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what caused the transgender debate to explode in the last couple of years?

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NightMareBunny 1 week ago#1
9 or 10 years ago you wouldn't see or hear people screaming about transgender rights or that transgenders shouldn't exist...and if so you didn't hear about the roaring debate as often and as much as you do now in 2017


it seems like an extremely hot topic on the news and every website today

one side claiming transgenders are cropping up more and more and we have to accept that they are here while another side claims they are the super minority and numbers of there being thousands upon thousands of transgenders just in one state alone is overblown
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mercurydude 1 week ago#3
The big reason is because the culture war against gays and lesbians was seen as the lost cause it was and even declared as such by O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc. 

So trans people were seen as the next scapegoat to rally against because people didn't know that much about them, so they're convenient to turn into a boogeyman and claim that they're hiding in restrooms to attack little girls and such.
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young_flip 1 week ago#5
Obama's bathroom policies
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NightMareBunny 1 week ago#6
mercurydude posted...
The big reason is because the culture war against gays and lesbians was seen as the lost cause it was and even declared as such by O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc. 

So trans people were seen as the next scapegoat to rally against because people didn't know that much about them, so they're convenient to turn into a boogeyman and claim that they're hiding in restrooms to attack little girls and such.


it just boggles the mind because there are far more gays than transgenders in the country but i guess that means it makes sense because nobody can challenge their mindset because "well have you encountered the transgender community?" and the answer is no a large majority of us have not nor will we ever bump into a transgender person outside the internet yet the screaming fox news box has us convinced they are everywhere and trying to trick us into having sex woth them

it's also a very touchy issue where you either get labeled a whiny SJW or a bigoted monster for even getting involved once

i don't get the fox news attackers who claim they are invading our space just as i don't get the wannabe SJW's who demand representation for transgenders in every piece of media when they probably know very few transgenders and are only saying that for some positive karma(or so they believe)
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Relle 1 week ago#7
mercurydude posted...
The big reason is because the culture war against gays and lesbians was seen as the lost cause it was and even declared as such by O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc. 

So trans people were seen as the next scapegoat to rally against because people didn't know that much about them, so they're convenient to turn into a boogeyman and claim that they're hiding in restrooms to attack little girls and such.

Precisely. Gays and lesbians became normalized in TV and movies like Glee and such. Hell, even people I spoke to when I lived in Japan said Kurt was their favorite character. So if you can't bash gays, who do you prop up as a scary boogeyman? Why, how about those weirdos who are men but say they're really a woman? Let's all be afraid of them!
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Dwavenhobble 1 week ago#8
I'd going to go with Tumblrites trying to claim Gender is a social construct so all toilets should be open to all genders and made into non gender specific ones so you don't potentially offend non binary people.

I mean it's also been heavily pushed by Gender studies for the rather obvious reason that more genders = more things to study which makes the subject seem to have a purpose lol
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NativitylnBIood 1 week ago#9
Like most issues these days, it started with some serious discussion of real issues, now it's just a bunch of escalating shrieking going back and forth.
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NightMareBunny 1 week ago#10
i think the people who think there are over 50 genders are kinda nuts....this debate has gotten out of hand and i think half of the people praising transgenders or attacking them on television and online are only doing so for ratings and clicks

most of them couldn't give a damn about transgenders and only talk about them because it's such a popular thing to discuss

talk show hosts who admire and praise transgenders will get the tumblr crowd to rally around them and cheer them on

talk show hosts who attack and insult transgenders will get the fox news tinfoil hat crowd to hoot and holler
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Goldice 1 week ago#11
mercurydude posted...
The big reason is because the culture war against gays and lesbians was seen as the lost cause it was and even declared as such by O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc. 

So trans people were seen as the next scapegoat to rally against because people didn't know that much about them, so they're convenient to turn into a boogeyman and claim that they're hiding in restrooms to attack little girls and such.
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mad_hax_man 1 week ago#12
Dwavenhobble posted...
I'd going to go with Tumblrites trying to claim Gender is a social construct so all toilets should be open to all genders and made into non gender specific ones so you don't potentially offend non binary people.

I mean it's also been heavily pushed by Gender studies for the rather obvious reason that more genders = more things to study which makes the subject seem to have a purpose lol


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Genericgamer667 1 week ago#13
mercurydude posted...
The big reason is because the culture war against gays and lesbians was seen as the lost cause it was and even declared as such by O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc. 

