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Remember Back When They Said We Were Overreacting?
When they wanted to allow closeted homosexuals in the military, we said, “Soon they’ll be wanting to force us to recognize homosexual marriages, they’ll force us to treat every perversion as normal, and then your daughter or wife will have perverts wanting to use the same bathroom as them.”
I remember those days; oh, how they mocked us. They said we were absurd, ridiculous, a bunch of secret pedophiles ourselves, worrying about imaginary stuff that no one would ever, ever, ever want to inflict on us.
Yeah. I remember. Funny, huh? There is not a hint of a smile on my face.
Just this evening at dinner, my 14-year-old daughter told me that acquaintances (distant, she says) from school are saying that it’s a hate crime to refuse to date a transgender person. Such people are called “super straight” and some, being stupid kids, were recommending draconian punishments for super straights, including the death penalty. Kids are stupid. Progressive politicians have no minority status to excuse them.
Joe Biden, automaton for the progressive movement (which doesn’t excuse his complicity) has issued an executive order requiring schools to allow men who identify as women to use girls’ restrooms.
As soon as I’m done writing this, I’ll be sending a letter to Governor Abbot and my state representative and Senator to pass a law forbidding this. Executive orders do not equal law, and we need to stop this. I will not allow my daughter to attend a school that would do such a thing.
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Star Trek? Did you say Star Trek?!
But this is a good example. A Planetary Class killer super-computer took on a much smaller Starship Class opponent which through superior strategy won. Stupid Vaal.
The lesser known operation was the choppadicaufamy.
I get confused by those terms too. And I find I get very offended when I hear the term “cis-woman” or “cis-man”. No, it’s just a woman, just a man. I don’t like being made to sound like I’m a martian.
Or a sissy? :-)
One of the other concerns I noted was that kids are now claiming that refusing to date a transgender person is the heinous crime of being “super straight.” This is not yet a thing in our political spheres, but that kids are talking this way and that there is a name for such “offenders” is cause for great alarm.
We’re also seeing complaints that on line dating sites (I’m sorry, but real men don’t use computers to chase women) note that sex and race are the most common forms of discrimination.
If we are not to be allowed to date whomever the hell we want for whatever reason we want, then we are absolutely no longer a free people.
I’m hearing Mr. T in my head right now.
For some people it seems that not “Dating” at all is the only risk-free option.
So I guess the woman who wanted to meet a tall, successful, well-endowed white man so she could “be his Nubian princess” has been cancelled?
Naw, that’s probably “empowering,” somehow.
Ow! My brain hurts!
Online dating was never pleasant and now it’s gotten worse. I think the vitriol will be worse than it was in early June when the BLM/black squares were everywhere and the response to “what’s your favorite activity” was some variation of “going to women’s marches and protesting for social justice causes to make the world a better place.” So altruistic and brave.
I have not yet had to deal with people who have gotten angry at me because I have claimed to *only* be a woman. Sometimes though I do see trans profiles amongst the men and they stand out very clearly to me. It’s easy to skip them.
As for what kids in school think nowadays…who can keep track. A student commented recently that she and her friends realized one day that all of them except for one “had a mental illness and how weird, but also how amazing that we are talking about it so openly.” I’m telling you- it’s another planet.
It’s not another planet. It’s the same one, and those morons will be running it.
Incels are wayyy ahead of you.
But that’s involuntary. I’m talking about choosing not to date, since you’ll get in trouble if you refuse to date someone of the same birth-gender, etc.
Where people always this unhappy? It seems like we are unhappier and the suicide statistics back that up.
Not sure. When I was in high school (very early 2000s), there was much less of this kind of talk. Maybe classmates did see therapists, but it wasn’t a subject of conversation (but I don’t think it was considered shameful either). The biggest mental health issues at our small, competitive private school were about food and perfectionism (in creative writing classes many girls wrote about their issues with food), but suicide and the prevalence of ADD/ADHD medication just wasn’t part of the picture then. Some might say the unhappiness was always there and just went undiagnosed, but I don’t know. I think social media has had an absolutely dreadful role in the rise of this “mental health awareness”.
The only place cis and trans are appropriate is organic chemistry.
These days someone can be encouraged to believe that if – for example – they’re just temporarily upset about anything, that’s now a “mental illness.” There could be a variety of reasons for that, including that schools can get extra money for “special needs” students.
Okay, but I still think “transvaal” was the funniest so far. :-)
You’re deadnaming. Now he goes by Veronica.
But seriously, while reading wiki about Bruce Jenner yesterday, I noticed the hoops they had to jump regarding his (or her) name. They referred to him as Caitlyn mostly. And Bruce occasionally. But mostly they referred to him just as Jenner. Is it deadnaming to refer to the past accomplishments of a trans-man (or -woman) by his previous name? Should the record books now list the Olympic decathlon winner as Caitlyn, and show that Bruce was at the time really a pre-woman, and should they credit Caitlyn with being the first woman to win the gold in the men’s decathlon? Or does Bruce still stand?
I expect that any time now we’ll hear that for years Caitlyn had been groped by Bruce.
He shouldn’t mind if we call him Bruce, just to keep it simple.
(/Monty Python)
I don’t know. My opinion, it’s all about choice. I’m thankful to be healthy, have a good family life and be gainfully employed. Sure, there are some things I’m not satisfied about. This seems to go against the zeitgeist. Advertising one’s victim hood on social media is au courrant.
I prefer a nice croissant.
I prefer Brötchen.