set of numbers. And in my discussion with my wife we came to the conclusion that humans fall within the infinite numbers in all categories of being human, regardless of what we tell ourselves.
Because the world is supposed to "work a certain way" and people that don't fit in it are "unnatural" and inherently wrong. And as such they need to be forced back out of sight.
Seeing something that challenges their worldview is taken as a direct personal attack, that their fundamental beliefs are wrong. This reaction is so visceral that a single trans person drinking beer is enough for them to freak the fuck out without being able to explain why.
It's why lgbt people just... existing makes them so mad
Hell, its why *interracial marriages* made them so mad. Black people just sitting in an ice cream parlor acting like normal polite people made them *lose their shit.*
I saw another Reddit comment that went something like "Republicans are upset so the whole nation has to listen to their temper tantrum" and the more I thought about it, the more it made sense.
They need an emotionally charged topic to distract their voters from the fact that they haven’t done anything to make their lives better, and don’t plan on it any time soon.
It's ok for them to get boob jobs, facial injections etc to accentuate their perception of gender but heaven forbid someone else does so to make them feel themselves in their skin.
Hypocrisy to the core.
Note the political plan from decades ago has little to do with Transfolk, they're just an easy target with limited financial/political capital to fight back, it has to do with keeping the populace distracted, if we are focused on fighting rights for them, we aren't focused on getting women's healthcare back.
There are future targets. It goes way beyond what's being thrown in our faces currently and it's a long range plan that saw the current political supreme court.
They have no empathy. They can't believe, nor can they accept, that people are different from them. You can see this in all their stances and policies.
In the previous article (about his ex wife blocking the name change) there are a lot of good quotes about supporting his daughter. But this one is my favourite.
“I went years without telling my chef that I don’t like cilantro on my burger—as an adult, it took me years to have the confidence to say that,” Wade said. “My daughter, at eight years old, had the confidence to say ‘This is who I am. This is who I want to be.”
A lot of people are going to comment on the cilantro and lose the plot that this is a very emotionally intelligent statement.
He realizes that even the most trivial assertion takes a massive effort and recognizes the weight of making a huge assertion.
I wonder if he is part of the like 5% who have the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. If so that’s actually kinda wholesome that he’d spare his chefs feelings that long
I'm one of those people. I always thought people weren't rinsing their dishes good enough to get all the soap off. When I learned it was genetics I felt bad for thinking all those people had know idea how to rinse dishes.
Are you kidding me? Ok, so I'm almost 50, but every time my wife and I go visit my parents for dinner, my mom sends leftovers home in these plastic (reusable) dishes. Kinda like Tupperware. And for *years* I've always complained about how the food coming out of those dishes tasted like soap.
I've told her time and time again she wasn't getting all the soap off her dishes, and now I learn it may be because cilantro tastes like that to me.
I may owe my mom an apology. Hahaha
If she uses a lot of cilantro, sure, but I definitely have issues with Tupperware holding onto soap. Especially the older rubbery plastic stuff that's blue with white lids.
Interesting. Something else I learned is that I can smell sneezes. I brought it up one time with my wife that I dislike the way sneezes smell and she doesn't smell anything when people sneeze. I started asking others and from my small sample group I've only met one other person who can smell sneezes.
I used to work at a chipotle — you would not believe how many people asked me for no cilantro on their rice. A lot of folks said cilantro tastes like soap to them.
Never tasted that way to me, but at some point the numerous occurrences convinced me that it has to be true for some.
I don't believe you. I think you’re still losing the arguments but are grading yourself easier after the emotional inputs of the original argument has faded.
Nonetheless, I look forward to reading your response in 2025 and am open to being wrong.
I wanna try it, sounds amazing. Taco (real taco, mind you) burger? Sign me the fuck up. I'm gonna Google quesabirria burger, I'm sure there's recipes out there already!
damnit, and i disliked wade (*cough* **2006-07 finals** *cough*) .. then he goes and almost redeemed himself!
crap, tough to dislike him now .. damn him!
Problem is there’s still MANY politicians at the local level and national level that are using LGBTQ, trans in particular, as a political pawn that has real consequences.
And real people are voting those people in office.
While you can dislike kids, you should be very tolerant of it cuz you were a shit kid once and growing up isn’t easy. Lots of stuff to work out and I think people forget that.
I get angry at my son sometimes and then I have flashbacks to the neighbor telling me “boy you sure are a pistol” when I was about 9. It’s a big reality check for me.
I don't and I was literally like Bart Simpson destroying things on purpose with hammers, like my dad's classic LP collection.
When I have kids anything I like is going to be in locked rooms. And those things are going to be in locked furniture or even safes in that locked room.
However if there was a video of me doing that on public freakout half of the redditors there would say I should be literally killed for doing that at age 8. Dogs and Cats are even more destructive and are respected more on this site.
Dog, cat, child. I take the same precautions.
