Re: VFLW Rd 5: Carlton vs Darebin Falcons
Reply #33 –
I think a lot of this discussion is driven by religious/homophobic idealology.
Inference you.
I have no issues with anything in particular, but I have a couple of problems I am having with the ideology coming from the LBGTI community.
#Bornthisway unless you are trans, in which case, then you are what you feel you are....
Combine that with mental health being far too fledgling, then I have real issues with the realm of gender disphoria, and how we as a society have arrived at the solution being, you can be whatever you feel. It stems from a "i don't fit the male/female stereotype, but I think I would be more comfortable as the other stereotype".
News flash, there is no such thing as normal. Some blokes wear dresses (or kilts) and like girly things. Some women wear pants, and dislike girly things and would rather be one of the boys. This doesnt make them a different gender, it just makes them a bit different, and that needs to be accepted, rather than rejected from one club because they are more like the other.
In a very small minority, (DJC's stats) there is genuine scope for a bit of I broke the mould, but its less than 1/100th of a percent and with a little bit more open mindedness surounding gender identities, we should find that we get more people happily identifying with the appropriate gender if we don't focus on blokes being super blokey as a norm, and women being super girly as a norm (Think Ken and Barbie). These people are an extreme in their own right.
My argument comes from a more inclusive perspective, not based on any religious or homophobic ideology. The problem I have, is that we should focus on people rather than how we group them as that is when we truly become inclusive. Gender is tied to identity, in a way that sexuality isn't, and frankly we don't need to know about people's sexuality to accept them for who or what they are. The liberation movement has gone too far and can be quite distasteful and that applies to heterosexual people as well as this community. I hear some of the chatter from the early teenagers and they are highly inappropriate and I think that's to do with where we have arrived as a society. Its not the way forward. We need to re-establish some decorum.