Lesbians like me joined forces with conservatives. Now they're turning on us.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/68111168
When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020, I took a step back and reevaluated where I stood and why I stood there. To my surprise, I found that I agreed with conservatives and libertarians on a number of issues. I opposed childhood gender transitions, unlawful and divisive DEI mandates, and the excesses of Critical Race Theory. I argued against biological males competing in women’s sports and being housed in women’s prisons. I did so loudly and publicly, losing many friends along the way. My stance wasn’t rooted in hate or fear but in a commitment to reason and fairness. My loyalty was to the truth, not to political tribes. Maintaining my integrity cost me greatly, but I believed it was worth it.
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What did you expect? You can’t sit with us anymore. You chose your hateful side, so enjoy it.
"My stance wasn't rooted in hate or fear..."
Bullshit. Fuck you
If you read her drivel its clear she's still a hateful cunt she just wants sympathy from the people she turned her back on.
I say again...
FUCK YOU BITCH
Which I certainly won't be doing and you shouldn't either.
She would try though because I'm transfem and pass better than her lol
*Downvote me all ya want I'm pretty and i know it. If you don't think at least some of this person's hatred of trans people is jealousy you're lying to yourself
This woman is talking herself up. Better put her back in her place
Hey. Let's not be assholes about who passes as what. Everybody has bad days, seeing her scales under the human skin suit isn't a reason to be a bigot and turn off her heat rock.
... Downvoting this shitty comment is what oppression looks like to you...?
Don't put words in my mouth, dipshit
God forbid you consider the real reason you're being downvoted. But you won't get anymore downvotes from me since I won't be seeing any more of your shitty comments or posts.
I'm being downvoted because I said I'm attractive. Does that sound reasonable to you?
Fuck off
Nah you are being downvoted for building yourself up by tearing her down. You called her mannish.
Can we just have all gendered bathrooms and co-ed sports already? Like Jesus fuck they're killing people in the street
People only ever propose co-ed sports when trans people are brought up. It's a thought-terminating cliche and a reliable indicator that the speaker hasn't seriously considered why sports are gendered in the first place.
Real ally: Trans women are women. They belong in women's sports because there is zero scientific evidence of trans women having any advantage over cis female athletes. Fears that they have an advantage are just bigoted gut-level stereotypes assuming that trans women are biological men.
Performative ally: Let's move to co-ed sports!
Dear Lemmy, why always so bro? Don't upvote this trash. Misogyny is not the solution. This comment section is gross AF.
They're not turning on you, they were always against you, you were just too dumb to see it
The fact that she's allowed to vote, choose who she married or not, and is allowed to date women is the woke wave she must hate
I dunno - progressive where it benefits her and fuck everyone else is a pretty typical conservative stance.
TERFs aint that bright
Eyeroll. Can already tell this person is an idiot.
Zero critical thinking skill.
Is it woke to not be a bigot?
"It wasn't important until it affected me!"
The author of this article is Reid Newton. She is a gullible idiot and apparently needs to earn her rights to know their value. She has no reverence for value or the struggle and work of those before her to accomplish recognition.
"Ultimately, I don’t regret my decision. I worked toward what I believed — and still believe — to be true. I still oppose radical gender ideology and Critical Race Theory in schools. I still believe that biological males shouldn’t compete in women’s sports or be housed in women’s prisons. But I will not stand by while LGBT rights are legislated away."
oh brother
So racist and transphobic. Typical conservative.
and self inflicting! ~
Yoy see critical race theory would help explain the struggles of others, so obviously that’s bad. Now the authors personal struggles, those need to be addressed.
Perfect logical sense
Does she know what the T in LGBT stands for?
Too many in the L and G portions seem to think conservatives actually care about them, and as such are very vocal about "without the T", and in my experience completely dismiss the Bs as "haven't figured out which one they want and therefore B doesn't exist"
So in other words "it's not me so I don't care"
"I may lose my right to marry my fiance but its a chance Im willing to take"
Insane that she has the gall to include the "T" in there
Summary:
"I am stupid. In fact, i am so stupid that when bad staff happens as a result of my decisions I perceive it as a betrayal on the part of others and the universe instead of the predictable result of my actions. That way I can ensure that I never stop being stupid."
“I stupidly, and wholeheartedly bought into Conservative media talking points. While I still hold these nonsensical positions, I don’t like that the bigots I aligned myself with me were honest in their hatred of me and those like me. You should feel sorry for me.”
FTFY. Also, fuck off.
This has been the most maddening thing about it; it's just whole-hearted willful ignorance. NO ONE is doing gender conversions on kids. I guess if you want to make the argument that hormones are thrown around as teenagers, sure, but teenagers get on birth control, there are plenty of legitimate hormone therapies done already.