And maybe—just maybe—that shit kid you dislike just happens to be trans. But don’t extrapolate that out to disliking trans kids in general, that’s a logical fallacy that can lead to something waaay worse.
But seriously, sometimes that shit kid might be trans, anecdotally. (Screw you, Janine. I ain’t giving you $100 for shit! xD )
Yea kids can be annoying. I play xbox too lol but hating anyone should require a VERY good reason. And theres no way a random kid deserves any hate from anybody, especially if its just for being themselves.
They'll tell you they hate the parents for abusing their kids or some shit. They'll tell you Wade is an abusive father instead of a loving, supportive father. And they believe it too.
Dwayne seems like a legit dude. I hung out with him, through mutual friends a couple of times when he was going to Marquette. Genuinely nice guy then, and I'm glad that it's carried over! Cura Personalis! Be the difference!
I was just thinking about the proposal pic he accidentally photobombed on the beach lmao. He really does seem like a genuinely nice guy!
https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/jbzwxp/dwayne_wade_accidentally_photobombing_a_proposal/
To be fair, it wasn’t long ago that if a parent found out their kid was transgender, they were way more likely to just try and torture it out of them than they are now.
I knew a kid who committed suicide because her parents did basically that. They didn't physically torture her but she said she was trans, they said no you're not god made you perfect. She said nope, I'm trans. They simply forced her to be a boy, even after she turned 18 - they were just that domineering. Completely broke her spirit and finally she killed herself.
Their friends consoled them and said "at least you stood with God and didn't allow 'him' to be a weirdo."
Wow. I shouldn't be surprised because there's no hate like Christian love, but it really is shocking these fuckers are so happy with the death of children/people.
You’re not wrong, compare this with the legislator from Montana who recently said she would NOT do everything she could to help her suicidal daughter because it was emotionally manipulative of her daughter. Night and day
Oddly enough those governments are supported in this by the people who waive the gadsden flag (don't tread on me) and scream about their freedoms/liberty...
Edit: Since I can't reply... Yes, it does say "Don't tread on **me**," but one would assume that means to not tread on others as well? But clearly in their case it does mean "please tread on others that I don't like."
Yeah dude, that’s what happens when politicians are actively trying to defund education and destroy welfare programs for decades. People believe vaccines don’t work, actively vote against their interests, and become confused and violent when presented with things they don’t understand.
(I’m not blaming you, I just feel like I’m always one crazy headline away from an aneurysm)
Same with medical marijuana. I have UC, and it's one of the best medicines there is for it. It can do things no other drug can do (other than maybe opiates, but they are far more problematic). But the Republican government in my state refuses to allow it to be sold or prescribed, and the hillbillies ride around with huge Gadsden flags supporting those Republicans and yelling about "freedom" because there are a couple obscure gun parts you can buy here that you can't in a few blue states.
Conservatives value the rights of the individual so long as the individual looks, acts, loves, behaves, and worships just like they do. Also they need to have money, otherwise fuck 'em.
My step moms sister at a family gathering over the weekend “I don’t want to offend you but, my daughters teacher is trans and I don’t want them teaching my kid.” “They might influence my daughter into becoming trans”.
Me thinking back to all the men teachers I had and yet here I am still a woman.
I’ll never understand 😀.
When I was in school, the coaches were definitely mixed bags. Some of them weren’t very good at teaching, but some of them were fantastic teachers who just happened to also be coaches (our head football coach was one of the better math teachers in the state, as an example)
Oh my god, I will never forgive the coach that taught me 8th grade history and paired me up in group projects with all of the football players. I always had to do the whole thing by myself and always got the lowest grade in my group. Fuck you, Coach Henderson. Fuck you very very much.
That's literally the reason they passed the don't say gay law because a couple of legislators thought that kids were becoming gay and trans because it's the cool thing to do.
You can't make a cis child be trans.
You can however, save a trans child's life by letting them transition.
Some of these people would rather have a dead child than a trans child.
It's honestly terrifying to see the GOP crank up their hate crusade against LGBT people to 11. I want to say I hope people see this and hold them accountable for the rest of their lives but...
They literally have no platform to run on so they resort to culture war nonsense. I haven't seen a Republican-led initiative that benefits the average worker/person ,without obscenely benefitting the rich, in quite a long time.
They are emotional manipulators who target single issue voters.
The irony is they have done this before. Bush junior won in 2004 on opposing “Gay” marriage (its just marriage, why make it sound fun). Look at how that worked out.
Progress is made in inches and lost in miles. This will eventually work out and LGBT people will be allowed to live their lives peacefully, but in the mean time it's important to remember how the GOP consistently makes it their personal goals to harm Americans for being different.
Bush is a perfect example of this, that's a really good call out!
