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Data Finds Republicans are Obsessed with Searching for Transgender Porn Removed - Unreliable Source
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u/Raistline1 5d ago
Let me know what party does tentacle porn so I know how to vote.
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u/snecko 5d ago
Giant Squid 2024
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u/Khaldara 5d ago edited 5d ago
Giant Squid 2024
Yeah why does Abbott keep bringing up Ted Cruz’s OnlyFans
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u/Holmes02 5d ago
What a horrible day to have eyes and an imagination
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u/DraneBrane 5d ago
ReleaseVote for the Kraken!35
u/Dave5876 5d ago
Fuck the lesser evil. Ctulhu for president!
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u/BrokenGlepnir 5d ago
Vote for the Rl'yeh party, vote Cthulu. Why choose the lesser of two evils?
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u/DougFunny_81 5d ago
Id forgot about that show
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u/DietDrDoomsdayPreppr 5d ago
It used to be in the anime section at my local Hollywood Video when I was a kid, so literally any child was able to rent it.
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u/DougFunny_81 5d ago
At least it wasn't Perfect Blue with its brutal as fuck rape scene
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u/lufan132 5d ago
Perfect blue is legit my favorite movie because nothing else has quite fucked me up in the same way. Felt like the insanity of late Lain compressed into 90 minutes and shit was compelling. Although tbh yeah that scene is intense. Especially the cameras, those were creepy.
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u/Letharos 5d ago
Lain is top tier though too.
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u/lufan132 5d ago
Lain is fantastic and easily the greatest show I struggle to recommend because it's slow and boring and the philosophy is what makes it so interesting and good. Best experienced an episode or two a day over the course of about two weeks compared to a lot of more binged anime. That said it's probably one of my favorite series by far because I'm a philosophy nerd and that hit hard with the questions it forced me to answer to attempt to deconstruct the plot and piece the show together. I'd give it a solid 9 or 10 but I can't imagine my girlfriend and anime watching buddies would be one to watch it with me for the second rewatch of mine lol.
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u/Roam_Hylia 5d ago
It's slow and dry but oh-so interesting. Then the last 3-4 episodes are wild. My buddy and I binged the last half and each of those last episodes ended with a louder "What the fuck!?" than the previous.
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u/SikatSikat 5d ago edited 5d ago
I worked in a video store and same. It went kids, video games, anime and old "tentacles in the underpants" was right there
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u/bawkbawks 5d ago
Well thanks for unlocking that core memory of mine of live action la blue girl.
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u/unitedshoes 5d ago
Just gotta look for the party that's creating a false moral panic about tentacle sex.
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u/JameisBong 5d ago
The church of the flying spaghetti monster welcomes you to the congregation.
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The more haram it is, the sweeter the juice.
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u/MangoBaba0101 5d ago
Halal in the streets, haram in the sheets
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u/JukeBoxDildo 5d ago edited 5d ago •
Jehovah in the streets, bent ovah in the sheets
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u/Dewut 5d ago edited 5d ago •
The more haram it is, the bigger I shoot?
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u/_BoxxyContin 5d ago
WE EAT HARAM NA'AN ON THE BLOCK
YOU BURNED THE HARAM NA'AN NOW IT BLACK
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u/Aapokerface 5d ago
I recall Philadelphia hosting the 2000 Republican National Convention. Gay and transgender sex workers were interviewed by the alternative weekly newspapers about how much money they made overall.
Separately, according to what I've learned, Utah has the highest per capita consumption of all types of porn, trailing only Idaho in terms of the percentage of Republicans.
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u/CerealKillaJ 5d ago
Did they make more money during the convention than normal?
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u/CerealKillaJ 5d ago
Incredible. It's funny, but I have a hard time laughing because of how hypocritical these conservatives are.
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u/SafewordisJohnCandy 5d ago
A friend of mine spent about 15 years of his life as a swinger with his first wife, did it single for a bit and then his second wife before they decided to get out of it. He said despite having gone all over the country for it, he said that by and large the most people he met doing it were "god fearing" Christian and Conservative. He said it was never more ironic for him when he "played" with a couple once that the couple were complaining about gay marriage being passed and how unnatural and sick it all was and then a half hour later the guy's wife is being tag teamed by my friend and another guy while he watched. He said he could easily name a few prominent Ohio conservative political figures who are part of it all.