So trans people were seen as the next scapegoat to rally against because people didn't know that much about them, so they're convenient to turn into a boogeyman and claim that they're hiding in restrooms to attack little girls and such.


pretty much this
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NightMareBunny 1 week ago#14
NativitylnBIood posted...
Like most issues these days, it started with some serious discussion of real issues, now it's just a bunch of escalating shrieking going back and forth.


the worst thing to happen would be if a separate gender neutral bathroom was created

just how useful would that be in the long run?
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Camelotking524 1 week ago#15
Because the left and right needed a new wedge issue after the Supreme Court decided on gay marriage.
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lightwarrior78 1 week ago#16
The trans community can have something of a complex about their lives. They feel they're born into the wrong body, try to compensate, but 2 problems persist: that the change is not 100% down to the full anatomy and genetics, and that that makes others not fully accept them as the gender they wish to be, so there's always a feeling of living a lie one way or the other.

Instead of dealing with this, some have taken to yelling at the world to help them prop up their identity. It's why something like a gender neutral bathroom wouldn't work: it would still be seen as just being shoved off to the side and not really being male or female. Then the kooks come in with new genders and pronouns and a demanding attitude akin to Verruca Salt from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (aka spoiled brat) about using them or you hate them, and the other side starts to put their foot down before they have to acquiesce to any and everything from not just legitimate transgendereds, but someone with a more serious cognitive condition (ie schizophrenia) or just someone doing something for shits and giggles.
CommonGrackle 1 week ago#17
sometime around here is where I first noticed it. This was mid 2013 or so:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-california-transgender-idUSBRE97C01S20130813

it wasn't necessarily a debate over transgendered people and their place in society to begin with, but the increasing use of the term "gender identity" in a legal context to allow anyone to use whatever facility they wanted if they felt like it.
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ArabrockermanX 1 week ago#18
I'm going to go with Republicans suddenly deciding to pass bills about bathrooms.
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BilalPowell 1 week ago#19
Caitlyn Jenner
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C_Mat 1 week ago#21
Because once the liberals won the gay marriage battle, they had to move onto something else.
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CommonGrackle 1 week ago#22
ArabrockermanX posted...
I'm going to go with Republicans suddenly deciding to pass bills about bathrooms.


you mean like Democrat Jerry Brown did?
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CyborgSage00x0 1 week ago#23
mercurydude posted...
The big reason is because the culture war against gays and lesbians was seen as the lost cause it was and even declared as such by O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc.

Yup.

The GOP lost the war over gays, so they moved on the the next vulnerable, most logical target. They will keep doing so until there's nothing left.

Basically, Conservatives are the real social justice warriors.
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Erik_P 1 week ago#24
ITT: @NightMareBunny doesn't understand something. Truly shocking.

He got tired of being mocked on PotD so he ran to the Politics board where he could more easily display his ignorance without being mocked.
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Sir Will 1 week ago#25
mercurydude posted...
The big reason is because the culture war against gays and lesbians was seen as the lost cause it was and even declared as such by O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc. 

So trans people were seen as the next scapegoat to rally against because people didn't know that much about them, so they're convenient to turn into a boogeyman and claim that they're hiding in restrooms to attack little girls and such.

Basically. They were losing ground fast on the LGB front so turned towards the T.

Camelotking524 posted...
Because the left and right needed a new wedge issue after the Supreme Court decided on gay marriage.

Right's fault.
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crowkillers 1 week ago#26
BilalPowell posted...
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The was pretty much the peak of it that conveniently happened at just the right time.. Then you have the media reminding everyone that transgender women might be in the bathroom with your wife and daughter, which in turn caused all of this negative outrage.. I don't recall in the 80's and 90's anyone caring about this subject until recently when it started getting shoved down everyone's throats... Then again, we didn't have social media back then like we do today..

All the media is good for is causing drama and controversy... But that is what they need to keep going..
Camelotking524 1 week ago#27
Sir Will posted...


Camelotking524 posted...
Because the left and right needed a new wedge issue after the Supreme Court decided on gay marriage.

Right's fault.


