JTarrou
1d ago
Funny the behavior we punish in our heroes.
Tangentially, I have come to see hatred of religion as the first and largest red flag that someone has converted to a new one.
JTarrou
1d ago
No real denomination, independent evangelicals. Faith healing cult out of Indiana, google Hobart Freeman.
JTarrou
2d ago
My recollection is that it was very liberal-coded and "complementarian" grading on the curve of evangelical christianity. Very much a normie American christian thing, which my more strict upbringing recognized as "not real christianity".
Must take a ton of work, what with their brains really being female and all. Can you imagine resisting the urge to knit for years on end while you paint miniature fantasy soldiers?
JTarrou
2d ago
I do not believe that "society" treats "ugly" transitioners worse than they treat normal men. A bit worse than society treats women, which only heightens the contradictions we're talking about.
The discrimination in society is against men, and transitioners get less of it the more spectacularly their transition intrudes on the lives of those around them.
JTarrou
2d ago
Being avoided is discrimination?
I need a lot more discrimination in my life.
JTarrou
2d ago
My dad took me to a PK conference in the Silverdome back in the day. Mid-90s PK was booming. Not sure what you mean by "identitarian", but it was a paint-by-numbers evangelical men's movement. I was a very lost cause by then, but PK was as unobjectionable as a religious group that size is capable.
JTarrou
3d ago
Who is doing all this discrimination, and how could it possibly keep them from transitioning? The entire medical field, academic, governmental and NGO complex are foursquare behind them and discriminating against anyone who disagrees with what they imagine trans people want. What's the mechanism here? How does chuds using terms like "troon" on Twitter translate into kids in the Tenderloin dropping out of their polycule?
JTarrou
3d ago
Fantasy discrimination as ego/status preservation for dropping off the trans train?
JTarrou
5d ago
Is there any trust left? None of these organizations are due the slightest of deference or respect, they're all ideologically captured shills. The BBC is a state propaganda organ, and the state propaganda organ of the UK is hostile to the US president. This is neither surprising nor that interesting. "News" exists to create opinion, not inform it.
As with many marginal religious groups, it was very successful under the original charismatic preacher, and fell to infighting starting immediately after his death (from a perfectly treatable medical issue).
At the least he had the conviction of his beliefs.
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