20211206 Newsletter
TRANS ATTACK. ALSO, Anti-Gay Christians and Covid. Avoiding extremism of some anti-Trans. Don't work with Anti-Gay right wing media just because they oppose trans.
TRANS ATTACK – AGAIN OUTSIDE ALPHABET SOUP MEDIA
These type of trans attacks demanding sex are being published more and more. I am going to review this sometime later. This one was published at Mashable.
https://mashable.com/article/no-trans-people-preference-transphobic
The Alphabet Soup (LGBTQXYZ) media isn’t publishing articles like this. The articles are being published in non-Alphabet Soup media and the problem with these types of trans demands for sex is being reported in non-Alphabet Soup media. With it being published more and more in the general press, the Gay community is going to become aware of this issue and I think they will be wondering why they didn’t learn of it in the Alphabet Soup media which is supposedly representing them.
Remember all the outrageous trans articles are listed in “Trans in the New” page at my Substack. I want to get on to other issues of neoliberalism and Gays, but stuff like this keeps appearing.
WE DON’T NEED TO BE TRANSPHOBIC TO FIGHT TRANS EXCESS
One of the real dangers of fighting back against trans excess is that you react not thinking and do transphobic things. Some of the behavior of those fighting against some trans excesses is really not acceptable. Also, the Gay community isn’t against people wanting to change gender or having surgery or transitioning, that is their business. We shouldn’t be out to shut down the trans community or setting ourselves up to be generally in opposition to them. We have just a couple specific issues with a certain faction of the trans community attacking the Gay community.
I don’t think de-transitioning is a victory for Gays. I am not interested that people dealing with the decision of whether to transition or not, make a decision that they later decided was a mistake. It must be a really hard and trying experience. It is not relevant to Gay concerns regarding trans. Yet, I see some gender critical persons seeing de-transitioning as some type of vindication of their position.
When you view some trans individual and you think that they are seriously failing to present as their intended gender, assuming there is an intended gender, it is okay to think so. What you don’t need to do it mock them. It isn’t relevant to our Gay community concerns. Yet, it seems that a lot of gender critical feminists do want to mock the presentations of transwomen. Yes, I do see some of the gender presenting as really failing, but so what?
Or regarding pronouns, some institutions are adopting them. As long as I can be he/him/his, I think I am fine. Actually, I find when they are listing themselves as they or something, it actually is helpful, so I don’t say something offensive. Also, you tend to automatically unconsciously assign gender when you see someone and when I meet the “they” person I will just bypass trying to recognize gender.
On hook up apps pronouns such as they are very useful in that I can sort these persons out. If you want to sort them in that is fine also. It has value as additional info. So perhaps it is a Gay agenda that these pronouns be used.
For the Gay community it really isn’t important at all. As long as I am not expected to remember a lengthy list of pronouns, I am fine. Yet a lot of anti-trans want to make a big deal about this and mock these pronouns and carry on. It isn’t a Gay concern.
Before you say something about trans, or you are party to a conversation about trans, or there is an article about trans ask yourself is there a Gay issue in this conversation. If not move on to something else.
Also, those trans extremists would love to use bad behavior to defect the conversation from the issues the Gay community is concerned with.
We are against trans extremism, but let’s avoid anti-trans extremism as well.
WORKING WITH RIGHT WING MEDIA IS A MISTAKE. TRANS EXTREMISM ISN’T LEFT. TAKING A RADICAL APPROACH AGAINST TRANS EXTREMISM.
I notice that some of the opponents of trans ideology are sharing right wing media. Yes, the mainstream media is shutting us down, but getting involved with clearly homophobic media is not the answer to your problems of reaching the public with our views.
These publications are clearly anti-Gay and anti-Lesbian. Their larger agenda is to establish a homophobic society. We should understand this clearly.
They are hoping to use trans excesses to bring down all of LGBT, including the G, the Gay community, to re-establish a homophobic society. In doing online researches they are aware that the Gay community, as well as Lesbians, are under attack by trans extremists and resent trans demands for sex.
We need to be careful we are not used. It is tempting to take a short cut utilizing right wing media to achieve our goals, but we should be extremely cautious in our dealings with right wing materials and organizations. I think that we risk discrediting ourselves also.
Also, trans extremism isn’t left, it is neoliberalism and just sloppy liberalism, it also isn’t radical. What I plan to do in my writing is take a radical approach to oppose trans extremism.
We don’t need right wing media. Yes, sometimes we are angry with some of the trans activity, but we are grown up and should not react and should think deliberately.
ANTI-GAY RELIGIOUS ARE KILLING THEMSELVES BY THE THOUSANDS AND NO REPORTING ON THIS IN THE ALPHABET SOUP MEDIA
The mainstream press has noticed that anti-vaxxer right wing leaders are dying of Covid and are amazed at this pattern of self-destruction.
