At 7/28/17 06:50 AM, MistyWaterflower wrote:
People are trying to spread awareness now. I think their intentions are good, but I think they are going the wrong way about it being overly aggressive.
It's sweet of you to say so, but that's far too politically correct a term for my tastes. Lately a lot of groups have started bullying everyone who isn't like them. It's honestly why I left a lot of the "support" groups I was involved in. Completely unprovoked militant counter-culture.
It hasn't gotten to the point of people being beat up, but you see on the news people losing their jobs over supposedly being prejudiced (which you can't disprove once someone accuses you) according to a massive online lynch mob that says things like cis white men deserve to die. I've seen a lot of that walk into the classrooms at my old college and it's gotten some teachers fired -- over imaginary sexism and homophobia. Does no one realize that it's hypocritical to indict someone of hate, then hatefully and spitefully go about making sure their lives are absolutely destroyed?
I don't consider myself straight or cis, but I also don't consider myself a part of the LGBT community anymore, and here's a generalized laundry list of why after several years of being really involved in the scene. Sure, not everyone is like this, but this is just a summary of all the bad apples I've run across lumped into a paragraph or two.
Asexuals are basically ignored. The gays overlook sexism against women and often perpetuate it. Lesbians alternate between misandry and getting involved in inflammatory stuff like the women's march, while simultaneously ignorant of the fact that the very big Muslim feminist component to their "solidarity" spiel is not only incompatible with Sharia but self-contradicting in that Sharia would have all these "free-thinking" hive-minded gay-marriage touting feminists killed -- and that Islam says that not only should gays and feminists and non-muslims be killed, but that women have no rights. This is a huge reason the women's march left a big, bad, stupid taste in my mouth. Not to mention, the marchers trashed every place they came across and basically behaved like an unruly, incoherent, angry bunch of bigots.
The trans community is all over the place, not really accepted by the homos and excluding the gender-fluid non-binaries, and especially singling out and ridiculing the people who don't want to go on hormone therapy or spend umpteen thousand dollars on painful, potentially deadly body mods for not being "their true selves". Then there's the people identifying as objects and animals, which, while I respect your right to feel like a chair or a table, one can clearly conclude you are human. This pursuit of changing one's identity started to look silly to me after being immersed in the crowd of demisexual panromantic transgender dragon-kin, but seeing other people ridiculing these guys who were just trying to fit in rather than try and get them out of the house so to speak kinda sealed the deal for me.
The counter-culture Pride parade brigade is just not where I fit in. I'm too normal and too rational. Lost a lot of friends over not supporting a lot of the group-think garbage the media puts out, especially when it came to the election and everyone was more concerned over Trump's "grab her by the pussy" and racism than Hillary's crony capitalism, lies, Benghazi, etc. Sure, I don't like Trump, but Hillary was a fountain of lies, pandering to whatever minority he pissed off, none of whom she cared about. It was the same when our choir teacher got fired over supposedly being racist and homophobic, when several students recorded video of kids cussing her out and making her cry in class. I've been accused of protecting the status quo. Nothing could be further from the truth. I just hate hypocrisy.
Off topic but related to the above, has anyone noticed how absolutely intolerant and out of control the Tumblr community has become?
Also, best of luck with your dysphoria and laser hair removal. I've managed to top the hill regarding the latter -- pretty much where I wanna be -- but I heard the latter can cause significant irreversible scarring, so please be careful. <3
