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04-11-2019, 10:49 AM
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World gone mad!!

So now we hear that the words "Ladies and Gentlemen please be seated" are no longer to be used at theatres for fear of offending transgender customers.
Has this world gone completely mad?
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04-11-2019, 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by big ben ->
So now we hear that the words "Ladies and Gentlemen please be seated" are no longer to be used at theatres for fear of offending transgender customers.
Has this world gone completely mad?
I am afraid that theatres that go along with this will help create these problems!
If somebody is transgender they would have to consider themselves male or female... so they should decide whether they want to be called a lady or a man..... so in this case there could be no offence.
It is up to the individual how they live, but they can't expect the rest of the world to change things just because they are different!
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04-11-2019, 11:40 AM
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Somebody is doing this on purpose to stir up bad feeling for the minorities Ben. It's time this sort of stirring was stopped and seen for what it really is. Provocation!
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04-11-2019, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Twink55 ->
I am afraid that theatres that go along with this will help create these problems!
If somebody is transgender they would have to consider themselves male or female... so they should decide whether they want to be called a lady or a man..... so in this case there could be no offence.
It is up to the individual how they live, but they can't expect the rest of the world to change things just because they are different!
That's how I see it. If a man goes through all the trouble of becoming a woman, how can he get upset when he is called one? Surely it would be like a dream come true?
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04-11-2019, 11:50 AM
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Hi

I just ignore this stupidity.
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May I offer a detached observation about all this. The LGBT part of LGBTIQ is covered there but I think it's the IQ part that is potentially offended. IT's becoming like a complex mathematical equation. Lesbians identify as female. Gay men identify as men. Same as with Bisexual people. TRansexuals identify as the opposite sex that they are and have
either transitioned or are a a "work in progress" But the intersex and "queer" group don't identify with either sex or are into seeing themselves as something else etc. I have known members of all those groups and I have to say that although their sexual orientation may seem weird and strange to "normal" people like us, it dies not mean they are automatically devoid of intelligence, rationality or any other desirable human trait. And it certainly doesn't mean they are mad. Conversely yes they have a responsibility to take others opinions and feeling into account as well. It's all about balance. And for the record I think Ladies and Gentlemen should continue to be said. Tolerance all round yeah?
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04-11-2019, 01:35 PM
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Since I am a white, heterosexual, ex working class, still tax paying male who drives a car, served in HM armed forces, is a conservative (with a small ‘C’) and voted for BREXIT I am, therefore, regarded as the Source Of All Evil.
Shame I’m not Jewish as I would be highest scoring card in the Source Of Evil Top Trumps pack.
This also means I am a racist, Islamophobic, misogynistic potential rapist who is also a homophobic, ill informed and facist little Englander who is destroying the environment.
I am seriously considering becoming species free and identifying as a Wart Hog, fat, grumpy, hairy in parts, and snort a lot, hopefully this will cancel out my failings listed above.
I apologise to the millennials for being born.
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04-11-2019, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by keezoy ->
Tolerance all round yeah?
Quite. And we don't need to be lectured to, or lectured at, by those who shout at us about inequality.
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04-11-2019, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by keezoy ->
May I offer a detached observation about all this. The LGBT part of LGBTIQ is covered there but I think it's the IQ part that is potentially offended. IT's becoming like a complex mathematical equation. Lesbians identify as female. Gay men identify as men. Same as with Bisexual people. TRansexuals identify as the opposite sex that they are and have
either transitioned or are a a "work in progress" But the intersex and "queer" group don't identify with either sex or are into seeing themselves as something else etc. I have known members of all those groups and I have to say that although their sexual orientation may seem weird and strange to "normal" people like us, it dies not mean they are automatically devoid of intelligence, rationality or any other desirable human trait. And it certainly doesn't mean they are mad. Conversely yes they have a responsibility to take others opinions and feeling into account as well. It's all about balance. And for the record I think Ladies and Gentlemen should continue to be said. Tolerance all round yeah?
"Ladies, Gentlemen & Queers", it is then. Sorted.
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04-11-2019, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Rehab44 ->
Since I am a white, heterosexual, ex working class, still tax paying male who drives a car, served in HM armed forces, is a conservative (with a small ‘C’) and voted for BREXIT I am, therefore, regarded as the Source Of All Evil.
Shame I’m not Jewish as I would be highest scoring card in the Source Of Evil Top Trumps pack.
This also means I am a racist, Islamophobic, misogynistic potential rapist who is also a homophobic, ill informed and facist little Englander who is destroying the environment.
I am seriously considering becoming species free and identifying as a Wart Hog, fat, grumpy, hairy in parts, and snort a lot, hopefully this will cancel out my failings listed above.
I apologise to the millennials for being born.
Maybe we could start a club.
 
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