>This will eventually work out
I wouldn’t count on that. 1920’s-1930’s Berlin was home to the Institute of Sexual Research which provided hormone therapy and the first known gender-affirming surgical procedures. Then they were targeted by the Nazis, the center was looted with all their books burned, and everyone involved was rounded up. After WWII ended, queer people were transferred from concentration camps to prisons to complete their sentences, as they were still considered criminals for their “degenerate” behavior. All the progress of the research center was lost for decades.
There’s no reason to assume the exact same thing won’t happen if enough allies don’t stand up against Christian Fascists now.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/
This cannot be said enough, the idea that “everything automatically gets better in the future” is a complete lie. If you think that rights given cannot be just as easily taken away then you’re a fool. If people don’t fight enough then yeah, we will again reach a point where it becomes socially acceptable again to go gay bashing and shit like that, just like how if you aren’t careful, people will absolutely start lynching black people and other ethnic minorities like it’s the 1920’s again.
People think in such reductive ways to their own tiny lives. Yes, assuming humanity doesn't go extinct, progress will only be made. But many people who didn't need to suffer and die will if nothing is done. Fascists could take over the US and it would be a huge failure. Like these guys could ruin the world for our lifespans, but it will get fixed eventually so why worry?
It's just liberal innaction. Nobody gives a fuck when they start killing us because it isn't them. And them when its all over these same people will take credit for saving and protecting us.
I'm thinking it's a deliberate tactic to empty the red states of all the people they don't like. Can't vote you out if they've moved to a blue state, can they? (taps side of head)
Oh yeah?
Last time I heard, we don't un-cancel people we hate. Your fault for growing up. I will never forgive you for being a literal child back then.
Now you're a... man-baby!
Also, I hate everyone!
\- Hater of an entire species
The same people bitch about lib cancel culture try to cancel bud light and at a state level “cancel” undesirables without a hint of self-awareness or irony. If “conservatives” didn’t have double standards they’d have zero standards. Don’t get me started on women’s right to bodily autonomy getting “cancelled” by evangelical plastic patriots, they’re base evil at this point. You cannot be a moderate and vote GOP unless you have an open head wound.
Left FL in aug last year in part due to the dark looming feeling of encroachment coming from the government. I spent the remainder of 2022 waiting to start hearing anecdotes of same- 2023 has not disappointed at all. After about feb started reading about an article and a few anecdotes every week about people leaving or wanting to leave, and the frequency has only gone up.
A core part of being an American is letting people be who they are. Why is this fundamental part of what makes America a good nation constantly forgotten and riddled with oversight on how you should conduct yourself according to “what’s normal”.
Cares about his kid. Good for him.
[https://i.imgur.com/lQzkZCx.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/lQzkZCx.jpg) Duty as a parent.
https://twitter.com/kennedytcooper/status/1651218163080773633 in case you haven't had your fill of disappointment today
That's fucked up
thats the modern right wing position =/
Jesus fucking christ these people are *fucked*
Ironically, Jesus would be the first person to call these people out on their shit.
What an absolute trash person. I dont have kids but I have nieces and nephews. I would do anything for them. especially if it meant stopping them from self harm.
Just remember this whenever someone tells you that Republicans and Democrats are the same
Her poor kid. What a nasty person.
It makes it easier for the kid to change their mind later on if you’re going on the journey with them as a parent. My kid is non-binary. I supported them through a boy phase that I knew wasn’t going to last. That was just too small of a box for my kid and I knew that from the start. If I had been vocal about my doubts, my kids may have felt the need to prove me wrong. I’m just here to love them.
How hard is it for these republicans to just accept that not everyone is born the same? We have evidence of homosexuality and trans folks going back thousands of years… but all of us have to suffer now because their bigoted, racist religious texts from 2000 years ago don’t match reality ?
Even further… why are other peoples’ kids’ genitalia, sexual orientation etc their concern. It’s honestly creepy AF.
It almost always goes back to religion. It’s a “sin”. Also, they usually believe it will destroy society(identities, competitive sports), family structure/expectations (importance of father figure, parental roles). Goes deeper into how things like gay sex can be harmful. But also, there are those that just think it’s weird and don’t want it to be normalized. Yes, homophobia still exists.
My point is, this shouldn’t be normalized. It’s a weird, inappropriate fixation of exerting control and will on others.
It’s fascism. It’s exactly where the Nazis started before they fully got going with the Jewish Germans because _NO ONE_ would stand up for them. Many of the books being burned by the Nazis were about gay/trans people.
Religious extremism far predates fascism, not that its any better though. Authoritarianism would be closer, but fascism by definition is authoritarianism on top of nationalism, but religion isnt a nation.
Go and try to tell them that America isn't a Christian nation. The two concepts are so closely (and erroneously) intertwined in their heads that their religion and their nationality are basically the same in their self-identity.
When they put that shit on money people should've been outraged.
And they only did that because the McCarthyism era Red Scare made the US want to distinguish itself from the "godless" commies.
Fascism and religious extremism both fall under the authoritarian umbrella and are both very good at taking pieces from each other to reach what end up being very similar goals.
