(11-19-2021, 04:18 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: The Philippines treats gender with much more impartiality. Tagalog is so gender neutral there are no pronouns for him and her. No specific noun for husband and wife or brother and sister. Women have always been regarded more as equal and homosexuality is accepted as normal. But on the same hand, there is no self delusion that men in women’s bodies should compete as equals in the sports arena and there really is physical differences between men and women.

You could say because their social evolution, in this regards, began sooner, they’ve worked to an altruistic plane where differences are accepted but not everyone is commensurate. There are pegs of every shape, and even though all are accepted as equal, there’s also the realization they all don’t fit in every, um, hole.

This take bothers me less. 

We don't ask ourselves "why" enough in this country. I think most of us would be perfectly fine having a conversation about this, but the truth is that it's really about a power struggle. Progressive elites coopt this narrative to subvert conservative culture and leverage it against them in the political arena. Conservatives are too slow to react to the shifting paradigm, and don't start thinking about how to address the problem within the problem, so they are easily outed as bigots. This makes moderates feel like democrats are progressive thinkers and conservatives aren't. But the truth is that the elites couldn't give 2 [BLEEP] about these issues. They just want the power, so even if conservatives could mobilize quickly enough to counter progressive talking points, Dems would just pivot. It's all about power.

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