Which power you talking about? The power for a teenager to get an abortion after being raped? The power for queer people to openly and publicly be themselves? What power do you think the left are aftwr exactly?
The power to completely rewrite society. Many on the left see a world with problems and blame those on the structures of society we have (like you did in response to me), and thus imagine that transgressing against those structures is a form of progress. Many of those transgressions are utterly pointless. Is there any good reason to support drag queen story hour? Or is it just a display of power, saying "your society is dead, your standards mean nothing, we write the rules now." Do you think there is literally a single person who is genuinely helped by their use of neo-pronouns, or is it just exertion of force on the behaviors of others? So many of these odd cultural things read as "we hate we society, we do not comply, and we're gonna make people cater to us now." It's about power.
Yeah so you're just a scared little conservative who doesn't want to understand people different from him and wants them to go away. Sounds about right. Why should gay people allowed get married? Why should women be allowed get an education? Why should priests be made to stop forcing themselves on children? Oooh the scary lefties are rewriting society. Is there a reason to be against drag queen story hour? The reason to defend it is freedom. But you don't care about that because "grooming" or some shit but you support an organisation that fucks children and protects people who fuck children because you support actual, for real child fuckers because you're not against child fucking you're against queer people.
How is supporting drag queen story hour the same as claiming social standards are dead? Unless you think something as utterly harmless as a drag queen reading a story to kids is the death of society. I mean, I know your answer to that obviously, but this is why we fight to support it, and gay people, and trans people, and pronouns; it's something that causes no harm to anyone, only helps people, has no bearing on your life whatsoever other than your personal beliefs, and yet you (and people like you) seek to stomp it out and force people to lead a life they don't want to at the expense of their health and life.
The USA, I think, has long claimed to be a free society. This means it should be a society that tolerates drag queens doing book readings - after all, anyone who doesn't like the idea can just not go.
Here's the real kicker; no one who complains about non-typical pronouns being a thing has ever had to use them. They just hate the mere concept/existence of them.
They don't truly care about neopronouns at all.
It's funny, I've been thinking of how the word 'friend' is a gender neutral word that no one in America, not even the most foaming-at-the-mouth convervative, has any issue using. And that while in my country 'friend' (vriend) is expressly used for men, and 'girlfriend' (vriendin) is used for friends who are women. If you used 'friend' for a friend who is a girl in my country people would probably think it a bit odd.
You like things just as they are because they cater solely to you, and you don't want anyone else to steal any of the attention and power from you, because you think you deserve it above all others. Get over yourself, clown.
*****, Ru Paul's drag race has been on tv for almost 2 decades on basic cable and nobody gives a shit except it's fans. Drag queen story hour is "person in colorful costume reads to kids but we're culturally scared of clowns". Neopronouns are fucking 50 years old and benefit the rare person using them
Because that's the purpose of it. There are few things the average person would agree upon more unanimously than "women shouldn't wear burlesque costumes to entertain children", but "men shouldn't wear burlesque costumes to entertain children" is definitely one of them. Like, these aren't even trans representation. These are cis-men dressing up as a sexualized caricature of a woman. It's about normalizing a taboo for preschoolers.
This is true. And it can be justified or even moral to transgress against society to accomplish something good or build a better society. The problem is not that going against established norms is inherently bad, the problem is that many act as though going against established norms is inherently good, and the vast majority of the time is isn't good. Traditions don't come from nowhere, people do things certain ways typically for good reason.
I don't like things just as they are, things don't cater solely to me, and I would like things even less if they did cater solely to me. But I'm not so silly as to think whatever arbitrary standards I can imagine are going to be better than what millennia of human interactions has produced, and decide my will should be enforced over all of it.
Problem being that conservatives seem to prefer the illusion of freedom to the real thing. Think about it. They've convinced themselves guns make them freer, but at the cost of a country with regular massacres. They're opposed to building more trains and other public transit because they'd rather commute in their car, which they have to purchase, maintain, insure and constantly refuel over a long period of time. They want the freedom to choose schools, in a privatized system that's rigged against them. Probably the greatest propaganda coup the Republicans ever pulled was convincing their base they wanted to be less free.
Okay, but you're still going to have to explain to me precisely what the harm is of men wearing traditionally women's clothing reading books to children, or using gender neutral (well, non-binary) pronouns. Because I just don't really see it.
Again, just like neonazis thinking that "spoiling the race" is a goal or even a factor in asylum, you assume that "power over the rules" or "going against established norms" is its own reward - simply because it's your own taboo and everyone must absolutely find it as important as you do. No one cares. No one else but you measures a policy's worth by its deviation from what is done so far (or more precisely, from the religious dogma you avoid referring to too directly), one way or the other. People are just indifferent to it because it is a non-issue, while you go whine that "waaah they all do it on purpooose".
"Freedom" doesn't mean much by itself. It's freedom to do something, and it's usually at the expense of another freedom. Conservatives have their own sets of freedoms to preserve, mostly the freedom to control the skin color and sexuality of people around them, the freedom to make profit at the expense of others, the freedom to live in a homogeneous society, the freedom to shoot and kill, the freedom to grab-them-by-the-pussy, the freedom to pollute, the freedom to exploit, the freedom to indoctrinate. They are not illusions, they are real. But they have, upon other freedoms, consequences that progressives do not accept.
What an absolute load of bullshit. Your entire posting history is one long screed about how people would just be happier if they were like you.
