Lawmakers across the country (United States) are trying to protect kids by age-gating parts of the internet.

  • Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not just any rant, a blatantly discriminatory one!

    You DO see the contradiction where you claim to not care about somebody’s sexuality, yet get offended when you hear about it, right? And what’s worse, you don’t just get offended, but you turn around and directly insult those people by insisting they have a mental illness!

    What you’re really saying is that you’re so offended by someone else’s harmless actions that you wish they would disappear.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Eh, I think you’re missing their point. This is one of those “Why do you get to claim you’re special, but nobody is telling me I’M special?” kind of comments. They’re saying they just want people to suck as much as anyone else and it all be equal. It’s a stupid argument, but definitely different than your interpretation and response.

        • Strangle@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I want to hear it.

          And it’s a discussion community, there’s a topic and people respond. If you don’t like it just move on. No reason to tell anyone to shut up.

          • Takapapatapaka@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Eh, in general i agree with you, but i think in this case it could be considered as “ironic”. Like someone complains “I’m tired of hearing about trans in public spaces, pls keep it for yourself, we dont care”, and someone replies “Im’ tired of hearing complaints about trans in public spaces, pls keep it for yourself, we dont care”. I think we all agree that the argument is not really good in any case, but as the second one was a reply, maybe we can see it as an application of first comment’s logic to itself.

        • GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.eeOP
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          1 year ago

          It was probably unproductive of me to try to talk about it further with them, and I really wanted to sign off with “btw I’m nonbinary” on every reply I made

      • GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.eeOP
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        1 year ago

        Not really harmless tho, i’ve seen countless places turn into a trans circlejerk.

        What exactly would that even be? “hnghh, we respect other people’s choices and individuality, hngggh” How awful. All we want is to have the same respect and autonomy granted to straight and/or cis people to be granted to us.

        As for the “caring” part, I don’t care whatever you are, just don’t mention it.

        And that’s harmful because unless you truly are consistent and also don’t want men to mention their girlfriends or wives and for women to never mention their boyfriends or husbands around you, you’re treating people differently based on their gender or sexuality, allowing someone to talk about their home life, what they may have done over the weekend with their partner, but only if it ain’t gay or trans.