I have discussed this topic briefly in the past, but after discovering that the entire month of June has been dedicated to LGBTQ awareness, I feel it necessary to revisit this subject and expand upon the opinion I shared last year.
What does it mean to raise awareness?
If raising awareness speaks to informing the population that there are LGBTQ persons in the world, then why? I am pretty certain we're all very aware of this by now.
If raising awareness speaks to informing the public of the persecution suffered by LGBTQ persons, then why? Why such an organized effort to draw sympathy for one particular group? I see no fat-person alliance forming a community that expands across the world and then demanding that we all acknowledge and abhor the persecution they have had to suffer because of the decision they made to eat too much or exercise too little.
If raising awareness then speaks to the educating of the population on the correct use of language when speaking with an LGBTQ person, or on better methods of how not to offend such a person accidentally when communicating with them; then please someone tell me why?
The world has grown incredibly tolerant of such alternative lifestyles over the past decade. I was recently watching the show "friends" on Netflix and it was stunning to see how many gay jokes there were. There was plenty of homosexuals around at the time Friends was big in the US, and yet I don't recall the show getting banned or sued for intolerance. In fact, it was one of the most loved shows of all time.
Was this because there was no homosexuals around to get offended by the show? We know this is certainly not the case. I even recall watching "friends" once with my uncle who is gay. Did the gay jokes on the show force me into intolerance? No. Tolerance for homosexuality came naturally to me, just as tolerance for any human being's differences does as you get to know them and appreciate what they have to offer besides their differences to you.
The irony here is that I was far more tolerant of gay or LGBTQ persons before a political agenda was established that attempted to force tolerance down my throat. That is something no one should have to tolerate.
Why the movement is counterproductive to the supposed cause
If you want others to see past your differences so that they will look upon you as simply a human being rather than focusing on whatever it is about you that is not like them, then the very worst way to go about that is by shining a torch on the aspects of you that distance you from others.
So how does the LGBTQ community find the acceptance they supposedly seek by reminding the world at every chance why they are not like anyone else? How do you prove to the world that you should be treated the same as everyone else by demanding to be treated differently than the rest?
The true accomplishments of the movement
If I approach a woman in the street and before even saying hello, I tell her that I really like to have sex with women, I will be slapped if not arrested for harassment. However, if I walk up to the same woman and say that I really like to have sex with men, I will likely get told I should be proud.
If I go and get a few of my friends and we all strip down into our boxer shorts and march down the road, slowing down traffic, and proudly informing the world that we like to have sex with women, how long do you think it would be before we were arrested? But if we did the same thing in rainbow coloured boxers and spoke about how we like to have sex with each other, more brightly dressed individuals would join in and the police would tell the traffic to find another route because we are proud and entitled to tell everyone about why.
If a man is drunk and irritating me at a club, and after trying to avert a violent situation, he tries to push me and I punch him in the face knocking him to the floor, I might then be charged - likely a small fine - for this if arrested. Yet if the same situation transpired only the man in question believed himself to be a woman, and was dressed as such, I might serve actual time for a hate crime.
That's not to mention other ridiculous consequences of this movement such as people being charged and employees being sued for not utilising the desired pronoun, which I consider not too dissimilar from me throwing a tantrum because someone didn't refer to me as "your Highness." Then there is the MMA fighter who was a man at birth, but changed to a woman and then went around kicking the living shit out of women in the cage.
The LGBTQ have accomplished a great deal in regards to changing society and how LGBTQ people are treated. But rather than seeking for equality, they have sought to be treated better. They are more worthy of admiration for their bravery in accepting their difference- something that millions of people do every day. They are of course worthy of more sympathy for the bullying they have to suffer in light of a choice that they were permitted to make- something else millions of others also suffer on a daily basis.
The true agenda is revealed by the true results of the movement
When a community is willing to close down public roads to allow a smaller community within that community to dance half naked in a street party which is about how proud this community is to a part of the smaller community as opposed to the larger one which will have to endure the complications that arise because of said street party, then this is not only tolerance, but extreme tolerance.
When a man who is under the impression he is a woman is able to win the "woman of the year" award, that is not only tolerance of transgenders, but extreme tolerance.
When homosexuality and transgenderism is more popular on our televisions than outside our windows, that is not only tolerance, nor is it simply extreme tolerance, but a very clear attempt to promote the life style.
Why would they promote the lifestyle though? A conspiracy theorist might say that they are normalizing the upgrading of the human body to make it easier for us to accept mechanical upgrades in a cyborg future. Or they might say that it's about depopulating the planet by having a large portion of us turn away from natural procreation.
Perhaps these play a role in it. I do not know. But I believe an agenda that is definitely playing out here, and why the LGBTQ movement has had so much support that this entire month has been dedicated to it by a US president, is the same old agenda that has been rinsed since the beginning of managing populations; divide and conquer.
The main lesson taught by the LGBTQ movement is how to find and promote your differences. But of course it also teaches us how to look upon our own personal burdens as more important than any other groups.
If you are a lesbian, a gay, a transgender or if you are questioning your sexuality, then that is entirely your prerogative and you ought to be able to make that choice- it is your life after all. But instead of joining a club so that you can raise awareness about how shitty things are for you and those who have made similar decisions to you, why not go out there and start a new movement, one that needs no title other than, "the movement," and one that seeks to raise awareness of the fact that every single one of us on this Earth suffers. Everyone of us has challenges we must face based on decisions we did or did not make. Why not make yourself a part of a movement that seeks to remind all of us of our similarities and of the power that we would have to effect lasting change on this world if we could only transcend our labels and arrive at the conclusion that we are all humans and that everything else is in our heads?
I would be very happy to stand with a homoseuxal on my left and a transgender on my right at a protest that was about protecting everyone's rights.
A few words about children
I do not want to speak much in this post about whether homosexuality or gender dysphoria is a naturally occurring human characteristic or whether it is something that is learned by observing other humans- on television or in the world. That as an entirely different and expansive topic. But, I want to briefly say that I do believe that for the most part, modern homosexuals or transgenders are as such because of their environment and not because of their biology.
For this reason I think it completely unethical to be promoting homosexuality, and especially transgenderism, to children. This world we have created is confusing enough for a child without us then putting it into their minds that they may not be the gender that their body informs they are. Children are incredibly impressionable, they must be, for that is how they quickly adapt to whatever environment they are likely to grow up in. And if that environment is sending people who are confused about their genders into schools to speak to the children about the options they have that were previously unknown to them, how can this be regarded as anything other than child abuse?
We need to be more responsible. If one cannot see that inserting into the mind of a child the belief that their body may not truly be their own will most definitely cause some level of body dysphoria, and thus is likely to manifest within the child later as confusion, then one should not even be permitted to speak in the presence of children, for they clearly do not know how to avoid causing harm.
Conclusion
This movement is dividing us from one another, damaging the minds of our children, teaching people how to get offended at things they have no right to be offended by, and drawing attention away from the suffering of millions of others that could use our help.
To all who have labeled yourselves within the LGBTQ community; I encourage you to abandon your movement and pick up the fight for humanity, rather than continuously demonstrating your desire to be on a different team. That is how we find tolerance, by looking through our difference and unto the common ground we all share.
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