•  hydroptic   ( @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ) OP
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    23 days ago

    A “moderate” conservative acquaintance of mine told me to my face that he thinks the world would be a better place if us LGBT+ folks simply stopped existing. He’s also completely convinced that all gender identities that are not cis are fake and we’re just pretending, and that none of this stuff should be talked about in public or promoted in any way because it’s “mental illness.”

    Do you fucking understand that conservatives aren’t happy with just living their life the way they want to, but they want to force me to live my life the way they want to? For someone going off about how “we guys” (leftists I guess?) are “super immature and narcissistic”, you’re being hilariously myopic about this.

    Do you seriously think that any of us would have a problem with conservatives if they just fucking left us alone? I don’t give a flying fuck about how they want to live their lives and I’d be more than happy to let them do their own thing, that isn’t the fucking issue here you utter cabbage – the issue is that these people literally want me to stop existing and actually use physical violence against me (and have done so for my whole fucking life; do you think the 80’s were a great time to grow up in for someone who’s not cishet?) just because they don’t fucking approve of how I dress, how I look, and who I love.

    You’ve got your head so far up your own ass that you think the problem we have with conservatives is that we don’t like that they’re different, and that they’re completely happy just letting us queers (or black people, or brown people, or whoever the fuck they’ve been told to hate) live our lives if we leave them alone? How can you be so fucking blind? Have you been paying any fucking attention to what’s been going on in the past, I dunno, SEVERAL FUCKING DECADES? Have you missed all the shootings at LGBT+ clubs? The murders? The laws restricting our access to medical treatment? The laws restricting our ability to even talk openly about who we are?

    Fuck. And then you have the fucking nerve to call us immature and narcissistic, you idiotic fucking waste of carbon cunt.