'Françaises, Français': Why the French language need not be so sexist

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33. I love when people get offended *for* me

As a gay man, I could not care in the slightest about what the latest trendy Twitter outrage is about. I have my lines where I'll speak up and say that's not ok, but they're fairly obvious and clear cut. But more and more, I encounter straight people who are super offended and labeling something homophobic that I didn't give even the slightest bit of thought to. "This is outrageous! How could you be so insensitive to LGBTers in this commercial!" or whatever it is. Meanwhile, I'm over here laughing my ass off at a funny commercial.

I really, really feel for transgender people nowadays. Twitter activism is full of the craziest stuff. Things like people who have a penis but identify as female and get offended when lesbians don't want to have sex with them. "They're being transphobic!" Like, the hell? What happened to orientation not being a choice? Now people are obligated to have sex with you?

I see shit like that all the time now. I ask the transgender people in my life about that stuff now and then, and they always roll their eyes and almost apologetically say, "Yeah, we're not like that. That's just crazy Twitter people." But cis people will read it and take it totally seriously and think that's how most transgender people think.

It's just really toxic when a loud minority within a group somehow convinces broader society that they're the predominant voice of the community.

They're just so not.