it seems as if overnight, the people have spoken. the overwhelming vote for trump seems to indicate to corporations that the majority of americans don't want to think about transsexuals anymore. recently disney blocked an episode with a transsexual and right now on reddit's r/popular, i have yet to see a random transsexual post. it used to be they'd litter that fucking shit throughout and i'd see 1-2 per page. you know, like the way porn video stores would slip in a tranny video in your porn bundle just in case you were into that shit.
Dude, 99.7% of the population is tired of this nonstop trannie bullshit. Let them live as they want but it's a rather miniscule minority and people are sick of the media making it into the next new fad.
If you want to grow the site you need to allow all views to be presented. It's a legit topic. We've all had a trannie surfeit lately so expect the backlash.
It's not politics. Where is the OP discussing laws or legislation? It's a social and media issue. It's GENERAL and it belongs on GENERAL Discussion. We don't need arbiters of free speech here. Way to kill a site.
I agree with him. I like trannies as individuals fine. One of my alltime best online friends is transgender. But I'm tired of the constant onslaught of transgender issues 24/7.
Lol. I lived with trannies in LA County Jail. I have trans friends. Dude, I know more about this topic than you. He's not referring in the OP to anything political but more a social sea change.
His second paragraph is political yes, but the OP is not. And in his second paragraph he attacks Trump as a Nazi. He's not pro-Trump. But now YOU are bringing politics into this.
Nothing wrong with serious topics on GD. WE need more of them.
I LIVED WITH TRANNIES IN JAIL TOO....I HAVE 30 TRANS FRIENDS...THREE OF THEM ARE HERE NOW PAINTING MY NAILS....I KNOW MORE.😂
LMAO...YOU TRY WAY TOO HARD.
IT'S POLITCAL..IT'S UGLY...YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE... AND THIS BOARD IS DROWNING IN BULLSHIT LIKE THIS.😘
JUST FOR CLARITY...NOT THAT I NEED OFFER IT, MR BEING GAY AND MOUTHY MAKES ME AN EXPERT ON EVERYTHING....I DO IN FACT HAVE TWO TRANS FRIENDS....AND MY DAUGHTER'S FRIEND GROUP INCLUDES TWO TRANS KIDS.
Dude, I totally understand wanting to grow the site, but you have to understand that trans issues -- no matter how you feel about them -- cannot be separated from Politics in the current political environment. You do get that, right?
Also, I’m not sure that posting politically charged topics in GD helps grow the site. In fact, I’d argue it pushes away people who are looking to discuss movies, pop culture, entertainment, and similar topics.
Stuff like this shouldn't be censored; no way should it, but it really does belong on the politics board.
The issue with your assessment of the post is this line:
"...recently disney blocked an episode with a transsexual..."
Even given the assumption that all trans issues belong purely in the politics board, this post is at home in GD due to this link to media. That's in addition to a lack of connection to or a suggestion of any form of policy.
I'm wondering, if this post had read "guys kissing is out," referenced Disney and described how men kissing men in films is perceived as unpopular, would your opinion in this thread still be the same?
You acknowledged trans is not inherently political but insist that this post is because it references trans, Disney and reddit? I suppose it did mention porn as well. Is that what makes it political?
"BUT IT HAS BEEN MADE THAT WAY BY HARD STANCE TAKING PARTIES"
"HARD STANCE TAKING PARTIES" have no relation to any content in the OP without logical leaps and inferences. You're inserting your own subjectivity into your assessment without demonstrating how any reference to reddit, Disney or porn in the context of trans is intrinsically political.
There's not much else to say other than we'll have to see if the mods remove this post or not.
You make a fair point about the reference to Disney, but I think we’re approaching this from different angles. While there’s a mention of media, the post doesn’t really analyze or discuss Disney’s actions as they pertain to media trends, creative decisions, or the entertainment industry. Instead, it uses Disney’s decision as a springboard for a broader social and cultural critique that dips heavily into charged rhetoric:
the overwhelming vote for trump seems to indicate to corporations that the majority of americans don't want to think about transsexuals anymore.
Regarding your hypothetical about "guys kissing," my response would be the same if the post veered into charged language and broader cultural commentary about which presidential candidate people are voting for -- or focusing on politics -- instead of focusing on the media itself.
If the post genuinely analyzed how depictions of same-sex couples or transgender individuals in media are being received and what that means for storytelling, then yes, I’d consider it fitting for GD.
However, that’s clearly not the case here.