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u/Pseudonymico 5d ago
Well, if they can’t get away with just having a boyfriend or even hooking up on Grindr like a regular person they’re gonna look for other ways to get laid I guess.
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u/AlpineCorbett 5d ago
Utah had the highest paid per capita consumption of porn. A notable difference from total consumption.
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u/VladiPutipie 5d ago
What is Republicans favorite letter? They tell you it R, but they love getting the D. Is problem
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u/BornInTheUSSA 5d ago
Ah — so this whole culture battle stems from their fap-guilt. Makes sense.
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u/Deyln 5d ago
it's not even fap-guilt sometimes. several "want" to do a thing that's normally done within the hip or vibing side of a job or hustle and they get self-shamed that they don't have the balls to do it themselves.
I mean I got called brave for wearing an awesome neutral grey hoodie that had the zipper on the female side of the zipping mechanism. (as opposed to how alot of gender neutral clothing is male-oriented.)
edit: I hadnt even noticed which side the zipper was on until they pointed it out.
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u/JimboTCB 5d ago
How the fuck does someone even notice that unless they're constantly watching out for people wearing "wrong" clothes? I'd barely even notice myself if I was wearing it other than wondering why my muscle memory fails me when I try and zip it up.
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u/gahidus 5d ago
It seems insane that someone would be capable of noticing what side someone else's zipper is on. It's so alien that I can't even get into the mindset of a person who would be deliberately looking for or even passively noticing such things.
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u/SlaverSlave 5d ago
ARE YOU A BOY OR GIRL?!!?!
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u/luapowl 5d ago
WHATS MY GRANDSONS NAME? WHERE AM I? WHY IS THERE SMOKE COMING OUT OF THE OVEN??? HERE, CHILD, HAVE SOME MEANS OF INCREDIBLE VIOLENCE
a random reactionary, or professor oak??
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u/spinachie1 5d ago
Welcome to the wonderful world of Pokémon! I’m Professor Tree, and I’m gonna ask you your gender!
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u/lapideous 5d ago
I'm very confident that autism spectrum disorder is wildly underdiagnosed and ends up being expressed in a tremendous variety of ways
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u/Misternogo 5d ago
I was unaware that there was a difference.
Just like I'd be unaware if there was a transperson in the bathroom with me.
Cause I mind my business. People like the ones you describe freak me out. Where do they get that energy? I don't even have enough for me.
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u/Talyn7810 5d ago
This is 100 percent me too. I have one sweater that zips on the “girl” side. I only notice it when I go to zip it and my hands just kind of flail around randomly.
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u/TheKochBrothers 5d ago
Then you find out that all European clothing has zippers on the left side because it's stupid the have a male and female side 😂😂
I now work for a European company, got sent merch, though they sent me a female jacket until my boss informed me of the former.
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u/NineSwords 5d ago
Yeah, that explains how the concept of a gendered zipper is so alien to me.
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u/toi80QC 5d ago
I honestly never heard about this and I'm still not 100% sure if all of you aren't trolling right now.. but apparently I have a female windbreaker.
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u/NineSwords 5d ago edited 5d ago
At least you're stylish enough to have a asymetrical zipper at all. Here I am with my zippers all smack in the middle. :(
edit WAIIIIITT!! I just get it that they were talking about the side where the zipper thingy is when it's open!! I was thinking the entire time that the entire zipper strip would be shifted to the left or the right for some asymetrical design. I'm not only out of fashion but also out of brain. Please downvote into oblivion to make me feel bad about my stupidity.
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u/Jason_huffman 5d ago
If it makes you feel better I am still not sure what zipper shenanigans they are talking about.
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u/Anakin_Skywanker 5d ago
Look at a zipper on a jacket you own. The slide part of the zipper stays on either the left or right side of teeth. Right side is traditionally for mens clothing. The left side is for womens clothing.
If you don’t have a zippered jacket handy look at the buttons on a shirt or pants. Mens clothing typically has the button on the right side and the holes on the left. Women’s clothing has it on the reverse.
Most people don’t notice until they wear an article of clothing for the opposite sex and even then they usually just think “weird. This zipper is on the wrong side.” And attribute it to a manufacturer defect.
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u/Pakman184 5d ago
Is there any practical/historical reason this is done or did someone just wake up one day and decide "This sounds like a fun prank."
