"And how should I presume?"

aquietrevolutionary:

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manicgay:

dear LGBT community i truly believe you should be called LG community and leave the other two fucking irrelevant, lying categories out. bisexual and transgender don’t belong with us. first of all bisexuality does not exist and secondly transgender got nothing to do with homosexuality. Thank you and fuck you!

and just for the record, i’m a hardcore homosexual.

This is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Not only is it really fucking wrong, but it’s basically shooting yourself in the foot. We have to work together if we want to make the world a safe place for PEOPLE LIKE US.

Bravo OP.

Excellent job of doing EXACTLY THE SAME KIND OF HATEFUL SUPPRESSING THAT THE “HARDCORE STRAIGHT” COMMUNITY TRIES TO DO TO YOU.

Way to partake in precisely the same erasure politics that has KILLED, MURDERED, AND OUTLAWED GAY AND LESBIAN PEOPLE THROUGHOUT ALL OF HISTORY.

And really too, way to enter a safe place for all people, and try to throw your weight around to try and shut down other people’s expression, again, oh, JUST LIKE SOCIETY HAS TRIED TO SHUT DOWN (AND SUCCEEDED IN MANY CASES) GAY AND LESBIAN VOICES. 

Bisexuality absolutely does exist. JUST BECAUSE IT IS NOT YOUR EXPERIENCE DOES NOT MAKE IT ANY LESS REAL.

Transgender absolutely does exist. JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE CIS, IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT EVERYONE ELSE IS.

YOU ARE NOT RIGHT JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE GAY.

And as long as even ONE PERSON IS STILL OPPRESSED, you can be damn sure that the world is still not a safe place to be. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE WHO IS ALLOWED FREEDOM AND WHO IS NOT. TO DO SO IS TO BE EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD KILL YOU FOR WANTING TO MARRY SOMEONE OF THE SAME GENDER.

Has that sunk in yet?

YOU ARE ARGUING EXACTLY LIKE THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD KILL YOU.

Now get that through your head and

EXCUSE ME WHILE I SWOON OVER THAT FUCKING EPIC SMACKDOWN. CAN I EVEN ADD TO ITS PERFECTION? LET’S FIND OUT.

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dear LGBT community i truly believe you should be called LG community and leave the other two fucking irrelevant, lying categories out.

Wow, what a strong start! Truly, I am shaking in my boots.

“Irrelevant”? How precisely is liking the same gender irrelevant to a cause that’s about SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE THE SAME GENDER?

“Lying”? Wow, that’s fucking fascinating. Tell me, why did you start lying about only liking one gender? Was it to get attention?

bisexual and transgender don’t belong with us.

first of all bisexuality does not exist

What an interesting assertion. Pity that science takes that assertion and dropkicks its balls. 

and secondly transgender got nothing to do with homosexuality.

Orly? OK, let’s see if we can get this through your head:

Let’s say that you are a straight transwoman who wants to marry a cis man. Under various state laws, you are shit out of luck. Therefore trans* people who want to eventually get married have a vested interest in supporting marriage equality, as well as greater protection for minorities, because whether you like it or not, THEY EXIST AND THEY ARE MINORITIES, TOO.

Trans people get killed every day because they are trans. A lot of times it is due to the false assumption that a transwoman is not a woman, and a transman is not a man, and instead that they are gay people wearing the clothing of the opposite gender in order to “trap” well-meaning straight cis people. Straight cis people are killing trans people because they think that they’re gay.

Yes, gender doesn’t have anything to do with who you fall in love with, but how people treat you, what rights you have? Every queer person is in the same bucket when you pit them versus straight cis folk, and that’s why we need to stick together.

Thank you and fuck you!

Get in line. You might fit somewhere between “Glenn Beck” and “Hitler’s mouldering corpse” in the list of people who I never want to touch my genitals, ever.

and just for the record, i’m a hardcore homosexual.

And this is where I start to think “troll.” Doesn’t matter, smackdowns are fun anyway.

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chasing-oblivion:

Go and get a piece of paper. Honestly, do it. Call it an experiment. A piece of A4 is fine

Now. What I would like you to do, is fold it evenly in half. Easy yes?

Do it again.
And again. 3rd time.
And again.
And again. Getting difficult?.
And again.
Once more.

Now, try and fold your piece of paper in half just one more time. What? You can’t do it?

I cannot think of a better analogy to draw parallel to the glorious idiocy that is going in lately in regard to sexual orientation and identity online.