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We do seem to be coming at this from different angles.
"the overwhelming vote for trump seems to indicate to corporations that the majority of americans don't want to think about transsexuals anymore. recently disney blocked an episode with a transsexual and right now on reddit's r/popular, i have yet to see a random transsexual post."
Given the the sentence that follows, the fleeting Trump reference here is merely presented as an explanation for the occurrence that the post pertains to: "trannies are out." The content in the post overwhelmingly references trans not in regards to politics or politicians, but the OP's observation that trans media seems to be diminishing in popularity, as evidenced on Disney, reddit and porn. All of those would be fair game here in GD. Well, maybe not porn.
In regards to the notion of charged language and broader social commentary, those aspects to not relegate a post to being political. I don't want to condescend to linking you the definition of political here, but suffice it to say that charged language and commentary are not components.
"If the post genuinely analyzed how depictions of same-sex couples or transgender individuals in media are being received and what that means for storytelling, then yes, I’d consider it fitting for GD."
What it means, according to the OP, is that you'll see less trans shows on Disney and you'll see less trans porn. Again, this is a direct link to "storytelling" media, the primary point of this post and what qualifies it as GD material, regardless of the connection to trans.
right now it is impossible to separate politics and wokeness in movies because wokeness in movies is not randomly. it is inherently political. wokeness is completely unnatural and is not a mirror of reality whatsoever. it's an intentional and fictional depiction. they've infiltrated many facets of society, created bullshit studies that purportedly proves DEI is better for everything. so they convinced media owners to hire woke proponents for leadership positions. they want to portray women as being leaders of society to influence the way men behave. the situation is so complete that virtually every movie or tv show coming out in 2024 have been woke. now the tranny issue is just another part of this agenda. there is no way to talk about it in movies without being political. why did i mention trump? well, how else am i going to explain why disney suddenly did a 180 on the transsexual issue?
do you know how to fucking read? explain to me how we can talk about movies in 2024 without politics. i literally explained how we couldn't. prove me wrong.
that's it. i'm blocking you. you respond to almost every comment i make and it's always the most inane crybaby annoying shit. i'm leaving this up long enough for you to see it.
Sex with Hitler is a 2022 pornographic isometric shooter visual novel video game developed by Romantic Room, wherein the player takes control of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany, and is tasked with dating four women of various ethnicities.
i've been saying it for years before this. trannies are like .0001% of the population. they should not be the center of political discussion. how stupid is it that liberals were bringing their kids to drag shows at the library. i mean are you fucking kidding me? then acting like their kids loved the show too. then fighting tooth and nail when it enrages conservatives and that's the hill they wanted to fucking die on. library drag shows for kids. democrats lost because they seemed to give too much of a shit about specific groups and not the majority of their voters. they can't stop forwarding special interests of gays, trannies and women. those groups arent the leaders of america. even women will follow and vote what the men in their lives tell them to vote because most women are followers. honestly this trannie shit has got to be russian propagandists playing both sides. it's just too ridiculous but then we got trannies like kowalski here going crazy over it. is he a russian plant?
now i'm just praying to fucking god trump doesnt turn america into the fourth reich. the events leading up to today is so similar to the times leading up to hitler's reign. people were just absolutely sick of shit and the german illuminati thought they could control hitler as their puppet. sounds famiilar? now we are already hearing trump clearing out generals that arent loyal to him. all he needs to do is start a war with china and we'll be in the fourth reich in no time.
I’m afraid that can’t be accurate because TDS = Trump Derangement Syndrome. People who suffer from it are victims of a wholly irrational Trump-hating cult.
i see. so you can't tell that trump is lying out his ass every time he opens his mouth? you think it's ok for a politician to sell merch and make money on the side? you think it's ok to influence government so his family can profit hugely from it? you think it makes sense for a president to support russia? they've been usa's enemy since the end of ww2. the list goes on and on. explain to me what is there to love about donald trump? did he actually get rid of all the specs and naggers in america? no he didn't. did he end all the special programs that give women an advantage in society? did he somehow return meritocracy to american workplaces and schools? did he drain the swamp of corrupt politicians? the man has done literally nothing that people voted him in for. i'm closer to the middle right nowadays but i'm being radicalized big time and i'm inching closer and closer to the far right every day. still i'm not a fucking idiot like you. just because some guy shows up and says all the things you want to hear, it doesnt mean he's actually on your side.
now what's irrational here is going to be your rebuttal that has absolutely no facts whatsoever.
