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I don’t like the term “peak trans”

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Amoregentlemanlikemanner · 20/02/2018 21:44

I mean I get it. But I think your term should be peak TRA.

“Peak- “ is, as I understand it, a reference to the term “ peak oil” with all the connotations of the amount of oil reducing down to nothing.

Which is not, I hope, the way anyone feels about trans people.

Just my take on things

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Amoregentlemanlikemanner · 20/02/2018 23:24

I’m 47 and spent a lot of time campaigning for FOE. They are very careful about language It may be a generational thing.
It should be a thing that can be talked about though surely.

I do get that there are times to be pleasant and times to stop being pleasant.

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LangCleg · 20/02/2018 23:25

You....you.....Avobigot you! goes to fridge and caresses avocado

Am deeply, deeply anti-avocado just now. #peakavocado has been induced by the DH who is using them in his diet smoothies. I used to like avocados. And may once again, after the fool has reached his desired weight and has stopped using the (noisy) blender at 7am.

I feel #peakavocado is definitely related to #peakgrauniad.

#peaktrans is the real keeper.

NotTerfNorCis · 20/02/2018 23:27

I'd never heard of 'peak' being used in this way until about a year ago. Now it's everywhere. To me it means that you've run out of patience with something that you used to support, or at least didn't mind, but which has become ridiculous. 'Peak trans' means trans ideology, not trans people. There's a moment when you first hit 'peak trans'. For me, after months of hearing more and more about trans politics, it was the TRA reaction to the 2017 Women's March when they told women wearing 'pussy hats' that they were transphobic. 'Peak' is the point where you think: okay, this has gone too far now.

AngryAttackKittens · 20/02/2018 23:28

I'm only a few years younger than you, OP. If I can learn how terms adapt on the internet then so can you.

PositivelyPERF · 20/02/2018 23:29

I love avocado mashed, mixed with cherry tomatoes and heated in the microwave on toast. Yum 😋

AngryAttackKittens · 20/02/2018 23:29

At the risk of being excommunicated, I can't stand avocados. Mushy bland weirdly fatty for a fruit? vegetable? nastiness.

(Everyone else is welcome to have my share.)

UrsulaPandress · 20/02/2018 23:31

Avocados taste so much better close to their source.

flintyminty · 20/02/2018 23:33

To me it means that you've run out of patience with something that you used to support, or at least didn't mind, but which has become ridiculous

That sums up my peakOwenJones moment, which then led to further peaks.

TheFallenMadonna · 20/02/2018 23:34

Avocados are horrible. And environmentally dodgy. Definitely one for peaking.

PositivelyPERF · 20/02/2018 23:34

You are literally killing avocado lovers with your words of hate. Some avocados don’t feel accepted as avocados and struggle with their identity, so for you bigots to say you won’t accept them on your breakfast plate is just not nice and you should be nice because the avocado’s feelz are being hurt.

AngryAttackKittens · 20/02/2018 23:34

I've long since hit peak queer theory and according to the people who use that term I *am" "queer" (bisexual to be precise). Do I want myself to fade away and disappear or do I just understand how memes work?

UrsulaPandress · 20/02/2018 23:35

Avocado rustling is a thing.

AngryAttackKittens · 20/02/2018 23:37

Also limes, for a while, there were modern highwaymen accosting and stealing trucks.

PositivelyPERF · 20/02/2018 23:38

I’m now waiting for Willy to say he grows avocados and your hatred of the avocado is just more evidence of tryin to make TIMs disappear.

thebewilderness · 20/02/2018 23:38

Artichokes and avocados are two of my favorite things that I left behind when I returned here. They do not ship well.

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Amoregentlemanlikemanner · 20/02/2018 23:38

I’ll leave you all to it.

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PositivelyPERF · 20/02/2018 23:39

Avocado rustling is a thing tucks balaclava under cushions

LangCleg · 20/02/2018 23:40

I could concede to being #peakblender rather than #peakavocado?

#peaktrans is top peakage though.

PositivelyPERF · 20/02/2018 23:41

Funny thing is, I really don’t like guacamole, but mashed avocados are gorgeous. 🤔

PositivelyPERF · 20/02/2018 23:43

thebewilderness my heart breaks for you. No avocados. It’s inhuman. 💐

AngryAttackKittens · 20/02/2018 23:43

(waves goodbye)

LightofaSilveryMoon · 20/02/2018 23:44

"So when you have reached Peak Trans you are at the top of...?"

Well, in my case, it is reaching "Surely, these men people are really taking the piss, here, massively," and I was not born yesterday.

Been up against male aggression ever since I first it experienced when I was small.

thebewilderness · 20/02/2018 23:44

1, Do not take the bait.
2, It is all bait.

thebewilderness · 20/02/2018 23:45

After eating the good stuff it just is no go to settle for the picked green and shipped tasteless stuff. Thank you for your kind sympathy.

LightofaSilveryMoon · 20/02/2018 23:48

Pickled silverskin onions are the food of the gods, though.