The Trans Movement Just Hit Home.......

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(05-04-2023, 10:55 PM)michaelsean Wrote: That’s not conservatism. Conservatism is about stability.  And you are acting like it’s the same people. I have a lot of conservative in me, and I don’t pretend I think women have the right to vote. I’m not the people who thought they didn’t. Just like you aren’t the liberal of the early  twentieth century who thought women had the right to vote but likely thought being gay was a sin.  Or opposed abortion or thought black people were second class citizens.

Fair point, but to me the thing that carries on is the reasons conservatives (in the social if not political sense) give for loving freedom but needing to curtail specific freedoms.  The Women's suffrage movement applies in the sense that the people who argued against it were saying that liberating women would hurt children, delegitimize and disincentivize the traditional family unit, and lead to men becoming less masculine.  So while arguing that women shouldn't have the right to vote is archaic, the warnings that progress will harm kids, families and society, and muddy the traditional lines and roles between men and women have never gone out of style.

We hear the same arguments for every new development.  That's where things go right back to the days of the dodo, for me.