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Who could say? Not me. Maybe a theologian

There’s some line in the New Testamant that absolves Christians of the obligation to observe the laws of Kashrut and whatnot, if I recall, but I couldn’t tell you where it is or how exhaustive it is.

Looks neat! I got a chuckle when the trailer said “rewrite history” and immediately showed you can decide to not split Tuvix

Let’s say then, obviously, yes, a lot of the people who people who exclusively date particular ethnicities are doing so for bigoted reasons, demonstrating poor introspection, having their preferences dictated by bigotry and propaganda.

Doesn’t it stand to reason that a similar thing could be occurring with cis people who refuse to date trans people? That many of them are simply bigoted and influenced by propaganda, not having thoroughly examined their thought processes around this concept and instead allowed others to dictate their preferences?

Those many people might benefit from the reframing of that concept to one othering cis people. That is who this post is about.

No, actually, I find that’s often not true.

I’ve found that people who are willing to date some ethnicities but not others often exhibit some level of unexamined bigotry, even if they are not abhorrent racists. But I’ve also seen that if they do have romantic experiences with people of that race, this can change, showing that the attraction wasn’t immutable, but rather based on something unexamined in their heads.

I think it’s good and healthy to examine what we find attractive and why.

Someone who says they want children so they don’t want to date people who don’t want children is someone I feel has done at least a bare minimum of introspection about their desires, goals and interests.

Someone who says they only date blondes is not someone who I think has done any introspection about their interests.

Asking people to examine the way they think and why isn’t related to becoming an incel whatsoever. In fact, in my experience, incels are often people who have not really done a lot of introspection into what they find attractive and why, but rather have become obsessed with the idea that they should be having sex and aren’t.

Would you think someone who says they only date white people is exhibiting this “attraction preference” or are they exhibiting bigotry?

Certainly, but being trans isn’t a different sexuality.

Plenty of cis people put trans people into the “not interested” category without thinking. Or they assume they are cis and lose attraction the moment they find out they are trans, some even acting like this is a deception or betrayal. So obviously they have something in their head about transness that they have actively decided is unattractive.

There’s the rub.

And thinking on that, wondering why that is, asking if that is something they truly feel or something someone told them to feel, examining the way our own brains work, is often a useful practice to being kinder and more understanding to and of ourselves and to and of others.

This is a good way to reframe all too common discussions. Hopefully it triggers some introspection in folks.

“I am morally outraged you accused people of capitalising on a man’s death, now pay them!”

Oh so she’s had a come around since her time in CA when she fought to keep trans women in men’s prisons?

It was there before, they’ve removed it. I sent in an email as a correction saying how the article is failing to uphold journalistic standards

What does any of that mean? Is it from a fighting game?

They do this with whoever is president or influential at the moment.

Newsweek trying to frame it as a sign of heightened political tensions in the US is deceptive and irresponsible. Mentioning the Charlie Kirk memorial is totally irrelevant, the band woulda done this anyway.

This isn’t news, this is fire stoking and it should be deleted.

I think were I a man of stronger convictions, I’d rip off and smash any pair of camera equipped glasses I’d encounter.

It is a disgrace, though it comes to mind that Marjorie Taylor Green does say this kind of thing about Jews with little consequence. She recently called Ben Shapiro an invader over the rumor he might take over TP USA.

A disturbingly large enough portion of Americans seem fine with the Christian fascism that’s been fermenting in our country for a while now.

What? The government silencing you isn’t “cancel culture”, it’s censorship and a violation of the first amendment.

Whoever wrote this article is either brain dead or trying to gin up justification for what the state is doing.

Wild how Republicans keep bending over backwards to protect pedophile rapists while also calling for state-backed violence on their political opponents!

Let’s see if the nation spends weeks mourning and speculating if the officer can be tied to a minority the govt wants to suppress

The truth is less fun than the mystery…