magnusrufus

We still talking volcanos or have we moved on to regulating Taco Bell and porn?

I dunno, I disagreed with him and and other "commies" and I'm still around. Maybe it's something else you are doing.

Well that's convenient timing with your eyes. Otherwise you'd have to learn to cope with being wrong.

/thumbsup

Was sitting in a particular seat the entirety of the civil rights movement? Is being addressed by your correct pronouns the entirety of the trans movement? Are they both smaller manifestations of much larger issues of bigotry and bias that shitty people can isolate to try and mock and trivialize the hardships that minorities and marginalized people face?

If which seat you get on the bus is the most difficult thing in your life...

Cool.

I'm not trying to moral grand stand on you here. I'm saying that your reactions to your negative experiences are valid. But how far you take those reactions needs to be kept in check. Its not a high minded or aggressive stance to warn against letting the emotions of that trauma cause you to overreact. Try not to read it that way but rather as understanding and cautionary. You seem like you try to be decent and fair. You wouldn't let one bad person from other demographics/groups/whatever dictate how you treat all them. Don't let these handful of assholes control how you think of and treat all of trans people. Don't become the monster they accused you of being.

If you'd use it to say something honest and of substance to address the points I made I probably wouldn't mind. But you won't.

Weak performance even for you. You are stuck in the cycle of pretending to be aloof and amused to avoid acknowledging anything of substance. You got upset when bigots were mocked. You were asked if you were a bigot and you deflected. You're not clever. You should stick to your echo chambers where John's tweets can't hurt you.

Again not looking at the shit in the corner. I feel pretty safe in assuming that any non-bigot would have taken that opportunity to make it clear that they were not an aggrieved bigot.

The inherent traits of a species of berries is not comparable to the behavior of an entire demographic. If you treat all trans people as though they are unhinged or looking for the slightest excuse to be offended then that is as much bigoted behavior and stereotyping as treating all Mexicans as lazy or all black people as criminals or all Irish as angry drunks. People are not berries. Their treatment of you isn't coming from the genetic level.

You may have had some legit crazy fringe case experiences and the shock and hurt that you would feel from that would be very valid but if you turn immediately from that to "if I'm gonna be treated like a bigot then I'll just be a bigot" then there are some worrisome seeds already planted. If things went as you described them then you had some unfair encounters but those handful of experiences are not close to enough to judge all trans people by. That's hard to grapple with if there is still that emotional sting from those experiences. I do understand the reaction of "fine I'll show you just much I can be the thing you wrongly accused me of being". I've been guilty of that in other contexts. But it's destructive and toxic. It makes the people treating you wrongly feel completely justified. It makes you act like a terrible person that you are not.