Well I learned something new this morning. What a 'troon' is. Seen it around but never bothered to Google it until now, and Urban Dictionary gave me a great introduction to it.
BTW, I don't think there's anything particularly mindless about the middle as long as you're not afraid to take a stand. Yeah, no resolution is going to land *squa…
Well I learned something new this morning. What a 'troon' is. Seen it around but never bothered to Google it until now, and Urban Dictionary gave me a great introduction to it.
BTW, I don't think there's anything particularly mindless about the middle as long as you're not afraid to take a stand. Yeah, no resolution is going to land *squarely* in the middle. But often the truth, and the resolution lies on both sides.
"BTW, I don't think there's anything particularly mindless about the middle as long as you're not afraid to take a stand."
Yeah, I specified mindless centrism to differentiate it from...let's call it principled centrism. People who are too fond of the "fine people on both sides" way of thinking don't take a stand. Which is the problem.
I'm a firm believer in trying to understand people who I disagree with, I just can't stand the people who treat issues that are actually important as philosophical thought exercises. It's why I'd rather somebody took a stance I disagreed with and explained why they felt that way, than the pasty bothsidesism that some centrists are guilty of.
You inspired me to do a web search "troon urban dictionary" and it gave more than one definition. One pertaining to trans and another that did not. These made-up words seem purposefully confusing.
Troon apparently is from Something Awful and dates back about twenty years, before the loony left started fiddling with language so much. I think men pretending to be lesbians need their own word, and 'troon' sounds good, although I think I prefer plain old 'fake lesbian'.
Well I learned something new this morning. What a 'troon' is. Seen it around but never bothered to Google it until now, and Urban Dictionary gave me a great introduction to it.
BTW, I don't think there's anything particularly mindless about the middle as long as you're not afraid to take a stand. Yeah, no resolution is going to land *squarely* in the middle. But often the truth, and the resolution lies on both sides.
"BTW, I don't think there's anything particularly mindless about the middle as long as you're not afraid to take a stand."
Yeah, I specified mindless centrism to differentiate it from...let's call it principled centrism. People who are too fond of the "fine people on both sides" way of thinking don't take a stand. Which is the problem.
I'm a firm believer in trying to understand people who I disagree with, I just can't stand the people who treat issues that are actually important as philosophical thought exercises. It's why I'd rather somebody took a stance I disagreed with and explained why they felt that way, than the pasty bothsidesism that some centrists are guilty of.
Yeah but it's hard to do that when your base is white supremacists and you hope to get re-elected ( not my problem obviously) 😁
You inspired me to do a web search "troon urban dictionary" and it gave more than one definition. One pertaining to trans and another that did not. These made-up words seem purposefully confusing.
Troon apparently is from Something Awful and dates back about twenty years, before the loony left started fiddling with language so much. I think men pretending to be lesbians need their own word, and 'troon' sounds good, although I think I prefer plain old 'fake lesbian'.