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The Norwegian Labour Party has proposed a new law against conversion therapy aimed at LGBTI people. For some reason a local  lesbian trans-exclusionary “radical feminist” (TERF), Tonje Gjevjon, thinks this is a bad idea.

There should be nothing controversial about this. After all, we know how much harm this kind of treatment has caused gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex and transgender people.

The use of electric shock, nausea inducing drugs, physical punishment and intense indoctrination and social pressure is never good for anyone’s psyche. It is torture, plain and simple. And it does not work.

So why would a lesbian contest a policy that bans such practices? You guessed it: She wants to use conversion therapy against transgender children and trans adults. She wants to use the kind of torture that has been used to force lesbians like herself back into the closet, against other members of the rainbow community.

To be honest with you, I find this much more offensive than the arguments made by the right wing religious fundamentalists. Because she knows what kind of harm this treatment does. She knows that these are the kind of tactics traditionalists have used for ages to control marginalized groups. The religious fanatics may fool themselves into thinking that they are actually helping. She cannot.

Three of the parties in the Norwegian government – The Conservatives, The right wing populist Progess Party and the Liberals – are supporting a ban. They do so against the will of the fourth party in the cabinet: The Christian Populist Party. So you can say that the only party in Norway supporting Gjevjon’s stand is the one of the Conservative Christians. 

And that is exactly the kind of company trans-exclusionary radical feminists are keeping these days. They are in bed with their own enemy. Bizarre and tragic!

Tonje Gjevjon’s article in Dagbladet (Google translate)

Trans activist Karoline Skarstein’s response in the same newspaper. (Google translate)

There is also a public campaign against Dagbladet’s presentation of Gjevjon’s hate speech.

Here’s another fun story: My boss decided to slap my work phone number on all the ads we post looking for newspaper carriers. So I receive a bunch of calls from people looking for jobs. Working only part time, I’m not usually there when they call, so they have to leave a message and I take their info to pass on to my boss. Sometimes it can be weeks before my boss calls any of these applicants back, if at all. How the callers respond to not getting a callback varies. Most don’t do anything, but some call again. If the person sounds young, they may leave another message clarifying their qualifications and reaffirming their interest. If the person is old, and I can always hear it in their voice, they respond by getting mad, threatening to cancel their newspaper subscription, and occasionally swearing. The older generation is used to getting a callback, and an immediate one, so they throw a tantrum when they don’t get what they want.

So when a boomer or older sees a “whiny millennial crying about how they want $15/hour for flipping burgers” it’s because they think it’s still that easy to get recognized for doing a great job, so it must be the millennial’s fault for not trying hard enough to get noticed and move up the ladder.

Older generations don’t realize employers now don’t give a shit about the people working for them, don’t recognize when someone is a valued employee, don’t move them up in the company, and don’t increase pay based on work performance.

Employers now are too focused on keeping the hours per employee down so they don’t have to give them insurance and forcing them to work as hard as possible while also paying them next to nothing.

This is NOT how it used to be, and once a boomer or older really realizes this, they get super pissed at what has happened to the workplace these days. I’ve seen it happen with my parents and grandparents. My uncle didn’t realize it until he got a job at Walmart that lasted for two months because he couldn’t take it anymore and didn’t move up the ladder.

My grandfather was a really good businessman back in the day, and when I laid it all out for him, he was livid and said “that’s NOT how you get good employees. You get good employees by treating them like a human being, paying them what they’re worth, and pushing them to do better by following through on promises you’ve made to reward them for that good behavior and showing that you’re worthy of their respect and hard work by working hard yourself.”

“Mmm.”