[quote TarasCrazyTiara]@Helleofabore
I’m not telling you your out of the touch with majority thinking on trans toilet stuff, which you would know if you read my posts instead of just imagining anyone who disagrees with you in any way is on the other side in your ideological “battle”. That shows very insular thinking on your part.
What I said was conflating trans activists as misogynists who were like old fashioned misogynists (it was someone else who posted talking about them in relation to the country) was absurd and laughable to most people and it was this kind of stuff that was out of touch with the majority (who wouldn’t have a clue what you were talking about).
Who you know from the country is irrelevant, I grew up in the country and know plenty of country people - that is also irrelevant. The reality is that people in the country and rural areas are by and large are more conservative on issues like this than metro areas. I have no idea why you would try to deny it. I’m not “sneering” at them at all, as you have no idea what my actual thoughts on it are other than thinking single sex toilets should stay.[/quote]
I didn’t conflate them.
Misogyny is misogyny, it can be varying types but it’s all the same thing at the end of the day.
You misread, accidentally or deliberately, and ran with offensive comments about ‘rural hicks’. Which would be out of touch when talking about anywhere, but especially the vast differences and variations within ‘rural hicks’ in Scotland especially.
The landscape is dramatically different within many areas of Scotland. There are massively wealthy land owners in some areas, spectacular country estates in some, old style crofts in others, conservation areas in others staffed by highly educated scientists, fishing villages in others, tourist b&bs in others, hiking or skiing resorts in others, locals who never leave in others, celebrities looking to hide away in peace in others, struggling farms in some, massively wealthy farm estates in others, racing yards, hunting yards, cross country estates, small cottages with a pony in a paddock in others, families who sell tiny London flats and move up to buy large family homes in others. And that’s before you look at the towns themselves. Which in the borders alone include some extremes of poverty after mill closures decades ago mixed with some incredible historical heritage in the likes of Kelso and Melrose. Full of a huge mix of people from those who never leave their home town and live for the common ridings to those who are famous writers or artists who run writers retreats. Being working class in Scotland very much comes with the expectation to go to university, to get an education to come home and benefit the community. And Scotland has some exceptional world renowned universities, including number 1 in uk league tables at the moment- St. Andrews.
The idea you would assume ‘rural hicks’ has anything to do with Scottish country life shows you have no idea what you are talking about and are jumping to ignorant conclusions.
What I was saying in the post you jumped on, that others understood just fine, that I further explained to you, was that there’s a level of common sense about biology that comes from growing up around country life and seeing how animals are born. But that this common sense doesn’t change that there’s just as much misogyny in these towns/country as anywhere else.
As other understood that just fine it appears as if you were looking to inflame an argument. And detract from the op.