These are fascinating results. It's one poll, etc. etc., but it's weird that along with the usual suspects, *France* is not particularly supportive of trans rights, but Argentina (not my go-to picture of liberalism) is maybe the most supportive country in the survey.
Or I guess more precisely, that sex is ironclad and determines gender so it is both impossible and ruinous (for reasons that can never really be articulated) for trans people to not conform to gender
If I understand the "gender critical" position correctly, they fear that legitimizing transgenderism will result in a social expectation for people like them to transition, which strikes me as deeply paranoid.
Imagine America's elite news network consensus on trans people, but unlike the US, where transphobia polarized with right-wingers supporting transphobia and liberals/left-wingers rallying to the defense of trans people, instead every major party except the Lib Dems accepts transphobia.
Weird “elite consensus” bullshit. Polling repeatedly shows the average Brit doesn’t care if trans folks use the bathroom. But all the freaks who went to the big name boarding schools together are convinced it’s the biggest threat to mankind.
But that official hate/discrimination mostly doesn't cross over into the US. Trans-hate is mostly a right wing phenomenon here, but in the UK it seems like both major parties are all in on the trans-hate train.
UK feminism is anti-trans in a way US feminism isn't (though you may note that in both countries, elite transphobia places great emphasis on ensuring cis girls/women do not lose academic & professional opportunities to trans girls/women)
The whole concept of a small minority of the population (trans people are like 1% of the overall pop) *displacing* the actual majority of the population is ridiculous.
I'm not saying people don't believe that, I'm just saying it's obviously stupid and borne out of hate rather than anything rational
There was an interesting recent small study on this: basically, among young women, feminism is strongly correlated with being very trans-supportive. Among older women, though, we see not so much a reversal as a divergent: both strongly supportive *and* strongly oppositional correlation.
I don’t know about the current generation, but Gen X would snap that up for nostalgia’s sake. Add in nunchucks and you’d be able to retire by the end of the year.
Every shuriken comes with complementary copy of Total War: Shogun 2 as a way of supporting British creative industries (because they are the only one that bring money into UK).
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https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2018-01/ipsos_report-transgender_global_data-2018.pdf
In the 1990s, Ivy League Democrats joined Republicans by targeting Black children, calling them super predators.
Democrats promoted locking Black boys as young as 12 up for LIFE in prison.
I'm not saying people don't believe that, I'm just saying it's obviously stupid and borne out of hate rather than anything rational
(I see what is written there, but the song is the proper version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8UQqxBIs5o
Hey, jetzt komm'n die Hero Turtles
Superstarke Hero Turtles
Jeder kennt die Hero Turtles
Immer auf der Lauer
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Hero_Turtles_(Zeichentrickserie)#Entstehung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles#cite_ref-5
1. Ninjas are mammals.
2. Ninjas fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.
Flensing spinners
How would you even know?
Did you LIKE that period where they were called the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles? Do you want that to come back?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sXpInWFVVo