#Gender nonsense

[thinkwaytoomuch]

This girl just said she doesn't consider girls as persons, to preeschoolers💀

[cordycepsfem]

Today in: are the gender people okay?

“Being silent and moving to a different game does not make us more safe.”

Sir, this is about Stardew Valley.

But when you believe bullshit like the below to be true I’m sure the world is just littered with dangers:

>“Trans women are not biological men.”

> the study (which would not link to Tumblr no matter what I did but the New York Times has the quote from Pitsiladis) literally says trans women have an advantage over “cisgender” women in sports and also acknowledges that it studied fewer than 100 participants total (19 men, 12 trans men, 23 trans women, 21 women) so the sample size is so small as to be useless

> so now you’re just a male doped up on exogenous cross-sex hormones who’s better than women at a sport but worse than other men and doctors aren’t even calling you a man now

> and you’ll still never be a woman

> and you can’t even play as a trans or nonbinary farmer in Stardew Valley so are you safe anywhere?!?$?

[queerism1969]

[thefemaleterrorist]

this genre of people on tiktok are definitely an experiment because what…

[foone]

I was at the month electronics flea market and this device lets you select any of the 12 genders.

[ndb-123]

Being demigender is like having ADHD. (As someone who has ADHD)

"What gender are you?"

"I was 'woman', but I put 'woman' down somewhere and forgot where I put it. So, I was 'agender' for a while and I forgot 'woman' existed. Then I found 'woman' again by accident and now I'm obsessed with it."

[curse-king]

Is it wrong for a boy to compliment a girl's nails? It's just that i find them so pretty sometimes, i would like to say something nice but i am afraid of coming out weird.😔

[muusudgoi]

Gonna be tacky and share my own thing from elsewhere... 🤷🏼‍♀️

[bugsonpluto]

not cisgender not transgender but a secret third thing

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Moooment... hier stimmt doch was nicht!

Die Landratte ist doch schon weiblich. Wenn überhaupt, dann müsste es doch "Landratte:riche" heißen. Oder "Landrätte:riche"?

[oops-wedrovethedownwithcisbus]

Kinger from The Amazing Digital Circus is trans !!!!!!! And on the aroace spectrum !!!!

[cordycepsfem]

Today in: “Pride isn’t for gay people anymore”: I went to the website for the Pride event in the big city near me. You’ll never guess what I found.

We acknowledge and honor that the Stonewall Riots, the historical origin of Pride, were in response to police harassment of LGBTQ+ people, especially those who were trans, nonbinary, and people of color.

That sounds super incorrect. For one thing:

… so no, there were not a bunch of heckin’ cool smol bean enbies at the Stonewall Riots. There weren’t really any trans people as we understand trans today - they were transsexuals, so they were also usually gay.

For another thing: it was not solely in commemoration of the Riots. Pride was also a demonstration for equal rights.

But let’s see who Boston thinks Pride is for now:

“Memorialize the queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color…, activists at the forefront of the 20th century lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, plus… movement.”

So we can’t, by this standard, memorialize Brenda Howard. She’s called the Mother of Pride, but she was white and Jewish and didn’t call herself queer. She was very outspoken about being bisexual.

Or any of the other founders of Pride, who were also white, and half lesbian, half gay men. Some are still alive, so I get not being able to “memorialize” them, but really, you can’t spare a breath for them?

How about Barbara Gittings, described as “the mother of the LGBT civil rights movement”? She’s dead, but again, she’s white, and she was a lesbian, not “queer.”

Or Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer?

How about Gilbert Baker, who sewed the first rainbow pride flag and said it covered everyone? It didn’t need to be subsumed by every niche demographic, it was for all of us.

Who are these mysterious QTBIPOC who seem to have done all the heavy lifting, to the point where they’re being fetishized and commemorated at a massive Pride event like Boston’s? Why don’t we know their names? Who are the few intersex individuals who don’t mind being callously lumped in with a group who uses them as a “gotcha”?

The names that come to mind when I think of today’s activism include Eli Erlick (confirmed rapist), Chase Strangio (fights in court so boys can change with girls and play in their sports and children can receive net negative life-altering drugs and surgical procedures), Elliot Page (poster boy for sadness), Dylan Mulvaney (he thinks he knows what a woman is), Erin Reed (scare-mongering nutjob who can’t read a legal bill to save his life)… and then I’m out. Who else falls into this stunning and brave category?

Also, anyone find it a little unpleasant that these “queer” people have now superseded the “LGB” people mentioned as an afterthought in the second part of the paragraph?

Whoever this Pride’s for, it’s not for LGB people anymore.

[mbrainspaz]

⚠️ Perceive me at your own risk.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Andrew Doyle

Published: May 13, 2024

The annual parade of kitsch and clamour, otherwise known as the Eurovision Song Contest, has devolved somewhat in recent years. Once a harmless extravaganza of camp and self-knowing nonsense, it has gone the way of most gay culture and fallen into the fatal trap of taking itself too seriously. This fluffy creature has started to bare fangs.

Of course, Eurovision has always been political. The tradition of Greece and Cyprus awarding each other full marks was as daft as it was inevitable. But the spectre of war has somehow now intruded itself; in 2022, the public vote for Ukraine was an expression of sympathy rather than a sincere judgement on the quality of the song, and this year the Israeli singer Eden Golan required an escort of around one hundred police officers due to threats from protesters. Such baleful developments take us a long way from the frivolity of “Puppet on a String” and “Hard Rock Hallelujah”.

