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  1. Wow, it's almost as if you always viewed them as a "them"; tolerable until they stepped on the "us". What do the "homosexuals" have to do to get back into the loving warmth of your good graces?
  2. Transgender people are probably the ones hurt the most by our intense focus on gender and the ways we assign virtues to one or the other. It's lovely that this is all a big joke to you, and I was going to criticize this, but then I recalled to mind the words of the indomitable Dr. King: "Let us all be blind to race, but not to gender, because how f'ing loony are those trans weirdos, amirite?"
  3. I agree -- these opinions are garbage no matter who holds them.
  4. To be clear, I can recognize there are fine grain legal issues in all of these court cases, and it's far from clear that good social outcomes have the appropriate legal standing. There are thoughtful people who actually do support gay rights but have differing views on the legal opinions authored, for example, but these people do not walk through life imagining the "gay mafia" is out to tear down America. Such language is telling.
  5. You need to find yourself some transgender friends to call really cool, before hyping up the train of the mentally ill transgender mafia coming here to oppress good upstanding Christians. I mean honestly.
  6. You may have been for gay marriage before I was! We've come a long, long way as a society in a very short amount of time on this topic. I appreciate those who, like Obama, have evolved in their thinking on the issue to the point that they are now steadfast advocates. In what was it, 2004, when I was still in school and we had a soon-to-be-reelected President campaigning on a Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriage, it definitely seemed like a topic where reasonable people could disagree, and that window shifted really fast in the ten years to follow. "Support for gay people" is strange cred to want to claim for yourself when you've gone pretty far in the other direction.
  7. In actual complete seriousness, I feel strongly that the struggles are self-inflicted. The mistake here is to consider these things as our essence -- belonging to the domain of men, rather than in the domain of humanity. The detox, as we can see here, is a difficult process, because those who've bought into it most seriously can be positively frightened at the mere suggestion, and lash out at, e.g., spandex-wearing metrosexuals (for the record, I don't know of any who actually wear spandex -- not that it's a bad thing!) in response. But it's worth getting to a point where we can just realize that hey, you can think what you want but maybe don't put so much stock into it, like these definitions are the core of your being and your world. It's just not that big a deal, man, or acorn tree, or whatever you'd like to be called. We are all people, and we can celebrate both ourselves and each other without thinking of so many ways to tear us down.
  8. If there's one thing that is VERY true about Ric Flair it's that he has been absolutely silenced on Huskerboard. He doesn't even possess his opinions, anymore, as I've taken them, and he is now a flaming liberal. Sorry for doing this to you, but it's in my nature as a maniacal, conservative-eating tyrant.
  9. Moiraine is correct -- to remove my tongue from my cheek, and in all seriousness, you should select a reasonably small excerpt to post alongside the link, so that people can go to the source, give the good ad companies their revenue, and see for themselves what crank these conservative agitprop sites are rife with. While not necessarily likely, reproducing articles in full on this forum is liable to cause some trouble for the all-volunteer staff here to have to respond to, and let's try to avoid that. It's a common mistake, it happens, especially since most of us aren't lawyers and thus, not usually mindful of legal issues. Tongue back in cheek, have a cookie and three man points for those Large Size Letters you edited the first post with. You will get +5 man points if you switch it to a serif font. Don't tell me you're going soft, now. I hope these duly recognized man points will make your night. Cheers!
  10. Ha, oh man, of course. Or has this just been a long con? You're playing a character, right?
  11. Buddy, all I'm asking are your thoughts on the topic -- you can save the attacks on me for the remainder of your posts. If you think your thoughts aren't mock-worthy, why don't you post them?
  12. You have to be aware that there's a certain, very limited, highly racist crowd that would cheer and slap you on the back for all this "people are racists to white people, and that's the big meaningful problem of today's world" stuff. Shouldn't that give you pause about these views? You're not too far gone, one would hope -- or you wouldn't even still be posting on Huskerboard. Take a step back and take stock.
  13. Real men aren't so worried about whether they're being masculine or not -- or whether other men are. This is a toxicity that permeates our culture and is to the detriment of all of us, but especially to the men who are caught up in it. Know that there's a less hateful way of life, and you don't have to be this way.
  14. This topic is meant to be a parallel to Moiraine's "how do you define masculinity" topic -- I'm curious to see how people answer each of them. For what it's worth, you're right: my answer is essentially the same; that there are no meaningful differences. Especially when it comes to assigning positive values to traits, we are really naming various positive ways of being human (for example, not being a bigot who delights in dehumanizing others). There's no expectation that everyone needs to live up to all of them (although the given example is one of the basic exceptions) because there are so many different things at which humans can excel, and we can celebrate all of them. The salient point here, however, is that we're not consigning universal qualities such as knowing how to do things or being smart and capable to one gender, to the implicit exclusion of others.
  15. As it turns out, there are a lot of straight white men here on this very board whose opinions aren't shouted down and dismissed. What do you think we should do with actual bigotry, though? Not shout it down? Not dismiss it? Hm. Could it be, possibly, that you are being judged on the content of your opinions? Nooooo, you must be a victim. That's the ticket.
  16. I for one fully affirm the rights of puma-identifying Americans and I'm sorry if that threatens your fragile sensibilities. Please start another "____ are hurting white men" thread for the puma thing, though, and let's get back on topic here.
  17. "I support gay people, want them to be happy, but the gay mafia is terrorizing Christians". Self-honesty is important.
  18. Dr. King lmaooooo honestly, brah, you need to find a community of racists if you're looking for kindred spirits to share in your vile, delusional bigotry. The only proper response in a community of decency to this putrid bulls#!t is to let you know as briefly as possible that your points are repugnant and ridiculous.
  19. How does one grow up in America, of all places, with such rank intolerance?
  20. The quality of your thought is returned in kind. Thanks for trying!
  21. Nobody's forcing you poor Christian snowflake to get gay married. It's alright, man. You're safe. There, there.
  22. Do you know what gender dysphoria means? Men should know things.
  23. You can use the "quote" feature, because from afar, it looks like you rather than Tucker went on one hell of a wimpy, unhinged rant. Embarrassing yourself in this way is highly unbecoming of a man, especially an American man, and you'll want to make it clear that this wasn't actually your manifesto -- you just admire it. Which, what's the difference, really, but hey. Since I don't wear spandex, I know that you can do this by selecting the text and clicking the button that looks like two tadpoles (") in the editor; this is called getting it done.
  24. In all earnestness, though, many of you have provided lengthy and thoughtful answers about how we anchor our notion of masculinity. I'd like to hear the respective thoughts towards femininity articulated. And if you can't, or won't: why not? If you can, where do the differences come from, and why?
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