I don’t know why you bothered. You have your view, Chimp has his/hers: never the twain shall meet.
PS the T should be taken off LGBT. The interests of the parties have diverged.
"I don’t know why you bothered. You have your view, Chimp has his/hers: never the twain shall meet."
I bother because the twain sometimes do meet!😄 And, to be fair, I think Chimp's view, if he's being honest, is the same as mine. Being an ally, in some people's minds, is about being faithful to the orthodoxy. Not being honest or thinking for themselves. That's why they are so quick to block people and why they rely on accusations of bigotry instead of actual arguments.
One of the things I try to do with my writing is convince people like him that it's possible to be both kind *and* honest. That supporting people by being a fanatic makes things worse. Believe it or not, it works sometimes!
I already do. We have nothing to do with each other. And we never did.
Steve, I don't understand why you waste your time with people like the above. "They" (please) are never going to change or yield any ground or seek any compromise; oppositional belligerence is his reason for getting out of bed in the morning.
Over the past few years I've gotten further and further from social networks and comment sections and it's done me a lot of good. I'm less angry and more able to shut down angry reactions before they escalate to saying something I later regret. When someone goads me I don't engage in days of flaming anymore, I just click Block (or on here, "collapse").
It's not worth it.
The accusation of "transphobia" (asinine word) comes so readily as to be meaningless, even the most supportive are seen as hardened enemies, so why bother? These "activists" are fanatics and most of them are sick in the head.
I know that engaging people on the other sides of issues is What You Do and you have my respect for the idealism, less so for persisting with so many obvious lost causes. At some point you will cross one of those milestones of age, like when the birthday odometer rolls over from 49 to 50, and will start to see your remaining time as too precious to waste on trying to change the world one sick bastard at a time.
I don’t know why you bothered. You have your view, Chimp has his/hers: never the twain shall meet.
PS the T should be taken off LGBT. The interests of the parties have diverged.
"I don’t know why you bothered. You have your view, Chimp has his/hers: never the twain shall meet."
I bother because the twain sometimes do meet!😄 And, to be fair, I think Chimp's view, if he's being honest, is the same as mine. Being an ally, in some people's minds, is about being faithful to the orthodoxy. Not being honest or thinking for themselves. That's why they are so quick to block people and why they rely on accusations of bigotry instead of actual arguments.
One of the things I try to do with my writing is convince people like him that it's possible to be both kind *and* honest. That supporting people by being a fanatic makes things worse. Believe it or not, it works sometimes!
I already do. We have nothing to do with each other. And we never did.
Steve, I don't understand why you waste your time with people like the above. "They" (please) are never going to change or yield any ground or seek any compromise; oppositional belligerence is his reason for getting out of bed in the morning.
Over the past few years I've gotten further and further from social networks and comment sections and it's done me a lot of good. I'm less angry and more able to shut down angry reactions before they escalate to saying something I later regret. When someone goads me I don't engage in days of flaming anymore, I just click Block (or on here, "collapse").
It's not worth it.
The accusation of "transphobia" (asinine word) comes so readily as to be meaningless, even the most supportive are seen as hardened enemies, so why bother? These "activists" are fanatics and most of them are sick in the head.
I know that engaging people on the other sides of issues is What You Do and you have my respect for the idealism, less so for persisting with so many obvious lost causes. At some point you will cross one of those milestones of age, like when the birthday odometer rolls over from 49 to 50, and will start to see your remaining time as too precious to waste on trying to change the world one sick bastard at a time.