noncompliantgame: Mrs. Nicky Morgan, British Government's education secretary: Children who say homosexuality is ‘wrong’ to be viewed as extremist threat. I kid you not. (Pun intended.)

227: "Terrorists are anti-gay, so anyone anti-gay should be viewed as a potential terrorist," basically.

To which I'd make an equally-nonsensical argument: living in constant terror is exactly what terrorists want (it's the where the word comes from), therefore these people who are advocating that kind of constant suspicion and fear could be considered potential terrorists. Inappropriate usage of the transitive property is fun!

noncompliantgame: You demonstrate very poor forum etiquette when you seriously alter the meaning or take out of context the post to which you are replying. I think you're making me feel like I'm being harassed and victimized - I genuinely fear for my safety . It may develop into PTSD, over time ...

Shadowstalker16: The main problem being many medically different conditions being lumped into one gross ''transgender'' tag and anyone who expresses the rightful inquisitiveness to question beyond what the machine spews is transphobic. The current ferocity of the stances adopted by $JWs prevent discussion of real issues related to the subject. By trying to make ''safe spaces'' or whatever, they're pushing people who could've done research or studies out of the discussion and pushing emotionally unstable and entitled hipsters to the helm. We have online movements and advocacy groups already but nothing in the line of concrete address to ethics issues or compensation requirements because anyone trying to bring in anything new will be pushed out and eaten by the cult. Just look at what Tim Hunt. He had his career ruined for jokes. You really think there can be any advancement in the field when the people who are supposed to conduct objective studies are often destroyed for doing it? No one will study into this in-depth until the outrage stops and until the studies come out, the whole subject will be a grey area legally and medically and that just hurts the non-hipster everyday trans people more because they have to work and don't have Patreon to beg to.

SusurrusParadox: It's worth pointing out at this point that 'being trans' and 'experiencing gender-related dysphoria' are not the same thing.

Being transgender is not a mental disorder, and gender dysphoria is "simply" a state of distress caused by (effectively) the individual's physical body not matching their sense of self.

htown1980: I think if you were to look into it a little more, on the medical side of things, you would find there is a lot of research and discussion on the topic. The difficulty you might have is that the vast majority of people who are qualified and have put serious research into this area are in agreement on diagnosis and treatment, and that agreement is very different to what appear to be your views on the subject.

Shadowstalker16: Lol they're attacking GOG now : https://archive.is/MYOwf
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3drbm3/humor_a_person_in_aggro_is_now_claiming_that/
I'd say its quite the opposite. So aGG on GOG; do you support this as well?

Shadowstalker16: Well, I see ''terrorist'' as ''misogynist'' and ''sexist'' and other such looney as terms used to dehumanize people you hate so you can go on hating them without stepping over your overly PC moral code. AKA, they aren't hated because they're called(and 99.99999% of the time are clearly not) that, they're called that because they're hated in the first place.

Shadowstalker16: EDIT: and yes, aGG is attacking GOG and encouraging people not to buy from here. They claim harassment and evil and patriarchy and stuff.

Shadowstalker16: aGG believes:
opinion of prominent $JW = fact, opinion of moderate = radical , opinion of radical = radical
Easy to see who's being misrepresented here.

227: I don't know about that; generalizations tend to be a wonderful way to alienate and misrepresent wide swaths of people. Let's not forget the role that "Gamers are Dead" generalizations played in starting this whole thing in the first place. Plus I'm sure plenty of the GOG-using antis would be more than willing to distance themselves from the stupidity of the current drama (htown even posted an incredible defense of TB in the promo thread).

If anything, I think it'd behoove us to set aside our (understandable) bitterness from the 11 months of being called a this-and-that-ist and be a bit more understanding to those who disagree with us now that many of these online moral police aren't even trying to disguise what they're doing. If nothing else, it'd be nice to at least have a shared laugh at how quick some people on the internet are to have their feelings hurt by anything and everything. I think we could all use the respite, honestly.