• Harold_Penisman@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    …how does a trans person get this way? Seems like a huge lack of self-awareness or some kind of disingenuous grift.

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    Aren’t there conervative teachers too? Based on their anwser, just going off what the image tells me, there are two possibilities:

    Yes -> Being trans is what the children want, after all they are presented with both options. Not presenting the option denies them happiness.

    No -> Being ‘woke’ is what comes naturally with education. There must have been something like the first ‘woke’ teacher and all the other educated people where like ‘Yes, he’s right.’. Conservatives should just educate themselves.

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    There’s no such thing as a normal child. That’s the problem with conservative’s expectations.

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      Kids are weirdos. I love it, we should encourage it. Kids love each other without seeing prejudice, I love watching my toddler play with other kids, they don’t give a shit about gender or color.

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        Same, and I may feel a certain way about the kid as a cranky old man who hates kids, but I never let my son see this and encourage him to like everybody.

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    5 months ago

    That’s one of those rage bait memes used to drive engagement. I realize I’m doing it now, but at least it’s to point it out. It’s essentially bot trash

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    So she’s saying she’s not inherently a woman?

    Because every trans person I know is inherently the gender they say they are.

    I guess not Caitlyn?

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    Am I the only weirdo who dismisses this except thinking “leave those kids alone” was right and she was soooo close to

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    I… Am really struggling to figure out if this is satire or an actual “meant” comment. I mean, they’re taking lyrics and the logo from one of Pink Floyd’s most famous albums; on the other hand they’re invoking “woke” shibboleths in a weird way… Not knowing the context, who the Xitter user is and just looking at the image, it feels like something you’d create to poke fun at those who routinely chant, “woke” as if it’s a bad thing…

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      The sex education they give kids here in Indiana is pathetic. I’m glad I don’t have a problem talking to my kid about sex. Heaven forbid they cover things like contraception or consent.

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        Should be easy to find another teacher to turn the kid back straight if we are using this simple-minded logic

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        Spoiler, Caitlyn Jenner is the person who posted it. At no point does she believe this

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          Caitlyn Jenner is a conservative Trump supporter who does believe this.

          Conservatives are always cockroaches, even the trans ones.

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    What a fucking hag, she does know that In the Flesh shouldn’t be taken as a statement of intent right?

    Are there any queers in the theater tonight?

    Get them up against the wall!

    There’s one in the spotlight, he don’t look right to me, Get him up against the wall!

    That one looks Jewish!

    And that one’s a coon!

    Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?

    There’s one smoking a joint, And another with spots!

    If I had my way, I’d have all of you shot!

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      I mean after what we’ve learned of Roger Waters, it might just be a statement of intent

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        Roger has some strong opinions, but if you think he is a hateful person then you’ve absolutely misunderstood him.

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          At least in the last 4 years, the guy’s sounding like a Russian plant. Somehow pinning the blame for the Ukraine invasion on NATO and saying Ukraine needed to reach out to Russia and work with them to end the conflict.

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          I don’t think I’d describe him as ‘hateful’ but his comments on Ukraine were really disappointing.

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    The rhetoric that you can somehow make kids trans that would otherwise be cis just by exposing them to new ideas is getting extremely tiresome. Everyone should know that’s not true by now. I’m convinced the people posting memes like this know they’re full of shit and are just dog whistling that they disapprove of anyone different than them, a la homophobes talking about how gayness is “unnatural” when that’s observably false in actual nature.

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      The rhetoric that you can somehow make kids trans that would otherwise be cis just by exposing them to new ideas is getting extremely tiresome.

      Once kids are able to relate confused inarticulate feelings with coherent patterns of behavior, they can begin to conform.

      Sometimes, that conformity means adapting their presentation and physiology to their new gender. Formerly cis-presenting kids transition under this model.

      Other times it means internalizing their anxiety and closeting themselves to avoid social stigma. Cis-presenting kids delay and decline to transition under this model.

      A Woke Teacher encourages the former while a Based Trad Teacher encourages the later.

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      In Caitlyn’s case, it seems to be disapproval of people like herself. Even after coming out and transitioning… still seems to hate herself.

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        She’s definitely not in a good place. The people she preaches to are primed to think she’s at best a pitiable freak and mentally ill for being what she is but she’s addicted to being their pet trans woman because she’s so keen to feel more somehow respectable than other trans people.

        It doesn’t seem like at all a healthy place to be.

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      An interesting observation from another source: since being straight and white is now the worst thing ever and we, especially the males, are now responsible for absolutely everything that goes wrong anywhere in the universe and everyone hates us for that, any kid unfortunate enough to find themselves in that predicament is going to identify as just about anything else in order to retain some degree of popularity.