Electric Skeptic
Well-known member
This whole trans thing...on the one hand we have someone very concerned that words like 'mother' and 'father' will no longer have an 'objective referent'. On the other hand we have someone having apoplexy over the idea that some words like 'male' and 'female' and 'man' and 'woman' might acquire new meanings. Then there's the complete refusal to accept that a concept defined in all dictionaries and applicable to everybody even exists because it might give credence to the entire thing.
It's terrible, I know. Yes, if you go along with the 'trans agenda', you might have to, once in a while, ask a question to be completely clear on something ("Mum and I went to this great restaurant..." "Wait...which mum?" "Oh, Suzy - bio." "Okay, go on..."), just like you already do with the myriad other words in English which don't have an 'objective referent' and so can require clarification. Yes, you might have to accept that 'male' and 'female' and 'man' and 'woman' can refer to both biological sex and gender, just like all of the other words in the English language which have multiple (even opposite!) meanings. Yes, you might have to deal with a new concept, just like you deal with all the other new concepts life throws at us. So what? You already deal with all of that (clever you!) in relation to other words and concepts every day. There's nothing special about accommodating these linguistic quirks.
The difficulties claimed about those things aren't the issue. Everybody knows that we can all deal with those things easily enough. They're not the root of the problem. You know what is? The fact that the idea is a liberal one; the fact that it might mean change that they don't control. Any liberal idea, no matter what it is, no matter the motives, no matter what good it might do, is to be disparaged, denigrated, shunned and ridiculed. It's to have a condescending label (like 'woke') attached, any positives it might have simply ignored and the idea itself discarded without even thinking about it. That's the attitude of the conservative so-called 'Christians', and its been their attitude for literally centuries. It's petty, and it's small-minded, and it's hateful, and it's mean, and it's what the conservative so-called 'Christians' are all about.
To go along with the 'trans agenda' would help some people deal with a problem with which most of us will never be burdened, and it would harm nobody. In this world where everybody has so many problems, why not do something that will help at least some people deal with one of theirs? Why not just be kind and do it? Why not?
Because conservative so-called 'Christians' care a lot less about being kind to others than they do about attacking and insulting the liberal left. One might be excused for thinking that they don't care about being kind to others at all.
These conservative so-called 'Christians' need to take a long, hard look at the face they're showing all of us.
Because it's ugly. It's very ugly.
It's terrible, I know. Yes, if you go along with the 'trans agenda', you might have to, once in a while, ask a question to be completely clear on something ("Mum and I went to this great restaurant..." "Wait...which mum?" "Oh, Suzy - bio." "Okay, go on..."), just like you already do with the myriad other words in English which don't have an 'objective referent' and so can require clarification. Yes, you might have to accept that 'male' and 'female' and 'man' and 'woman' can refer to both biological sex and gender, just like all of the other words in the English language which have multiple (even opposite!) meanings. Yes, you might have to deal with a new concept, just like you deal with all the other new concepts life throws at us. So what? You already deal with all of that (clever you!) in relation to other words and concepts every day. There's nothing special about accommodating these linguistic quirks.
The difficulties claimed about those things aren't the issue. Everybody knows that we can all deal with those things easily enough. They're not the root of the problem. You know what is? The fact that the idea is a liberal one; the fact that it might mean change that they don't control. Any liberal idea, no matter what it is, no matter the motives, no matter what good it might do, is to be disparaged, denigrated, shunned and ridiculed. It's to have a condescending label (like 'woke') attached, any positives it might have simply ignored and the idea itself discarded without even thinking about it. That's the attitude of the conservative so-called 'Christians', and its been their attitude for literally centuries. It's petty, and it's small-minded, and it's hateful, and it's mean, and it's what the conservative so-called 'Christians' are all about.
To go along with the 'trans agenda' would help some people deal with a problem with which most of us will never be burdened, and it would harm nobody. In this world where everybody has so many problems, why not do something that will help at least some people deal with one of theirs? Why not just be kind and do it? Why not?
Because conservative so-called 'Christians' care a lot less about being kind to others than they do about attacking and insulting the liberal left. One might be excused for thinking that they don't care about being kind to others at all.
These conservative so-called 'Christians' need to take a long, hard look at the face they're showing all of us.
Because it's ugly. It's very ugly.