I don't think it was the right that was the ones jumping on the bandwagon when a few transgender students wanted to use the locker rooms that matched their gender identity? I think you need to be a bit more cynical about this.
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OffDogs 1 week ago#28
Gays got the rights they deserved, left rear out of actual civil rights issues, transtrenders began to suddenly want their own identity which is dumb.
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AC_Dragonfire 1 week ago#29
We can thank the Kardashians, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry for making America into a shit hole.
RyanBraun8 1 week ago#30
OffDogs posted...
Gays got the rights they deserved, left rear out of actual civil rights issues, transtrenders began to suddenly want their own identity which is dumb.


I think being a backwards, ignorant, pig-headed bigot is dumb. We all have our beliefs.
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RyanBraun8 1 week ago#31
AC_Dragonfire posted...
We can thank the Kardashians, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry for making America into a shit hole.


I'll just thank the Republican party.
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Dwavenhobble 1 week ago#32
mad_hax_man posted...

Is there anything you won't blame on the left?

So you're saying radical people who want to forcibly push their ideology are what the left as a whole stands for now?
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Dwavenhobble 1 week ago#33
NightMareBunny posted...
NativitylnBIood posted...
Like most issues these days, it started with some serious discussion of real issues, now it's just a bunch of escalating shrieking going back and forth.


the worst thing to happen would be if a separate gender neutral bathroom was created

just how useful would that be in the long run?

We have them.

It's called the disabled toilet.
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Heineken14 1 week ago#34
mercurydude posted...
The big reason is because the culture war against gays and lesbians was seen as the lost cause it was and even declared as such by O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc. 

So trans people were seen as the next scapegoat to rally against because people didn't know that much about them, so they're convenient to turn into a boogeyman and claim that they're hiding in restrooms to attack little girls and such.


Pretty much. They lost same sex marriage so the GOP went after the transsexuals, which turned out to be unconstitutional and then they made a big stink about "liberal activist judges" upholding the constitution and tried to play it off like it was the democrats fault all along for trying to prevent them from doing unconstitutional shit.
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dj4242 1 week ago#35
A good portion of straight males are getting tired of always getting the bad end of the deal
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OffDogs 1 week ago#36
RyanBraun8 posted...
OffDogs posted...
Gays got the rights they deserved, left rear out of actual civil rights issues, transtrenders began to suddenly want their own identity which is dumb.


I think being a backwards, ignorant, pig-headed bigot is dumb. We all have our beliefs.

I agree... Why quote me?
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Barenziah Boy Toy 1 week ago#37
NightMareBunny posted...
9 or 10 years ago you wouldn't see or hear people screaming about transgender rights or that transgenders shouldn't exist...and if so you didn't hear about the roaring debate as often and as much as you do now in 2017


it seems like an extremely hot topic on the news and every website today

one side claiming transgenders are cropping up more and more and we have to accept that they are here while another side claims they are the super minority and numbers of there being thousands upon thousands of transgenders just in one state alone is overblown

Recent laws to ban transgenders from bathrooms.
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SPMcGuilicutty 1 week ago#38
Conservatives lost the war against gays, so now they need a new scapegoat. It's not a coincidence that transphobia ramped up after Obergefell.
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Sir Will 1 week ago#39
dj4242 posted...
A good portion of straight males are getting tired of always getting the bad end of the deal

Oh please.
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ThePieReborn 1 week ago#40
Sir Will posted...
dj4242 posted...
A good portion of straight males are getting tired of always getting the bad end of the deal

Oh please.

Luckily, the bad end of the deal in this situation is not on the receiving end of a knife.
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Yami_no_Geimu 1 week ago#42
God forbid racism really ever somehow genuinely ended. The democrats would have no way to get people to vote for them.
ZeroX91 1 week ago#43
Idiot pundits on both sides escalating shit for views, youtubers doing the same, reality tv, a shit economy that makes everyone more partial to what they think is better for their wallets, a war that is approaching our involvement in Vietnam, everybody trying to enforce their views on other people's hobbies, an education system designed to keep people in debt as long as possible, entry level service jobs disappearing due to automation and high corporate taxes, a stigma against the type of education that would actually prepare you for the current job environment, escalating racial tensions, increasing religious zealotry in previously peaceful areas, old wars tensions reawakening...uhh what was the question?
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crillgamer 1 week ago#44
A lot of things were different 9 or 10 years ago.
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mercurydude 1 week ago#46
dj4242 posted...
A good portion of straight males are getting tired of always getting the bad end of the deal

Yes, I've seen this mentality before. The thought process is that civil rights are a limited resource and that if previously marginalized groups have their civil rights recognized, they are getting a prize and the people who already took those civil rights for granted are somehow spurned because they didn't get anything out of the "deal" as expressed here.

