#prideforeveryone

[GalladeGuy]

Define normal.

Normal just means what most people are. If you have a group of 100 people, where 90 of them have green eyes and the rest have other colors, having green eyes would be considered normal in that group.

 

[mashers]

Normal just means what most people are. If you have a group of 100 people, where 90 of them have green eyes and the rest have other colors, having green eyes would be considered normal in that group.

Unfortunately the word 'normal' has other connotations, like 'acceptable' or 'non pathological' or 'healthy'. That's really what I was getting at - saying something isn't 'normal' results in all kinds of other judgements because people focus not on the meaning of the word, but how they feel about it. It's quite annoying.

 

[FAST6191]

Normal just means what most people are. If you have a group of 100 people, where 90 of them have green eyes and the rest have other colors, having green eyes would be considered normal in that group.

Which is fine if splits are like that. The reality is rather different and if 40 people had one colour and the remaining 6 colours have 10 each then 60 people do not have the first colour. That also assumes it is all just one colour too and not various blends or other traits that might alter things and you might also want to consider sample size and how relevant it is for where you are at for the issue we are discussing (do we break it down by county, state, country, larger union, world, world but dismiss those with certain baseline concepts -- do we care what North Korea has to say sort of thing, and what changes when it is just what I am having for dinner this evening). Alternatively if something exists in more than 10000 cases (this number might vary depending upon the discussion but suffice it to say a minute fraction of the number of people that have existed throughout history but substantially more people than you would likely want to fight as an individual) does it matter if there are no other underlying issues (9999 people have a disease that hurts them and few would advocate stopping when case 10000 arises).

Also what mashers said in the post responding to yours. Without that though is normal desirable for you, in general, "for your kids" and [insert some other division]?

 

[Deleted User]

Listen, it's great people don't have to hide who they "truly are" (or think themselves to be), but is a parade really in order here?

No.

Also, religion flamewar! Yay

 

[KingVamp]

Define normal.

As in, the opposite of abnormal. There's a reason that person didn't want to continue and I didn't want to either.

 

[omgpwn666]

I'm fine with it. Just let people live their lives.

 

[SonicCloud]

(why is still a thread from 1 month ago keep going on? lol)

 

[Deleted User]

(why is still a thread from 1 month ago keep going on? lol)

Because somebody bumped it. If you don't want people to reply than ask a mod to lock it.

 

[SonicCloud]

Because somebody bumped it. If you don't want people to reply than ask a mod to lock it.

its ok :'v

 

[The Catboy]

>LGBT

what about pansexual, asexual, etc. you get my point

But to be completely honest, this is like 9/11. people just won't move on. It's been like 15 years since then and we still have a day for it. USA had more horrible events but it promotes 9/11. shit like this makes me want to move back to japan tbh

Speaking from someone who is pansexual (for lack of a better term) and transgender, I really don't need more attention than I already get.
I'll just refer to my first comment on how I feel about pride

As a transgender girl, I am honestly not a big fan of "Pride Day/Month." Though I understand the reasons behind them, I also find that they don't progress us forward. We just want to show the world that we are normal people like everyone else and shouldn't be treated as anything special, but then we have days like this that kind of defeat the purpose.
If you really want pride, just be you. You don't need a day, month, ect. you just need to be you.