Kishkumen wrote:
I am going to pop in here, although I am sure the outcome will not be pleasant.
Nonsense! You are welcome everywhere, Dear Reverend.
First of all, I really don't think that the LDS Church is a healthy environment in terms of its gender values. It just isn't.
No argument there.
That said, we are in the midst of what I would call a gender hysteria that is filled with unhealthy excesses on all sides. My advice to anyone is to tune out all of the noise, mind your own business, treat everyone with dignity and respect, treat yourself and others with compassion, and ignore the vast majority of what is going on in the identity wars.
Good advice, although I would add there is nothing wrong with objecting to the use of stereotyping based on insupportable assumptions when such a position is presented in your environment. in my opinion, it makes the atmosphere less hostile for all people in the long run. In the short run, such disagreement can be uncomfortable, but thankfully our free speech policy allows both the posting of and the objection to ideas.
I started to read this thread and I just had to stop. It gets ugly pretty quickly. And I find that both exhausting and discouraging.
Not the first time this OP has started a thread like this.
“What if Joseph Smith was just an Alpha Ape in tune with Nature?”
An interesting read. From the penultimate post in that 9 page epic:
Gadianton wrote: ↑Thu Nov 04, 2021 2:21 am
I don't think you were getting attacked Free Ranger. Six people responding isn't six attacks. Many of your talking points have links to talking points about masculinity on the right…
History repeats itself… : D
Edited to add
...don't be an ethno-nationalist, a fascist, or part of a criminal enterprise. There are some places where by definition it is almost impossible to be a decent person.
Amen.