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0 points4gotunameagain3y ago0 comments

Enlightened ideals were the suffragettes. Was the abolition of slavery.

Don't you think calling this LGBT craze an enlightened ideal is a bit overselling it ?

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sgift3y ago

No. Also: Suffragettes and abolition of slavery were both called crazy in their time.

ZeroGravitas3y ago

The word "Suffragette" was originally an insult:

https://www.nps.gov/articles/suffragistvssuffragette.htm

(As was the word “scientist“).

4gotunameagainOP3y ago

In their time triple distilled water containing radium was sold as an energy drink, they thought bathing was unhealthy, and they ate mercury.

I will go out on a limb and say we can judge things a bit better now.

Sure, right now we accept plastic and plasticisers everywhere around us. Which is crazy. And quite probably contributes to the great hormonal disruption and the trans craze.

andsoitis3y ago

> Sure, right now we accept plastic and plasticisers everywhere around us. Which is crazy. And quite probably contributes to the great hormonal disruption and the trans craze.

Interesting intuition. Do you know of any research suggesting a causal link between plastics and more trans visibility?

sweetheart3y ago

This type of transphobia would be hilarious if it wasn’t so harmful.

Reducing the entire history of transgenderism down to a “craze” is a perfect culmination of your ignorance and fear.

benreesman3y ago

From my reading of history, blacks, women, and gays have been treated like shit in appalling numbers as far as the books go back.

From my observation of the present: plenty of that still going around.

What makes suffrage or abolitionism any more or less worthy a case than the LGBT “craze”?

Seems to me all this prejudice is fucking unhappy shit.

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