captainlezbian

Do you have a problem with the language that's half l and y?

Oh so we should do exactly the right amount of things?

That quote was always fun before it became a common reply to evidence based thinking instead of gut feeling basws thinking

Getting it removed from classification as a mental illness was vital to reducing our systemic oppression back in the day so this is absolutely not a point we should cede

Yeah the left wants things that actually hinder the oligarchs, the right wants to complain about them but will settle for people they don't like being hurt. Tech companies understand that.

There's also the fact that the bay area has spent quite a while having the sort of people who love to treat equal rights as a thought exercise

In psychology a disorder is not merely a deviation, but it requires it to also impair your daily life and functioning or cause discomfort or pain. That's why it's a disorder to have extremely low intelligence but not to have extremely high intelligence. And that matters crucially here because that's why homosexuality isn't a mental illness. Similarly transness isn't a mental illness in large part because it possesses a different character and by calling it one they would be leading people to respond to it in the wrongest way according to research on how to make the individual affected most able to live a happy and functional life.

You're right that it's important how we act. But it's also important that we push back because it's manufacturing consent to strip rights.

It should be noted that the framing of it as a sin was after the medical community accepted its not a mental illness. Before that it was "you're sick and need help".

What I hate most is that part of me understands. As a queer person, I've had people trying too hard to be cool and it's awkward, and I've had bigots treat me like just anyone else to my face. If I was a fucking moron I might come to similar conclusions to the author. But the reality is that trying too hard is a statement of genuine care and acceptance, it's an othering one, but one that says "you belong and I'll put in effort in an attempt to show you that."

I don't call Maga racist because it's trendy, I call it racist because I'm white and I've heard what they tell white people. They have a contingent that see any brown people coming into this country as stealing jobs whether those jobs are doing difficult low paid labor like agricultural work, skilled hard labor like construction, or extremely skilled labor like surgery. They don't care they'll claim surgeons coming in are stealing jobs from hardworking Americans even if those jobs are desperately understaffed. And they'll probably accuse the surgeons of being rapists and gang members or terrorists or communists.

Ah yes, I did learn i can survive basically anything non fatal lol

That's the thing though, that's how they wind up with that evil. It's that and the idea that their discomfort is always justified

That's a thing I've noticed. Sometimes progressives try too hard while conservatives treat you like everyone else. I've seen people of all types think that means conservatives are fine and not bigoted. Like no, most of them aren't going on bigoted rants to the face of the affected, but that doesn't mean the rants don't happen.

Ain't that the Hudson bay though?