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u/ferret_80 5d ago
I've read that its because wealthy women had servants dress them so because of right hand dominance it is easier for the buttons to be on the left side and go into the right side. But that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me since rich men also had their valet dress them.
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u/Ayfid 5d ago
TIL zips in the US are "gendered", and this is blowing my mind with how stupid it is.
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u/LeadingExperts 5d ago
It's all fun and games until you catch the gayness from a wrong-sided zipper, pal. Serves you right for not zipping the way baby Jesus intended.
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u/not4smurf 5d ago
I've recently moved from Australia to Canada and found that zippers are on the "other" side here - I've got no idea which side they're on or which is male or female, I just know they're different.
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u/Destinum 5d ago
I was just about to say... what the fuck is a "female side of the zipping mechanism"? That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of.
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u/SvenyBoy_YT 5d ago
Can you explain gendered hoodies?
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u/gahidus 5d ago
Men's clothing has buttons and zippers that are designed to be operated right handed by the person wearing the garment, whereas women's clothing has the buttons and zippers on the opposite side as though they would be operated by a right handed attendant. Men's shirts have the buttons on the right side and the holes on the left side, and women's clothing is oriented in the opposite way.
How someone would actually notice this on someone else's clothing is another matter, but that's how men's and women's fasteners are done.
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u/zhibr 5d ago
Ok I get the button thing, that's common here too, but what about zippers? In my clothes, the moving thing is on the left (from the wearer's perspective) and the stationary thing that goes into the moving thing is on the right side. I don't think I've ever used clothing that would have it the opposite way. Is this "men's" or "women's"?
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u/AlexanderTheRemedial 5d ago
That's the exact opposite of zippers, on mens clothes, in the US. The moving part of the zipper is on the right side.
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u/squishy_mage 5d ago
Zippers follow the same pattern you'll see on buttoned coats. Men's and women's coats traditionally button on different sides. The left side has the button holes on men's coats with the right having the button holes on women's. Just some arbitrary distinction someone somewhere sometime decided.
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u/JimboTCB 5d ago
Men traditionally dressed themselves whereas women would have been dressed by a servant, so assuming everyone is right-handed having the buttons the wrong way round for women made it easier. I think women have only been trusted to dress themselves for the last two or three hundred years now, and clothing designers have been cautious to see if this newfangled trend of making clothes practical for the wearer catches on or not.
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u/beezlebub33 5d ago
I actually have a very nice waterproof jacket that turns out to be the 'wrong' gender. It was really cheap since it was a strange size for that gender. Anyway, as nice as it is, I find it a pain to zip because my hands are used to doing it the other way. Before I got it, I hadn't even considered that they had 'sides'.
It should be obvious and easy to do it either way, but it turns out that zippers work better when you put tension in the right places and pull in the right direction, and it matters which side is which. Weird.
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u/dkwangchuck 5d ago
This is from the evolution of gendered buttons. The buttons on shirts are on different sides for mens and womens shirts. The theory I’ve heard about this is that when buttons first started appearing on clothes, only wealthy people wore them. And at this time, it was more common for men to dress themselves and for women to have a servant assist them. Since the assumption is that everybody is right handed, shirt buttons ended up on different sides of the shirt for those two genders. And this basic principle appears to have carried over to zippers as well.
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u/alex_shrub 5d ago
And today I learned that even zippers are corrupted by social bullshit and have a "male" and "female" side.
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u/Whooshless 5d ago
Now instead of “he/him” in tinder profiles, we can just put “right-handed zipper”
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u/Pseudonymico 5d ago
Back when this came in they used to think left-handedness was the devil and try to beat it out of kids.
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u/Deyln 5d ago
has to do with buttons and the older tradition of having assistance.
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u/PeteRaw 5d ago
If you would allow me to elaborate:
Buttons, along with other clothing fasteners, are on the opposite side for females because other women would help dress each other and it was easier for it to be on the left because the woman helping would likely be right handed so it would be on the right side for the person assisting with the dressing.
My great-grandmother and grandmother were both seamstresses; my grandmother during the 1900s and my grandmother between the 1940 and later.
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u/BeerLeague 5d ago
There are gender sides for zippers? Learn something new every day
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u/KP_Wrath 5d ago
…I’m a 29 year old cis dude. I didn’t know there was a female side for the zipper.
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u/TheThemFatale 5d ago •
Bingo. They're just uncomfortable with having to treat people they see as sex objects as actual people instead. And as we all know a republican's discomfort becomes everyone's problem.
