I don’t think that’s what’s happening at all. I think our trans brothers and sisters are suffering the brunt of a focused culture-war campaign to villainize them and drive conservative outrage. I think the LGB and QIA+ folks in this country are doing what they can in their communities to protect them and each other. Those in charge would seek to divide us and we cannot let that happen.

I don’t get the sense the therapist was trying to “police” them at all. They said people might perceive him as less male if he calls his chests “breasts.” Maybe not a great move to give advice as a therapist, but hardly a reason to terminate therapy.

Therapists are humans who make errors and miscommunications just like everyone else. Part of going to therapy is learning to be able to talk through your emotions about these things, and part of being a therapist is continually repairing the relationship when it gets strained. If he brings this up with his therapist and gets pushback, that would be a different story, but that’s unlikely to be the case given what we know. He should just tell her how it made him feel.

Are the social advances for gay people too settled for them to think it’s worth the effort to try and revert them?

It’s this one. Public opinion is accepting of the “LGB” portion by an overwhelming margin. I know a lot of queer folks whose conservative families are perfectly accepting of them these days, way different than it was 20 years ago. People who are intersex can get fucked though, apparently.

Your comment history reads like a broken record

Personally, I’m jerking off to Alfred Hitchcock

I live in Texas, and it’s hard to overstate how much of our produce is imported from Mexico. This would be an almost immediate 25% price hike on food that basically can’t be grown at scale here because we don’t have Mexico’s climate. Surely he’d exempt food from whatever he’s about to do. Right…?

Aren’t their trade relations with the rest of the world outside the US just fine?

Does she have any relationships in Washington left to leverage?

Yes, based on what I’ve read the communication with the tower was all timely and accurate, it sounds like the pilot of the helicopter made an error

I love to have a great time, chilling with friends, video games with my son, grilling, watching college football. But I also hate commercials. I usually mute the TV when they come on and don’t think I could even recognize any

No argument here

Laos and Vietnam, like China, could also more accurately be described as having “state capitalist” economic systems

cutting taxes for the wealthy could risk damaging the populist image that Trump has cultivated.

It’s never seemed to damage his image with his supporters before. He could hold them down and shit into their mouths and they’d find a reason to think it was an ok thing to do

What’s “a cuck?” Is that someone who enjoys watching other people have sex with their partner? If so, there’s nothing particularly unusual about that

Might I suggest a calender app?

For example? Also socialism != communism

Yes, but this article is about the US specifically. There’s also a global right-wing propaganda machine contributing to this problem

I think the point is that unbridled capitalism is creating increasing wealth inequality that many straight, white men are feeling but aren’t accurately attributing to their being on the losing end of wealth inequality. This could be ameliorated with any number of policies in a capitalist system, such as a more progressive tax code, better labor protections, or universal healthcare, but the US employs none of these, and straight, white men are largely blaming women, immigrants, and LGBTQ people instead of the class of people keeping them poor.

There’s certainly an argument to be had there. Circumcision comes with permanent changes to sexual functioning

No son of mine is going to drink “La Croix!”

We drink Waterloo in this house