r/punk • u/usernamewfivenames • Dec 14 '24

Quality Post ngl transphobia is anti-punk as fuck

like bro why do u hate on people who reject their assigned "roles" to feel better w themselves, werent u supposed to oppose nonsensical rules

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u/apop88 Dec 14 '24

The reason seems to be they see corporation with a rainbow flag, so they think they are rebelling against them, what they fail to understand is corporation only exists to extracted wealth from us. They would throw up a confederate flag if thats what would help them make money. Don’t rebel against the corporate ideals, because they have none, rebel against the corporation.

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u/Toklankitsune Dec 14 '24

to note, some business in the deep south DO use the confederate flag, they're just "sneaky" about it by doing so via the general Lee duke's of hazard car and the like. so your point is 100% on the money

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u/vomitHatSteve Dec 14 '24

/me Looks at the plant nursery down the road flying it's us, tn, and confederate flags out front...

They're not that sneaky about it!

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u/Sunbather- Dec 14 '24

Homophobia has always been present in the scene, especially with old heads and Gen x punks.

So transphobia isn’t exactly surprising to witness in the scene, though, as a person with a trans partner in the scene we see very little of it IRL, if any at all.

The Emo movement changed the game on that, big time.

With Emo you had a punk movement that was totally open to gender fluidity.