Transgender-- opposite sex cosplay
Using the word "gender" as a substitute for "sex" is a lie. Words have gender, biological organisms don't.
Sex is biological and doesn't change with your "gender identity". Check someone's DNA or chromosomes and you'll be able to pin down their sex-- with exceedingly rare exceptions. How the person "identifies" isn't going to show up scientifically no matter how much they might wish it would. "Gender identity" is clearly a psychological issue, not a biological one.
Trans"gendered" people are cosplaying the opposite sex. You have the right to pretend to be whatever you want; you don't have the right to force anyone else to pretend along with you.
It's cosplay taken to an unhealthy level and imposed to the point of hurting you if you won't pretend it's real. They may be femaloids or manoids but they are still genetically male or female, but you will be punished for saying so.
That doesn't mean a male can't "feel like a female" or vice versa. And if that's the case, I'm not going to attack them for it, even if I don't believe them when they tell me their sex/"gender" is something other than what I can see it is.
However, this is no excuse for them to attack me for what I see and know, either. We can just call a truce. I may refuse to call a male "she" (and I'm most certainly not going to try to learn all sorts of silly new made-up "gender" words), but I would never dream of using the state to force them to behave in a "gender appropriate way", even if there's any such thing. None of my business.
But in the SJW world, science is the enemy. They want to pretend it's all just cultural programming.
Gender roles are "cultural"? And other cultures don't necessarily buy into the binary gender roles "our culture" does?
Other cultures in other times and places didn't buy into species roles, either. They believed the shaman (or others) could transform into another species. Maybe their psychology could transform, but not their DNA. They weren't "really" another species, no matter how much they believed they were, and scientific tests could have proved it.
What if I self-identify as an iguana? Maybe I really feel I am in the wrong body.
You, looking at me, see no evidence of me being an iguana. You can plainly see I'm not one. Not even if I wear an iguana costume or get surgery to make me more iguana-like. My claim looks absurd, because it is. DNA and chromosomal evidence doesn't support my belief. In fact, everything physical points to my being a member of the Homo sapiens species.
Am I an iguana anyway, just because I self identify as an iguana? Do I have the right to use the force of the State to force you to refer to me as an iguana and treat me as though I am an iguana?
Never!
I would say-- for good reason and with quantifiable evidence-- that this is a psychological issue, not a biological one.
And, if the roles were reversed and you "identify" as an iguana I'm still going to treat you as a human, including fully respecting all your rights. You have the right to believe you are an iguana and I have the right to know you aren't one, no matter what you believe.
Every human alive has equal and identical rights. Psychological issues don't change that fact. Nothing can. I will respect your life, liberty, and property-- your human rights-- even if I don't play along with your cosplay. Those are separate issues.
I feel like a SHTF event is imminent. Notice I don't say I think it is, rather it's just a feeling. Possibly triggered by the upcoming election.
I don't have a crystal ball. I'm almost definitely wrong.
If you can see it coming, it's not going to happen. That's almost a guarantee.
Just like the Coronapocalypse came at us out of nowhere, triggered by unexpected government overreactions to a fairly normal virus, a more serious event will also be a surprise. Consider the Coronapanic a practice run. It should have shown you the holes in your preps if you were paying attention.
I lucked out with the panicdemic because I was ready. Well, maybe it wasn't completely luck; I've prepped for years "just in case", and it finally paid off. I was pretty sure I wouldn't see it coming when it finally happened, and I didn't. But it didn't matter because I stay ready all the time-- and I have done so since well before the Y2K fizzle. I intend to be just as ready, if not more ready, the next time something ...
Sometimes it's good to just listen to people's stories without interrupting, even when you know the stories are nonsense.
My 2nd wife used to tell of a ghost that lived in her house when she was a kid. It was an interesting story even though I didn't believe it. I learned quickly that her family was very prone to believe anything as long as it fit with their magical worldview.
Other people tell me stories about beneficial things political government can do. These stories are no more true-- in the sense of being objective reality-- than ghost stories, but they can still be informative if you want to know which particular superstitions a person is living under.
Interrupt and you'll never hear the whole tale. Listen and you might be entertained by some fantastical tales of magical realms. Just don't bet your life on them being true.
My nature is such that I simply can't see government as a solution to anything. This puts me at odds with most of the rest of my species.
Yes, I think "social media" has become a horror. This doesn't mean I want government to regulate it; it means I think people who don't like it (or are too dumb to know not to take it at face value) should probably stop using it.
The same is true of so many other things I don't like.
Litter/pollution, scammers, sexual predators, abortion, animal cruelty, Hillary Clinton, poverty, drug abuse, pandemics, crime, and all manner of awful things.
I may hate them, but that doesn't mean I want government to step in. Look how often that has the opposite effect anyway; making the original problem worse-- or at least not solving it-- while also creating a host of new problems that never would have existed otherwise (anti-gun legislation being a perfect example).
And even if government intervention doesn't make this specific problem worse this particular ...