I've had decent progress with some more conservative, non-religious family members on the "indoctrination" shit by likening it to religion. No rules on what wild shit religion can do; promising you to an older man, severing social ties, and putting you in a situation where you don't know you're being abused. No crackdowns, no vehement marches, no violence over that. But an adult family and their near-adult child can't make medical decisions with oversight from a medical professional? It's absolute, willful ignorance at best.
All those points she mentions are fake outrage by "conservatives". They're made to make you think, "yeah, I can see their point," but anyone with a working brain can see that deeper down, there's so much hatred toward anyone that these "conservatives" consider to be inferior. So even if the author agrees with those points, she's trash to them because she is a woman.
...Oh and being a woman who likes women doesn't help either.
"I stood with the Leopard's Eating People's Faces Party, but now that they're trying to eat my face, I call on the Leopard's to do better, and eat only the faces that reason and fairness dictate should be eaten."
That's not the lesson, Reid, you learned it wrong again!
Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers you fucking TERF.
No, lesbians did not join forces with conservatives. You keep telling yourself that, because otherwise you have to admit you are an absolute monster of a human being.
Being a lesbian does not excuse you from being evil.
TERF got turfed.
The common theme about the “issues” listed in the screenshot is that none of them are real, they are all made up by the right wing culture wars, and the only reason that anyone is even aware of them is that Tucker Carson and Alex Jones and their friends spent 10 years faking outrage over them.
If someone bases their vote on culture wars issues, instead of considering what each candidate stands for on real world problems, fuck them. No excuses.
This is it exactly. Everything she opposes is essentially a straw-man created by the right. But she uses those straw-men to justify her opinions as being “common sense’.
Perfect example:
so you sold out your sisters for the hope you wouldn't be targeted and now you're being targeted.
something something, and they came for me and there was nobody left to help.
She's a fucking idiot. And definitely unqualified to talk on half of the shit her profile says she does.
God I remember this dipshit. Racist transphobic piece of shit. I guarantee if they strike down Obergefell, she'll jump back onboard to repeal Loving.
Their hate for black and trans people was so great they teamed up with the people who want to kill them.
Well yeah they hate gays and women so of course they're gonna REALLY hate gay women.
"Jews like me joined forces with the Nazis and now we're dead" ahh situation
I really want to know where are these DEI mandates, have anyone ever heard about these "DEI" hiring mandates?
Yeah, it got a dead senator's sister appointed to replace him with absolutely no experience.
I’ve had this discussion with my conservative brother
Me: my company has diversity programs to reach a wider pool of applicants and to help people with historical disadvantages fulfill their potential. The best manager I ever had, had a little help overcoming language and confidence barriers, and i was happy to follow her to multiple companies
Him: they keep bringing in these managers solely by their gender or skin color and never promote engineers. They made us take this one employee who is completely unqualified and we have to do her work
He buys that there’s a harmful dei mandate that prevent qualified people from succeeding. You can imagine there’s some resentment there. However it’s easier to explain as normal large company bs, and only knowing part of the story
Your bro clearly doesn't realize that he got his job through reverse DEI which is the default.
He will never realize this while immersed in the hegemonic narrative.
He was brought in by my uncle, who was a lifer at that company. He was “one of the guys” from day one.
Lol. Fuck off.
Keep telling yourself that.
Joined forces is a weird way of saying "used useful idiots."
Fuck these people I hope their lives are miserable from now until the end. I hope the lgbtq community doesn't accept them after all the aid they've given to the enemy.
"I bought into a bunch of bullshit propaganda because I'm very stupid. Now people should feel bad for me."
Who would have thought the people affiliated with the party that wants to turn the country into a white, straight, Christian theocratic ethnostate would turn against lesbians? I am shocked.
See? Sexuality and gender don''t really matter, they can be exactly as stupid as any other flavor of gender or sexual preference!
The leopards are equal opportunity face munchers.
Lesbians like you are idiots.
Dumbshits.
Well, as my girlfriend always says - nobody hates women more than other women.
Nobody 🧵 has mentioned this was last year’s news‽
I didn't see the date, apologies.
No date rule that I can see, only reposts.
but it's been reposted twice already, this is the tird time!
Uhh... duhh
Ooooh noooooo. Thoughts and prayers.
When discussing conservative women, it sure would be nice if all you "leftists" would remember that this isn't the opportunity to air your misogyny. Thank you.
Haven't seen any in the comments, but thanks for the heads up I guess
Are you complaining about some specific instance, or are you one of those miserable people who pre-complain everywhere and all the time?
Are there any examples of that here?
Conservative women are repulsive because of their black, black hearts. Not because of misogyny. Hope this helps! Signed, Feminist