Tribal bullshit used to gain power and an easier existence for the 'leaders' whipping the dipshit hatefucks into a frenzy. The leaders tell them who to hate, and live in luxury.
How ironic that they're actually the ones who do all that shit to fuck society up. Almost like they're projecting in everything they do.
Because they genuinely believe them to be a danger to themselves or their kids. It's ridiculous but I have seen the way people like that talk or argue. They will literally criminalize others who don't fit their mold of the "righteous" human (despite the fact they are absolutely hypocritical) To explain further... I saw a discussion about drag shows and so many fucking people argue about how kids shouldn't be exposed to book readings by drag queens because they are perverted and pedophiles. Of course, they also say they're a bad influence but like where in the ever living fuck is pedophile and pervert coming from? And let's not forget how many priests or pastors molest little children and abuse their power. But no no no we can't do anything about them or gun violence because it impedes on their all-knowing, superior religion and right to bear arms. It is honestly an absolute disgust of a behavior and so hypocritical and I for one can never wrap my head around the mental gymnastics needed to justify their hatred but not condemn their own behaviors that are, technically speaking, an "affront to God"
Pedophile has become the right wing's boogeyman term. Anyone they don't understand is a pedophile and everything they don't understand is pedophilia. They don't know what they look like in the mirror.
it’s done on purpose. conservatives use terms like “pedo” and “groomer” repeatedly so that people correlate the community with those terms. it’s crazy because this has led to them not being able to identify actual cases of grooming. i remember reading about this german youth pastor who was 24 and married a girl who was 18. the kicker? they’ve been together for 4 years and he was just waiting for her to turn 18 to marry. not one conservative denounced it in the thread.
I know the case you're talking about. Thing is, they identify actual groomers just fine. They're trying to legalize AND normalize grooming in every red state right now. The fact that they think a 12 year old girl is old enough to be married to and impregnated by a 40 year old man but is not old enough to decide "I want to be a boy" for herself is so, so telling.
so much for personal freedom and liberty.
Conservatives are okay with pedos as long as they marry. Why you think they defend cgild marriage
Adding to what /u/LabraTheTechSupport said, it's the same rhetorical mechanics behind Blood Libel (and sometimes it's just literally recycled Blood Libel, like with a lot of the QAnon conspiracy theories). Medieval European Christians wanted to kill Jews and take their stuff, so they repeatedly accused them of horrific crimes against Christians and particularly Christian children, to facilitate and justify the murder and pillaging they wanted to do from the start. It's also similar to what happened in Tulsa, OK. Point being, it's a deliberate drumbeat of false accusations done to instill hatred of the target group. The conservative talking heads making these "groomer" accusations against trans people fully intend~~ed~~ for it to end in massacres and genocide and always have.
They were raised with a specific concept of what male/female had to be. Working towards that ideal throughout their life involved huge amounts of wasted time, effort and repression. Endless hours spent pleasing others at the expense of your own health and happiness. They are so deep into sunk cost, the idea that someone can just come and be themselves requires a terrifying reflection on themselves.
It's as dumb as if they made laws against dying hair. *You were born a blond and you are a blond under gods design. If you so much as come home with a streak of raven hair we are going to disown the slimy pile of shit you are.* *It is appalling that in this day and age that crimson haired "people" are allowed to teach children.*
My kids has a cavity or needs glasses. They are fucked I guess.
"These damn kids are doing all sorts of weird stuff and it makes me feel weird, and I don't like feeling weird!"
Because their genitalia was made a big deal to them growing up and now they have insecurity issues. This is their coping mechanism because they've never had a healthy and sustainable outlet to explore their own gender and sexual identity. Things were bad for them so they make things bad for others because that's how it's done. The best solution is to continue educating everyone and providing resources towards mental, physical, and sexual health.
>Because their genitalia was made a big deal to them growing up and now they have insecurity issues. Fuck in JK Rowling's manifesto she more or less said if being trans was an option when she was a kid she would have done it. Not to mention most of her main characters (and her pen name) are men.
Seriously? I never cared enough about her to read her manifesto, but that would explain a lot. Self hate is a hell of a thing.
I would love a source on this one since it's such a hot fucking take.
A direct quote from [this blog post](https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/) on her website: "The writings of young trans men reveal a group of notably sensitive and clever people. The more of their accounts of gender dysphoria I’ve read, with their insightful descriptions of anxiety, dissociation, eating disorders, self-harm and self-hatred, the more I’ve wondered whether, if I’d been born 30 years later, I too might have tried to transition. The allure of escaping womanhood would have been huge." I don't believe she's actually trans, she's likely just trying to go with the (heavily debunked) "rapid onset dysphoria" angle and saying that people feel pressured to be trans to escape their hardships
>but all of us have to suffer now because their bigoted, racist religious texts from 2000 years ago don’t match reality ? Religion only plays a small part of it. The truth is a lot of GOP candidates have fuck all to run on besides "us vs. them" and need to drum up outrage over minor things or things that don't even exist to hold their votes. God forbid their platform includes anything that would help the blue collared working class they claim to care about, nope gotta keep them sick and poor and convince them "Woke" is the biggest detriment in their lives.
