The other day I went to the wedding of the son of a good friend of mine and one of the bridesmaids (I think it was the bride's cousin) was a manly looking woman with short purple hair that honestly made me wonder if she wrote for the Mary Sue, Star Wars, or worked for a video game company or Marvel/DC.
The actual ceremony was no more than 25 minutes and I couldn't help wondering why she couldn't just wear a dress (of course she dressed like a dude and stuck out like a sore thumb amongst the other bridesmaids) for that little bit of time. I said a prayer for her because she is young and maybe one day she will realize that she looks silly trying to act like a man.
I remember when I still worked in HR the first time I came across the phrase "gender non conforming" or "doesn't conform to traditional gender roles". This was like 07 so I didn't think anything of it, but I never would've imagined it would get as insane as it has.
To be clear, when I say this isn't sustainable, I'm not saying it will cleanly or magically go away, just that I think people are souring on it a bit, and the tide is turning. It will get worse before it gets better, but I do believe it will get better.
Yeah, I chuckled a bit. This is one of the reasons - aside from it just being stupid - that I'm against things like reparations and amnesty; there's no end point. It would be one thing if it was one and done. "We paid you off for that whole slavery thing, racism is over. The slate is clean." That would be one thing. But that's not how it plays out. Same goes for amnesty; it would be one thing to give everyone that meets certain criteria amnesty...and close the fucking border. But we can't do that either. So these things that get proposed as "solutions" simply aren't. We already did amnesty!
Various groups have been coached and fully embraced victimhood mentality and status. Until they fix their beliefs, women/blacks/immigrants/etc. will not ever be happy, no matter what is given to them, what concessions made. And it should go without saying, but #NotAll of course. Probably especially "immigrant" as that is an incredibly broad group with a less cohesive identity, plenty of which are the "hard working immigrant" trope. But without a change in mindset, it doesn't matter how many millions of dollar you gave to each "marginalized" person; they'd still whine about racism or sexism or whatever, because it's all they know how to do.
Yea with reparations I can guarantee you the whining would just get louder about it not being enough. As for immigration, you can’t even say that assimilation is the goal.
Heck, I think we've already seen that. To be fair, I don't think it was from the recipients, but whenever some city overflowing with wokeness does their take on reparations, the media jumps on it being a "good start," or "not going far enough," or what have you. It's painful.
Very true. And one thing that never ceases to amaze me is that you have blacks today who sound like they were slaves in 1800s or talk about generational trauma and nobody is allowed to simply ask them to explain how they are feeling pain today from something abolished in 1860s
Slavery was paid for by the folks that died to end it. It was paid a long time ago, you are 100% correct that they will never stop