I'm sorry, but after watching protesters carrying Nazi symbols on their signs and screaming kill all Jews, along with the crowning of Dylan Mulvaney as "Woman of the Year" I'm done with the social justice warrior BS. Have some groups been marginalized and oppressed--absolutely, and that is NEVER okay. What this industry has become however, is just another human power play to gain influence, money, and further divide people into acceptable and non-acceptable groups. This movement may have been started with the best of intentions, but it's now trending toward unhinged fanaticism. I'll give you the example which clarified this for me. There is no possibility that I can proclaim I know what it's like to be black, since I'm white, and I haven't lived that experience. So how in the world can a trans woman make the claim that they are a woman? Forget biology, if a man feels like he's a woman and dresses like one, it's their right and I say go for it. What they can't do though is pretend they know what it's like to be born a woman and live in that skin. They will never have experienced that first awful period, or monthly bloating and mood swings, or the fear that your boobs aren't growing. Nor will they know what it's like to carry a child, be bullied by much bigger men, or made to feel less intelligent and capable because of the body you were born to. Perhaps when they change, if they actually look like a woman (and many don't), they can experience some of it, but they can't know it. It pisses me off--just one more power play to influence and control. I will always try to see individuals no matter the specifics of sex, skin color, religion, or financial origins, but will do everything in my own power to stop the looting and hatred of the social justice movement.
I share your frustration and I've been done with the Antisocial Injustice Warriors for quite some time, and I'm working on an article now about how the Hamas slaughter may be the thing that really pushes past Peak Woke and relegates it to the trash heap where it belongs. (Although I wrote this before the war started). And totally in agreement on you re transvestites. They demonstrate how much they're *not* women the moment they open their mouths and think, act, and talk like the men they are. I'm speaking mostly to the Level Left and the Rational Right, those who haven't lost their damn minds to the toxic Trump & woke ideologies. Which is why I'm not voting Dem next year - Democratic Socialist Alliance? I think not. The Squad? Lost my support years ago. I will throw away my vote on an indy. Someone who supports women's rights and knows even a Trump rally doesn't deserve what the Israelis got. To pull an anti-Trump, 'There are a lot of bad people on both sides'.
(While recognizing that there are in fact Israeli Jews and Palestinians who *do* desire real peace and have done the work on themselves to be the solution rather than the problem. Let's hope they all haven't been wiped out this week.)
I honestly believe the majority of our country falls into the level left/rational right category. Sadly, we've allowed the tyranny of the minority to control us. More of us must stand up for common sense, which falls squarely on the zealot free middle. Maybe we have to be our own kind of zealots. . .
As a matter of fact, we Level Lefties & Rational Righties are far more numerous than the extremist nutzis on both sides. Check out this website & scroll down for the very interesting rainbow graph: https://hiddentribes.us/
I'm sorry, but after watching protesters carrying Nazi symbols on their signs and screaming kill all Jews, along with the crowning of Dylan Mulvaney as "Woman of the Year" I'm done with the social justice warrior BS. Have some groups been marginalized and oppressed--absolutely, and that is NEVER okay. What this industry has become however, is just another human power play to gain influence, money, and further divide people into acceptable and non-acceptable groups. This movement may have been started with the best of intentions, but it's now trending toward unhinged fanaticism. I'll give you the example which clarified this for me. There is no possibility that I can proclaim I know what it's like to be black, since I'm white, and I haven't lived that experience. So how in the world can a trans woman make the claim that they are a woman? Forget biology, if a man feels like he's a woman and dresses like one, it's their right and I say go for it. What they can't do though is pretend they know what it's like to be born a woman and live in that skin. They will never have experienced that first awful period, or monthly bloating and mood swings, or the fear that your boobs aren't growing. Nor will they know what it's like to carry a child, be bullied by much bigger men, or made to feel less intelligent and capable because of the body you were born to. Perhaps when they change, if they actually look like a woman (and many don't), they can experience some of it, but they can't know it. It pisses me off--just one more power play to influence and control. I will always try to see individuals no matter the specifics of sex, skin color, religion, or financial origins, but will do everything in my own power to stop the looting and hatred of the social justice movement.
I share your frustration and I've been done with the Antisocial Injustice Warriors for quite some time, and I'm working on an article now about how the Hamas slaughter may be the thing that really pushes past Peak Woke and relegates it to the trash heap where it belongs. (Although I wrote this before the war started). And totally in agreement on you re transvestites. They demonstrate how much they're *not* women the moment they open their mouths and think, act, and talk like the men they are. I'm speaking mostly to the Level Left and the Rational Right, those who haven't lost their damn minds to the toxic Trump & woke ideologies. Which is why I'm not voting Dem next year - Democratic Socialist Alliance? I think not. The Squad? Lost my support years ago. I will throw away my vote on an indy. Someone who supports women's rights and knows even a Trump rally doesn't deserve what the Israelis got. To pull an anti-Trump, 'There are a lot of bad people on both sides'.
(While recognizing that there are in fact Israeli Jews and Palestinians who *do* desire real peace and have done the work on themselves to be the solution rather than the problem. Let's hope they all haven't been wiped out this week.)
I honestly believe the majority of our country falls into the level left/rational right category. Sadly, we've allowed the tyranny of the minority to control us. More of us must stand up for common sense, which falls squarely on the zealot free middle. Maybe we have to be our own kind of zealots. . .
As a matter of fact, we Level Lefties & Rational Righties are far more numerous than the extremist nutzis on both sides. Check out this website & scroll down for the very interesting rainbow graph: https://hiddentribes.us/