The Pushback against Leftism

My point is that I've never encountered anyeone who used the term "cis" with force or when having been requested not to, hence my question. YOU are the one playing with words in order to invent a situation in order to create the double standards.

Now - again - has it ever happene that you been forced to endure the "use of unwanted phrase/classification, especially when you've told that person that they don't like it being used" with regard to the use of the word "cis"; or is the situation hypothetical?

I think some on the right have realised they are facing a losing battle, so have changed their focus almost entirely to trans issues as a means of garnering support, even though it's not really something that effects the vast majority of peoples lives on a day to day basis.

With the amount of airtime trans issues get in conservative media, you would think that women's sport are being completely dominated by trans women, and that trans activist medics were going school to school looking for children to perform gender affirming surgery on.

It's mostly blown way out of proportion of course, but has been a pretty effective means of getting attention for what is essentially the last fart of a dying corpse.

Every major social change of the recent period of time (gay marriage, abortion, softening drug laws, expanding the welfare state) have all come from the left and this will continue to be the case. Unless we go down the same route as the US and try to implement a full blown theocracy then I can't see any change to this.

The right and left are and always have been two cheeks of the same arse and both of them see themselves as being beyond reproach and the other as obvious pariahs.

The majority of people want nothing to do with this outdated left/right nonsense, and the last decade has seen it escalate to unparalleled levels of dogmatic BS from either side.

The mindset of this so called culture war is astonishing, "if you don't agree with X then you must also be Y". If this crap disappeared tomorrow nobody would miss it.

Yup it's all just noise.. designed to keep people fighting amongst themselves.

The question is really.. who gains from this..? Start looking at that and a lot of people apparently on opposite sides would soon be united.

Meanwhile, what happens.. more hate is spread and people genuinely impacted have an even shittier time of it..

It comes down to respect I suppose.

If someone says they don't want to be called something that's up to them.

Seeing some of the responses to this on thread has been telling of why some people are getting a bit sick of being lectured by the new left, there's an almost gleeful element to sticking the boot in on those they disagree with.

It's difficult to be taken seriously when you're arguing one group of people should have their requests taken seriously whilst ridiculing another's. And that's the problem with the new left, it's incredibly childish for the most part.

It's all very well for you to frame it that way (being lectured etc, new left etc..) but tbh I don't see much evidence to support your claim.

If someone says don't use cis to include them, then fair enough but it kinda makes conversations that involve the trans community a little more difficult, doesn't it?

Of course some people just love getting tied up in language and it speaks to my earlier point about manufacturing two "sides" and who the real benefactors of this situation of endless "debate" are...

Where is the hypocrisy exactly?

You don't see much evidence? Maybe you're not looking in the right places.

Oh come on..it's dripping with it..

Moaning about the left 'lecturing' and 'gleefully sticking the boot in' to those they disagree with while in the same post lecturing them about how they should act and sticking the boot in calling them names.

Pure unsurprising hypocrisy.

Just in: Cancel culture no longer an invention of the Democrats, or the Left, New Left, Pepsi Left, Diet Left, Left Zero, etc. and has, actually, been around for thousands of years, making Cancel Culture quite traditional, to the excitement of conservatives everywhere.

I didn't realize "childish" was a name.

Same thing - I really don't know why people are threatened by it so much.