Then let them attack the media then and not the poor folk who just want to go about their day to day quietly like the rest of us.
You are a curious beast at times Mr Barbarian. You do appreciate that those who have the pitchforks out for trans people would gladly use them to skewer our guts given the chance, don’t you? You don’t have to be militant about it, I’m certainly not, but your kicking against it does have a certain Uncle Tom flavour to it. Yes, yes, I know homos and trans people are completely different beasts, but showing solidarity to other maligned people isn’t a bad thing to me. The other thing is that you are VERY vocal about your gayness here, and yet you seem hesitant to give others the same luxury. Not that anyone is asking for it as far as I can see. I’ve not seen a single trans person bombard us with demands of acceptance, but if you were to believe the OP we are being assaulted by them on the reg. It’s bullshit and petty bigotry at its most transparent.
Please don’t take this as a swipe against you. I like the cut of your jib, it just concerns me that at times you seem to side with the nasties when they hate you as much as they hate the Laverne Cox’s of the world.
People never wanted but most at least pretended to be tolerant.
As this is a TV show and movie site I am thinking of all the TV shows in particular that will just be gone. So many have some kind of Trans/Rainbow Mafia propaganda. Or just Woke in general. You won't have the Renaissance of the 2010's and early 2020's like you did with 70's and 80's shows.
unfortunately the two are inexplicably tied together. and to preface this, i did not want trump to win because i know he's a crook that's going to at best loot the country and at worst, turn it fascist. it's just that it's out of my hands and so i'll enjoy the best parts of his win, fucking wokeness. i blame the woke assholes more than anything because they created backlash so extreme that people would rather an actual felon who lies every other word to win than anyone else that'll perpetuate this shit. most people aren't "for the greater good" types like me and they'd rather see the country burn just to get their satisfaction.
I find it amusing that people seem to think that this has only just been invented. I first went to Thailand in 1984 and it was a normal part of everyday life over there.
True that. Also in the Pacific Islands. The Faʻafafine exist as a normal part of the culture without anyone batting an eyelid. Just another type of person to them, no better or worse than anyone else.
If Western culture didn’t have it’s head so firmly planted up its own backside at times we could learn a thing or two from other parts of the world about chilling the fuck out about it all.
He is not the problem, the problem is letting that shit ideology fly as high as it did. To me, it's one of the most important issues of the current era. Trans ideology needs to be driven underground where it came from
One of the supervisors at my work is a trans woman and she couldn’t be nicer. I just take each person as an individual rather than stressing about the current era or anything.
Yes I used to be that guy too, until I experienced what happens when you let bad ideas flourish, you see, if you don't stand for what is true and right, someone or something will ocuppy that space and THEY /IT will tell you what is true and right even if, in this specific case, that means being false and wrong.
You don't have to play along with someone else's weird sexual fantasy just to make them happy, bound yourself to truth and you'll be forever free of mental gymnastics.
I don’t know if I agree. I mean, free speech and all. What I do find extremely irritating and ironic is the insinuation that trans people won’t shut up about it. Do a quick count of the number of negative trans threads in this forum and then compare that to the number of threads advocating for trans rights. If you don’t have time I think it’s currently standing at around 5000 to ZERO.
If any it would be a small percentage. Much like real life!
Goes perfectly to my point actually. If they are here they are just blending in quietly and not planting horse’s heads in our beds as part of their “rainbow mafia” duties 😂
Fair enough too. I wasn’t saying you shouldn’t feel that way. I just find when you point out that these hysterics are just that, tantrums that play like a broken record, no one can really counter that with evidence to the contrary.
I agree there does seem to be a concerted effort by a few to merge the politics and General Discussion sections. Maybe a few are feeling emboldened by recent electoral events, but if we bump up the fun stuff I’m guessing they’ll get bored and scurry back to their rightful place soon enough.
But I guess that’s an issue for the mods. I’d like to think there wasn’t favouritism, but maybe there are higher powers who have their own agendas. I’m more surprised certain posters who flame and troll blatantly are given free reign. I’ve never reported another user and I’m not about to start now but there’s a couple who need a good slap around the head for flaming harder than a Flaming Moe.
Well I’m sure we’ll see Melton in this very thread soon calling us all predators (GET TO DA CHOPPA!!) but I’m taking his schtick less seriously with every post. It’s gone from insulting, to funny, to almost kind of sad. He’s messed up in a way that isn’t healthy. The obsession with certain posters is a sign of a lonely man who has not much else to think about. I think a lot of us are feeling pity for him now.. maybe the mods are too.