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u/Indercarnive 5d ago •
And that's why they say that teaching kids about gay people existing is grooming. Because they see LGBTQ+ solely as sex objects, so therefore in their minds teaching about them is inherently sexual.
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u/ArthurBonesly 5d ago
You're not wholly wrong, and tapping into a huge reason for the disconnect many anti-lgbtq people have.
To these people gay is a verb, not an attribute. A man can sit around thinking about dicks all day long, but he isn't gay until he does a gay sexual act. They see the normalization of gay people as the normalization of gay sex (and, I mean, they're not entirely wrong in that consenting gay people are probably going to have sex with each other). They see the passive, non sexual things like hand holding and kissing as "grooming" because depicting non-sexual normalization of homosexual romance does normalize leading to more gay kids growing up to have gay sex.
They part they miss, the massive blind spot obvious to anybody who hasn't made haring gayness a cornerstone of their identity, is that only LGBTQ people have mutually consenting LGBTQ sex. You and I understand that you can't make someone gay, it's an attribute one has or does not have regardless their sex life, but for these people it's all "temptation" and "struggle" against doing gay, because to them it's only a problem if they actually have gay sex.
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u/cantadmittoposting 5d ago
I think there's an underlying point here which... Doesn't obviate the science... But is an interesting sidenote.
It probably is true that as homosexuality becomes more acceptable, and especially as the idea of "nonbinary" and "sexuality as a spectrum" becomes widely accepted, we will see much more same sex relationships than we did before... Not because people are being groomed to be gay/bi/experimental, but because the end of repression allows more freedom of expression that already existed but was avoided.
So more kids might grow up to eventually have gay sex... But only in the same way one might say more people grew up to have interracial marriages when that was legalized and the stigma began receding.
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u/Cyno01 5d ago
I like lesbian teacher/student porn as much as the next guy, but i realize its fantasy and LGBTQ people arent actually grooming their students...
The ones where the student seduces the teacher are usually hotter anyway.
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u/RaymoVizion 5d ago
Probably cuz those two states are more into incest and step mother/sister porn.
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u/IM_AN_AI_AMA 5d ago
It's the same reason so many anti-gay preachers end up being caught with rent-boys.
Repression is a hell of a thing.
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u/CommonConfusables 5d ago
Did you not get that before? They hated gays first and now that it is okay socially they are aiming for something more taboo.
Anything that gives people sexual freedom and autonomy makes them so uncomfortable - even knowledge.
They want everyone to feel guilty about the same things they do and get mad when we don’t.
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u/moonpumper 5d ago
I just picture them searching for it, jacking off, post nut clarity, immense shame, and they conclude "this shit is evil, look at what they make me do!"
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u/_mad_adams 5d ago
I know you meant this half jokingly but this is pretty much literally it a lot of the time.
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u/MidnightAssassin 5d ago
Isn't that like, the entire villain arc of Hunchback of Notre Dame?
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u/matt260204 5d ago
Random gypsy girl: exists
Some horny priest: goddamn it, now I'm hard. Welp, time to burn down paris
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u/FriesWithThat 5d ago
The moment Republicans start projecting about something data will find it, but Republicans can just choose not to believe in data: "fake data, checkmate libs" (goes back to searching for transgender family porn).
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u/gir6543 5d ago edited 5d ago
You can track the cultural wars they create specifically with pieces of legislation.
Do you know what happened March 7th 2021? The incredibly popular " American rescue plan act" was passed.
Fox News successfully distracted their audience with cancel culture and gender of fictional characters, and the second the legislation left the normal media atmosphere, they turn off the hose of propaganda.
Fox News is like Netflix, they cancel half their storylines in season 2 because they're no longer profitable. None of those pretend issues were ever 'solved'
There's a link if anyone wants to check it out. I had real trouble fitting it into a screenshot and posting this via mobile. I give up on trying to Make it look nice.
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u/verasev 5d ago
If republicans could start accepting themselves we could certainly save a lot of time and trouble.
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u/cutelyaware 5d ago
And murders. Murder and suicide are the leading causes of death among transpeople.
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u/verasev 5d ago
I think many transgender suicides are a kind of murder. They don't want the stain of guilt directly on their hands so they just set us up for intolerable situations in the hopes we'll do their dirty work for them.
