Almost everything on Earth exists within these shades of grey. Too few people these days are capable of understanding this, which is why everything is seemingly so divisive.
I've tried to discuss the Covid and Russia/Ukraine situations with people I thought were smarter and all I got was 'you afraid of needles then?' or 'Putin's evil and shouldn't be doing this.'
I've found it's made me more insular as a person, because more often than not a conversation can be more exhausting than it's worth.
To be fair to the gays I know, they're just people who happen to be gay. The ones I find irredeemably irritating, however, are those for whom homosexuality forms one of the main elements of their personality.
If one of the first things I learn about a person is their bedroom habits, chances are they're an insufferable cunt.
My own personal idea of escape is quite a literal one: buy a decent-sized catamaran, get enough solar/wind power and batteries as is feasible, then disappear.
Set up a little greenhouse, get some fishing gear and install a watermaker on board. Dock for trade wherever is safe.
One day...
All of their history is basically Chinese whispers. Problem is, the left basically runs this country, so everything they say is taken at face value, which is why vast tracts of land are simply handed over to them with no questions asked.
I read an article recently indicating that the historical fact of their original migration to the country (because much as they'd argue otherwise, they're not technically indigenous to the island) won't be taught to students because it conflicts with their beliefs about their own origins.
And just before the downvoting begins, try re-reading my previous comment; specifically the first line of the second paragraph.
That’s a grammatically acceptable use of the word ‘their’ as a non gender-specific term.
This language has been around for longer than trannies have, just as rainbows hung in the sky before faggots walked the earth and slavery existed prior to the foundation of the USA.
We need to stop ceding ground to these fucking sociopaths.
You can certainly ask people to refer to you how you’d like to be addressed. The problem is it’s no longer a choice. ‘Use my pronouns or else.’
It’s this crap that propelled Jordan Peterson into the limelight. All he said was ‘you can ask me to use your pronouns, but I won’t be coerced into doing so.’
As for Lovato, I reckon it’s as simple as she was fading into obscurity, getting a bit chubby and she went ‘nonbinary’ or ‘asexual’ or whatever the fuck in an attempt to grab a headline.
It really does, and always has. It’s just been coerced by leftist lunatics who believe it makes them interesting.
If someone’s talking about their friend Alex, whose gender you don’t yet know, obviously you can ask if Alex is a dude or a chick but until then you wouldn’t say ‘he’ or ‘she’. Grammatically in that type of situation, ‘they’ is acceptable.
The word 'they' does function grammatically if you're talking about someone whose gender you don't know (or, obviously, when multiple people are involved), and I suppose this is what their intention is when using 'they, them' pronouns. The main problem with that, of course, is one look at the person will tell you whether it's really a 'he' or a 'she'.
Just because 'they' are confused about 'their' gender, doesn't mean the rest of us can be forced to accept the delusion.
Generally if someone wants to try to police my speech for me, they get told to go get fucked.
"You would probably get beat up for saying stuff like this."
Nothing makes me feel older than seeing just how sheltered folks are today. Growing up, if someone called you a faggot, the reasonable response would be 'get fucked'.
Last time I got beaten up, it was 1am on a weekend in Paisley, I was drunk and told a group of neds to fuck off when they said they wanted my headphones. That kind of shit builds character. These days it would result in years of therapy.
For anyone else, it's statutory rape. For 'men of Asian appearance' it's just a cultural thing, bigot.