This year the trophy went to Switzerland’s Nemo, a man in a skirt who identifies as “non-binary”. The UK entry, Olly Alexander, calls himself “gay and queer and non-binary” but magnanimously accepts the pronouns “he” and “him”. And then there is the “queer” and “non-binary” Irish entry Bambie Thug, a woman who came sixth in the competition but first in the award for the sorest of losers. Having being beaten by Israel, whose very presence in the competition was a source of outrage for Thug, she had the following to say:

“I’m so proud of Nemo winning. I’m so proud that all of us are in the top ten that have been fighting for this shit behind the scenes because it has been so hard and it’s been so horrible for us. And I’m so proud of us. And I just want to say, we are what the Eurovision is. The EBU [European Broadcasting Union] is not what the Eurovision is. Fuck the EBU. I don’t even care anymore. Fuck them. The thing that makes this is the contestants, the community behind it, the love and the power and the support of all of us is what is making change. And the world has spoken. The queers are coming. Non-binaries for the fucking win.”

One might argue that all of this is simply an extension of the high-campery of old. Thug certainly looks pantomimic, with her Christmas-cracker devil horns, and the layers of makeup piled on to what used to be a face. But what were once the glittery fripperies of gay culture have been hijacked by the acolytes of gender identity ideology, a movement that has appropriated this whimsical sheen to advance its authoritarian and sinister goals. It is this same movement that has successfully lobbied governments to introduce draconian speech laws, has hounded people out of their jobs for wrongthink, and has normalised bullying and threats of violence in the name of “social justice”. 

The very notion of “non-binary” is a reactionary concept dressed up in the guise of progressivism. Most of those who identify as non-binary are embracing, rather than rejecting, sex stereotypes. They claim to feel neither sufficiently masculine nor feminine, which is simply another way of reinforcing what it means to be male or female.

The same ambiguity goes for “queer”. Many gay people see this as a anti-gay slur, associating the term with the practice of “queer-bashing”. But now, many young heterosexuals are identifying themselves into this category as a means to claim the high status that now accompanies victimhood. Dannii Minogue, a lifelong heterosexual, recently “came out” as “queer”. To those who have been the victims of homophobic abuse and violence, it’s galling to see straights embracing the term as a fashion accessory. Minogue may as well have come out as a “faggot” or a “dyke”.

A study by the Arizona Christian University which surveyed six hundred people between the ages of 18 and 37 found that of those in the lower age bracket (18 to 24), 39 per cent identified as “LGBT”. Statistically, the majority of these respondents will be heterosexual. If this trend is to continue, it won’t be long before the “LGBTQIA+ community” will largely comprise of straight people with a kink. In fact, we’re probably already there.

Just because a majority rebrands itself as a minority, that doesn’t make it oppressed. This is the context in which Bambie Thug’s battle cry – “The queers are coming” – ought to be understood. The oppression of gay people throughout history is an incontestable fact, but heterosexuals, however fetishistic, have usually been left alone. It’s little wonder that more and more gay people are rejecting the “LGBTQIA+” label.

One of the common mantras intoned by activist groups and the institutions they have infected is that “non-binary identities are valid”. They are not referring to the standard definition of “valid” as an argument that has “a sound basis in logic or fact”. After all, there are only two human sexes and no third gamete. Rather, in the activist lexicon to be “valid” is an acknowledgement of the legitimacy of personal feelings, or “individual truths”, a close cousin of the notion of “lived experience”.

We are assured that “non-binary people have always existed”, a form of historical revisionism intended to shame anyone who refuses to dance along to the circus march of our times. Gareth Roberts points out the folly of such declarations in his new book Gay Shame, and how they are “throwing back into the unknowable past something that was literally invented on Tumblr in 2011”.

To be “non-binary” is a modish form of self-identification, no different from the “goths” of the 1980s or the “teddy boys” of the 1960s. The major departure is that those who identify as “non-binary” are now demanding that others pretend that their identity is something innate. To be born “non-binary” is about as feasible as being born an “emo”, and I have yet to hear of a case of a baby emerging from the womb in ripped skinny jeans and black eyeliner.

So when Bambie Thug cries out “Non-binaries for the fucking win!”, the connotations are a little more sinister than the teenage trends of yesteryear. Major corporations and public bodies are now insisting that we pretend that people can identify out of the categories of male and female, irrespective of the impact on the rights of women, gay people and children. Laws are being passed that will criminalise those who refuse to play along with the fantasies of narcissists. In other words, there is a lot more at stake than the fleeting fashions of Eurovision.

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To claim to be "nonbinary," you have to believe in very strict, narrow, conservative gender stereotypes...

... in order to insist that you're a unicorn who is not.

[shhhimnothereiswear]

I like boobs when they're not on me

[autism-freaks]

I firmly believe that anything you do to transition should be centered around YOUR comfort and wellbeing, not anyone else's. Want to start hormones, and do voice training because that would make you feel more like yourself? Absolutely go for it! Going through that trouble so that other people will be more comfortable or just to maybe get your identity respected, even though you dont particularly want to aside from those things? FUCK THAT!! If it's something you feel is necessary for your safety, I would consider that as being for your wellbeing and comfort. I know it's not always easy to parse out who you want to take steps in your transition for, but please, don't let cis people, transmeds, and transphobes convince you that you need to do anything transition wise to be validated in who you are. There is a wide community who will already accept you with open arms and celebrate your gender non-comforming traits without misgendering you. I see it all the time.

On that note, can I get a HELL YEAH for girls with deep voices and lots of body/facial hair and big muscles and masculine fashion and chiseled jaws and dicks and flat chests?

Can I get just as big of a FUCK YES for boys with high pitched voices and no facial hair and curves and feminine fashion and soft faces and pussies and big titties?