We (๐ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐) are not amused with the UK 'government' and where they're leading the country. I have left one adopted home and now live in a new one: Irelandโค๏ธ
@iamAtheistGirl It's exactly what right-wing authoritarian leaders want: People who follow what they say and don't have the tools to question their motives.
They just have to point the finger at who they want to blame to distract attention away from themselves.
@iamAtheistGirl Lack of education = lacking emotional control & the tools to defend against being emotionally manipulated = voting emotionally = being manipulated into blaming others for the sad state of their lives and being distracted by shiny objects, while voting against their own interests
@melaniemackuk @miffythegamer@Otto_English I am pessimistic, seeing the current PM side with the trend of dehumanising trans and NB people.
Politicians don't willingly change their spots.
My hope is that Rayner will be able to influence strongly to set policy to protect everyone, regardless of his stance.
@miffythegamer@Otto_English Unfortunately the trans part of.our community still lives with the fear of what awfulness will be inflicted on them by Labour.
I can't celebrate while I know they're not safe.
None of us are truly free until all of us are free.
@Otto_English Lie to anchor emotion in people's minds until it can be disproven.
It spreads like wildfire until disproven, and not everyone will get the info disproving it, so to them it's true.
In the meantime, think up another lie, rinse, repeat.
The UK electorate always falls for it. ๐คฌ
@ThomasWillett9 As long as there is justified fear of abuse by c!s straight men, a person who falsely believes that a trans woman is a "man pretending" will always be able to be manipulated using that fear.
I wish they could all see they're just being manipulated into hurting innocent people.
@legaltweetz@againstgrmrs@Reddit Can LGB people be so ignorant of our own history of being falsely accused of being groomers?
Can they really be so obviously members of the "Leopards Eating Faces Party"?
They sound like cisgender straight white males pretending to be LGB to divide and conquer us.
@Parsleymael@LyingWrongAgain@Urtoez75_2 Was it? Were you there? No. You're again imagining something that never happened.
Guessing what our workplace was like, and making up scenarios where women would have been victims of harassment...
Do you do this all the time to keep you feeling outraged and victimised? Wow.
@Parsleymael@LyingWrongAgain@Urtoez75_2 All the women accepted her after transition, and those of us still in the company are all still friendly with each other after all these years..
You were not there, so your imagined violation of consent is just that - imagined.
@Parsleymael@LyingWrongAgain@Urtoez75_2 I did not say she was restricted to using the unisex toilet. Anyone uncomfortable could use the unisex toilet for their own private reasons, yet nobody did.
Everyone was empathetic enough to understand that would have been the same as segregated toilets.
@iamAtheistGirl I don't quite understand the logic here.
Turn it around. If you intend us to be around to enjoy things, why damage or destroy the things everyone can enjoy after you're successful?
Do it to things that publicly promote this capitalist system, not irreplaceable history/culture.
@iamAtheistGirl I think this person should think more about the fact that they know people who, without faith, wouldn't have ethics and morals.
So the only thing stopping them from being horrible is fear of punishment, i.e. they never learned empathy as motivation to avoid doing harm to others.
@LyingWrongAgain@Urtoez75_2 It's all manufactured outrage for political reasons, exactly the same as when they did it to gays and lesbians - accused of being paedophiles/groomers, and a threat to children when I was a teenager.
It's history repeating itself. People are ignorant of it, so they repeat it.
@LyingWrongAgain@Urtoez75_2 It's 100% true. I worked in an office 20 years ago and a coworker transitioned and all that happened was the coworker reintroduced herself, and HR announced that there was an additional unisex toilet that was previously reserved for management but never used. No outrage. Nothing.
@iamAtheistGirl Probably because that's how they were reprimanded when they stepped out of line, and they complied every time like a "good" subordinate in an authoritarian system.
So they feel it's unfair that you don't comply when they "had to" and this is only way they know to communicate.
@waukema@PicturesFoIder As a person who has seen the state of other people's toilet brushes and brush container cans, the disgust of ALWAYS having to use brushes to help the poop go down the drain far outweighs the need to analyze poop quality, especially when poop can also be analyzed while in water.
@legaltweetz It's history repeating itself. Gays were perceived as paedophiles and a threat to children when I was a teenager.
Now that gays and lesbians are accepted, trans people are the new target.
Anti-trans LGB people make me weep for our community. They're dividing us to be conquered.
@iamAtheistGirl I love these things for him:
1) he's obtained/paid for a flag so he's supported Pride
2) he's melted plastic onto his barbecue and ruined it.