I agree. A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, what’s between the legs makes no difference. And it’s no secret than roughly 99% of straight men are insecure of their masculinity.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/laverne-cox-straight-men-who-sleep-with-trans-women-but-not-date-them-are-insecure-af.4621/#post-659917
The double standards these folks do. Its a god damn mess.
As much as I hate to say the words "Agree" and "Novid" anywhere in close succession, I do have to admit I generally believe that you do not gain empathy and respect for your argument by taking it away from others. It's not a zero sum game. Now, for those Reseters and GAFers reading I'm not talking about racists, sexist and rapists, get out of here with that thought stopping reductio ad absurdum crap. I'm talking about statements like "Everyone know that 99% of men blah blah blah." If you were to take that sentence and replace the word "men" with "jews" or "women" or "black people" or any other demographic, it doesn't really matter what the rest of the sentence is, chances are it'll be grossly unfair.
Ergo, why I never bought into Bish's race baiting "Haha! You're so white you make mayo look like chocolate pudding" shtick. Because, as we've all seen, should someone reverse that onto him they'll get promptly, and justly, banned. In essence you're just punching your opponent below the belt because you know the ref won't stop you but will throw your opponent out if they did it to you. In the end, it doesn't prove your argument, or move it forward, or convince anyone that isn't already on your side about anything. All it does is inflates your ego. It's self-serving, intellectually dishonest and lazy.
Now I know, there's people that like to say, "B...b..but their privilege!" But really, I've always believed that it doesn't matter who "they" are and what "they" do. It matters who YOU are and what YOU do. But even so, having grown up in Utah I have way more than my fair share of conservative white friends, and far too often I have to be like "Dude, stop. You're not a minority, you haven't had those experiences, you don't have a frame of reference to understand. Let me try to explain..." But even so, there's a huge difference between that and saying, "Ha ha! Shut up. You're white (or, cis, or a man, or hetero, or whatever the privilege of the day is)"
All of this isn't to set myself up as some paragon of intellectual integrity. One of the reasons I never signed up for an alt on GAF or an account on Peter Cetera is that I know I'd get sucked into these kinds of conversations and I just don't care enough to apply the intellectual rigor or integrity that such topics deserve. Part of that is because the level of discourse is different. It's not like back in the day when you would be going up against a PD, or a Guileless, and if you didn't have your ducks in a row you'd be publically eviscerated. Now we're at the level of "What would disney have to do with Lucasfilm, kiddo?" or Just the old "Quote the post, say 'Wow' and wait for the eventual dogpile" stuff. But the larger part is that I'm just too lazy.
The bore suits me just fine. I know I'm a shitposter, he knows he's a shitposter, she knows she's a shitposter. And for the most part, most of us don't pretend to be anything else. Which is more honest than can be said about some other places
