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stevenleser

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2. Yes, It's hard for me to understand any mature person doing this. I always come back to the same

Reply to Tien1985 (Original post)

Sat Aug 24, 2013, 11:33 AM

Aug 2013

question when confronted by examples of people engaging in bigotry. "How does it affect YOU", in other words, why are YOU so upset about it?

How does somebody else's gay marriage affect YOU. How does fairness towards Black people affect YOU. Etc.

And directly to your point, how does not being a jerk and using the name and pronoun someone attributes to themselves affect anyone else negatively? I don't get it.

I don't get the reactions of some people, particularly here.

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Maybe they think it's a type of lying about their "real" gender. Neoma Aug 2013 #1

Yes, It's hard for me to understand any mature person doing this. I always come back to the same stevenleser Aug 2013 #2

K&R idwiyo Aug 2013 #3

People fear what they don't understand Marrah_G Aug 2013 #4

I don't know LostOne4Ever Aug 2013 #5