ageedizzleWhat’s your most controversial opinion?
https://piefed.ca/c/asklemmy/p/563749/whats-your-most-controversial-opinion
HubertManneim fine with trans people and non discrimination but my whole life sex and gender terms were one and the same for me and most folks in everyday language. The idea of identifying pronouns for myself seems laughable to me. Im a big believer in simple solutions. Got some temp work at a place with genderless bathrooms that had the full floor to ceiling doors. Its a bit wierd to wash my hands with girls but its not like im naked. There is all sorts of language things going out of fashion (online) and folks are like just learn it but look despite decades of school my spelling and grammar are atrocious because habits don’t change easily and no one is even forcing me to study or anything now. On top of it, like it or not for the internet folks, it has no bearing in the outside world which is still basically jugging along at its own pace. It will over time for sure but it won’t happen as quickly as early adopters would like. Also I pretty much don’t like any type of censorship of fictinoal things. Reality and fiction are two different things to me. Although modern ability to fake things is making identifying something as real as tough. I don’t want claims of it being high end fakes as letting folks get away with crimes.
Respectfully, HubertManne, it seems like you have not really thought about this topic very deeply from a perspective other than your own yet.
I myself am old enough that I can appreciate your comment that “my whole life sex and gender terms were one and the same,” but many things change across the course of our lives, and “no one is even forcing me to study or anything now” is not a reason to stop learning and growing as a person.
If you are willing, I’d invite you to read this article on Minority Stress: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10712335/
Or, you might also read this one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_stress , especially the section “Health outcomes among sexual minorities.”
Minority stress theory: Application, critique, and continued relevance
The minority stress model has been influential in guiding research on sexual and gender minority health and well-being in psychology and related social and health sciences. Minority stress has theoretical roots in psychology, sociology, public ...
Of course we continue to learn and grow but we do that in many ways. I also have a complaint that the us has a strange kinda pull you up by the bootstratps where everyone should be able to sorta figure out everything. kinda have to be a doctor, lawyers, accountant, mechanic, general contrator, etc. and does not seem to recognize that there is a limit to cognitive load. Im not really interested in putting a whole lot of effort in here and over time I will passively take things in over time but yeah im not looking to read articles on it. Things will change but its not going to be a massive shift all of a sudden. Honestly that is something I see a lot of today (online) and expectation of massive revolution level change and if it does not happen a complete unappreciation and actually abandonment of incremental change which I think is kinda kill us in the present.