All part of a deep psychological trick - to promote something so hard and in such an insensitive and oppresive manner as to ultimately induce HATRED against it.. The useful idiots will be sacrificed, fully woke or gone bananas woke, doesn't really matter.. But I did have a good laugh, which is good for my health, so I guess I own these lunatics a tiny "thanks" for that
KROMM I've noticed this in myself. Tolerance can lead to acceptance. However, when you shove it down someone's throat, tolerance reverts to intolerance, resentment, contempt, and eventually revulsion or worse. Even growing up Catholic, when I was 18 I was accepting of even while being uncomfortable around gay men in particular (I grew up in very small towns and knew no openly gay people and was insecure in my own sexuality at that time).
I've always had an issue with bisexual people. The joke used to be that they're just greedy, so they're not picky. But I have never understood how you can go back and forth between masculine and feminine partners. To me it tells me that to you, sex is more important than any kind of committment, and that you don't know yourself well enough to commit in the first place. I wouldn't date a bisexual woman because it was a red flag that (to my insecure self) every single person could be a threat to our relationship.
Transgendered people - truly transgendered people - never really bothered me. I'm in my mid-40s, so the first transgendered people I met really went through a lot of shit and were just trying to be who they were. They lived and dressed as the gender they felt they were, these biological men were introduced to me as she/her, and if faux pas in social interaction were made, they were polite and understanding about correcting me, if they corrected me at all. Fun fact, I am a straight male who has been misgendered on multiple occasions when I had long hair and wore a scarf (apparently I have pretty eyes). I never got mad about it. I had fun with it though. I know I'm not the most manly man, and that's okay. You play with the cards you're dealt (which is my overall argument against gender reassignment surgery). Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is those early trannies (who weren't offended by the term) didn't make me uncomfortable and weren't militant activists. The Ts now on the other hand, seem to be hellbent on demanding rights and acceptance, which is reversing public acceptance in the cross-sections of society that were just trying to be tolerant.
Even generally queer people who one now might call non-binary, the Pats and Terrys of the world, used to pick a lane, because while they might be nebulous in appearance, they had a sexual preference.
But now it's not okay to be a masculine straight woman or a feminine straight man, or gay or lesbian if you come from certain places (like Iran). You MUST be transgendered, because the Bible and Quran say you're an abomination otherwise (and being homosexual is punishable by death). The current form of trans-activism is anti-gay AND a social contagion in world reeling from government-inflicted isolation, amplified minority rage, and corporations fearful of this rage while forcing certain things upon all their employees because let's face it, eventually there will only be 3 corporations who will effectively rule the world, elected leaders be damned. This time in history will not be looked upon kindly by scientists and anthropologists in the future, who will be examining the fall of Western Empire.
I'm a live and let live kind of guy, but the more ridiculous the demands, the less accepting I feel.
The Pub is open for just the briefest of moments....but here is the song of the Day - it is good one - spontaneous.
[Link] - Stand by Me sung by a new friend on the moment.....
and now let me add another..... this song makes me think of RC. I tried to go back to the article today, but I couldn't find it, but one time he found this song for me free of the boob tube - it was via reddit, and that was the kind of man RC was. So this song is for RC.
[Link] - Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather...or Boots of Spanish Leather if you prefer. I miss you RC - and thankyou for being a friend.
Buffalo_Ken - well I couldn't find the one I was looking for, but this one can be a surrogate for now. Pub is closed but here for the sake of memory is a reminder of what was being discussed but a few months ago:
Absent from mainstream discourse on Ghislaine Maxwell's ongoing trial is any mention of the ties, not only of herself, but her family, to Israeli intelligence. Those ties, forged by Ghislaine's...
Comment: Very Monty Pythonesque.