"compare that to the number of threads advocating"
You get the same effect with a number of other topics that a lot of loudmouth blowhards are constantly complaining that they cant say / do /view thanks to "Snowflakes" , ironically
No I’ll stay right here and contribute to this CLEARLY NOT POLITICAL post.
I deleted the post, which was not homophobic in any way.. certainly didn’t call anyone a FAGGOT, because I was giving Melton more air than your best friend deserves. Decided stooping to his level was a mistake and corrected it.
Anything else you’d like the faggot to clear up for you?
You’re clearly too dense to understand I was using the word to illuminate what a disgusting bigot you are. Don’t worry you’ll catch up as soon as you remove the crayon lodged up your nostril.
Three days ago you were homophobic, now you're homo. I see nothing inconsistent about such a revaluation and I'm sure noone will doubt your sincerity here.
Technically the pun is incorrect because the plural for Tran wouldn't be "trannies", but it beats the boxing match going on with Kowalski and SemiAnus above.
It would be in Australia.. Aussies like doing that for name plurals, like the Thompsons would be the Thommos, the Brocks would be the Brockies etc etc. Your pun would be a big hit there. Well, maybe we shouldn’t go nuts, it would induce less groans perhaps.
Agreed though, Semi does know how to bring the party down somewhat. He’s got the knives out for me for some reason. Probably a gay thing. Oh well, can’t please em all.
Actually you could be to blame for his hatred of me, you fucker! He trolled me so hard for being your sock account. Then suddenly just stopped and now when I mention to it him he won’t even acknowledge that he did it. Almost like he knows how much of a donkey it makes him look 😂
The dude accused me of being Vlad and Tina's sock account as well as over "a dozen others". He also accused me of creating a parody account of him and db20db on Filmboards. Strange accusations, but I'm here for all of his lunacy. I love it.
The compulsion to inject one's political compulsions into general conversation is something you (OP) should address yourself. It's not our problem. You're being an overbearing ass.
They are forcing this trans shit on children. That's why we care. They are performing trans surgeries on children all across the country. Don't pretend you havent heard about this.
Maybe you should pay more attention. What's happening with the trans agenda is quite horrific, but you can't call it out without being labelled as a hateful transphobe. Seems like people are waking up to it. Even the gays are starting to turn their back on the trans movement. Not individual trans people, the trans movement in general.
That isn't feasible in any state that I'm aware of.
What is currently happening is that schools in some areas of the US are no longer required to communicate to parents that their children have identified as trans, have formally requested to that their personal information reflect their gender preference, and are utilizing school mental health services in relation to their trans identity. Given the third is medically related, albeit to mental health rather than physical, the concern is that medical treatment without parental consent may be on the horizon.
"What is currently happening is that schools in some areas of the US are no longer required to communicate to parents that their children have identified as trans"
totally absurd
"have formally requested to that their personal information reflect their gender preference"
WHom decided their gender preference? If its a child, they have no idea what they are yet.
"and are utilizing school mental health services in relation to their trans identity"
This is fine, but can you tell for sure the child is a transsexual? I wouldn't tell a child there was something different about them unless I absolutely knew for sure.
"Given the third is medically related, albeit to mental health rather than physical, the concern is that medical treatment without parental consent may be on the horizon."
Totally insane. Unless the parent is fu*&^%$ed up, which in fact plenty of them are - if this is not the case, and the parent does have their wits about them - they should 100% be making every decision for their own baby.
lol. i completely agree. the problem is, democrats cant stop talking about them and making them the center of political discourse. why the fuck is everyone doing the pronouns shit for? it became a situation where if you refuse to post your pronouns in a work place email, you're against transsexuals. so the people who were against transsexuals werent the ones who kept talking about them. the situation got so bad it actually turned democrat voters like me away from the party. at this point, i'd vote for any republican candidate who wasnt trump. too bad history went this way.
where I am at, NOBODY is bothering with pronouns. Maybe 2 people have it in their email (pointless) and no one seems to care, acknowledge, or bother with pronouns.
Why? Because it's fucking stupid, that's why.
NOBODY CARES. Just live.
Most people at my work have preferred pronouns in their email signatures. I just choose not to, I think it’s a bit silly. I’m all for respecting how people want to be addressed but having to state it in every communication is a step too far for me.