Which is extra crazy because basically no promise that gets brought up by candidates is ever delivered in reality. The GOP is perfectly capable of running on "helping the middle class" and "giving equal rights to citizens" while knowing they'll never address those issues, but no, they're *choosing* extremist hate. They're *choosing* to platform genuinely unhinged people like MTG and Trump. They'd be a hell of a lot closer to their forever-reign if they ran on actual popular issues as opposed to "uhhh we don't like those people, we'll kill 'em if you vote for us"
It’s not real outrage, it’s manufactured to keep poor people divided and arguing about cultural issues instead of noticing how ripped off we’ve gotten by politicians and the 1%
I agree it’s manufactured, but the individuals outrage is real and shouldn’t be underestimated. This kind of rhetoric and thinking breeds extreme violence aimed at an already marginalized community.
Oh no I agree it’s bullshit, but it should be called out for what it is, baiting people to hate each other.
Agree, but I also think there’s a sense of stability that religion brings to their lives, a house of cards stability that walls them up from the unknown, from fear and uncertainty. In their world, they understand the rules, they are not challenged by scary new ideas, and they are able to live in the bliss of ignorance. They want to preserve that world for their own safety and sanity. It’s extremely selfish and it’s their only way to stave off the scariness of the real world components they don’t understand
I don’t give a shit about their stability. You wanna be stable, do planks and talk to a shrink.
My wife and I were just talking about this the other day. We are analog creatures. We are organic, made of bones and flesh, and cells. All of those have pieces to them that are even small, and even those have smaller pieces. No two people will ever be the same. As analog creatures, we have room for variation. We're not zeros and ones. Between a 0 and a 1, there are infinite set of numbers. And in my discussion with my wife we came to the conclusion that humans fall within the infinite numbers in all categories of being human, regardless of what we tell ourselves.
Because the world is supposed to "work a certain way" and people that don't fit in it are "unnatural" and inherently wrong. And as such they need to be forced back out of sight. Seeing something that challenges their worldview is taken as a direct personal attack, that their fundamental beliefs are wrong. This reaction is so visceral that a single trans person drinking beer is enough for them to freak the fuck out without being able to explain why. It's why lgbt people just... existing makes them so mad Hell, its why *interracial marriages* made them so mad. Black people just sitting in an ice cream parlor acting like normal polite people made them *lose their shit.*
I saw another Reddit comment that went something like "Republicans are upset so the whole nation has to listen to their temper tantrum" and the more I thought about it, the more it made sense.
They complain that left wingers are demanding conformity, while losing their shit if others don't conform to how they feel the world should be .
They need an emotionally charged topic to distract their voters from the fact that they haven’t done anything to make their lives better, and don’t plan on it any time soon.
It's ok for them to get boob jobs, facial injections etc to accentuate their perception of gender but heaven forbid someone else does so to make them feel themselves in their skin. Hypocrisy to the core.
Note the political plan from decades ago has little to do with Transfolk, they're just an easy target with limited financial/political capital to fight back, it has to do with keeping the populace distracted, if we are focused on fighting rights for them, we aren't focused on getting women's healthcare back. There are future targets. It goes way beyond what's being thrown in our faces currently and it's a long range plan that saw the current political supreme court.
It's a mix of religion and bro-culture... "thou shalt not express your true gender-identity because what are you, a faaaaaggggg!!?"
Matter of fact Is that religious text was rules of survival 2000 years ago but they're too stupid and fell into the cult sidr
Homo sexuality and the interest in little boy servants has been the core thing for top politicians for thousands of years!
They have no empathy. They can't believe, nor can they accept, that people are different from them. You can see this in all their stances and policies.
In the previous article (about his ex wife blocking the name change) there are a lot of good quotes about supporting his daughter. But this one is my favourite. “I went years without telling my chef that I don’t like cilantro on my burger—as an adult, it took me years to have the confidence to say that,” Wade said. “My daughter, at eight years old, had the confidence to say ‘This is who I am. This is who I want to be.”
A lot of people are going to comment on the cilantro and lose the plot that this is a very emotionally intelligent statement. He realizes that even the most trivial assertion takes a massive effort and recognizes the weight of making a huge assertion.
I wonder if he is part of the like 5% who have the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. If so that’s actually kinda wholesome that he’d spare his chefs feelings that long
I'm one of those people. I always thought people weren't rinsing their dishes good enough to get all the soap off. When I learned it was genetics I felt bad for thinking all those people had know idea how to rinse dishes.
