https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1364619334790873088?s=19

  • alexandra_kollontai [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    encouraged to identify as trans

    ENCOURAGED BY WHO??? GO OUTSIDE, OPEN YOUR EYES, AND NOTICE THAT EVERYONE HATES US AND WANTS US GONE

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    4 years ago

    efforts to get lesbians to breed in captivity have largely failed, and the WWF has changed their conservation status from "endangered" to "critically endangered."

    • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      We are itinerant and migrate to mate

      Edit: unlike the dastardly gays including Mr. Greenwald, lesbians have adapted to colder climates. Unfortunately, climate change has become a critical threat to the lesbian population and their breeding grounds

      • Woly [any]
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        4 years ago

        This conjured an image in my head of a bunch of women wearing earmuffs and flannel just standing around in a snowy forest, drinking steaming cups of coffee.

      • TossedAccount [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I wonder if the pandas just want some goddamn privacy (and maybe to not have to live in such a tiny cramped space that's unnatural for megafauna their size) before they even think about fucking.

  • vsaush [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Trans isn't a sexual orientation... literally comparing apples to oranges here.

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Loving the huuugggee increase in the amount of people who identify as bisexual.

    Bi gang :hexbear-bi-2: :hexbear-bi: :flag-bi-pride:

    • Hungover [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      :sicko-yes:
      Why do they worry about the trans increase when they should be worried about us? Soon we'll get them! :hexbear-bi-2:

    • YoungMarxBans [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Gang Gang.

      Also, tbh, does anyone else sometimes question their own sexuality? Like I feel attracted to men, but it's much more selective and specific than my attraction to females (like so far, I haven't had any inclination to have a one-night stand w/ a man, compared to women).

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        That's normal and perfectly valid. For some people it's the other way round. I just swing all over the place with regards to this

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I was gay before I was bi but I also feel like that because sometimes dudes are gross, but also because internalised homophobia early on probably fucked with my brain.

      • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I think of myself as attracted to men a lot more than women. But at the same time I have very specific taste in men and much broader in women. Sexuality is weird

      • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I think there's a term for that - "biromantic", maybe?

        I feel like a very similar question to yours has come up before and that was the term, at least.

      • ElectricMonk [she/her,undecided]
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        4 years ago

        i have occasionally enjoyed doing sexual stuff in my head with men recently, but have never been attracted to an actual real man, whereas i have with many women and notice women i find attractive all the time.

    • TossedAccount [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I suspect the greater visibility of transwomen has forced a lot of traditionally cishet men to re-evaluate their professed heterosexuality.

      • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        I mean a straight guy who is attracted to cis women and trans women isn't necessarily bisexual. If he's only attracted to women, he's straight.

        Now femboys, there's something that might be having a lot of cishet men questioning their sexuality lol.

    • gammison [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah but at a falling rate damn it, Glenn is just endorsing empirical evidence of TRLF, Tendency of Rate of Lesbianism to Fall. He should just move on to value form lesbianism smh.

  • DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I mean, maybe he approaches the point that some trans people may have identified differently in the past when being trans was more difficult or less accepted, but literally what's the point? Gay people were a lot more likely to stay closeted in the past. With trans identity becoming more acceptable, to the broader public it makes sense that the same would occur with trans people who would have been inclined to live their life closeted. The fact that they are not currently isn't because of some weird conspiracy.

    Cannot imagine what the useful application of this point of view is supposed to be, other than some conservative nonesense about stopping basically anything that benefits trans people. These people will always say they support trans people, but that somehow things are just going too far, but that only serves to delegitimize trans people.

  • Metalorg [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Trans contains all genders and lesbians contain only one. Of course lesbians should be a smaller group

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    We need to be concerned about the population decline among...

    checks notes

    the Millennial/Gen-Z lesbian demographic?..

    confused CHUD noises

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Did Greenwald fail high school statistics? Of course bi people are going to be in more opposite sex relationships, simply because there are many more people who identify as straight. Like come on, this is basic maths Glenn.

    • vorenza [any]
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      4 years ago

      Let's do high school level statistics

      Let's take the percentages from his Gen Z stats and apply it to a group of 10000 people, assuming 5000 male and 5000 female, and equally split unisex qualifiers(CW: i'll use sex and gender interchangably to avoid small subgroups):

      Men: 575 bisexual 210 gay 90 trans 20 other 4105 cishet

      Women: 575 bisexual 140 lesbian 90 trans 20 other 4175 cishet

      Let's take the case of bi-men: Of all the 10k people in this group, they have 5755 available partners(i assumed all trans+other people are attracted to both genders to make this analogy even more favorable to Greenwald): 4175 cishet women, 575 bisexual women, 90 trans women, 20 'other' women, 90 trans men, 20 'other' men, 575 bisexual men, 210 gay men.

      Possible choice of men partner for bi-men: 15.5% Possible choice of women partner for bi-men: 84.5%

      In the case of bi-women it's 14.7% to 85.3%

      Greenwald is stupid.

    • ProfessionalSlacker
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      4 years ago

      Saw a pretty poignant comment on twitter that it's fine for leftists to go on Tucker Carlson, but not if you get invited back.

  • J_Edbear_Hoover [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    As a cis lesbian, I'm so glad to have people like... checks notes...male Glen Greenwald and heterosexual woman JK Rowling looking out for my interests.

  • longhorn617 [any]
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    4 years ago

    As we all know, the only trans people are FTM, making the comparison to solely the lesbian subset a totally valid one. Also, please ignore that the relative number of women identifying as lesbian has increased 600%.

      • MoralisticCommunist [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Being against BLM protests because they were some sort of Democratic party ploy was a big one. https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1271600310935568385?s=20

        Also Greenwald likes going on Tucker Carlson and talks alot about how "echo chambers" are ruining everything https://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-greenwald-defends-going-on-tucker-carlsons-show-despite-barrage-of-criticism/

        He's so against censorship that he's defending anti-vaxxers in the middle of a pandemic, calling Facebook's censorship the destruction of "free thought' https://nypost.com/2021/02/10/greenwald-blasts-facebook-for-censoring-covid-vaccine-opinions/

        • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I'd describe those views as libertarian or both-sides-y rather than reactionary, but I agree they're all cringe. This new TERF stuff is truly reactionary IMO.