So this is just mostly going to be a lot of long rambling and ranting. I am sick and tired of life, especially society. It seems I only come to hate it more over time. I’ll even be bringing up the taboo subjects of religion and politics, because I feel I can’t get my points across without mentioning them in why I hate my life that way it is now. I’ll mention Christian fundamentalism, which I’ll refer to as the far right, and social justice, which I’ll refer to as the far left.
Given how much power it has, I’ll probably get shunned by some for even saying this, but I absolutely hate social “justice”. It’s seen as this big good that’s helping society. It’s anything but justice. It’s supposed to help less well-off people in society, but in reality, I see a different story. I see bullies using social “justice” as a power play. People who fight for social “justice” are usually called social justice warriors (SJWs) which is often considered a pejorative term. I will use this term myself to refer to these people as I feel it’s the best way to describe them. You could also call them keyboard warriors or slacktivists, as they often try to fight against what they see as injustices behind a computer screen with a keyboard. That’s not to say it can’t work, but from what I’ve seen, it hardly works. It’s basically a very lazy way of trying to make social changes, like tweeting certain hashtags. Social “justice” is an extreme method to the point where it fights bigotry with bigotry, like claiming all white people are racist for simply being white, but not realizing how much of a racist statement that is. They’ll even redefine words like claim racism is prejudice plus power to exclude themselves. Basically it’s “rules for thee, but not for me”. In a nutshell, social “justice” has become the monsters it fights and has little to no self-awareness about it.
It took me till three years ago in mid-2014 to realize social “justice” never really cared about people like me and in fact threw me under the bus. It acts like the religious right that had so much power for many years. In fact, it’s very cult like in behavior. Questioning them is one of the worst possible things you can do. On their websites you can be quickly permanently banned for doing so. You’re just supposed to believe whatever they tell you. It’s the flip side of the same coin that is the religious right. Both want to control people through what they believe is the only one “correct” way to live. Anything else is to be shunned. For context, I am a black trans lesbian and I hate having to bring that up, but if not some people will assume me to be a straight white man who isn’t transgender as a point to dismiss whatever I say. What I’ll be told instead is that I have internalized oppression. Like religious fundamentals, they refuse to accept anyone who believes differently than them and are extremely close minded. It’s basically horseshoe theory, in that the far left and far right are actually very similar, if not almost the same in their actions and beliefs.
For example, both hate Halloween. To the far right, it’s devil worship, because somehow kids dressing up and getting candy is worshipping the devil. To the far left, it’s mocking other cultures if someone, especially a white person, dares to dress up as a character that isn’t their own culture. If a kid admires a character enough to dress up as them, isn’t that a sign of respect, not mockery? It’s not like we’re talking about black face. Isn’t telling them they can’t dress up as a character different from their own culture building walls between different cultures? What happened to building bridges? In both cases, it’s adults making a fuss about kids just looking to have some fun for a day.
Social “justice” seems to spread like a virus and ends up everywhere, especially in any minority communities. In the black community, it takes the form of hating white people and the polite. I refuse to identify myself in that way just because there has been a few bad cops who shot black people due to fear of their skin color. In the transgender community, it takes the form of ideas I disagree with which is enough for me to be told I’m harming transgender people. Excuse me? Not all transgender people are the same.
One such thing is being told that genital preferences are transphobic. This flies in the face of what gay people fought for so many years. They fought for the idea that people cannot control what they are attractive too. They fought that preferences cannot be changed despite harmful attempts to do so. People have sexual preferences, not gender preferences. In other words, the SJW reasoning is that a lesbian is supposed to be attractive to male genitals because they appear on a pre-op transwoman. Sure transwomen are women, but it doesn’t mean everything about them is, hence the transitioning aspect. The idea is that because a body part appears on a trans person, that body part is the same sex they desire to be. That’s not how human attraction works. Male genitals are male genitals, regardless of where or who they appear on. In other words, a lesbian is being told she is wrong for not being attractive to male genitals when the vast majority of women she meets won’t have those. Oh sure there is the idea of dating that has nothing to do with genitals and it’s not like you can normally see them, but sexual relationships are a big part of dating from what I understand. Personally I wouldn’t make out with a clone of myself because of me not having the genitals I like. You can’t force people into desiring what they simply don’t want. No means no. I know it’s an unfortunate position for trans people to be in, but name calling isn’t going to change someone’s hardwired attractions any more than you can “pray the gay away”.
I’m glad the videos promoting this idea are heavily downvoted, proving that the majority do not agree with such ideas. People are told they are attractive to specific genitals because society told them so? What?! What about gay people who prefer the same sex despite society saying for a long time that being gay is wrong? Based on this line of reasoning, it’s almost like you’re a bigot for not being bi or pansexual. Humans are very discriminative beings, especially when it comes to what we find attractive. I don’t buy the idea of society determining our preferences because I personally find black women more attractive despite the idea of white beauty.
I swear trying to view the world from a logical view point, that is analyzing and overthinking, is probably the biggest mistake I ever made. Because of my Asperger’s, I don’t think I can change that. I feel like I’m trying to make sense where there is no sense. I can’t help but notice so many things like the numerous double standards that people seem to be unaware of. It’s why I take such great issue with the far left and far right, because I find most of their ideas full of logical fallacies and/or simply highly flawed. I hate how people in positions of power are using terrible reasoning to justify the things they do, like when gay marriage wasn’t legal nationwide till mid-2015. I still have yet to hear of churches being forced to perform those.
