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Well I’m having a shite weekend.

Yesterday I had my first mean cold call at work that made me cry so I got to look like a thin skinned weenie in front of my coworkers. Luckily it was towards the end of the day on a Friday so now I get to have a nice relaxing weekend to try to forget about it so I can be bright eyed and bushy tailed on Monday morning. However, I logged into twitter this morning to check if my boyfriend had send me any funny maymays only to find this:
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So now I get to talk politics with my woke boyfriend. Joy. Note how he’s basically asking me to explain myself but is too much of a pussy to actually state his objections to my beliefs so he’s all like “I see you’ve been doing wrongthink. What’s up with that?”.

What you need to realise about this situation is a lot of his friends from uni are genderspecials, so this is a “bros before hoes” situation in which the bros are all men who think they’re women and I am the aforementioned hoe dealing with the biological reality of the female experience. He’s probably gonna take even the most milquetoast of gender critical beliefs as a personal attack on his bezzie mates like I literally want to shove them into ovens or something. This is a flowchart where almost all of the options are probably gonna lead to an argument.

For now, I have decided to play dumb and reply “what do you mean?” in an attempt to get him to actually state his objections so I have something concrete to refute and am not immediately put on the defensive. The ball is in his court now. I plan on having this debate over many days. Partially because I want to give the both of us time to decompress between replies and hopefully prevent either of us from saying something we’ll regret- but also partially because I know we disagree on a lot of things politically but I don’t get all passive aggressive about it like this because he’s entitled to his opinions and I have no right to tell him who he can and can’t associate with. If he wants to have this debate I will drag it out of him. I want his interrogation of me to be like drawing blood from a stone. I will not move.
 
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Anybody here ever heard of a site called Squattheplanet? It's a site for vagabonds/travelers/nomads, and it has a, shall we say, interesting community. I thought about making a thread on it, but I've never done a lolcow/community watch thread before.

For context, on the new member sign-up page on their site, you have to click a box that states:
If you have political/personal views that are racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, overly nationalist, or are a religious zealot, you are an asshole and NOT WELCOME IN THIS COMMUNITY. Please click the checkbox to affirm that you are not an asshole. If you are in fact, an asshole, you will not be able to finish your registration and we ask that you fuck off somewhere else.
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They even have an entire sub-forum dedicated to paying tribute to members who have died, seeing as how a lifestyle of hitchhiking and living on the streets isn't the safest lifestyle out there.

And then there's the Slab City community:
 
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No-one expects the wokebro inquisition

Not really sure how to proceed from here since he’s probably guaranteed to take offence at whatever I say. But at the same time, he might take my silence as a tacit admission that I’m literally hitler. Plus, until now, pretty much all my opinions on this sort of thing have been communicated in the form of likes and retweets of other people’s tweets. My mom thinks if I actually say anything to the effect myself then I’d incriminate myself in the eyes of the woke and in result get cancelled, doxed and harassed by all the troon squad from uni that he’s still mates with.

It really sucks since I really like him as a person and I’ve been dating him for like 5 ish years now, he’s just a self righteous jackass when it comes to politics. Also lol @ him telling me which aspects of my content “get a pass” or not like he’s a fucking hall monitor.
 
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Elysian said:
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No-one expects the wokebro inquisition

Not really sure how to proceed from here since he’s probably guaranteed to take offence at whatever I say.
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Tell him that he's a man so what gives him the right to question a woman + his opinions about women aren't valid and never will be so he should mind his own business and police gamer bros on resetera instead. Something like that, turn the wokeness against him.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Tell him that he's a man so what gives him the right to question a woman + his opinions about women aren't valid and never will be so he should mind his own business and police gamer bros on resetera instead. Something like that, turn the wokeness against him.
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"Its amazing how men butt in to everything women do, including being a goddamed woman"

also try "Until have been attacked by twenty 14 year old cunts over every zit on your face, wrinkle on your clothes or glance at a cute guy in English class, you haven't earned the right to be a woman"

my wife uses those two a lot
 
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TiggerNits said:
"Its amazing how men butt in to everything women do, including being a goddamed woman"

also try "Until have been attacked by twenty 14 year old cunts over every zit on your face, wrinkle on your clothes or glance at a cute guy in English class, you haven't earned the right to be a woman"

my wife uses those two a lot
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There is also room for "How dare you! Those likes in your feed are private, why are you looking at them!?" This is effective because it is so dumb that it becomes really hard to come up with a response. His only way out of that angry badger den is to mansplain how twitter works and oh boy, now he's in trouble.

