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Lesbians Like Me Joined Forces with Conservatives. Now They’re Turning on Us. (www.queermajority.com)

submitted 3 days ago by DoctorNope@lemmy.world to c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

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When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020, I took a step back and reevaluated where I stood and why I stood there. To my surprise, I found that I agreed with conservatives and libertarians on a number of issues. I opposed childhood gender transitions, unlawful and divisive DEI mandates, and the excesses of Critical Race Theory. I argued against biological males competing in women’s sports and being housed in women’s prisons. I did so loudly and publicly, losing many friends along the way.

Today, some of those same attorneys I worked with are advocating for my right to marry my fiancée to be stripped away.

I fell for obvious right-wing propaganda and rationalized the hate with reason and logic. Now the hate machine is coming for me and that's not fair!

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[–] SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

attach women

Did you mean 'attack'?

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

TERF - Transylvanian Entity Repeatedly Feeding

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's interesting how the English language makes a phrase like "trans women are women" ambiguous about the number of women that each trans woman is... I always assumed "one" but you raise an interesting question.

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Given the correlation between trans and plurality, the average is probably higher than one... although I think we would not have much trouble finding a trans woman who would enthusiastically assert her lack of personhood.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

...what are you talking about? That question is about a typo.

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The question itself self-answers with a little bit of thought: reading the typo as-is doesn't make sense and there's only one obvious correction, which SalmiakDragon provided. So I read their question as more conversation/chattiness rather than genuine confusion. I was replying in kind with an attempt to riff off of my typo: what if the typo was actually intended? Could we find any meaning to the phrase "attach women"? No, not really.

[–] SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was trying to be polite, and leave room in case I had misunderstood. A simple clarification of what you meant would have sufficed.

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Oh, my bad then. Yes: you were right.