Your chances of being shanked by a raccoon are unlikely…but never zero.

Where are these raccoon background images from and how do I gain access

I got no problem with pronouns. It’s adverbs I got an issue with. Stop trying to modify what I’m doing!

I have a buddy who has lived in the US, several countries across the EU, New Zealand and Latin America. The gender thing is only a big deal in USA. Other countries do have some issues with how people are preferred to be called but it’s not a big deal according to him. Not trying to attack or anything, just telling stuff I heard.

On the other side, I’m fairly new to the Feddiverse and I would love to hear more about other countries, I think USA people take over the internet really fast

This meme highlights the real difference between the gay rights movement of the past, and the modern “lgbqt alphabet” movement of now.

Gay people just wanted to be given the same rights as everyone else, and told is that they didn’t have much choice in the matter.

With the current movement, they want everyone to change their behaviour and the way they think about things.

You’ll often see criticisms of the modern gender movement labelled as “homophobia” but they aren’t.

They are two different movements and should separated.

Sorry, I identify as somebody pronouning on visual sex and not gender. Purely as a language thing for my own selfish convenience, nb. I’m not denying the gender-spectrum, nor do I want anybody to change who they want to be! Luckily for me people transitioning usually start looking like their prefered gender, so I will usually automatically change my pronoun along the way to the correct one. Well, except for the “they/them’s”, which will never sound right for me cause my language fixed it in a different way for us already: singular unknown is by rule always “He”, while plural unknown is the same word as what we use for “She”. So even if I say “They” in my language, I’m still just saying “she” anyway. 😅

Anyway, I totally respect any gender on the spectrum being what they are and wish everybody the peace of mind to be able to be what they want to be; but I’m just not into the whole “must ask the person, whom might not even be there at the time, first what they randomly prefer”-concept some people make of it… 😬 Everybody’s free to use their own words to refer to stuff from their pov, imho… Nothing gives anyone the right to force their ways upon others… 🤷‍♂️ I’d for example also rather be referred to as ‘handsome’ than ‘weirdo’, but that choice and decision is not mine to make either. 😂

Anyway, no harm intended with this, nor any bad intent to any person or their believes in gender. You are free to be who you want to be and how you want to be that, but so does everybody else. 😉