That Gay Thread

[Rev. Rye]

So much to unpack here:

• "It's Okay to Be White," a harmless message in and of itself, but you are aware that the meme in its current form originated on 4chan's /pol/, right?
  
• "White Lives Matter," is anyone in power saying they don't? Do police have a history of violence that disproportionately effects white people? If not, then it's just a false equivalence. I mean, sure, white people have been killed by the cops for bullshit reasons, but the broader picture shows that non-whites tend to bear a disproportionate share of the state's violence.
  
• I hope the P in LGBTQP is something innocuous like "pansexual," and not "pedophile."
  
• The origin of the term "gay pride" is shrouded in mystery. I mean, we know it was originated by Brenda Howard shortly after the Stonewall Riots, but why she chose it seems to be a riddle for the ages. Though given the era, and that, by the time of the first Gay Pride march in June 1970, exactly one of the 50 states even allowed gay people to have sex without risking prison time, and even then, it was still looked down on, and that this song hit it big a few years prior, I'd be surprised if Howard didn't see similarities between the black experiences and the gay experience:
  
  
  And as long as there's still forces that make LGBTQ lives miserable, there will always be a need for gay pride.
• While I applaud that you have just enough sense to realise that discrimination against white people mainly exists online, you somehow failed to put into perspective how miniscule its impact in the real world is. If someone says "you're white, therefore you don't get to have an opinion," then fuck them. They're jackasses. Though if you're saying your own opinion is invalid because you're building it from a limited perspective that doesn't even take into account their grievances, which I've seen you doing multiple times, then it makes more sense. For instance, if your objection to reparations is that it's not fair that black people get things that white people don't, then it makes sense that they dismiss your opinion as that of a privileged white person. If they react the same when you point out that giving every black person a check for a couple hundred thousand dollars is simultaneously enough to bankrupt the world economy, but nowhere near enough to rectify the effects of systemic racism, and that the better thing to do would be to create a shitton of government programs to help the black community on a level that nobody's seen on a level that nobody's seen in centuries, that's when your reaction gets more understandable. ]
  
• "Trans Women are women" is an incomplete argument in itself, that I agree with you (and Contra went into detail about the limitations of the phrase 28 minutes into her video on J.K. Rowling), within or without the issue of sports. After all, Lance Armstrong is a Man, and if that was all there was to it, he'd still have six Tour de France victories. That said, there's been quite a bit of research into whether or not trans women have an unfair advantage over cis women, and the research suggests it has less of an impact than one might suspect, especially if one takes their estrogen. That shit will take enough of a toll on muscle mass, strength, and performance to cancel out much of their inborn advantages, though this will be even more efficient if said trans person started transitioning before they hit puberty.
  
• Some people may have extremely high standards, but that's no excuse to throw the baby out with the bathwater.