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Women and LGBTQ+ people take up guns after Trump’s win: ‘We need to protect ourselves’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Man, just reread what was shared with you and take the learning experience. You tried to be cute by making a mad-lib out of it and you sound way worse now than you did two comments up.
Edit hours later after checking to see if my advice was heeded:
Oh no, I didn't heed my trans wisdoms lords advice and they've decided to deride someone for a singular word choice to make themselves feel morally superior!
This will definitely advance the trans acceptance of the common person! Or maybe stay with me here for a moment, not everyone on the internet is as accepting as you are and when they see someone getting slammed for "wrong speak" it reinforces their shitty beliefs.
"If someone who loves and supports trans people is getting shit on for saying a double plus ungood word by other trans allies, then why would I ever want to be a part of that."
I've heard these conversations verbatim from people I work with who hold actual hatred for trans people and trans acceptance. Once again though you're all living for up votes and that brief instance you get to feel morally superior on the internet and share these snippets in your discord groups. This is clearly such a flippant topic for you that all you could muster up is a meme.
If you're taking a few online comments "from a perceived group" and labeling the entire movement and ideology of it bad because "they said mean things to me". Well sorry pal, you were just looking for an excuse.
Try talking to those co-workers and see how nice their word play can be. Should definitely join the people who hold actual hatred than to get over some language critiques so you can properly communicate with a minority group online. You are trying to just communicate right? Just as speaking to a professional or someone without your background you tend to communicate differently to be more effective right?
I get it, you're old-think and stuck in your ways. "I don't actively harm people, so people shouldn't be harmed by anything I do". It's so much easier to just blame everyone else and continue living in your bubble instead of actually learning new perspectives. People stay locked in their ways everyday, why should you have to be any different?
If your intention was to sidetrack any conversation from the gun article and only have a debate about trans people, well you did a good job because all of that above is a hot mess I was not interested in after only a few comments.
Lol old think.... Damn you really think you're cooking with this one.
There's so many broad sweeping assumptions in this comment that it would take an hour to properly address them.
I'm for trans expression, safety, gender affirming care, and right to live peacefully and safely.
I'm.for sweeping changes to firearm laws and way more gun control measures to prevent senseless deaths at the hands of firearms. Ideally the US would have laws like Canada or Australia.
This is exactly my point. This "perceived group" of people online would rather be outraged and morally superior by convincing yourselves that you found a top secret bigot on a mission to detail the thread instead of just looking at the first reply to my comment as what it is, someone being an asshole by talking to down to me about using wrongspeak.
Also, perceived group? It's like 20 dorks on lemmy who enjoy talking down to others while jumping to conclusions without knowing who they're talking to at all. It has nothing to do with the gender identity movement as a whole. I form my opinions on that based on speakiny with my actual friends and family that are LGBTQIA+.
A simple "hey just a heads up, a lot of people avoid terms like biological male because its commonly used by transphobes to invalidate gender identities online" would have been clearly understood and accepted.
However, some people are so terminally online that they assume everything is a secret mission to destroy them from within. It seriously sounds like the reverse of the "George soros is paying libs to post these comments on reddit" crowd. I'm not saying that there isn't people sea lioning out here and dog whistling, but you are on such high alert that you can't even spot when someone is just being called out for simply being an asshole, because it's on such a controversial and hot topic.