Basically, the insistence is that the status quo must be maintained, hence why these folks very suddenly became okay with civil unions towards the tail end of the marriage equality battle. They saw that they were about to lose and wanted to see if they could still keep gays and lesbians as second class citizens through some form of 'compromise' that would have ONLY benefited them at this point, "But wait, what if you have the same rights but we call it a civil union instead of marriage so we can still look down our nose at you and treat your same-sex union as inferior to the godly heterosexual one! Then everyone's happy, right?" 

It's very juvenile, but it explains why they called marriage equality a special right and think that lobbying for ACTUAL special rights for Christian Dominionists is just the way things ought to be. 

Trump's ban on transgender people wouldn't have helped these people in any way, shape, or form, other than giving them another excuse as to why they could imagine themselves superior to transgender people, but for these petty types, that's quite the victory.
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VeiledGenesis 1 week ago#47
TaiIs82 posted...
Just another Democrat fad, pushing a phony issue to start fights and divide us, with the ultimate intent of undermining and destroying our nation. As always, it was the newsrooms and the fake news media that built it up 24/7.That's because even though these rich SJW lobbyists are only a fraction of 1 percent, there are so many of them in the oligarchy working to grow their personal power and establishment grip on the American people. They exist to cause problems, divide and oppress us, and they are the source of all our problems. Nobody talks about this fringe issue in real life.

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Metua posted...
Probably Caitlyn Jenner


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Angelblade 1 week ago#49
Whether a reflection of what was going on in society or a contributor to it, that fact that DSM-5 reclassified it from a disorder to dysphoria probably has removed a lot of the stigma in some people's minds. Probably most likely in a transgender person's mind, like you don't have a disorder.
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Metal_DK 1 week ago#50
The rumblings starting in 2007/2008 when Facebook opened to the general public, Twitter took off, 4th wave feminism began (everything is a social construct! which is stupid considering these people then say also say they were born with a male brain in a female body and vice versa), smartphone mania, etc. 

Then orange is the new black had a transgender character, time magazine's "the transgender tipping point" article, and caityln jenner happened happened around 2014/2015ish.
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    Sir Will 1 week ago#51
    mercurydude posted...
    dj4242 posted...
    A good portion of straight males are getting tired of always getting the bad end of the deal

    Yes, I've seen this mentality before. The thought process is that civil rights are a limited resource and that if previously marginalized groups have their civil rights recognized, they are getting a prize and the people who already took those civil rights for granted are somehow spurned because they didn't get anything out of the "deal" as expressed here.

    Basically, the insistence is that the status quo must be maintained, hence why these folks very suddenly became okay with civil unions towards the tail end of the marriage equality battle. They saw that they were about to lose and wanted to see if they could still keep gays and lesbians as second class citizens through some form of 'compromise' that would have ONLY benefited them at this point, "But wait, what if you have the same rights but we call it a civil union instead of marriage so we can still look down our nose at you and treat your same-sex union as inferior to the godly heterosexual one! Then everyone's happy, right?" 

    It's very juvenile, but it explains why they called marriage equality a special right and think that lobbying for ACTUAL special rights for Christian Dominionists is just the way things ought to be. 

    Trump's ban on transgender people wouldn't have helped these people in any way, shape, or form, other than giving them another excuse as to why they could imagine themselves superior to transgender people, but for these petty types, that's quite the victory.

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    Metal_DK 1 week ago#52
    I think for straight males its moreso they dont want to be constantly blamed for everything. I mean if the only thing you need to do to get straight white men to vote for a black guy with a muslim name twice with very high percentages is to not call them racist, sexist, transphobic, etc, then maybe you shouldnt do that?

    Social media magnified identity politics to a large amount. It seems like there is a lot hatred towards a group of people that only a minuscule amount of people in said group have actual significant power. 2015ish seemed to see the beginnings of the backlash, and it mightve peaked in 2016 with Trump/brexit/etc.
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    Shadow_jdct 1 week ago#53
    dj4242 posted...
    A good portion of straight males are getting tired of always getting the bad end of the deal


    I don't understand how these alt right loons can think being a straight male is somehow a bad deal. Maybe you just suck so much at life, your gender and sexual orientation can't compensate for it
    OffDogs 1 week ago#54
    Shadow_jdct posted...
    dj4242 posted...
    A good portion of straight males are getting tired of always getting the bad end of the deal


    I don't understand how these alt right loons can think being a straight male is somehow a bad deal. Maybe you just suck so much at life, your gender and sexual orientation can't compensate for it

    Trying to remember what comedian you ripped off this "realization" from.
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    Red XlV 1 week ago#55
    mercurydude posted...
    The big reason is because the culture war against gays and lesbians was seen as the lost cause it was and even declared as such by O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc. 