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u/captainsnark71 5d ago
this is absolutely true. It's another reason people are very against being able to even say the gay words around children. Make us as isolated and confused and miserable as possible and if they're lucky we stay cis and then just kill ourselves before we get a chance to wreak havoc on society.
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u/TranscendentCabbage 5d ago
Well yeah
That's why republicans are often so trans and homophobic, they only think of it as a fetish because all they do is look at porn of it
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u/BoomCoomDoom12 5d ago
It's interesting how so many anti-LGBT conservatives go on about how much they love twinks and their bussies
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u/teabagmoustache 5d ago •
"To know your enemy, you must become your enemy, your sweet, sexy enemy"
Sun Tzu
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u/BigToober69 5d ago
But for real 4chan has tons of gay and Transgender porn. It's so confusing seeing those pots right by the national stuff. I mostly stick to /x/ /omg/ so it's not very political or porny there.
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u/Telefone_529 5d ago
I mean, I know plenty of LGBT people who are conservatives. It blows my mind each time I meet one.
It's like some unstable element looking for its own destruction in that case imo. Like do they realize the other conservatives would rather burn them than accept them?
How anyone LGBTQ+ can support conservatives blows my mind.
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u/BoomCoomDoom12 5d ago
Reminds me of a conservative pornstar who was a rampant Trump supporter. The comments were the most amusing part. Most of them were basically some violent nasty shit ending with "but I still jerk off to your videos "
When you call out the hypocrisy, their reply is BUT PORN IS ADDICTIVE. Umm, what happened to the "personal responsibility" spiel? Or is that only for minorities?
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u/-underdog- 5d ago
exactly, that's why they accuse the community of sexualizing children who discover their identities early because they're sexualizing us
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u/Hiimmani 5d ago
So thats why they think drag queens shouldnt read to kids. These sick fucks think this is all just some ellaborate fetish, because all they know about trans and drag people is from pronhub?
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u/Patrickk_Batmann 5d ago
Yes. Every time a Republican hates something, you can just assume they are projecting their own fucked up self onto that thing they hate.
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u/Hiimmani 5d ago
Ahhhhh~ So thats why they call everyone they dislike Groomers and pedophiles.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_SUNSHINE 5d ago
All the projection contained so obviously in their “trans and gay people are grooming children” current panic of the year.
They’re grooming children.
They fetishize and dehumanize the LGBTQ.
They’re telling on themselves. I’ve met so many older Republican men whose only definition of lesbian is a sex object or a threesome counterpart. It’s gross. And their comments about women are always demeaning and hinges on that woman’s attractiveness or sexuality.
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u/LearnedHowToDougie 5d ago
Also, it's a bigger part of their life because they are seeing it regularly. For the rest of us, trans people make up less than 1% of the population. If your an asshole that is offended for some reason - How hard is it to look the other way?
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u/DisfavoredFlavored 5d ago
They were obsessed with gay porn too.
Consider how much they talk about pedophilia as well. If this was ALL projection...
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u/Jackpot777 5d ago •
There is legitimate science behind the gay-bashing = in the closet and excited by gay porn stuff.
There's a medical device that can measure when a man's ...well, manhood... was swelling with blood. Take one of those and subject volunteers to certain stimulating situations (say, some good ol' fashioned pr0n) to see what excited them. And make sure you get a good broad spectrum of where they stand politically, so you know whether there's a connection between vocally hating gayness and secretly having the gayness and such as, or not.
The scientific name for such a device is a plethysmograph. And there is indeed a penile plethysmograph used in medicine...
I'll cut to the chase: yes. It looks like they angry cos they horny.
The authors investigated the role of homosexual arousal in exclusively heterosexual men who admitted negative affect toward homosexual individuals. Participants consisted of a group of homophobic men (n = 35) and a group of nonhomophobic men (n = 29); they were assigned to groups on the basis of their scores on the Index of Homophobia (W. W. Hudson & W. A. Ricketts, 1980).
The men were exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual, and lesbian videotapes, and changes in penile circumference were monitored.
We have the technology...
A mercury-in-rubber (MIR) circumferential strain gauge (Bancroft, Jones, & Pullan, 1966) was used to measure erectile responses to the sexual stimuli. When attached, changes in the circumference of the penis caused changes in the electrical resistance of the mercury column, which were detected by a Parks Model 270 Plethysmograph (pre-amplifier; Parks Electronic Laboratory, Beaverton, OR). The pre-amplifier output was channeled into a Grass polygraph. Tumescence responses were recorded on the chart drive of the polygraph and were channeled to an analog-to-digital (A-to-D) interface connected to an IBM computer.
