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[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 days ago

"Please stay away from me. Ok thanks for accepting me."

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

if 40 percent is lol, whats the rest? also why would a maga dude care about a transgirl's choice in men?

[–] Corridor8031@lemmy.ml 67 points 1 week ago (4 children)

this is just what i think, but it might be, that someone who questions gender identity, might also question capitalsim instead of just accepting the rethorics..

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

anything that forces you to question the status quo will prod you into questioning other things.

for me, it's being queer; brown; and on the spectrum, which are all things that get you frequent rejection from almost all status-quo-loving groups of people.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago

Can confirm, started with going vegan for me. After that I kicked out my religion/faith, then the belief in the state and then in my gender lol.

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

Capital is built upon the foundation of strictly enforced gender roles, men enfocring monogamy so they could be sure who their sons were, to consolidate wealth in their family

read the Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, or there's a shorter section about it in Transgender Warriors

wow prole wiki was the 4th result when I searched for this book

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Transgender_Warriors

[–] ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

There's probably some overlap where people capable of accepting themselves as transgender instead of denying it are more ready to deny tradition in general

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Once I'd already rejected my assigned gender I had an intellectual freedom few around me did. I was helped by having psychonaut friends who were also headed hard progressive labor-left but when everything could be questioned and the cruelty inherent to enforcement of the system was clearly visible it wasn't hard to notice that infinite growth didn't sound realistic

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Do right-wingers lament the lack of trans people on the right?

[–] Oppopity@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No but people do ask why so many trans people are leftists as opposed to regular ass liberals.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 58 points 1 week ago

Chasers unfortunately exist.

[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No. As a rule basically anything you see here that the right is "panicking" about is a nothing burger to them.

It's the same with their news feed, they get articles about how the left is "panicking" over shit nobody actually cares about.

More and more were hating fictionalized versions of each other and the ensuing culture war gives the 1% room to pave over our rights.

We're to the point now where the "wft I love/hate X now" meme isn't a joke. The culture war is fully driving people's values, not ideology.

This is the main reason why people vote for trump, they want to win the culture war and don't give a fuck about ideology.

Next time you see a headline or article ask yourself if you actually give a shit or if you're being told to give a shit. You'll be surprised how often it's the latter.

95% of the memes here (like this one) here are just strawmen for culture war fodder.

Strawmen? On Lemmy? Say it ain't so.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I need to remember that more often.

[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's easy to forget but paramount to remember that nobody is immune to propaganda.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 46 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What does "40%" mean in this context?

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Adding to the other replies, right wing transphobes routinely hail the suicide rate as a badge of honour. They love joking about it and insinuating it should be higher. They're really not quiet about expressing that they absolutely want trans people to kill themselves.

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. It found that interpersonal microaggressions and emotional neglect by family members were the leading contributors to the attempts.

Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide.

According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide.

Meanwhile, a 2018 study of more than 120,000 children age 11 to 19 found that 41.8 percent of non-binary adolescents—those who do not identify as definitively male or female—had attempted suicide

source

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The bigger the sample the less likely survivorship bias of the respondents.

Took me forever to find the last study, for those interested, link:

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/142/4/e20174218/76767/Transgender-Adolescent-Suicide-Behavior

As you can see it's rather lackluster in presenting it's findings.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks. That's so sad 😢

~Also~ ~I've~ ~gotten~ ~so~ ~worried~ ~of~ ~the~ ~use~ ~of~ ~em-dashes,~ ~so~ ~I'm~ ~glad~ ~you~ ~had~ ~a~ ~source.~

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Yeah a bunch of maga think that's an insult, and not just evidence of their cruelty and ignorance.

~also~ ~yeah~ ~i~ ~just~ ~copy~ ~and~ ~pasted~ ~tbh~ ~so~ ~could~ ~be~ ~ai~ ~used~ ~by~ ~the~ ~source, ~ ~idk~

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Struggle informs theory, and theory in turn counsels action. That's why those at the summits of power do everything that can to ridicule and condemn and censor these ideas.

-Leslie Feinberg

Works by Leslie Feinberg:

Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue

Transgender Warriors

Lavender & Red

Transgender Liberation: A Marxist View

That queer theory broadly shares Western Marxist proclivities towards pessimism and theoreticism is exemplified in its treatment of categories such as normativity, the universal, the bodily, the virtual, and science. Trans people’s experience impels us to seek further afield for a theory adequate to our situation, rejecting the chauvinist anticommunism that other leftists take for granted, and discovering underappreciated benefits to “sympathizing with the monster.” From this deparochialized perspective, it makes as little sense for a Marxist-Leninist to be transphobic as it does for a trans person to be anticommunist.

-Nia Frome

The Problem of Recognition in Transitional States, or Sympathy for the Monster

Bonus: My intro Marxist-Leninist reading list

[–] CatoPosting@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

I can't bring myself to upvote any of the Incel-origin memes. Ascribing correctness to attractive white people feels too sus.

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