I had a relative tell me that the problem with trans and homosexuality is that it’s a mental illness. Instead of fighting those ideas, my response was “so what?” I decided to follow that line of argument to its conclusion.
Even if it were a mental illness, it would be one that causes no harm. I asked that relative what they would do if they found out they had a mental illness, and that the only thing that treatment would accomplish would be to make them no longer love their spouse. Of course they’d refuse treatment and go on loving who they love.
That should be the end of the conversation. If someone is doing something that harms nobody, why should they be forced to change who they are to please someone unaffected by the outcome?
Once again a middle aged bisexual knows what’s up
52 is middle age.
That’s good.
I am of the opinion that closed-minded thinking is only part of the issue. The other part is there are well financed interst groups who work hard to create and encourage division in order to prevent regular folks from working together for a common cause.
The reason is simple: convince people to fight amongst themselves and they will be too busy to notice how much they are being ripped off by the tiny handful of rich people at the top.
Agree with the sentiment, don’t see how it’s newsworthy.
Will we start seeing headlines like: Tom DeLonge says racism “not cool”
Billie Joe has fans who are influenced by what he says.
Billie Joe says not to be a cunt about trans people.
If I had a platform like Billie Joe I’d say that too.
Billie Joe is also bisexual so is speaking as part of the LGBT community.
This is the same Billie Joe whose fans went home from an “American Idiot” anniversary concert surprised that he got “political”. I reckon there’s plenty of scope there.
That’s almost as good as the people who drag on RATM for being political. But not nearly as good as fans shit talking Morello and telling him he needs to stick to what he knows.
I get what you mean, but considering how many influential people are having their anti-trans opinions broadcast (see: JKR), I think this kind of article is more necessary than you might think.
True. We may be at the point where we shouldn’t just give people the benefit of the doubt in such matters.
This Just in, Singer from Punk Rock Band Says Something Provocative, Leftist
Calling them punk is much more controversial.
gatekeeping doesn’t feel very punk tho
I don’t really care either way, I just thought it was an amusing point in context. The majority of what I listen to has pop on the end so I don’t have much to gatekeep.