    So trans people were seen as the next scapegoat to rally against because people didn't know that much about them, so they're convenient to turn into a boogeyman and claim that they're hiding in restrooms to attack little girls and such.

    It's this exactly. The right-wing "culture war" types need a minority to openly discriminate against. With it becoming less and less popular to be anti-gay, they've moved on to anti-transgender.
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    Shadow_jdct 1 week ago#56
    OffDogs posted...
    Shadow_jdct posted...
    dj4242 posted...
    A good portion of straight males are getting tired of always getting the bad end of the deal


    I don't understand how these alt right loons can think being a straight male is somehow a bad deal. Maybe you just suck so much at life, your gender and sexual orientation can't compensate for it

    Trying to remember what comedian you ripped off this "realization" from.


    You're probably thinking of Louis CK
    mario2000 1 week ago#57
    blame both the pat robertson types in need of a new boogyman to be scared of and the tumblr people shrieking at you if you don't call them by their pronoun of the day
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    Ivashanko 1 week ago#58
    I've been friends with a few transgendered people, so I am glad that they are getting the help they need. I've also been surprised with this growing concern about them in the West, and I suspect it is because their struggled have been closely (and in some ways artificially) linked to LGB struggles.

    The only concern I have is which group will be culturally picked to help next after transgenders. I really hope it is orphans, particularly never patented orphans, who's life outcomes are often similar to transsexuals (in the USA around 14% kill themselves, and less than one tenth of one percent complete college). They have no privilage but also no enemy that opposes them, so I am worried that they will never really have their moment in the sun
    WTF-Man 1 week ago#59
    The same reason nobody talked about gay rights 20 years ago and 10 years later it was a hot issue.

    It's called progress, and people openly discriminating against a group is only going to fan the flames. 

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    OffDogs 1 week ago#60
    Shadow_jdct posted...
    OffDogs posted...
    Shadow_jdct posted...
    dj4242 posted...
    A good portion of straight males are getting tired of always getting the bad end of the deal


    I don't understand how these alt right loons can think being a straight male is somehow a bad deal. Maybe you just suck so much at life, your gender and sexual orientation can't compensate for it

    Trying to remember what comedian you ripped off this "realization" from.


    You're probably thinking of Louis CK

    Yeah he did a bit but what he said is almost verbatim... The comedian complains about his situation and then states I guess I'm just mad I'm failing at life on easy mode.
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    dillon1278 1 week ago#62
    Dirty repubs always need a scapegoat
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    The Great Muta 22 1 week ago#63
    OffDogs posted...
    It's all stupid because privilege is an individual thing not a race thing.


    You're the one who brought race into that discussion though...
    NightMareBunny 1 week ago#64
    if fox news and friends weren't attacking transgenders

    everyone else wouldn't feel the need to say how much they have admired and supported transgender rights

    why? because then they wouldn't be seen as a righteous freedom fighter
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    Atombender 1 week ago#65
    Legalizing gay marriage basically empowered the whole LBGTQHDISIDUISFJQE community
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    Goombacrusher 1 week ago#66
    republicans purposely politicized the issue by quickly pushing their bathroom laws, forcing dems to fight back, at which point repubs claimed that dems started it and were "trying to let pedophiles into bathrooms" even though the repubs were really the ones that changed the status quo. it was an intentional political move to use fear-mongering to strengthen republican hold in midwestern states.
    SPMcGuilicutty 1 week ago#67
    TaiIs82 posted...
    Just another Democrat fad, pushing a phony issue to start fights and divide us

    But you Republicans are the ones pushing the issue.
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    d_parker 1 week ago#68
    NightMareBunny posted...
    9 or 10 years ago you wouldn't see or hear people screaming about transgender rights or that transgenders shouldn't exist...and if so you didn't hear about the roaring debate as often and as much as you do now in 2017


    it seems like an extremely hot topic on the news and every website today

    one side claiming transgenders are cropping up more and more and we have to accept that they are here while another side claims they are the super minority and numbers of there being thousands upon thousands of transgenders just in one state alone is overblown


    Uhm, it's a distraction and you just contributed to it. 