What isn’t being reported in the Alphabet Soup media is that it is anti-Gay people that are refusing vaccination and dying of Covid and by huge numbers. The death of specific anti-Gay persons is sometimes reported, but not the general phenomenon of the anti-Gay demographic dying because of refusal to get vaccinated and refusing to follow safe practices such as masks.
Recently it was reported that Marcus Lamb, founder of the largest Christian broadcast network, Daystar, died of Covid. He was using alternative treatments that are known not to work. Reporters couldn’t find out whether he was vaccinated, but it seems he wasn’t and his broadcast network featured anti-vaxxers.
One of the leading enemies of all the letters in LGBTQ died and it was a major blow against the forces hostile to Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Trans, and whatever queer might stand for. Yet it seems only one mainstream Alphabet Soup publication covered it.
This is a recent news report, “Smells of Death: Anti-Vax Priests are Dropping Like Flies Here.” It about Greek Orthodox priests and monks refusing vaccination and speaking out against vaccination. As a consequence, they are dying a lot. Those who are their followers and refuse to get vaccinated are likely dying a lot.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/smells-death-anti-vax-priests-095054747.html
The Greek Orthodox faith is really, I mean really, hostile to Gays. This very much benefits the Gay community.
At this Facebook page I am collecting all the stories of major anti-Gay, anti-Vax religious leaders who died.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/228621455863088
The portion of the Evangelical Church and other religious groups that are really anti-vax tend to be the hard-core right-wingers I am guessing likely to be the most anti-Gay.
When they refuse to get vaccinated there are three major consequences to them.
1. They die.
2. They have long Covid and their ability to be active in politics or donate money is going to be less, maybe a lot less. There will be medical bills, physical limitations. They aren’t going to be in a position to campaign against Gays.
3. Their brand of religion will be discredited. (We can call it Covid theology.)
The loss of their leaders is perhaps only a temporary set-back for anti-Gay religious. There are likely right-wing talk show hosts ready to take the place of an anti-Gay talk show host that dies. Another megachurch will rise to replace the megachurch that withers and dies.
However, the overall reduction or incapacitation of anti-Gay Christians is real gain for the Gay community and actually for the whole Alphabet Soup.
The really big benefit of this is that these religious groups have really discredited themselves. A lot of people are really fed up with anti-vaxxer sentiment and are angry about it.
After the pandemic is over, though megachurches might be replaced and there are likely to be new anti-Gay talk show hosts broadcasting, there will be two permanent changes of lasting benefit to the Gay community. One, will be that their numbers will be reduced. Two, which I think is the major or primary benefit, is that they will have alienated a very large fraction of society that is fairly angry over anti-vax sentiment.
When anti-Gay Christians show up to speak out against Gays, we need to remind the public about their anti-vax stance and call their theology Covid theology.
Also, remember that these are the same type of people who used to go on that HIV was god’s punishment for Gays.
One interesting thing about this, is that I am not seeing it discussed in the Alphabet Soup media. You would think that if there was a force out there striking down the enemies of all the letters in the LGBTQ it would be major news, and that there even might be some discussion about the impact.
I am not seeing any such discussion nor recognition that the Covid anti-vax movement and the anti-Gay religious right politics are related topics in the Alphabet Soup median reporting. If one of the readers does know of it, please let me know. edwardsebesta@gmail.com
This is a big opportunity for even the Alphabet Soup (LGBTQXYZ) as well as the Gay community to fight anti-Gay and anti-LGBTQ+ forces, but it appears this opportunity is being ignored.
I think the reason this opportunity isn’t being followed up is that the Alphabet Soup agenda is mostly begging for acceptance on the basis of sugary sentiments and to think about this would be “mean.” Also, the Gay Christians would be whining and competing with each other to see who most could turn the other cheek and attack the Gays pointing this out, not the abusive anti-Gay religious groups. The neoliberal ideology which dominates the thinking of the Alphabet Soup wants there to be no angry feelings, instead a slop bucket of sentimental syrupy thinking. Gays are denied the right to be angry at their oppressors because in neoliberalism anger is always bad.
A major reason, if not THE reason, is that it is likely that the neoliberal Democratic Party wouldn’t like it because it would interfere or be detrimental to their electoral objectives and the Alphabet Soup always prioritizes the neoliberal agenda over everything.
The idea seems to be that at some point everyone will be filled with liberal sentiment and then everything will be okay and anti-Gay Christians will no longer exist.
I suggest that we realize our enemies have no such intention of drinking the syrups of liberalism, and that we need to realize it and critically and clearly think of how we oppose them and not be addled with the sentiments of neoliberalism.
Our enemies are powerful and we need to use those opportunities that present themselves to us. It would also increase the security of the Gay community if individuals, institutions, and groups realized that attacking Gays could have consequences that they would regret.
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