I am a staunch supporter of equal marriage, and this year gave my name to a petition sent to the Scottish parliament, to campaign for legislation that would mark our country as a beacon and a standard in equal rights. I believe that if two people truly love one another, then they have a right to declare that love, take vows to one another for it, and it have equal legal powers, regardless of who the two people are. Two men, two women, one of each, whether one, or both partners are transgender- it really doesn’t matter. Marriage should be for everyone.

Everyone should also have the freedom to be open with their sexuality. One day, I sincerely hope all of the stigma attached to LGBT people will vanish, and it become so accepted that no-one (civilised and sane) ever speaks of it.

Having said that, sexuality is unfortunately becoming more complex by the day. So I’m going to give a sort of “Sexual-orientation Orientation for dummies”

There are, in this world, only male and female human beings. Therefore, it is reasonable to suppose that some will be attracted to each others sex (heterosexual), some will be attracted to the same sex as their own (homosexual) and others still find attraction to both groups (bisexual). With that in mind, would you be surprised that there are people who regard themselves as something else entirely? On the Internet I have also encountered the following, given as a “sexual orientation.”

• Asexuality
• Pansexuality
• Demisexuality

I may actually concede Asexuality as a genuine orientation because there are those put there who are to attracted to- or show no signs of it- to any gender. I have a hard time with it, because it almost seems like self-denial and repression of the basic human nature of sexual desire, but I cannot speak for each and every person’s feelings. I’d be skeptical of anyone who “turned” Asexual though, and be questioning whether it was as a result of a poor relationship and broken trust. I do raise my eyebrow at this “Gray-A” business though, “I’m asexual up to a point” basically. Come off it.

Pansexuality is something I never used to understand too much. My own fiancée identifies as Pan, but to me, because of it’s sentiment that “you have the potential to be attracted to anyone, regardless of their gender” it just seems to me like pan are “bisexual with bells on”, or “very bisexual indeed”. If there only are two sexes, and people choose to live as one or the other, there are only 3 choices really, straight, gay or bi. I suppose it’s to cover the transsexual part of humanity, and to that extend I suppose I can understand that too. It’s one of those “shouldn’t matter but it does” moments, because I’m sure there are men dating and probably married to, people that began their lives on this earth as men. But as they are now living as female, are their partners gay or bi? Not necessarily seems to be the answer, as they may still regard themselves as straight. 

Demisexuality? This is where my line is. Demisexual people identify as only being attracted to people sexually “some of the time.” *cough* Every woman on the face of the earth then? Joking aside, it is specifically highlighted as having sexual attraction only after an emotional connection has been made. To me, that’s just a fancy way of saying you don’t like the idea of one night stands and you want sex you have to be special in an emotional way. There’s nothing wrong with that, or wanting to share sexual experiences only with someone you care about, but it really doesn’t need a label. Seems to serve as a method to draw attention and special treatment for making this choice too. A bout of Special Snowflake Syndrome seems to be at work:

“I identify with it, therefore it is real and if you disagree then you are wrong”

Well, it’s not a sexual orientation, hate to break it to you. It is your mechanism on how you deal with the relationships that you choose to be in, not which partners you choose. 

Demisexuality is a fancy sounding word that doesn’t mean a hell of a lot, and it is convoluted and unnecessary as that piece of paper in front of you. An awkward fact, but true. It is impossible to fold a piece of paper evenly more than seven times, as we have discovered, and fruitless, as you probably can’t use it for anything. The fact that the “wiggly red line” of internet spellcheck rests under it sets alarm bells ringing early. So let’s dispense with what’s unnecessary, and start making sense. 

As well as the three I’ve listed here, there are many other monikers and extensions of romanticism that people have started to make use of, again, many of them don’t amount to very much, and are a product of an attention seeking mentality in my eyes. In an attempt to define every aspect of themselves and their personal feelings- and put it on display- people are creating labels by which they would resent being judged. If it makes you happy, then I don’t have an overwhelming problem with it, as it does me no direct harm. In the end though, reader, you have to ask yourself what I’ve been asking all along during the background-reading before this post.

What’s the point?

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OK, you’ve got some serious issues with your logic.

There are, in this world, only male and female human beings.

Nope. Even if we look at it solely from a genitals perspective (that means ignoring gender entirely), intersex people exist. Furthermore, not all intersex people have the same parts as other intersex people, so it doesn’t make any sense to say that there are just “male and female” when you can be male without having a penis as we think of one or female as we think of one.