Please note that none of these things work on normal people.
 
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Elysian said:
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No-one expects the wokebro inquisition

Not really sure how to proceed from here since he’s probably guaranteed to take offence at whatever I say. But at the same time, he might take my silence as a tacit admission that I’m literally hitler. Plus, until now, pretty much all my opinions on this sort of thing have been communicated in the form of likes and retweets of other people’s tweets. My mom thinks if I actually say anything to the effect myself then I’d incriminate myself in the eyes of the woke and in result get cancelled, doxed and harassed by all the troon squad from uni that he’s still mates with.

It really sucks since I really like him as a person and I’ve been dating him for like 5 ish years now, he’s just a self righteous jackass when it comes to politics. Also lol @ him telling me which aspects of my content “get a pass” or not like he’s a fucking hall monitor.
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1. I support transpeople having rights but do not recognize them as the same as biological women

2. I recognize transwomen as women, but despise women

3. I love transwomen. I hope they win every women's scholarship, award, and world record.

These three responses I use may not be useful for you.
 
Elysian said:
It really sucks since I really like him as a person and I’ve been dating him for like 5 ish years now, he’s just a self righteous jackass when it comes to politics. Also lol @ him telling me which aspects of my content “get a pass” or not like he’s a fucking hall monitor.
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Getting an ultimatum to disavow/change your personal opinions under the threat of potential harassment is monstrous and I hope you can find the strength to move on from this guy without too much fallout.

I'm from a different generation and couldn't possibly claim to fully understand the situation, but for what it's worth I think it's possible to have a relationship with someone you like but has different views on certain things. I've been with my wife for over 25 years and our political and social views have always been pretty opposed. I can't think of a single time, even when we were in college and pretty immature, where after debating our views and not being able to reach consensus, would we have demanded the other just adopt our view. That is so incredibly disrespectful and dehumanizing. I'm not saying our relationship is without its conflicts or that we don't try to get each other to embrace opposing ideas, but we certainly don't force our views and don't rat each other out to friends or internet scum if we don't get our way.

I have nothing but sympathy for younger people who have to grow up in an environment where views and opinions are so tightly tied to a person's identity, which has to be showcased and curated. It can't be easy, good luck to you.
 
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Elysian said:
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No-one expects the wokebro inquisition

Not really sure how to proceed from here since he’s probably guaranteed to take offence at whatever I say. But at the same time, he might take my silence as a tacit admission that I’m literally hitler. Plus, until now, pretty much all my opinions on this sort of thing have been communicated in the form of likes and retweets of other people’s tweets. My mom thinks if I actually say anything to the effect myself then I’d incriminate myself in the eyes of the woke and in result get cancelled, doxed and harassed by all the troon squad from uni that he’s still mates with.

It really sucks since I really like him as a person and I’ve been dating him for like 5 ish years now, he’s just a self righteous jackass when it comes to politics. Also lol @ him telling me which aspects of my content “get a pass” or not like he’s a fucking hall monitor.
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Just lie and say nothing much lolz and move on. If he digs further, just tell him he is gaslighting you and don't want to talk about these things.

Woman, don't you know women do this to their men all the time? Learn from the pros.

P.s. I am not woman.
 
That thanksgiving sub sandwich from 7-11 actually wasn’t that bad. Needed sriracha but whatever.
 
Remember making "friends" with that one kid at the park that lasted like a day or so until your parents took you home? or being picked on by one kid who you thought was gonna be your "mortal enemy" forever and ever?


I just made you think of them, but you can't remember faces let alone names from that far back can you? Yeah I thought so...
 
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