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[regleo]

Reg: But you can't have babies.

Stan: Don't you oppress me.

Reg: Where's the fetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box?

Francis: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.

Reg: It's symbolic of his struggle against reality.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/quotes

[cookiecaper → regleo]

The sad thing is most people don't understand how frighteningly representative this is of much of today's social activism.

[chc → cookiecaper]

The weird thing is that I haven't seen all that many examples of reality-rejecting social activism, despite your claim that there is "much" of it. Are you sure you haven't just failed to understand what the people are actually saying?

[wonderzombie → cookiecaper]

It's not sad because "frighteningly representative" is purely subjective. I don't even know where to start disagreeing with you because you've failed to say anything about how.

If you believe in the right of self-determination, what's the fucking difference how someone self-identifies?

[arrrg → regleo]

What do babies have to do with any of this? Women who are infertile are still women.

[supergauntlet → arrrg]

Nothing at all, but how else can you be an asshole to trans people?

Oh right, by claiming they're not really male or female for reasons x, y, and z.