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I'm a trans man. We don't have a secret agenda – we're just asking you to let us live.
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About what? Money being a weapon in a capitalist system?
That it's the reason gay men changed minds or something?
Minds shifted long before those in power did.
It was a bit of a cultural zeitgeist in the 2010s. A lot happened with popular culture being more pro LGBT, and that translated into more people becoming LGBT.
It makes sense. When more people are comfortable to come out of the closet, more people end up knowing gay people. And that leads to people realizing gay people are no different from everyone else, which leads to pro LGBT beliefs.
What I find fascinating is that we're seeing what the natural distribution of sexuality is for people. Based on Gen Z it looks like it's much higher towards bi and gay than we previously thought.
The first hormone treatment for trans women, that we know of, is from nomadic horse archers. The terror of the Eurasian steppe. We don't own it, but we were there.
The first use of special forces and high autonomy fire teams was not in world war one, it was the sacred band of Thebes, who were institutionally and officially fucking each other. No straights allowed. These guys, only like 200 of them in service at a time, absolutely changed the face of ancient warfare.
T.E Lawrence, the guy the offensive 'subby bdsm obsessed gay man who's too kinky to torture' stereotype was based on, invented the modern doctrine of guerilla warfare that firmly kicked the ottoman empire in the dick with basically no resources, then was used to successfully crush the most extravagantly bloated military that has ever existed not once but twice over the next century.
But sure. Begging, and having a big armful of tickets after the counter closes down, is our strength. Ask all the old German fops how that went for them. Hell, ask rock Hudson or Alan Turing; I'll wait.
Nevermind the history of queer militancy in the western world. The people who got us our 'rights' birthed them out the barrel of a gun onto the counter of a dive bar in a fucking condemned building, and that gun was pointed at a cop, maybe supplied by somebody's panther bf/gf.
I would never suggest anyone beg for their right to live. I have no idea how you got that idea from what I said.
Money is begging. Its saying how much of a good boy you are. It will not save you, even if youre lucky enough to have it, even if the effects of widespread disinheritance and bigotry didn't mean we statistically have less of it.
I'm not disagreeing with you but I'm having a really hard time grasping this perspective when literally nobody would consider gates, Bezos or musk to be "beggars".
Oh, so you think peter thiel will save us?
I think farther discussion here requires an explanation of what money fundamentally is that I'm far too high on all the wrong drugs to give eloquently, and I think you might have strong motivations to not hear anyway.
Bruh.
Edited this while you were responding, but:
I think farther discussion here requires an explanation of what money fundamentally is that I’m far too high on all the wrong drugs to give eloquently, and I think you might have strong motivations to not hear anyway.
I don't think you tjinkmoney will save us though, I think you're desperate to feel, for whatever possibly very sympathetic (possibly not)reason, to believe it will save you. I'm telling you it wont, but if you want me to explain, ask again when ive had sleep and/or different drugs.