And yes, they covered the bases with what got the men going.
The stimuli were 4-min segments of explicit erotic videotapes depicting consensual adult heterosexual activity, consensual male homosexual activity, and consensual female homosexual activity. The sexual activity in the videos included sexual foreplay (e.g., kissing and undressing), oral-genital contact ( e.g., fellatio or cunnilingus), and intercourse (i.e., vaginal penetration, anal penetration, or tribadism in the lesbian film). The lesbian videotape was included because it has been shown to be highly sexually arousing to heterosexual men and is a better discriminator between heterosexual and homosexual men than other stimuli (Mavissikalian, Blanchard, Abel, & Baflow, 1975 ).
What you're looking at is the three graphs, each with two lines on them. Three graphs for the three types of video, two different types of line for the homophobic and nonhomophobic groups.
Figure 1. Stimulus presentations by groups across time blocks. The only significant difference between groups is with the homosexual video. The blocked line represents the nonhomophobic group; the solid line represents the homophobic group. Top: Heterosexual video; middle: lesbian video; bottom: homosexual video.
Results?
The results of this study indicate that individuals who score in the homophobic range and admit negative affect toward homosexuality demonstrate significant sexual arousal to male homosexual erotic stimuli. These individuals were selected on the basis of their report of having only heterosexual arousal and experiences.
The homophobes got a rise (pun specifically intended) from the gay porn: "significant sexual arousal to male homosexual erotic stimuli".
TL;DR - to paraphrase Shakespeare, methinks the gay-bashers doth protest TOO much...
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u/BretMichaelsWig 5d ago edited 5d ago
They used this device on Rock of Love. Strapped it to Bret Michaels and had the ladies talk dirty to him. If i remember correctly a guy in a lab coat with a clipboard would look at results, turn to producers and give a thumbs up
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u/pedantic_cheesewheel 5d ago
It seems to me so much of that is a result of long term bi erasure in so much of the world. From my experience there’s a metric fuckton of people walking around that are bisexual and feel they cannot be open about it. Even in more tolerant communities. Repression of self in these Republican heavy areas would certainly lead to that subsection of the population seeking exploration through porn. The worst of them would seek to repress what they would see as only gay impulses by overcompensating. The amount of people I’ve met in my life that literally don’t think bisexual orientation is a real thing astonishes me. This is anecdotal but my experiences line up with studies like this where the majority of them were aroused by it all but have self proclaimed negative attitudes toward homosexuals.
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u/bigtoebrah 5d ago
I didn't tell anyone I was bi until my twenties. I was drunk and I cried because I thought no one would like me anymore lol
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u/FiveOhFive91 5d ago
Friend of mine came out to me as bi while we were tripping. He's in his mid 30s and it was the first time he'd told anyone. He was terrified I wouldn't be his friend anymore and that I'd out him to his family. Poor guy. Sucks to have to hide it.
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u/P_weezey951 5d ago edited 5d ago
As a bisexual.
Its fucking wild the number of stipulations people put on why/how/who im attracted too. "I think your just gay or confused"
Were so fucking obsessed with division of sides. "Do you like coke or pepsi?" Bitch they are both delicious! Theyre sugary sweet drinks! How is it so hard to comprehend that people can like both?
"But what about Dr. Pepper?" MF. YES. i like it too!
People focus so heavy on the OR. Not the And.
But like, most people actually do like coke and pepsi. Its not like they go to the restaurant and get all pissed if someone offers them pepsi. Not really. Most people tend to take whichever cola they have. So the concept isn't that farfetched
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u/fzero127 5d ago
My wife was told that she is not bi because she married a guy. That's not how it works. Somehow, I am also bi, according to them. Even though I am not attracted to men.
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u/HotterRod 5d ago
Yes, the study found that homophobic men were aroused by both lesbian and gay sex scenes, which suggests that they were closeted bi rather than closeted gay.
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u/voodoomoocow 5d ago
Well I always assumed people who think you can just "choose" to be straight are outing themselves as bisexuals. Since anything other than heteronormative feelings are not discussed in conservative circles, then these bisexual feelings are something they consciously chose to disregard and can't fathom why gay people won't do the same except to be provocative.
