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What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by HouseWolf@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

when the media and TV shows didn't push it

This infuriates me more than I can express. How is the existence of lgbt people in media "pushing it"? I that case, I'm sick of the "straights" who have been "pushing it" since I was born.

A few months ago someone I considered a friend came to me and was like, I know you're trans, but what's your opinion on all the trans stuff in the media, I don't want my kid exposed to it. Like, wow, the only reason you know I'm trans is because I told you and now my existence has become political, something her kids need to be shielded from. Fuck all these people to hell and back.

You wanna know how that kind of shit makes you feel? This is what I wrote in a comment yesterday:

You know what's fucked? Being told every day, wherever you look that you shouldn't exist, that you're disgusting and gross, that you deserve to die, that you're unwanted and don't belong. Online, in the news, on TV, from family, people you considered friends, people you tell when you'd like to date. People like this are part of the reason that the end of a rope gets more enticing by the day. You can only take so much constant abuse and hatred. So I guess they're winning, they should be proud of themselves because they're achieving their goals, with some luck I won't exist anymore.