”Homosexuality was considered to be a ‘mental illness’ in the not so distant past and ‘immoral’ and large parts of the establishment, religion led and the mainstream media bombarded society with negative images and negative stereotypes of these issues. It is not exactly rocket science why people hold the views they did, or still do. ”
I think and I may have got it well wrong , that Ge was re-quoting another chatter in the main part, but basically saying, with so many decades of the ‘establishment’ bombarding, indoctrinating a ‘less informed public’ in the myths and utter nonsense about homosexuality, condemning them to ever lasting hell and all that bullshit, is why people had such negative attitudes towards it and unfortunately the less educated still seem to go by what Grandad said……
Thanks Ge, yea, the main characters mentioned in the song, were real trans / gender fluid people, well known for frequenting Andy Warhol’s club, The Factory.
On a slightly different note, relating to Ruthless’ post, although I see no need for the silly ‘IT’ descriptions, we all know Ruthless likes to be shocking….. however, if someone goes to a gay bar, or ‘gender fluid’ bar, club, etc etc, as a straight person, they should be aware all may not be quite what it seems and in my opinion have no right to feel ‘offended’ if they mistake someone for the wrong gender, but what if its a ‘ straight’ pub, club etc, ( I’ve put straight as opposed to ‘normal’ as not to offend those of us who feel what ever floats your boat is normal for you , maybe non specific bar would be a better description, anyway I digress…) So your’e in a ‘non specific’ bar, club, etc and you meet someone you fancy…. come the end of the night and its getting down to the nitty gritty ( or maybe after several dates even ), do you have the right to be well pissed off that the person you have invested time and possibly money in, turns out to be the opposite gender to what you thought and they hadn’t disclosed it ? I mean it’s ok not to fancy / be interested physically, in people of the same sex as you isn’t it ? Or is it ? ?
I am still not an expert. I Not by a long shot. But I read the article after drac alerted us to the term gender dysphoria.
You can have the tenner back because I’m after bigger money – your job.
You may not have noticed but alfie collects IP numbers and has sent this thread to your employer to show the slapdash attnetion to detail of one of their nurses.
When they demote you, there is a candidate here waiting for the job.
Nurse Sceptical Snip Snip.
You will hate me as a superior, I guarantee it
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I read that IP numbers can no longer give anybody an individual identity. Nobody can check you out using them.
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No idea what all that was about, I think you’ve got your wires crossed. Not sure a personal attack was warranted, I’ve asked before, I’ll ask again, please stop dropping out snippets of personal information about me.