If there only are two sexes, and people choose to live as one or the other, there are only 3 choices really, straight, gay or bi.

Except there aren’t only two sexes, so that point is invalid.

I suppose it’s to cover the transsexual part of humanity, and to that extend I suppose I can understand that too. It’s one of those “shouldn’t matter but it does” moments, because I’m sure there are men dating and probably married to, people that began their lives on this earth as men. But as they are now living as female, are their partners gay or bi? Not necessarily seems to be the answer, as they may still regard themselves as straight. 

Yes, men who are attracted to women are straight. However, trans* people are more than just male or female. There are male and female trans* people, but there are also trans people who are bigender or agender or a third gender. Hence why pansexuality is a legitimate orientation.

I may actually concede Asexuality as a genuine orientation because there are those put there who are to attracted to- or show no signs of it- to any gender. I have a hard time with it, because it almost seems like self-denial and repression of the basic human nature of sexual desire, but I cannot speak for each and every person’s feelings. I’d be skeptical of anyone who “turned” Asexual though, and be questioning whether it was as a result of a poor relationship and broken trust. I do raise my eyebrow at this “Gray-A” business though, “I’m asexual up to a point” basically. Come off it.

Celibacy is a choice - you are choosing not to have sex for whatever reason. Asexuality is not a choice. Asexual people can also, in some cases, have sexual desire, but have no interest in having sex with someone else. They just masturbate. Novel concept, I know.

To me, that’s just a fancy way of saying you don’t like the idea of one night stands and you want sex you have to be special in an emotional way.

What part of “not a choice” do you not get?

The fact that the “wiggly red line” of internet spellcheck rests under it sets alarm bells ringing early.

Things that my internet spellcheck doesn’t think are words:

• transphobia
• wuthering
• colour

In the end though, reader, you have to ask yourself what I’ve been asking all along during the background-reading before this post.

What’s the point?

We’re humans. We like having words to describe things. We could just call every tree “tree,” but we have taxonomical classifications for a reason. There’s no reason to not have a word just because what it describes is common.

For someone who says “I can’t speak for each and every person’s feelings,” you’re doing a hell of a job speaking for other people and passing judgement despite not knowing what their feelings are, especially considering the fact that you apparently did research and yet said blatantly false things.

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finalowen:

Here’s a quick guide on the many ways you can do it.

1. Go to any number of bisexual websites that give helpful definitions and FAQs on bisexuality.
2. Look on the internet to see what bisexual people have written about how they define their sexuality. It’s quite easy to do.
3. Politely ask a bisexual person (if they’re agreeable to being asked) about their definitions of what the term means.
4. Do some research into the historical context of the phrase and how it originated.
5. Do all of the above.

Here’s a quick guide on the way NOT to do it.

1. Look at the “bi”, assume the ‘two’ is referring to a male/female binary, and decide it means that bisexual people can only be attracted to two genders.
2. Act like an authority from your few seconds worth of half-caring about what it might mean, and paint bisexual people as transphobic based on this conclusion.

Sadly, it seems like that latter is becoming more and more common, and people don’t seem to realise how biphobic it is.

mindmanacles:

Actually, in order to be female you DO have to possess a vagina. 

Actually, in order to be female you just have to identify as female. Thanks for playing, do come again soon.

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babysong:

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Eh, I can see your point to a certain extent (don’t police who people do and don’t like), but equating not liking trans people with not liking another gender is othering trans people. Trans men are men. Trans women are women. I can see not being attracted to individual trans people, or only post-op trans people, but unless you have magic chromosome detecters, I have a hard time believing that you can be attracted to only one of these two people simply because one of them is cis.

anedumacation:

I did a lot of soul searching last night and I decided that my real identity is Dwayne Johnson.

From now on, please, call me “Dwayne”, or “The Rock”.

Thanks so much for respecting my wishes, I’m looking forward to interacting with you all…. as a transcelebrity. 

I don’t think I need to point out every single fucking thing wrong with this piece of shit, so I merely point out its existence.

Do not like this piece of trash, reblog it with commentary.

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lacigreen:

sorry, not sorry.

All the love, you don’t even know.

latinagabi:

If your atheism is; misogynistic, racist, homophobic, transphobic, or any other type of bullshit bigotry, we ain’t comrades. 

If your feminism isn’t Intersectional, we ain’t friends.

If your feminism isn’t Transfeminist, we ain’t buds.

Just need to get this out of the way so there is no confusion or awkwardness.