What bothers me is the idea that they're going to promote 'transgender rights'. Transgenders already have rights - same as everyone else. What this fatuous tart Greening appears to be suggesting is of an actual government legislating to protect the delusions of a tiny number of mad people from the cold light of reality.
My glw, who has the misfortune of working amongst ordinary people - including, I suppose, so-called millenials, tells me that all these transers, radical feminists and Muslim apologists exist only on the pages of The Guardian, that I take too much notice of them, and that the people in her office, on the train and in restaurants and cafés are still sane.
You're calling my glw a liar.
I think she's right to a point, except that her assessment of your every day person being sane is not quite the full story. They are sane, but they are influenced by our culture through osmososis and reflexively support what they are told is 'progressive' while not really questioning it. They are also permanently told that we must accept other people's life experiences as to not do so is intolerant and arrogant. Of course, this sounds reasonable until 'acceptance' becomes something far beyond basic good manners and tactfulness.
In other words, they are useful idiots, and their tepid, apathetic endorsement serves to validate the entire movement.
Last edited by Monty92; 07-24-2017 at 08:50 AM.
The worst thing that could ever happen to these people is for them to find themselves tainted by association with the right. And so they will fight their corner right until the point that they no longer can. So, for example, you won't get many 'sane' people who would defend Rachel Dolezal's right to self-identify as black, or for a 57-year-old man to self-identity as a baby and sit around in nappies all day.
Which is why this latest move by the Tories gives me hope. I don't think sane people can support it while keeping a straight face. And once the radicals lose the support of the mainstream, their game is up.
Yes, but more importantly, do you think Justine Greening is pure lesbonian, or can she be tempted by the real thing? If, for example, she and her lady friend were enjoying a cuddle on the sofa, perhaps clad in corsets and fishnet stockings, and I arrived unexpectedly to fis the washing machine, do you think they would immediately strip me of my dungarees?
Asking for a friend.
Surely we can accept other people's life experiences without endless legislation and discussion about how they need to be treated.
I believe in my own right to not give a **** about other people's life experience. I don't care about your gender, sexual orientation, preferred title, preferred toilet. Indifference is not intolerance.
My foot hurts most days. People just don't understand how it feels. I feel isolated from my community and have nobody to turn to.