Thursday, March 30, 2017

Useful Idiots in the Transphobic Pogroms of 2016-2017

Good evening/morning, loving readers of the Lockerian Times. Tonight I have a few inflammatory topics which I haven't written on in a while, but which I feel may help the situation at hand. Before I begin, it is worth sharing that the moods I will partake in defeating this evening are among those which piss me off the most. They warrant very little respect for the people who exhibit them. As such, I don't really care if someone gets their feelings hurt on this one.


For our first topic, I isolate a strange mood among some people. Despite my obvious status as an admittedly far-left individual, I follow up on developments in right wing politics. This means that I'm a member of some shitposting groups on the computer, and I also look for crazy stuff that insane Fallwell-esque types say. Over the past year, it has been impossible to ignore a fresh trend of transphobia, aka bigotry against transgendered or other non-binary people. To me this issue hits close to home. I'm close friends with several trans people, and I am also an open bisexual who is not part of the bro culture who doesn't care about meeting gender quotas. So they're gonna hit me pretty convincingly with some bullshit, collateral or otherwise. Much of the flak comes traditionally from religious ignorance, but strains of fallacious argumentation have recently arisen of a pseudo-scientific nature.

Basically, most meatheads refuse to understand nuance. They think that biological sex should more or less directly correspond to gender and social status. In presenting their opinion on the topic, they commonly just gloss over even the idea that there is a difference, while berating anyone who disagrees. If you don't accept their social views, you're portrayed essentially as a religious fanatic. They usually say "_____ doesn't understand biology", and they are such snarky bitches about it. I could go on about the intellectual snobbery of dumbasses all day. The common exponents of an uninformed view are going to be uninformed, to say the least. But the question is, is there anything better that they have to offer? The short answer to this is no.

The long answer to the question of the hour (I'm pretty uninspired tonight) would be a somewhat longer way of saying fuck no. These people are intellectual sacks of shit, fit for nothing but being beat around. They got a significant distance through life, and some traumatic event caused them to just drop it and commit intellectual sudoku. The reason I'm writing this, about 400 words into it I realize, is a strain of LGBT enablers. Not many people do this at all, but it is such a banal instinct that pisses me off. They are LGB, but for predictable reasons, they want the T out. I've seen such people shamefully recite the old bathroom rhetoric, which I refuse to even indulge due to its clear fallacy and dumbfuckery. They think that if they vocally further the arguments of bigots, maybe they can suck Pat McCrory's cock. Or maybe they can even be loved and accepted by everyone.

If this is the point to all they do, it is easier to understand them. I know of many other people who want to be accepted. Living in a society where a critical mass of people hate you for existing isn't so stylish, no matter how cool it looks. But we need to make some realizations. When hatred and intolerance is around, it hurts all of us. Acceptance doesn't come from making a big mess out of yourself and hurting others. You can't destroy your way to peace. And if you try and shift the burden away from yourself at the expense of others, you're gonna get assblasted by the burden in the end. Some people have religious lines of attack which they prize as infallible, and I realize the message will perhaps fail to make an immediate impact on them. But doubtless, many other people think that furthering transphobia or whatever else will make people feel better about people who are non-heterosexual.

This has to stop. NOW. Nobody appreciates a useful idiot. And before it is argued that maybe the religious folks are the useful idiots, I'll address this as well. Given that the facts are stacked against the bathroom idiocy, what does a gay person really have to gain from all this? The LGBT movement from its inception has been founded on freedom. We're all about personal choice: be who you want to be, do what you want to do, love who you want to love. We're in pursuit of a positive goal – that everyone can decide who they want to be, independently. There are logical bounds where freedom must end – pedophilia, for example. It is equally logical that freedom should be granted as broadly as possible. If freedom can end when someone discovers that they don't ascribe to some prescribed, pumped-up gender identity, why do we even start with the L?

I'll tell ya why. Lesbian sex is incredibly hot. Anyone who commits a transgression against it will forever be seen as a cock-blocking asshole.

Thank you for reading.


JL/CG

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