    While they loot and sell us out to foreign interests, you can argue about whether its okay for a bridal shop to decline to sell clothes to lesbians and other hot topics.
    atmasabr 1 week ago#69
    1: There is a significant political alliance between gay and transgender activists, within which transgender issues are secondary to gay issues.

    2: Within the past 9-10 years, multiple high profile gay-rights causes and social acceptance concerns have been rendered moot: legal recognition of same sex marriage, the Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal, the selection of a Pope who clearly and effectively communicates a conciliatory tone about homosexual persons, the Boy Scouts repealing their ban on gay troops, and then on gay scoutmasters...

    3: Gay activists now spend more energy on promoting and protecting transgender interests publicly.

    4: Intersectionality theory becomes more popular and increases the power of transgender activists in liberal-dominated spaces outside the public sphere (academia, the media, the medical professions).

    5: The Kardashian family.
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    Metal_DK 1 week ago#70
    It mostly just has to do with the Casual Revolution of 2007. Modern era social media and the centralized internet began around then, so we live even moreso in these "episodic" moments of our lives where hot button topics move to the forefront due to the amount of hashtags, retweets, youtube vids, etc.

    If you really look at most subcultures (political, social, entertainment of any sort), almost all of them saw their current era begin around 2007/2008.
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    NeotheLight 1 week ago#71
    Some elements of the transgender culture war isn't about fighting for equal rights like equal marriage, it's about creating a new status with new special rights and privileges that other people wouldn't get. The whole forcing transgender accommodations and other people have to deal with it.
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    ClayGuida 1 week ago#72
    NightMareBunny posted...
    NativitylnBIood posted...
    Like most issues these days, it started with some serious discussion of real issues, now it's just a bunch of escalating shrieking going back and forth.


    the worst thing to happen would be if a separate gender neutral bathroom was created

    just how useful would that be in the long run?

    About as useful as a family bathroom. You seen those? The ones literally no families actually use, but instead people not willing to wait to use their bathroom. 

    Seriously, every mall or movie theater I've been to, those have never been used as a family room, instead just a single person bathroom. They're worthless. I get why they were created but it was for such a small market that it never actually got used for its purpose. Just a 3rd bathroom for no other reason than being a 3rd bathroom
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    NightMareBunny 6 days ago#73
    ClayGuida posted...
    NightMareBunny posted...
    NativitylnBIood posted...
    Like most issues these days, it started with some serious discussion of real issues, now it's just a bunch of escalating shrieking going back and forth.


    the worst thing to happen would be if a separate gender neutral bathroom was created

    just how useful would that be in the long run?

    About as useful as a family bathroom. You seen those? The ones literally no families actually use, but instead people not willing to wait to use their bathroom. 

    Seriously, every mall or movie theater I've been to, those have never been used as a family room, instead just a single person bathroom. They're worthless. I get why they were created but it was for such a small market that it never actually got used for its purpose. Just a 3rd bathroom for no other reason than being a 3rd bathroom


    that's the same thing i think here....transgenders are such a small group that most cities and towns wouldn't see those bathrooms used all that much

    most people on both sides need to realize it's rare to see many transgenders in any area

    this isn't something that's to be normalized in the future because most of us will never see them and they as a minority group won't be getting any bigger

    if they did end up getting bigger to the point where everyone sees them everyday i would think there's something wrong
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    lowtides 6 days ago#74
    They were part of LGBT for a long time and now some LGB are talking about "disowning" them because they feel they make them look bad. It's sad.
    OffDogs 6 days ago#75
    lowtides posted...
    They were part of LGBT for a long time and now some LGB are talking about "disowning" them because they feel they make them look bad. It's sad.

    Why? It makes no sense trans isn't a sexual preference. Gay is
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    NeotheLight 5 days ago#76
    OffDogs posted...
    lowtides posted...
    They were part of LGBT for a long time and now some LGB are talking about "disowning" them because they feel they make them look bad. It's sad.

    Why? It makes no sense trans isn't a sexual preference. Gay is


    Precisely, transgenders have an entirely different agenda compared to LGB. LGB wants current rights to expand equally like same sex marriage. Transgenders want new rights for their status.
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    3. what caused the transgender debate to explode in the last couple of years?

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