A great article for everyone. 
Even if you are not interested in non-monogamy relationship, the part about discussing feelings, setting up boundaries are very useful.
I feel like even monogamy couples should learn more about those, like, just because the other has free time doesn’t mean you are entitled to all their free time - people need time alone too.
Despite their mission statements and many members’ claims to pursue objective truth about LGBTQ+ health care by applying the scientific method, many of the R&P groups are also founded by people with close ties to white Christian nationalists, those whom Anthea Butler has described as operating on “the assumption that Christ is at the core of efforts to establish and promote white protestant Christianity in the service of white male autocratic authority.”
Why am I not surprised about the involvement of white Christian nationalists…??
Also some usual suspects involved:
Heritage Foundation
Charles Koch Institute
Manhattan Institute
American Enterprise Institute
Fuck them all
I cancelled my Netflix because they kept giving money to this shit and the CEO is unapologetic about it. That and also they are shit towards their employees.
No regrets.
Doing research on this topic is indeed very challenging for mental health, I can definitely relate.
Being forced to recognize yourself is a terrifying process, but one that is necessary to understand the true self. Good luck on your journey.
First things first, the trans community is not a threat to anyone.
As for the existence of transphobia, my (limited) understanding is that there are a few origins:
1. Power
As Michel Foucault wrote in Discipline and Punish, gender and sexuality became an instrument of power. Society uses gender and sexuality to control its people. E.g. men should be strong, women should be weak, marriage must be done by a man and a women, etc.
The existence of LGBTQIA+ community challenges this discourse directly and is therefore seen as a threat by those with power.
2. Conservatives knew that the fight against same sex marriage were lost
Therefore the transgender community became their biggest target now. A lot of people still have limited understanding of transgender, and gender as a social construct in general. Conservatives and neo-reactionary think they could still push back against transgender. A small number of LBG people also thought they could gain acceptance among conservatives by throwing the transgender community under the bus.
It must be said that if they succeed, the rights of LGB people will be their next obvious target, and therefore we are all in the same ship together.
3. TERFs
Some women had bad experience with men, and they project this onto transgender women. We see them mainly campaigning on limiting the use of women’s bathroom for transgender women, which made their lives very difficult.
It must be clearly said that their experience have noting to do with transgender women, who are some of the nicest persons I have ever met.
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Agreed. This is also discussed in the video. The sequels are just rehash of the original trilogy and that is by design because that’s what Disney does.
Hey. Its okay to not spend the hours watching the video. Just move on.
As for who started this trend, blame Google. At some point the alogarithm started rewarding long videos because they help user engagement.
I agree about the demographics of Star Wars fans.
I have seen many YouTube videos by white male fans who keep complaining that all they want to see is the hero’s journey and the new Star Wars movies are bad because they “go woke” or something like that. Its very toxic and unwelcoming.
Christmas is probably the only chance I have enough time to watch this video…
You are certainly welcome to like it. I like Star Wars otherwise I wouldn’t bother with watching this video.
The thing is though, if you search for Star Wars related videos on YouTube made by so called fans, it is very easy to find stuff like Star Wars sequel trilogy was ruined because Rey is a woman or The Last Jedi sucked because it pandered to SJW, or something along the line. There is definitely a problem with this fandom.
I am strongly considering subscribing to Nebula as a lot of content creators I like are there. Also, YouTube is getting worse by the day.
I understand your concern. I watched it in several sessions over a few days, like watching seminars of a subject. I was not sure too but now I can say its worth it.
Thanks for the recommendation. Will check them out!
Relevant readings:
Eight Reasons Why The Hero’s Journey Sucks
https://gizmodo.com/eight-reasons-why-the-heros-journey-sucks-345313
Why Structures Like The Hero’s Journey Don’t Work
https://mythcreants.com/blog/why-structures-like-the-heros-journey-dont-work/
Being religious does not mean believing in Abrahamic religion, right? Buddhism?
Yeah, LGBT “conservatives”, racial minorities supporting racist policies, not-like-other-girl, etc. All lead to the same road.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respectability_politics
When Hbomberguy goes after you, you know you are in big trouble.
I still can’t believe I watched a “3 hour” video essay on plagiarism and its worth every minute.
Can confirm that lesbians are generally friendly to transgender people. I know at least one lesbian friend who dated pre-ops transwoman. Not sure if I can do the same but I have no problem being friends with transwomen.
We need more facts like this!!