I remember playing that game, too. I remember how calling someone a fag was the worst thing you could say. You sound like a good man. I think we're on our way to figuring it out. I don't think it will take sixty years. The current young generation already understands.
I remember playing that game, too. I remember how calling someone a fag was the worst thing you could say. You sound like a good man. I think we're on our way to figuring it out. I don't think it will take sixty years. The current young generation already understands.
Thanks Matt and M Hutcheson, itтАЩs a pleasure to read your reactions. BTW I am a gay man who remembers the years of fag-bashing, although I rarely hear it now, thankfully. Much of the world has changed for the better, but in some places and conditions those old prejudices do recur and harm. While I appreciate your remarks, I DO want to point out that the transgender issue originally under discussion in not, strictly speaking, a gay issue. That is, sexual orientation (gays and lesbians) and gender identity (trans people) are separate issues and do not even overlap as much as you might think. Some gays, like me, have reservations about constantly being conflated with the trans community through that long acronym LGBTQ-whatever. Most of our major rights organizations have pretty much switched from gay issues, which are largely ┬л solved ┬╗ in many places (IтАЩm in NYC), to transactivism as those issues are very much in play. I have mixed feelings about the latter. Anyway, keep on posting here and just ignore the haters тАФ
I understand. I've had to adjust my priors quite often over the last few years. The thing that changed me is knowing trans and nonbinary people in person. I work in the arts, where it's rather common.
I remember playing that game, too. I remember how calling someone a fag was the worst thing you could say. You sound like a good man. I think we're on our way to figuring it out. I don't think it will take sixty years. The current young generation already understands.
Thanks Matt and M Hutcheson, itтАЩs a pleasure to read your reactions. BTW I am a gay man who remembers the years of fag-bashing, although I rarely hear it now, thankfully. Much of the world has changed for the better, but in some places and conditions those old prejudices do recur and harm. While I appreciate your remarks, I DO want to point out that the transgender issue originally under discussion in not, strictly speaking, a gay issue. That is, sexual orientation (gays and lesbians) and gender identity (trans people) are separate issues and do not even overlap as much as you might think. Some gays, like me, have reservations about constantly being conflated with the trans community through that long acronym LGBTQ-whatever. Most of our major rights organizations have pretty much switched from gay issues, which are largely ┬л solved ┬╗ in many places (IтАЩm in NYC), to transactivism as those issues are very much in play. I have mixed feelings about the latter. Anyway, keep on posting here and just ignore the haters тАФ
I understand. I've had to adjust my priors quite often over the last few years. The thing that changed me is knowing trans and nonbinary people in person. I work in the arts, where it's rather common.