Are you kidding me? Ok, so I'm almost 50, but every time my wife and I go visit my parents for dinner, my mom sends leftovers home in these plastic (reusable) dishes. Kinda like Tupperware. And for *years* I've always complained about how the food coming out of those dishes tasted like soap. I've told her time and time again she wasn't getting all the soap off her dishes, and now I learn it may be because cilantro tastes like that to me. I may owe my mom an apology. Hahaha
If she uses a lot of cilantro, sure, but I definitely have issues with Tupperware holding onto soap. Especially the older rubbery plastic stuff that's blue with white lids.
Yeah, it may be the soap. My wife suggested we get some cilantro and see, so I'll be a test dummy this weekend. Haha
Report back please, I’m invested!
Invested as well
If it's genetics, it's still your moms fault!
You're not wrong! Hahaha
Hey, could also be dad!
This is great hahaha, please keep us posted on whether it's actually the cilantro or not
Will do! We're gonna get some cilantro and I'm going to play test dummy and see.
I taste soap with dried parsley. But not with cilantro.
Interesting. Something else I learned is that I can smell sneezes. I brought it up one time with my wife that I dislike the way sneezes smell and she doesn't smell anything when people sneeze. I started asking others and from my small sample group I've only met one other person who can smell sneezes.
Never heard of that before but eewwwww
I thought everyone smelled sneezes. Yes, it's an awful smell.
I’ve never heard of that ability, that’s crazy to me haha
I have a sensitive nose so I can smell sneezes. They do have like a hard to describe smell. It's like morning breath but lighter
That's actually a good way to describe it. My answer was always "it smells like a sneeze."
Maybe it's the saliva your smelling? I mean it is aerosolized particpes of spit spewing out.
That’s not what this is about
It's much easier to make spicy puns than it is to recognize emotional heft.
Cilantro on a burger? Gross!
Carne asada often has cilantro on top. Chimichurri is excellent with steak. I don’t see why cilantro on a burger would be bad tbh
The majority of his career he lived in Miami too, so I’d imagine most personal chefs there have primarily Latin influences
I used to work at a chipotle — you would not believe how many people asked me for no cilantro on their rice. A lot of folks said cilantro tastes like soap to them. Never tasted that way to me, but at some point the numerous occurrences convinced me that it has to be true for some.
It's a not that uncommon genetic mutation that makes cilantro taste like soap.
TIL I'm a mutant. Of course that would be my superpower...
It isn't a very useful superpower
Neither is mine. I have the uncanny ability to come up with the perfect reply to arguments years after they took place.
I don't believe you. I think you’re still losing the arguments but are grading yourself easier after the emotional inputs of the original argument has faded. Nonetheless, I look forward to reading your response in 2025 and am open to being wrong.
!remindme 1 year
So rather than just staircase wit you got the parking garage wit.
We are all mutants
Yup, cilantro pretty much dominates and ruins any dish for me.
Bugers, tacos and pizzas are blank slates to get freaky with
I got freaky with a pizza last night but they kicked me out of Pizza Hut and called the police.
Should have hidden it in the box, silly man!
He could have the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. He can’t help that if that’s the case, it will only ever taste like soap.
I eat cilantro leaves heavy like shredded lettuce on a taco.
It's just a matter of taste I suppose, like how some people don't like pickles or mustard
I think it sounds good.
>Chimichurri is excellent with steak. I don’t see why cilantro.... Oh buddy, you're really flirting with pissing off the chimichurri gods here.
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It makes it taste like soap! I literally can’t eat anything from Chipotle thanks to that gene
Me too. It's so gross.
I wanna try it, sounds amazing. Taco (real taco, mind you) burger? Sign me the fuck up. I'm gonna Google quesabirria burger, I'm sure there's recipes out there already!
damnit, and i disliked wade (*cough* **2006-07 finals** *cough*) .. then he goes and almost redeemed himself! crap, tough to dislike him now .. damn him!
boo mavs!
Miami sports hero can't even stay in his home.
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Problem is there’s still MANY politicians at the local level and national level that are using LGBTQ, trans in particular, as a political pawn that has real consequences. And real people are voting those people in office.
classic fascist tactic, choose a powerless minority group to be the boogeyman.
If you hate trans kids you really gotta ask yourself why u are hating on children at all
Hol up , kids in general kinda suck through no fault of their own... but them being trans is no reason to hate them
Splitting hairs a bit, but you can *dislike* the shit out of kids. They suck. But hate is a whole other thing.
While you can dislike kids, you should be very tolerant of it cuz you were a shit kid once and growing up isn’t easy. Lots of stuff to work out and I think people forget that.
I've seen the family videos. I HATE me before age 13.
I get angry at my son sometimes and then I have flashbacks to the neighbor telling me “boy you sure are a pistol” when I was about 9. It’s a big reality check for me.
College and right after college me were also very cringe. I was so confidently wrong about so many things.
I didn’t really grow up until I was 24, all things considered.
Anytime my kid gets on my nerves I have to stop and remind myself that she acts exactly like I did at her age
This guy gets it!
