I know we focus on the trans issue here, which makes sense, given that one actually has biological consequences, and it’s certainly… Concerning, especially with the explosion of teenage girls deciding they are “trans” or “non-binary” or “queer”, but…
The drag thing, man… Even beyond the “drag queen story time” shit, they’re everywhere…
It’s not even online, it’s fucking ubiquitous in Australian metros. Ads, billboards, “drag queen bingo” at pubs, bars and every casino in the country; every public library (in cities) has to have “story time”…
I just don’t get this. It’s the most obnoxious, in-your-face “LGBTQ” thing I have ever seen, even beyond gay marriage.
I know this varies by country, but my impression is that the UK, US and Canada are pretty damn similar in this respect.
Conspiracy theories aside, this just seems like a very strange thing to me. Even as a “cultural signifier”, it’s still just bizarre, lol…
Interestingly, I spent the day with two Arab men. First-generation immigrants. Poor English. Not "well-off", but they clearly weren't too poor, either...
Anyway, seeing their behaviour when they thought they could "get away with it", because they were more "comfortable" around me..?
Wow. Like, truly, wow. I've met plenty of rather uncouth, aggressive people in my time, but even then...
They yelled shit at randos on the street (words that sounded like "Attack", which is always good), as we were driving, just to scare them. And filmed themselves doing it, to share with their "followers". Then when we went to a beach, they would just go up and annoy the girls lying down on beach towels, apparently to "see what happen". Or, at one point, they just walked down to the front of the beach and stared (leered?), without moving much, for like, five minutes...
There was much, much more (including saying that they wanted to kill a local politician, because she was from "a racist party"), but at the same time, they were also... Devoutly "religious" (supposedly), and had a superiority complex that most politicians would be proud of.
Wonderful.
Incompatible with "drag queens" (in Yemen, I imagine fags just get thrown out windows, if they even survive that long), but also... Just made me realise the "quality" of immigrants we are attracting (Australia, remember)...
We are so fucked.
I knew some Muslims in college who wouldn't drink, but would smoke weed all the time. The most religious of them would sometimes try to argue religion with me while he was stoned out of his mind. As you said, the most religious was such a clearly flawed guy, yet had some much arrogance, it was like nobody I had ever encountered.