Love it! As a lifelong liberal up to now... I was shocked once I dug deeper into my own questions regarding gender and it's conflicts with women's rights. I felt as though I was leaving a religion. Now I feel freed, though, from the confines of outsourcing my opinions to a political party. It's better on the other side. I'm much more open to others' viewpoints and I feel more 'live and let live' when I disagree with people.
Sorry this is so late, but I just wanted to point out that the ostensible "Nazis" who turned up on the steps of Government House in Melbourne were clearly there as a hostile force - to the TRAs but even more so towards the women who dared to turn up to the Let Women Speak. In fact, I've been hearing whispers that a small contingent of the TRA organised it, spurred on by the knowledge that one of the main lieutenants in the neo-Nazi group is in fact the son of one of the highest ranking police officers ordered to be present that day.
I realise that you are surely aware of this and we're making a far more broad point, and I do agree with what you said. I might still "test" as a far leftist "Libertarian Socialist" (or as part of a similarly confounding group when I do an online political survey) but since having become "gender critical", I've found that I've become far more tolerant of those who are not far left and even those who are religious and conservative - even though many of them disapprove of what they incorrectly label my "lifestyle". I used to just imagine that they were myopic and evil, frankly. Now, however, I tend to think that there's little so evil as the chemical and surgical sterilization of proto-homosexual and neurodivergent minors and championing the privileges of mentally ill fetishists over the rights of everyone else - so...
Love it! As a lifelong liberal up to now... I was shocked once I dug deeper into my own questions regarding gender and it's conflicts with women's rights. I felt as though I was leaving a religion. Now I feel freed, though, from the confines of outsourcing my opinions to a political party. It's better on the other side. I'm much more open to others' viewpoints and I feel more 'live and let live' when I disagree with people.
Sorry this is so late, but I just wanted to point out that the ostensible "Nazis" who turned up on the steps of Government House in Melbourne were clearly there as a hostile force - to the TRAs but even more so towards the women who dared to turn up to the Let Women Speak. In fact, I've been hearing whispers that a small contingent of the TRA organised it, spurred on by the knowledge that one of the main lieutenants in the neo-Nazi group is in fact the son of one of the highest ranking police officers ordered to be present that day.
I realise that you are surely aware of this and we're making a far more broad point, and I do agree with what you said. I might still "test" as a far leftist "Libertarian Socialist" (or as part of a similarly confounding group when I do an online political survey) but since having become "gender critical", I've found that I've become far more tolerant of those who are not far left and even those who are religious and conservative - even though many of them disapprove of what they incorrectly label my "lifestyle". I used to just imagine that they were myopic and evil, frankly. Now, however, I tend to think that there's little so evil as the chemical and surgical sterilization of proto-homosexual and neurodivergent minors and championing the privileges of mentally ill fetishists over the rights of everyone else - so...