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BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 1433 - 07/02/2023 17:07:22 2457118 Link 1 |
Are you actually serious? I am slightly left leaning but I analyse everything before commenting. It's up to parents to guide their kids and set them on the right path. Some kids will still choose their own path as they become older, if that is the case then they shouldn't be demonised. I find it hilarious the amount of people who are so concerned by the choices that people make even though it has no influence on what happens in their own home.
TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 7517 - 07/02/2023 17:36:41 2457124 Link 8 |
The obsession with a tiny, tiny amount of people being a little bit happier and comfortable is really weird. MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13594 - 07/02/2023 21:44:27 2457162 Link 10 |
Fundamentalist Christianity has done far more harm than calling someone they jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20481 - 08/02/2023 09:43:33 2457174 Link 7 |
I'm in the camp that you can't argue with biology. It just is. Male and female. It's a largely common biological fact seen across many living organisms on this planet. jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20481 - 08/02/2023 10:09:54 2457184 Link 7 |
Looking for new way's to excite the mind every day, boredom is a terrible thing. supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 2775 - 08/02/2023 10:22:53 2457186 Link 2 |
Very true jimbob.
thelongridge (Offaly) - Posts: 1525 - 08/02/2023 10:25:31 2457188 Link 2 |
Every one of us has been referred to as "they" thousands of times. Yet now if you ask to be referred to as they its's woke madness? People have reasons to be uncomfortable being referred to as he or she and I personally don't understand why people would be so rude/cruel to insist on doing it. Trans people live a tough life by all accounts and metrics, I'm not here to add to their suffering. Some people revel in it. Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12021 - 08/02/2023 10:46:47 2457199 Link 7 |
It's a culture war we've shamefully imported from Britain.
Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12021 - 08/02/2023 10:49:48 2457201 Link 7 |
You must write for the Irish Times. In my opinion, Trans rights are not human rights when they conflict with the rights of actual women or try to ignore basic human biology.
Rolo2010 (Donegal) - Posts: 691 - 08/02/2023 11:23:07 2457215 Link 2 |
Fair enough but this thing of people adding he/him to their email signatures and some employers expecting everyone to do the same is a type of social engineering, although very slight. More and more suppliers I deal with at work have started this, a bald fella with a beard having to add he/him to make a minuscule amount of people feel more comfortable is demeaning nonsense in my opinion. dolfos (Longford) - Posts: 88 - 08/02/2023 11:31:51 2457221 Link 2 |
Anyone claiming that "gender is a social construct" is off their tits. If you excuse the pun. jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20481 - 08/02/2023 11:45:43 2457228 Link 8 |
Ah Jaysus god love ya I communicate with a lot of Asian people via email in work and their gender is rarely apparent to me from their name. I refer to them by name or they/them until I know. He/Him or She/her would be useful to see in their email signatures but clearly it's more important to make it a woke snowflake pc gone mad political issue at the expense of a tiny vulnerable minority Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12021 - 08/02/2023 11:59:06 2457231 Link 7 |
Can you let me know where trans people fit in to your hierarchy of human rights? Do you have a league table? If it's all down to biology then dna and ethnicity is also a factor in your standard for human rights? What kind of biological entity is the most human in your opinion?
Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12021 - 08/02/2023 12:08:01 2457234 Link 8 |
The reality for young trans people is that "the current madness" is more likely to persuade them to take their own lives. "The current madness" is more likely to result in adult trans people being murdered. Statistically this is objectively true. I'll use they/them, if that's what they prefer, in that context but I guess that's my woke agenda Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12021 - 08/02/2023 12:38:39 2457243 Link 6 |
There's a healthy middle ground of woke that is harmless and for the large part constructive But then there's a far left agenda that needs to be reigned in and it's pushing many middle ground people to be right leaning. The far left is getting more conservative by the day. jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20481 - 08/02/2023 13:15:05 2457250 Link 8 |
It is all down to biology. You are getting there.
Rolo2010 (Donegal) - Posts: 691 - 08/02/2023 16:47:04 2457326 Link 4 |
Extremists of any type have no place in a functioning society. I wish they'd all just head off to another planet and leave the rest of us in peace. They can go at each other as long as they want. A lot of this right-left stuff is nonsense. I see the same personality traits in extremists, no matter what their persuasion is labelled as. Intolerance and cultish behaviour are two common factors. That's cultish by the way. :) Spending most of their day online fighting an imaginary battle against people who are just as ignorant. Similar to Hogan Stand when the championship starts, I suppose. :) WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 1750 - 09/02/2023 12:56:02 2457442 Link 1 |
Pretty weak contribution to be honest
Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12021 - 09/02/2023 16:13:21 2457503 Link 6 |
There's nobody as far right as the far left :D realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8441 - 09/02/2023 17:23:27 2457518 Link 6 |