God I hope I'm not this stubborn and socially unaware when hit my 70's. I feel like this generation of olds are especially dense.
Every younger generation things olds are especially dense. I know we did.
Maybe olds are especially dense.
Every younger generation things olds are especially dense. I know we did.
Arkansas might become the fist state to ban gender-affirming care to trans youth
This is awful. TN and Alabama have similar laws in the works.
It’s a distinct possibility.
Somebody recently posted that the Republicans privately know that they've lost the fight over gay rights (not that they've stopped trying to limit them, but they know that growing social acceptance of gays is making it more and more difficult) so they've now switched their main focus to a smaller and even more vulnerable minority that they can oppress with less likelihood of a lashback in most states and with the approval of nearly all of their base. "They'll be sharing your daughter's public restrooms and beating them in women's sports!" is their new battle cry.
The longer you live, the more you think you know even though the world is changing around you.
This is 100% it. They realized they lost the culture war on gay marriage, so this is the new culture war they can fight to scare and rile up the base. Most people don't know they know anyone who is transgendered, especially if you live in a small rural town, so it is something that seems odd and weird to them. But the entire point is to just gin up anger and hope they get more people out to vote; it was the same story with all the new gay marriage constitution bans back during the Bush years in the early 2000s.
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Maybe olds are especially dense.
Shorty, you need a Point of Reference. According to Brasky, you would be "socially unaware" if some people didn't think you were funny on a message board. He even deconstructed the term to its component parts of "socially" and "unaware".
I'd make a serious bet that if you asked 1000 people in Brooklyn or SF or Austin (all woke places) or 1000 in each what "socially unaware" means, you wouldn't find one (who has no connections to Brasky) that would say it meant in being unfunny to some on an internet message board.
I put the Over/Under at 43.5 years old as when Brasky screams at kids to get off his lawn.
Shorty, you need a Point of Reference. According to Brasky, you would be "socially unaware" if some people didn't think you were funny on a message board. He even deconstructed the term to its component parts of "socially" and "unaware".
I'd make a serious bet that if you asked 1000 people in Brooklyn or SF or Austin (all woke places) or 1000 in each what "socially unaware" means, you wouldn't find one (who has no connections to Brasky) that would say it meant in being unfunny to some on an internet message board.
I put the Over/Under at 43.5 years old as when Brasky screams at kids to get off his lawn.
I'm a member of Gen X, and I remember in the early 80s listening to old folks at church and elsewhere (mostly members of the WW2 generation) talk about how awful kids in general were (never their own, usually), they were rude and lazy and spoiled (always playing on their Ataris instead of doing chores or homework!), and the crime rate in big cities was due to teens and so forth. I swore that when I got older I'd never just sit around and bitch about the younger generation. And so now what do I see and hear often from my aging Gen X peers? Lots of complaints about the worthless Millennials and even younger folk, and constant discussion about how much better things were in the good ole days of the 1970s and 1980s - to listen to them it was just a golden age when everybody was patriotic and on the same page about everything and even liberals weren't as crazy as they are now. Everything was better back then - music, television, the economy, everything. Personally I think what these people are really lamenting is their lost youth when they were still young and healthier and they didn't have the inevitable disappointments and indignities that come with getting older. Maybe it's the same way with every generation.
I'm not getting into a spitting war because this thread is about trans rights, not boomers vs. millennials, just wanted to make the Gen X point because I think it's important to think about in the context of something like trans rights. The bridge generation where things like trans rights started to become visible has never had the opportunity to lead the transition from outright ignorance on the topic to the pretty much blanket acceptance of its existence from younger generations. That's bad.
#JusticeForGenX