I hope you feel the same way about all those people getting up in arms about Confederate statues getting torn down. If you do... Great. And I mean that, unironically.
But I'm also aware that some people, especially those who are disenfranchised and marginalized, often need something so they feel stronger.
we covered the statue tear-downs. its erasing and rewriting history. all my points are in the thread:
https://vigilantcitizenforums.com/threads/confederate-soldier-statues.1224/
LGBT kids who want a hero to look up to? Whether they are historical figures or fictional characters, people tend to like heroes they can relate to. Identity plays a part in relatability.
kids or ANYONE should look up to people, not a sexuality. gender and identity politics are the problem. can you not see how divisive it is?
We're living in a mad world, but personally, gay pride parades aren't even in my top ten of "crazy things in the modern world". I mean you want to hear something really batty? We produce enough food to feed the planet, yet there's still starvation. Or how about how oil companies have such a stranglehold on the global economy, we won't break away from fossil fuels and work find alternative fuel sources? Or how about how war, the act of murdering human beings in mass, is a very good business to get into?
so because there are other issues in the world, we should ignore this one? why should straight people not be allowed or feel guilty about their own parade? yes, its a mad society when being normal and heterosexual is no longer acceptable.
who would have thought, even 20 years ago, that to be a heterosexual would be the epitome of the counterculture? <shakes head>
You could, you know, embrace those differences. I've met all sorts of people in my life from all different walks of life and my life is better because of it. Since I actively tried to understand where people are coming from and those people actively tried to understand me... We all grew as people.
"hi, i understand you identify as a intersex 7 year old cat-man who uses the 'meow-meow' pronoun."
look, if people want to have their psycho-sexual delusions, go for it! go identify as a cat-man or lion-o or if some 48 year old identifies as a 7 year old girl. more power to them. but there is no way, zero, none that i will be forced to stoop down to their level of lunacy and play along with their mental psychoses, be it cat humanism or trans nonbinary... whatevers.
The world would be pretty boring if we were all the same.
is that a reason for creating 1x10^8 genders? so we can be more "diverse"? this is the same groupthink that swayed millions of idiotic young people to get tattoos these days. "oh, look how different and unique i am-- i have a tribal tattoo!" great. an ink blot on your skin made all the difference in setting you apart from everyone else. the same logic applies to genders.
no one needs to try to be different. theres NOTHING wrong with being yourself.