We've come a long way baby. How were blacks, gays, women treated 150 years ago (worldwide)? 100 year ago? 50 years ago?asher2789 wrote: ↑Aug 13th, '22, 10:12what you are advocating for is for queer people to go back in the closet. i am a VISIBLY queer person. i cant hide the fact that i am not straight nor do i conform to gender standards. ive been this way since i was a young child. and since i was a young child until well into adulthood i was VIOLENTLY mistreated for it. MY VERY EXISTENCE IS POLITICAL. i remember being in elementary school, being asked to line up in the hallway boys and girls, and while i knew i had a vagina and therefore was a girl, i never felt like a girl, or a boy for that matter. there wasn't the language then that there is today to describe these feelings, at least not accessible to anyone outside of an intellectual and adult setting. but we've always existed... and we always will exist, despite attempts through time to eradicate us.throbster wrote: ↑Aug 11th, '22, 09:09 Like I said before, the LGBTXYZ movement has gone too far. Just get out of our face with the constant reminders and we all will get along. As for Drag Queens performing for kids; it is just plain wrong and way over the top.
My kids know I detest liberals and they are cool with it. I don't tell them how to think and vice versa.
i was held up in a choke hold on the school bus when i was 9, for being perceived as gay (i didnt realize i was until i had my first undeniable crush on a woman at 18) - i fought back in self defense and was suspended for fighting, the kids who assaulted me got a slap on the wrist. that was the start of my far left radicalization when i realized authority figures weren't there to protect me... i was later assaulted in a bathroom when i was 24, for being perceived as trans during the height of the bathroom bill controversy under the obama presidency. there are many more instances of being socially shunned, verbally bullied, and physically assaulted at a less intense level. all for being gay and gender nonconforming, things i have no control over. i've been in vermont now for almost 7 years - when i go home every once in a blue moon ill run into somebody from my distant past and they'll apologize to me for their behavior when we were kids. decades later! who knows what kind of person i would be or where i would be at in life if i wasn't terribly mistreated for so long just because of who i was... and FYI i didnt grow up in the deep south or some sh*t, i grew up in liberal NY in a county that went twice to obama and twice to trump.
my partner of many years and i split up recently - and let me tell you, with my raging hormones I WISH I WAS STRAIGHT. i can think of about a dozen men off the top of my head i could call up right now and sleep with if i wanted to, but the problem is that i just... don't work that way. trust me, ive tried. life would be so much easier for me (minus abortion access in half the country) if i could magically wake up as a typical straight chick.
im out and proud and in your f*** face for it as payback for mistreatment over it most of my life. i wont be silenced nor will i be made to feel like i should shrink myself for some f*** bigot's comfort.
and as for young kids, who occasionally ask me if im a boy or a girl (to the polite horror of their parents, lol) i answer them that i am a girl, who often looks like a boy, and that sometimes girls look like boys and sometimes boys look like girls but the most important thing is to treat everybody the way you want to be treated even if they are different than you. clutches pearls OMG ASHER2789 IS A GROOMER!!!!!!!
as for drag queens, its no different than clowns, mermaids, mickey mouse, whatever dress up fantasy character. we're on the brink of a civil war while trump is being raided for espionage over nuclear secrets and you and your ilk are pearl clutching over f*** drag queens??!?!?!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I can't tell you how to feel, but I would feel happy and vindicated about the widespread acceptances of the LGBT community. Stop looking in the rear view mirror.
But, diddling kids will never be okay.