They're probably trying to help you out.
Perhaps that is what they have convinced themselves they are doing - but in reality they are not.
In reality - they are passive-aggressively (and sometimes active-aggressively - remember the, "Its ma'am!" video taken at the Gamestop?) trying to get me to accept their ideology - an ideology I do not agree with or accept - and they are also trying to get me to validate their own subjective perception of themselves.
Pronouns have always been decided by biology - not "social constructs" - which is why the Australian guy in Jurassic Park kept shouting, "Shoot
her!" when that female raptor grabbed that guy.
The only pronoun based on a "social construct" that I can think of is the
majestic plural such as the "royal we".
Otherwise - the pronoun used to describe a person has always been based on their biology.
I'm talking about people who complain about those people, call them deviants or perverts, spend a lot of time thinking about whether their genitals match their gender and refer to them as "gender activists" in a derogatory manner in an attempt to demonize and marginalize people with very little power.
Hmmm - a couple of things to unpack here.
1.) It is totally possible to "complain" about a person - what they espouse and what they do - without caring at all about their genitals.
2.) I do not believe that every person who is a "gender activist", or who have "gender dysphoria" or who are "transgender" are "deviants and perverts".
However - there are many people who can be found in those categories that are - and it isn't because of what they believe, or what condition they may have or what they have done to their body - but because of the things that they do.
There are a lot of people out there who are "grooming" children - for example - and they do so - not necessarily because they are pedophiles or anything (although many of them likely are) - but because they want to indoctrinate children to their way of thinking. Their way of life.
This is why Governor DeSantis did what he did in Florida - to curtail this deviancy and perversion.
3.) Considering that "gender" is a "social construct" - meaning that it is a thing that does
not exist in objective reality - but is an idea created through human interaction - it is impossible for someone's genitals to "match their gender" - because a person's genitals exist in objective reality.
It's like how we can change the borders on a map to make Tibet a sovereign nation (social construct) but that doesn't mean we can move the Himalayans to make Tibet more accessible (objective reality).
Therefore - a person who is born with a penis - for example - can
identify as anything he wants - but his genitals cannot "match" any of the infinite number of "genders" he may choose to identify with - because they were decided at the moment of his conception.
Understand?
4.) It is true that I wish to "marginalize" and "demonize" the "gender activists" - but to be clear this is not a description of any particular group of people - but rather an ideology - or to be more precise the harmful things done due to the spread of an ideology.
For example - I would contend that it is appropriate to "marginalize" and "demonize" the KKK and
jihadi terrorists - because these are groups of people who espouse radical ideologies - based on their extreme interpretations of their religions - and do harmful things.
This does not mean that I want to "marginalize" or "demonize" Christians and Muslims - but rather those who use those belief systems to spread disinformation, hate and violence.
Not everyone who suffers from "gender dysphoria" or who identifies as "transgender" or any other kind of "gender" is necessarily a "gender activist".
And - to be clear - these "gender activists" have a lot of power in the West - no one can say otherwise.
Why do you care so much about other peoples' genitals?
I don't care at all.
All I care about is the "gender activist's" efforts to police speech, revolutionize society to reflect their ideology, supplant science with their dogma and indoctrinate our children.
Yes - there are many people that are like this.
In Florida - for example - many teachers are being fired because they can't stop talking about this with their students.
Or maybe they're just people who'd like to be identified as they see themselves and be treated as equal human beings.
Well....
No one has the right to force other people to treat them a certain way based on how they self-identify.
For example - I remember the story about the older man who decided that he was a six-year-old girl - so he left his wife and kids and was "adopted" by a couple, and he dressed and acted like a little girl and would often play with little children.
No one has the right to force anyone to treat that middle-aged man as if he were an actual little girl.
And no one who treats this middle-aged man as a middle-aged man would be denying him his humanity.
My unwillingness to let me children play with this full-grown man doesn't deny him anything.
People can identify as whatever they want - but no one has to agree with them or treat them as they demand to be treated.
Funny thing about that guy I mentioned - he talked about how he was still employed as a long-distance truck driver and how he would engage with other grown men for "dress up" and sex parties.
Which makes me ask - six-year-olds aren't allowed to drive - nor can they be legally employed - and they definitely shouldn't be hanging out and having sex with men.
So - does he
really identify as a six-year-old girl or is he just escaping into only the supposed "perks" of a new identity?
Oh dear, it must be a giant inconvenience for you.
Not only inconvenient things are annoying.
Do you spend all day bumping into people who are forcing you to call them by their pronouns? Is this a big problem where you come from?
So - you are admitting that it would be a problem.
Because I've gotta say, I have yet, in all my 42 years on this planet, to run into this problem. In fact, I'm sure I've walked by on the street or encountered transgender people every day that I had no idea were transgender at all.
Thank you for again admitting that that would be a problem.
Also - why do you assume that your personal experiences have any relevance to my own?
You just shared a definition - not much more for me to say.
The Alphabet People are a new religion - with their own ideology - and they are always looking for converts.
People used to think it was ridiculous that women wanted the right to vote.
Yes - the majority of women in the United States thought so.
They didn't want to have to sign up for the draft, fire brigade, jury duty, etc - all that "debt to society" stuff that men had to sign up for in order to vote.
So - the men of that era gave them their cake and let them eat it too - all the benefits of voting - but none of the drawbacks.
I still believe that women should not be allowed to vote today - not until they are forced to sign up for Selective Service - like men.
I believe in actual equality.
They always complained about how annoying it is that we want to have our own voices heard.
Being the main driving force in the mind's of all men wasn't enough?
In fact, people got so annoyed with us trying to get the right to vote that they'd lock us up in mental asylums in an attempt to shut us up.
Yeah - that kinda stuff happened to a lot of people - men and women. It was a really scary time.
All we really wanted was to be treated with equality and dignity. So annoying!
No - you wanted all the pros and none of the cons.
Sign up for Selective Service before spouting off about "equality".
God created transgendered people too, apparently.!
I believe that God created all people - but He is not responsible for the decisions they make.
Your numerous posts on this thread alone demonstrate how much you really do care how people identify.
Really? Which ones are you referring to specifically?
"Gender activists"
Who is doing that and how?
I already mentioned the example of Florida - but it is happening all across the United States and the West.
Florida is just the first State to start fighting back against it.
I hope you're not just being hyperbolic here.
Sadly, I am not - it is literally happening.