Gender Studies I

[MissThundercat]

There was an anti-LGBTQ protest in Canada yesterday. The bigots were vastly outnumbered and in some cases, encircled by counter protestors so they couldn't leave.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

There was an anti-LGBTQ protest in Canada yesterday. The bigots were vastly outnumbered and in some cases, encircled by counter protestors so they couldn't leave.

Ya the Muslims and right wingers have really formed the marriage from hell

i saw pics from that debacle. Kids holding signs saying “don’t impose your beliefs on me” just sent me

[MissThundercat]

Ya the Muslims and right wingers have really formed the marriage from hell

i saw pics from that debacle. Kids holding signs saying “don’t impose your beliefs on me” just sent me

The kids with signs saying "I belong to my parents" sent me.

[Kepler]

Ya the Muslims and right wingers have really formed the marriage from hell

They are no more "Muslims" than the right wingers are Christians.

I really wish the believers would take their cults back from the psychotics. We need what sane and intelligent Christians, Muslims, and Jews (and apparently, Hindus) there are to stand up and reclaim their mythic bullsh-t as a power of love not hateful cowardice.

[Jimjamesak]

They are no more "Muslims" than the right wingers are Christians.

I really wish the believers would take their cults back from the psychotics. We need what sane and intelligent Christians, Muslims, and Jews (and apparently, Hindus) there are to stand up and reclaim their mythic bullsh-t as a power of love not hateful cowardice.

Reclaim? It’s always been about hate and maintaining power.

[Kepler]

Reclaim? It’s always been about hate and maintaining power.

OK then, not reclaim, transform.

It's an incredibly powerful force, particularly with the smoothbrains.

We have been fools to concede it to the Right due to our preference for reason. At least half of the human population cannot be swayed by, nor wish to be informed of, reason. The choices are:

• Insist upon reason and lose them (the current choice, which is electorally unsustainable)
• Use our wits to commandeer religion and turn it, albeit mendaciously, into a force for good -- a Noble Lie.
• Disenfranchise the smoothbrains

All we really need to do is nullify the smoothbrains by moving half of them from the Hateful Vengeful God myth to the Loving Tolerant God myth. Then their votes cancel and we have effectively removed them from the system.

[MissThundercat]

OK then, not reclaim, transform.

It's an incredibly powerful force, particularly with the smoothbrains.

We have been fools to concede it to the Right due to our preference for reason. At least half of the human population cannot be swayed by, nor wish to be informed of, reason. The choices are:

• Insist upon reason and lose them (the current choice, which is electorally unsustainable)
• Use our wits to commandeer religion and turn it, albeit mendaciously, into a force for good -- a Noble Lie.
• Disenfranchise the smoothbrains

All we really need to do is nullify the smoothbrains by moving half of them from the Hateful Vengeful God myth to the Loving Tolerant God myth. Then their votes cancel and we have effectively removed them from the system.

I've met people from Vote Common Good, a group of progressive Christians and former Evangelicals working to fight Christian Nationalism.

I've met notables like Frank Schaeffer and Shane Claiborne, and locally, the United Church of Christ and progressive wings of the RCA and CRC work with them as well.

[MissThundercat]

Why have gender roles when you can have cinnamon rolls instead?

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Women in tech career fair overrun by dudes because women just get all the breaks nowadays

https://www.wired.com/story/grace-ho...0df_popular4-1

[MissThundercat]

October 14, 1977: Bigot Extraordinaire Anita Bryant gets a pie in the face on national TV.

And the transphobia of the 2020s is the homophobia of the 1970s, just with lipstick and winged eyeliner.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

October 14, 1977: Bigot Extraordinaire Anita Bryant gets a pie in the face on national TV.

"What is it doctor? What's going on?"

"I'm not sure. I haven't seen anything like this since the Anita Bryant concert."

[Jeb2020]

Heart disease risk skyrockets in trans people taking hormones, study finds

https://alphanews.org/heart-disease-...s-study-finds/

https://academic.oup.com/ejendo/arti.../3/463/6972096

[MissThundercat]

We got ghosts in the thread again.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

We got ghosts in the thread again.

Same with the Covid thread. Darn

[MissThundercat]

Same with the Covid thread. Darn

I'm going to get myself some coffee. You want any?