Is Ireland becoming a Woke Society? Are people too scared to say anything as it may offend…..
Are we too tolerant and easily lead?
You don't seem to be able to explain what you mean at all. You're liberally thrown in personal insults about people sexual prowess bases on - nothing.
You seem all over the place on what woke means to people who are genuinely actively socially progressive - which seems to cut to the quick of the matter, it's just a meaningless insult to some people.
Insults. Please point them out. I will apologise as I didn't intend any.
You called me a “dick” earlier.
Pretty sure that was another poster I was responding too. Plus your post was very dickish.
Do you not find that personal?
It was dickish.
It wasn’t. You called me a dick for no reason
It most certainly wasn’t, no matter how many times you say it.
Kinda was.
Right. No offence chief, but I’m not going down this road. It’s like arguing with 10 year old
Oh my. Reread your last post. Not dickish? 10 year old?
Mod:
Okay, this thread is getting out of hand with personal insults.
@gameoverdude - you have been given a warning for making personal insults and not letting it go. Do not post in this thread again.
Any more personal insults exchanged here will result in forum bans and the thread being locked.
Very confused now, if he is a he, what gender did they change?
Or you mean he used to be a she and is now a he, and you misgendered them by calling them a she?
Relax will ya.. ppl are way to serious these days, PC gone mad.. Cant say a thing nowadays without offending some one...
I know you’re not doing it on purpose, but this kind of language isn’t exactly appropriate.
People who are trans, don’t actually change gender. They change how they present. As far as a trans woman is concerned, they’ve always been a woman but they were assigned the gender male at birth. So they’re now expressing their actual gender to the world, not changing gender.
I know that’s difficult for people to accept and it took me a long time to get my head around. But if that’s how they feel, it costs me nothing to respect.
So in my case, I know someone who was assigned female at birth but is actually a trans man.
Who’s offended and the opposite of relaxed? I just didn’t think it was funny. I don’t find bad jokes offensive most of the time.
It's the standard refrain when someone's crap joke fails to land. Time was, people would call it a bad joke and everyone would move on. Now, this is what you get.
Yes I am offended, bad joke :(
I still haven't gotten my head around it because it's a completely alien concept to me. But I recognize that I don't need to be able to experience, or even relate to, what another person is experiencing to accept that their experience is valid. So when I hear all the trans people saying what it's like, and all the medical professionals agreeing with them, I accept it.
I think for some people, they can't get their heads around the idea so they just assume it's ridiculous.
The most common way to express confusion is ridicule, in my experience*. I completely agree with you though, trans people and their doctors know more about this than I do. It costs me nothing to accept that and does no harm, so off I go.
*when I typed this it looked like a quote, is it?
Thanks for clarifying for all of us who misunderstood at first
my curiosity was that you know so many people who now identify differently to how they were recognised at birth, perhaps you work in an industry where such happenings are more common?
The latest south park episode has its finger on the pulse of how 99.9% of people feel about wokeness.
I know one person. I really don’t see where the confusion is here. 1 person and 1 person only.
My mistake
Hold on a second. Reads charter...posters shouldn't be a dick. Which they really were.
I mailed you about your warning with no reply. I am breaking your request as you have not replied and won't, well before this post.
Why are nasty comments allowed here, or is it only mods who can get away with it? Be honest like me. Go on, it's cathartic.
If you want to discuss with a mod, you use the PM function, you do not ever do so on thread.
Does it? Seems like a real stretch there chief. You think only 0.01% of people are woke? That's a smaller proportion of the population than trans people.
I don't know if you've seen it. I have and that wasn't my take at all.
Wokeism can include many varied topics but has been polluted as a movement due to the over focus on trans pro-nouns which has become a lightening rod for ridicule.
The LBG alliance had fought for decades & won public acceptance but the adoption of the trans movement under the same umbrella seems to have been problematic for all.
Society may catch up but the trans right activists should expect the ship to turn no faster than it did for the gay community, as someone who grew up during the Aids crisis of the 80's & followed it through to the equality referendum these societal changes can take generations & impatience will only produce setbacks.
I haven't watched an episode or South Park in more than a decade.
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