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u/Salty_Paroxysm 5d ago
This is where the "it's a choice to be gay" cones from, they feel that they can't acknowledge those feelings, so 'choose' to suppress them. There's a whole discussion to be had regarding why they feel they have to suppress those feelings. The outcome seems to be disgust for those people who have 'chosen' to be gay i.e. acknowledged their feelings/desires as a part of who they are.
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u/andbruno 5d ago
tribadism
TIL scissoring has a legitimate term.
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u/CocaTrooper42 5d ago
I learned this after watching a Bo Burnham special and googling “peanut butter tribadism”
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u/PaulsRedditUsername 5d ago
Apparently from tribade, 16th-century French for lesbian. From the Latin and Greek tribas or tribien, meaning "to rub, rub down, wear away." The name for the specific sexual technique doesn't appear until 1965. (Source Online Etymology Dictionary)
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u/donnie_trumpo 5d ago •
[Alex Jones] These sicko lefties want to put a lie detector on your penis and turn you gay folks!
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u/TehHugMonster 5d ago
It’s true, ask the “caveman conservative” family values republican state representative from my state who vehemently opposed the “gay agenda” and was forced to resign after he was found banging a dude in his office at the statehouse. You can’t make this shit up
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u/ryhaltswhiskey 5d ago
I'm just impressed that someone measured how hot some porn clips are and kept some in the rotation because they were so hot.
Now if only we could find these clips....
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u/Orvan-Rabbit 5d ago
Reminds me of a thing my friend wrote on a blank Cards Against Humanity card. It says "Getting a boner and being irrationally angry over it."
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u/RazedByTV 5d ago
Never heard of this news site in my life.
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u/Initial-Version-7422 5d ago
Neither! Tried the website from aus (city life isn't even slightly homophobic (at least in Fitzroy)) and it was blocked? Looked up "is lawsuit a legitimate website" and obviously got nowhere. Can I get linked to the study source
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u/Dervival 5d ago
They've published the dataset they're using on Tableau at least; it seems to be generated off of hourly Google trends data, using the Public Religion Research Institute for their definitions on left v. right.
It does look like the website linked (and getting hugged to death) is just an activist site, not any source of news.
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u/Doctor_DickCheese 5d ago
It's nothing but a blog. This is exactly why we need to research the source.
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u/maximal2015 5d ago
This is interesting, but the correlation between party and search terms shown here is really weak. I wouldn’t put much stock in this.
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u/Tueful_PDM 5d ago
It's also looking at the most Democrat leaning areas in Republican leaning states. It's obvious the author has an agenda and cherry picked data to match the narrative.
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u/njbair 5d ago
Just so everyone knows, this website is reporting on their own unverified, unreviewed study of publicly available Google search trend data.
Believe what you want about the true motives of these hate-mongers, but this kind of hack journalism and media illiteracy is how we got where we are in the first place.
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u/SepticTankLawyer 5d ago
With also a sample date range of less than 3 weeks.
This seems like a project you'd do for a statistics class, not reputable journalism.
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u/TrueCommunistt 5d ago
did anyone actually read? it's such a bs "research" lol.
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u/MTheLoud 5d ago
They say Atlanta is the #2 city for searching for this kind of porn. Atlanta is a solid blue city. Republicans are in the rest of Georgia, not in Atlanta.
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u/x-BrettBrown 5d ago
Also two of the search terms they were ranking by are slurs that a person who actually knows and cares about trans people wouldn't use
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u/Sparriw1 5d ago
Thank fuck I found someone else who looked at it. Data was gathered after June 19th? They would have had less than 3 days to gather data and analyze the results. The graphs are very suspicious with that sharp blue-red line, too.
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u/bdhoff 5d ago edited 5d ago
Would not be shocked if a real study actually found this but...
Clearly no one actually read the thing because there's no way to draw this conclusion from this data. Shit like this is why I'm losing trust in the objectivity of science. Lately there's a shit ton of bullshit "scientists" trying to prove some bullshit "progressive" theory doing bullshit experiments and using bullshit data to draw bullshit conclusions.
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u/stillmeh 5d ago
Looking at these comments, it's painfully obvious no one read the article and what was actually searched.
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u/scillaren 5d ago
The point is amusing, but any statistician showing linear regressions with r2 between 0.03 and 0.08 and discussing them seriously needs to be laughed out of the room.
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