https://xcancel.com/JohnThePapist/status/1847162568248365366

  • SadArtemis [she/her]
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    7 days ago

    Didn't Francis compare us (trans people) to nuclear weapons? Hopefully he's moving towards the light all the same (towards acceptance or the afterlife, either works)

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      7 days ago

      It was the height of the Cold War. Tensions between the Soviet Union and the U.S. wer at the breaking point. Who struck first has been lost to history, but the devastation was quick and horrific. Moscow was leveled by a paratrooped legion of post-op transwomen. UwU readings in New York City reached levels not thought possible. A concentrated trans masculine strike on London left the Thames more testosterone than water. The records of what happened got even murkier when the Chinese launched an unexpected, simultaneous marine invasion of enbys into both the U.S. and Russia.

      • REgon [they/them]
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        7 days ago

        "We can confirm that Saddam has recently imported thigh-high socks and Blåhaj. We therefore have reasons to suspect he is hiding his trans of mass destruction " mission-accomplished

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      7 days ago

      It's weird, he seems to be playing both sides atm. When he compared you to nuclear weapons ( posadas xi-plz ) he meant that the proliferation of "gender ideology" is an existential threat. It's the same logic that a lot of TERFs use, part of the gender critical movement's mythology. But he seems to believe that some halfway point between what trans people are asking for and the status quo is the correct position and he's just kind of slowly moving towards it?

      I do also get the impression that he's struggling a bit due to his hands being tied to what JP2 put down in Humanae Vitae. He can't exactly revoke it, he'd probably cause a schism. Yet it does seem he wants to move away from it.

      If anything, the Catholic Church in the 21st century is a pretty interesting case study on the limits of gradualism and reform. More than what I originally expected could change has already changed. But there's so many, like really quite a lot, of things I don't think are even on the horizon and are gonna cost the Church a lot in this century. We'll see.