AHEM First a little bit of a thingy I found recently that is very relevant to this argument.
General Argument I have seen
Thats a radical feminist.
Or what I like to call a Tumblrist. They do not represent the whole group. I thought I went over this when I talked about gobberrgate so many moons ago. (don't talk about it Asherian... Please don't go into rant mode.... Please no more GG, please no more GG).
Infact I plop into KIA saying the same thing "That doesn't represent the group, as much as some troll doesn't represent you and your group."
Feminism is all about equality, anyone spouting in the opposition of equality and calls themselves a feminist is a hypocrite. And are not radicals or feminists.
But this thread is not about the social problems caused by the radical left. Or the stupidity of others in society that represent its extremes (Radicalism, Terrorism etc) They are merely apart of society that we are all apart of, and we just have to deal with them, as they are outliers they will largely be ignored or dealt with by other ways. (most times non-violent)
So I am supposed to forgo my comfort to go out of my way to comfort someone who life decisions I dont agree with when I can avoid making discomfort for both of us?
You can just ignore them. If there views are so polarized to society and they are such an outlier you just ignore them.
I also have the opinion that you are a "Special Snowflake SJW," but I am still open to be proved wrong
Excuse me? Peregrine is not an Special Snowflake SJW! He's a very intelligent person, who knows his stuff, and is not as what you would call a social justice warrior. a Social justice warrior is a rabid white knight that can't tell reason from racism.
Please do not go to childish antics to try and prove your point
Are you open to the possibility that not all transgender people are seriously troubled, though? Because that's not coming off from your posting.
Yes there are a lot of people who have issues (many of which are a symptom of untreated or misundersood conditions relating to being trans), but there are definitely those who don't.
Trans People are sometimes troubled I mean its why they identify as trans sometimes (SOMETIMES!) But it is merely confusion or misunderstanding of the sociological level and very seldomly biological. Trans Genderism is an interesting subject which I really don't have any expertise from other than they identify as trans and they are people. Though I often do say "That identifying as a gender, sexuality or political side is disingenuous as all of those are placed in a spectrum. It says nothing about you personally, other than what you identify as which is like ascribing a number to yourself, completely useless, and not at all helpful in my understanding of you." (Though this has been my experience it might be different for other people)
Though identity crisis is a very young thing to do, younger people want to find a group a place in society as they have apart of them (The humanity in them that is) that constantly seeks to be and to find its place. So trying to identify and trying to place themselves in a place of some righteous path or identity makes them feel at home. Its very common, and is not necessarily bad, its a behavior that is psychologically ingrained in the human genome. You know those three years of psychology really got me thinking. Psychology has a big part of societal pressures and daily life.
As I remember talking recently to my Game Design teacher about the social convention that more women play mobile games than video games. Its a social construct that more boys play video games than females, or more usually white males play video games more often, even though video games are world wide phenomon. There is this idea that women in their late 40s to 50s just sit around and play on their phones all the time. Interestingly this stereotype is completely true, I mean, (not really stereotype but it is an interesting sociological and psychological development) as more people (most particularly women) are just playing games like candy crush when they are walking around. Sometimes they just play it on their phone looking at it absorbed by its experience its fascinating. (Though why candy crush is so popular is probably something I could write an entire research paper on, and study it for a few months and come back with actual data to prove my point)
The identities such as gamer, feminist, egalitarian, kantian, partier, and many other identities are changing. Its very fascinating in my opinion in how the social conventions have slowly been evolving and developing rather quickly. Interestingly my generation has become very accepting, (probably because we saw the greatest amount of change in twenty years, we went from no cellphones to smart phones, even more drastic we went from floppies (when we were younger) being introduced to digital downloads being a norm. Its probably why this generation has so much anxiety, depression, identity crisis, and a myriad of other issues.
Anyway:
Oh wow. I never thought it'd be viewed as positive anywhere. That's nuts, but I guess that's culture.
You would be surprised what other social conventions I have had to go through. I mean each state is basically its own country (assuming you live in the united states). With its own customs and cultures.
But I don't know why anyone would view someone older dating someone younger. I remember when a prospective girlfriend of mine's ex was like "EWWW he's like six years younger! You are really robbing the crib there girl."
Its fascinating, and insulting at the same time.
And depending on where you are, race is still openly criticized as well.
I'm white and my wife is black, and we still frequently get reactions from people. It can be as obvious as people actually commenting that the races shouldn't mix, more subdued like people definitely staring with a disapproving look when a mixed couple holds hands in the street, and minor stuff like going to a restaurant and being asked "separate checks?" all the freaking time.
It's not just some isolated thing that we imagine. We have a lot of mixed couple friends (2x black/white, Hispanic/white, native/white, Asian/white) and they all frequently experience the same thing.
It will be for a very long time, (The criticized race thingy or Racism) it will always be there and its something I am always sad hearing about.
Though personally I wish there was more could be done to counter it. But assumptions are just painfully racist sometimes by so many people.
Overall social constructs are dumb. But it is slowly becoming a norm. I mean the average american is already projected in a few decades to have tan skin naturally.
to everyone...