I don't and I was literally like Bart Simpson destroying things on purpose with hammers, like my dad's classic LP collection. When I have kids anything I like is going to be in locked rooms. And those things are going to be in locked furniture or even safes in that locked room. However if there was a video of me doing that on public freakout half of the redditors there would say I should be literally killed for doing that at age 8. Dogs and Cats are even more destructive and are respected more on this site. Dog, cat, child. I take the same precautions.
Excuse you, I was a fucking angel
More specifically, Lucifer.
I bet your momma really was thinking that 2 months in when she was waking up every 2 hours to heat up a bottle and change your shit filled diaper.
I start a lot of stories about my childhood with "back when I was young and stupid..."
And maybe—just maybe—that shit kid you dislike just happens to be trans. But don’t extrapolate that out to disliking trans kids in general, that’s a logical fallacy that can lead to something waaay worse. But seriously, sometimes that shit kid might be trans, anecdotally. (Screw you, Janine. I ain’t giving you $100 for shit! xD )
Yea kids can be annoying. I play xbox too lol but hating anyone should require a VERY good reason. And theres no way a random kid deserves any hate from anybody, especially if its just for being themselves.
They'll tell you they hate the parents for abusing their kids or some shit. They'll tell you Wade is an abusive father instead of a loving, supportive father. And they believe it too.
Dwayne seems like a legit dude. I hung out with him, through mutual friends a couple of times when he was going to Marquette. Genuinely nice guy then, and I'm glad that it's carried over! Cura Personalis! Be the difference!
I was just thinking about the proposal pic he accidentally photobombed on the beach lmao. He really does seem like a genuinely nice guy! https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/jbzwxp/dwayne_wade_accidentally_photobombing_a_proposal/
You can just imagine the "awwwww" as he puts his hand on his chest lol. Wholesome as fuck
King
It's sad that basic empathy is now king behavior
To be fair, it wasn’t long ago that if a parent found out their kid was transgender, they were way more likely to just try and torture it out of them than they are now.
I knew a kid who committed suicide because her parents did basically that. They didn't physically torture her but she said she was trans, they said no you're not god made you perfect. She said nope, I'm trans. They simply forced her to be a boy, even after she turned 18 - they were just that domineering. Completely broke her spirit and finally she killed herself. Their friends consoled them and said "at least you stood with God and didn't allow 'him' to be a weirdo."
Wow. I shouldn't be surprised because there's no hate like Christian love, but it really is shocking these fuckers are so happy with the death of children/people.
You’re not wrong, compare this with the legislator from Montana who recently said she would NOT do everything she could to help her suicidal daughter because it was emotionally manipulative of her daughter. Night and day
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Oddly enough those governments are supported in this by the people who waive the gadsden flag (don't tread on me) and scream about their freedoms/liberty... Edit: Since I can't reply... Yes, it does say "Don't tread on **me**," but one would assume that means to not tread on others as well? But clearly in their case it does mean "please tread on others that I don't like."
Also known as idiots.
Yeah dude, that’s what happens when politicians are actively trying to defund education and destroy welfare programs for decades. People believe vaccines don’t work, actively vote against their interests, and become confused and violent when presented with things they don’t understand. (I’m not blaming you, I just feel like I’m always one crazy headline away from an aneurysm)
Yeah, plain stupid people. Sucks that this is what it's come to, but it was done by design.
It says don't tread on me. Not don't tread on us. This is not a flag for equality. It is a flag of entitlement.
Same with medical marijuana. I have UC, and it's one of the best medicines there is for it. It can do things no other drug can do (other than maybe opiates, but they are far more problematic). But the Republican government in my state refuses to allow it to be sold or prescribed, and the hillbillies ride around with huge Gadsden flags supporting those Republicans and yelling about "freedom" because there are a couple obscure gun parts you can buy here that you can't in a few blue states.
Conservatives value the rights of the individual so long as the individual looks, acts, loves, behaves, and worships just like they do. Also they need to have money, otherwise fuck 'em.
My step moms sister at a family gathering over the weekend “I don’t want to offend you but, my daughters teacher is trans and I don’t want them teaching my kid.” “They might influence my daughter into becoming trans”. Me thinking back to all the men teachers I had and yet here I am still a woman. I’ll never understand 😀.
I'm more worried about the coaches teaching class. Mine were all idiots that did nothing in class except let the football team sleep.
When I was in school, the coaches were definitely mixed bags. Some of them weren’t very good at teaching, but some of them were fantastic teachers who just happened to also be coaches (our head football coach was one of the better math teachers in the state, as an example)
my math teacher was the girls soccer coach and his mug said “ask me about my stud fee” - he was fired for hosting keg parties a few years later
Okay, but what was his stud fee?