The absolute worst thing to happen to me is being transgender. There is so much baggage surrounding the issue and is probably the next big civil rights movement after the gay rights movement. It may be called the LGBT community, but I’ve seen and even encountered gays that don’t like or even hate transgender people. Putting the letters together doesn’t mean one big happy family. This is the single biggest issue, even more so than society, that has led me to really hating myself and my life.
Given how much power it has, I’ll probably get shunned by some for even saying this, but I absolutely hate social “justice”. It’s seen as this big good that’s helping society. It’s anything but justice. It’s supposed to help less well-off people in society, but in reality, I see a different story. I see bullies using social “justice” as a power play. People who fight for social “justice” are usually called social justice warriors (SJWs) which is often considered a pejorative term. I will use this term myself to refer to these people as I feel it’s the best way to describe them. You could also call them keyboard warriors or slacktivists, as they often try to fight against what they see as injustices behind a computer screen with a keyboard. That’s not to say it can’t work, but from what I’ve seen, it hardly works. It’s basically a very lazy way of trying to make social changes, like tweeting certain hashtags. Social “justice” is an extreme method to the point where it fights bigotry with bigotry, like claiming all white people are racist for simply being white, but not realizing how much of a racist statement that is. They’ll even redefine words like claim racism is prejudice plus power to exclude themselves. Basically it’s “rules for thee, but not for me”. In a nutshell, social “justice” has become the monsters it fights and has little to no self-awareness about it.
It took me till three years ago in mid-2014 to realize social “justice” never really cared about people like me and in fact threw me under the bus. It acts like the religious right that had so much power for many years. In fact, it’s very cult like in behavior. Questioning them is one of the worst possible things you can do. On their websites you can be quickly permanently banned for doing so. You’re just supposed to believe whatever they tell you. It’s the flip side of the same coin that is the religious right. Both want to control people through what they believe is the only one “correct” way to live. Anything else is to be shunned. For context, I am a black trans lesbian and I hate having to bring that up, but if not some people will assume me to be a straight white man who isn’t transgender as a point to dismiss whatever I say. What I’ll be told instead is that I have internalized oppression. Like religious fundamentals, they refuse to accept anyone who believes differently than them and are extremely close minded. It’s basically horseshoe theory, in that the far left and far right are actually very similar, if not almost the same in their actions and beliefs.
For example, both hate Halloween. To the far right, it’s devil worship, because somehow kids dressing up and getting candy is worshipping the devil. To the far left, it’s mocking other cultures if someone, especially a white person, dares to dress up as a character that isn’t their own culture. If a kid admires a character enough to dress up as them, isn’t that a sign of respect, not mockery? It’s not like we’re talking about black face. Isn’t telling them they can’t dress up as a character different from their own culture building walls between different cultures? What happened to building bridges? In both cases, it’s adults making a fuss about kids just looking to have some fun for a day.
Social “justice” seems to spread like a virus and ends up everywhere, especially in any minority communities. In the black community, it takes the form of hating white people and the polite. I refuse to identify myself in that way just because there has been a few bad cops who shot black people due to fear of their skin color. In the transgender community, it takes the form of ideas I disagree with which is enough for me to be told I’m harming transgender people. Excuse me? Not all transgender people are the same.
One such thing is being told that genital preferences are transphobic. This flies in the face of what gay people fought for so many years. They fought for the idea that people cannot control what they are attractive too. They fought that preferences cannot be changed despite harmful attempts to do so. People have sexual preferences, not gender preferences. In other words, the SJW reasoning is that a lesbian is supposed to be attractive to male genitals because they appear on a pre-op transwoman. Sure transwomen are women, but it doesn’t mean everything about them is, hence the transitioning aspect. The idea is that because a body part appears on a trans person, that body part is the same sex they desire to be. That’s not how human attraction works. Male genitals are male genitals, regardless of where or who they appear on. In other words, a lesbian is being told she is wrong for not being attractive to male genitals when the vast majority of women she meets won’t have those. Oh sure there is the idea of dating that has nothing to do with genitals and it’s not like you can normally see them, but sexual relationships are a big part of dating from what I understand. Personally I wouldn’t make out with a clone of myself because of me not having the genitals I like. You can’t force people into desiring what they simply don’t want. No means no. I know it’s an unfortunate position for trans people to be in, but name calling isn’t going to change someone’s hardwired attractions any more than you can “pray the gay away”.
I’m glad the videos promoting this idea are heavily downvoted, proving that the majority do not agree with such ideas. People are told they are attractive to specific genitals because society told them so? What?! What about gay people who prefer the same sex despite society saying for a long time that being gay is wrong? Based on this line of reasoning, it’s almost like you’re a bigot for not being bi or pansexual. Humans are very discriminative beings, especially when it comes to what we find attractive. I don’t buy the idea of society determining our preferences because I personally find black women more attractive despite the idea of white beauty.
I swear trying to view the world from a logical view point, that is analyzing and overthinking, is probably the biggest mistake I ever made. Because of my Asperger’s, I don’t think I can change that. I feel like I’m trying to make sense where there is no sense. I can’t help but notice so many things like the numerous double standards that people seem to be unaware of. It’s why I take such great issue with the far left and far right, because I find most of their ideas full of logical fallacies and/or simply highly flawed. I hate how people in positions of power are using terrible reasoning to justify the things they do, like when gay marriage wasn’t legal nationwide till mid-2015. I still have yet to hear of churches being forced to perform those.
The absolute worst thing to happen to me is being transgender. There is so much baggage surrounding the issue and is probably the next big civil rights movement after the gay rights movement. It may be called the LGBT community, but I’ve seen and even encountered gays that don’t like or even hate transgender people. Putting the letters together doesn’t mean one big happy family. This is the single biggest issue, even more so than society, that has led me to really hating myself and my life.
