Please stop with the anti-fat/anti-trans attacks on Republican morons

[moriah]

120. I've said similar things in the past, hon.

You did it in a more short-and-sweet version.

Us embracing those types of attacks against our opposition does nothing but promote bigotry and discrimination, something our party SHOULD be standing against, no matter how we might feel about the particular individuals you named. I ended up with someone putting me on ignore because I believe all bigotry comes from the same place in the human mind/heart, and therefore it doesn't matter which group we are bigoted against -- the Oppression Olympics got won back in the '40s I believe, so let's not try to compare other people's struggles except to say they all come from the same evil seed -- if we are demonstrating bigotry, we are embracing the roots of oppression.

I'll call myself a bitch, but I generally don't call other women that, even ones I disagree with as strongly as I do Ann. And calling her "mAnn", as I've seen here many times, is an insult to the trans community, as you said. I am a woman and I stand with my trans allies, but I admit that my own struggles with bigotry and discrimination, with teasing and bullying, were from my previous obesity. I currently have less than a 20 BMI, but I used to be morbidly obese. And it is amazing the difference in how people treat me. I am happy to have been female-spirited and born female-bodied, so I will never see the difference between the way a woman is treated versus a man... nor do I have the struggle the trans community is continually enduring. I lost weight for my health, not because of people's opinions about me. But having been fat all my life, the difference in how I am treated highlights the bigotry we have against the overweight in this country.

Ann and Chris are disgusting because of their personalities, not their outward appearance. To judge someone on their outward appearance rather than the content of their character, or to assume that the content of their character is correlated to their outward appearance, is the definition of bigotry (and I've seen people's opinions change in a heartbeat when a person could "pass" -- be it for straight, white, skinny, genetically male, genetically female, whatever -- and they learned a person's true identity, so I stand by that definition as part of the extreme change common among all the bigots I've seen do this is to suddenly "see" outward reflections they didn't notice before, and see them more prominently because they were so upset they didn't "catch" it).

All bigotry is wrong. All oppression is wrong. We cannot compare the struggles of ourselves and others except to recognize that the struggles exist and to attempt to fight against bigotry whenever we have the opportunity.

Thank YOU for taking that opportunity.