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Honestly, the fact that sexuality and gender are a political issue at all seems really silly when you break it down. Just let people fuck who they wanna fuck (with consenting adults, of course) and do what they want with their own body. If body mods like piercings and tattoos were this heavily regulated pretty much everyone would think it's the dumbest shit ever. You can get a tattoo and a piercing on your dick but if you wanna remove your dick entirely it's for some reason wrong? A woman can get breast implants but if anyone else does that's also wrong for some reason?
Edit: Wording.
This is because of the role religion plays in politics. Religion should have nothing to do with politics in modern times.
There is plenty of homophobe, transphobe, racist and otherwise bigoted people that have nothing to do with religion.
And if people would take their religion seriously instead of using it as a superficial scapegoat, cherrypicking what they like, there would be no capitalism.
Horrible people would exist without religion but religion is the biggest and easiest tool to use to get a mass of people to act horribly and believe horrible things. And the inverse is true too. Horrible people have used their religion as a way to act horribly.
Religion is what gives these people the excuse.
It's their own prejudices that play into politics.
You must have your daily 2 minutes of hate, otherwise you might realize the people you hate are trying to give you healthcare and make groceries affordable.
'Legally' isn't the best choice of words here, IMO. I'm not saying we should be allowed to fuck minors (ew) but that the legal system has been used to opress and punish queer people. In some jurisdictions, it is legal to kill gay people. So using legality as your baseline is a bad idea.
Morality is I think what you're getting at. But then you get into the weeds of subjective morality and that's a mess...
Yeah that's totally fair. I only added it as an after thought because I feel like not adding something like that would have been worse. Maybe just "consenting adults" instead of "legally."
Just let people fuck who they wanna fuck (legally, of course)
I don't disagree with what you're saying I just want to play devils advocate a bit with this statement. It seems sort of odd to caveat a statement that appears unrestrictive with a restriction. I understand why you did it but you conceded the fact that there should be limits on who you can fuck within a statement that, when taken at face value, should mean you can fuck whoever you want. That seems a bit cumbersome doesn't it?
Replace "legally" with "with consent"
Minors can't consent. Animals can't consent. Beyond that, as long as everyone participating consents to it, I don't see why it would be anyone else's business
I already changed the original comment. Makes more sense that way anyway.
Yeah that makes sense. I mostly did it because if I didn't add that caveat I feel like it would have been worse. Maybe if instead I just said "consenting adults." Poor choices of words on my part.