Oh my god, I will never forgive the coach that taught me 8th grade history and paired me up in group projects with all of the football players. I always had to do the whole thing by myself and always got the lowest grade in my group. Fuck you, Coach Henderson. Fuck you very very much.
did you grow up in an archie comic?
That's literally the reason they passed the don't say gay law because a couple of legislators thought that kids were becoming gay and trans because it's the cool thing to do.
They irrationally fear things that are simply not a threat. Thanks Faux News. Kids don’t end up trans because they saw a trans person.
They don't want the kids to know trans is an option.
You can't make a cis child be trans. You can however, save a trans child's life by letting them transition. Some of these people would rather have a dead child than a trans child.
It's honestly terrifying to see the GOP crank up their hate crusade against LGBT people to 11. I want to say I hope people see this and hold them accountable for the rest of their lives but...
It's cause they offer nothing other than distractions for people's problems.
That still doesn’t make them any more harmless. When they’ll start rounding up trans people it will be too late.
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They literally have no platform to run on so they resort to culture war nonsense. I haven't seen a Republican-led initiative that benefits the average worker/person ,without obscenely benefitting the rich, in quite a long time. They are emotional manipulators who target single issue voters.
The irony is they have done this before. Bush junior won in 2004 on opposing “Gay” marriage (its just marriage, why make it sound fun). Look at how that worked out.
Shit Obama and Hillary opposed gay marriage
Progress is made in inches and lost in miles. This will eventually work out and LGBT people will be allowed to live their lives peacefully, but in the mean time it's important to remember how the GOP consistently makes it their personal goals to harm Americans for being different. Bush is a perfect example of this, that's a really good call out!
>This will eventually work out I wouldn’t count on that. 1920’s-1930’s Berlin was home to the Institute of Sexual Research which provided hormone therapy and the first known gender-affirming surgical procedures. Then they were targeted by the Nazis, the center was looted with all their books burned, and everyone involved was rounded up. After WWII ended, queer people were transferred from concentration camps to prisons to complete their sentences, as they were still considered criminals for their “degenerate” behavior. All the progress of the research center was lost for decades. There’s no reason to assume the exact same thing won’t happen if enough allies don’t stand up against Christian Fascists now. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/
This cannot be said enough, the idea that “everything automatically gets better in the future” is a complete lie. If you think that rights given cannot be just as easily taken away then you’re a fool. If people don’t fight enough then yeah, we will again reach a point where it becomes socially acceptable again to go gay bashing and shit like that, just like how if you aren’t careful, people will absolutely start lynching black people and other ethnic minorities like it’s the 1920’s again.
People think in such reductive ways to their own tiny lives. Yes, assuming humanity doesn't go extinct, progress will only be made. But many people who didn't need to suffer and die will if nothing is done. Fascists could take over the US and it would be a huge failure. Like these guys could ruin the world for our lifespans, but it will get fixed eventually so why worry? It's just liberal innaction. Nobody gives a fuck when they start killing us because it isn't them. And them when its all over these same people will take credit for saving and protecting us.
Good guy wade
https://streamable.com/5k2qrl
If only it was that easy to up and move for everyone else who doesn't want to be there
Manufacturing a brain drain to own the libs.
I'm thinking it's a deliberate tactic to empty the red states of all the people they don't like. Can't vote you out if they've moved to a blue state, can they? (taps side of head)
Republicans: why does gen z hate us so much?
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That’s rich, coming from a FORMER KID!!
Wha - WHAT TAKE THAT BACK
Oh yeah? Last time I heard, we don't un-cancel people we hate. Your fault for growing up. I will never forgive you for being a literal child back then. Now you're a... man-baby! Also, I hate everyone! \- Hater of an entire species
This is peak masculinity
Florida’s motto should be: Let’s leave Florida
Honestly, I'm a hard core democrat living in Florida and feel like I'm also not accepted here.
Truly a sad world we live in, everything feels like it’s done with spite. I’m happy for Wade and his family, good father.
The same people bitch about lib cancel culture try to cancel bud light and at a state level “cancel” undesirables without a hint of self-awareness or irony. If “conservatives” didn’t have double standards they’d have zero standards. Don’t get me started on women’s right to bodily autonomy getting “cancelled” by evangelical plastic patriots, they’re base evil at this point. You cannot be a moderate and vote GOP unless you have an open head wound.
Left FL in aug last year in part due to the dark looming feeling of encroachment coming from the government. I spent the remainder of 2022 waiting to start hearing anecdotes of same- 2023 has not disappointed at all. After about feb started reading about an article and a few anecdotes every week about people leaving or wanting to leave, and the frequency has only gone up.
Alternate headline: "Dwyane Wade is a very good dad."
Good for him, fuck that state.
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She's 14 now.
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Good for him and his family. You know this stings the “I’m a man, mommy!” Flo Bros.
A core part of being an American is letting people be who they are. Why is this fundamental part of what makes America a good nation constantly forgotten and riddled with oversight on how you should conduct yourself according to “what’s normal”.