Are you an, "ally?"
 

Everywhere online I keep seeing people ask, "Are you an ally?"

Well, are you?

I only ever see this around in reference to LGBTQ or "the trans community" specifically.

I am an Ally for Loving Tolerance, LGBTQ people love me.

Don't they hang people in your home country?

i think the "allyship" thing was among the earlier manipulations by black people a few years back when the social mania first took over. It was later, ironically, appropriated by the trans community for their social BS.

Sure. I have no reason not to be.

And we're talking the actual general population here, the average everyday person who is not looking to hurt anyone, not the boogieman that people imagine are hiding in the shadows waiting to pounce and make their kid a crossdresser.

I can't say I do anything other than mind my own business, but for the most part that's kinda what's needed? I have no interest in putting people on pedestals for any reason, that or otherwise. But someone making personal life choices that aren't hurting anyone else does not bother me. I may not understand it, because I'm not in their brain, but it's their life and that's on them to decide that.

That isn't what those people are looking for in "allyship". :lol:

They aren't looking for "peace" and "normalcy". If they were they wouldn't have structured "allyship" as low-hanging fruit for the easily outraged and misled.

Yeah, ally to them is "buys into and helps reinforce my delusion(s) and will defend them on the internet and/or in person if they're not just a keyboard warrior."

Yeah, the truth is I don't mind gay homosexuals in real life. I don't know many personally, but the few who later "came out" I have no problems with. But at the same time I'm not going to become a "champion for gay rights" or go on parades or put on an LGBT T-shirt or anything.

For one, I just don't care enough. And for two, it's not worth my time since I'm not part of their "community."

Granted I didn't support "Black Lives Matter" either for that matter, but that's another can of worms. And I love black people!

I guess I'm an 'ally' in the sense I live and let live and have nothing personal against gay people. I'm friends with several and we get along fine.

I won't go out of my way to go to any marches or purposely write pro-gay posts online or whatever because I don't really do that for anything politically related or anything.

I guess my earlier description really only applies to the "trans community" in how it is used. "I'm an ally to the gay community" doesn't really have the same connotations.

Poetic Rant.....

This entire culture and almost everything that we've seen for ten years is a result of a generation raised like emotional-autists with soft language and failure-trophies. It's led to maladjusted-normalcy. All you have to do is see the tantrum-thrown passive-aggression in adults that resembles school-yard heirarchy and you have it identified.

A decade or more basically of society's children throwing tantrums and complaining about classmates as adults. Because it worked for them in grammar school as a lifestyle.

There's literally no difference. "Be my ally or you are evil". An "ask" for a dramatic-commitment to one's BS worldview - "you have to be my friend and be nice to me". It's literally all the same childlike self-centeredness as grammar school tactics. And for power they huddle together in the streets like "Lord of the Flies". Society's children.

Poetic Rant over....

I just thought that word had with international politics and wars to do. Ot at least used to do...........

A lot of people have the mindset that, "If you're not with us, you're against us!" and take no substitutions.

If you're not an ally for the cause you're an enemy of the state! And they will burn you at the stake and put your head on a pike!

I have never heard about this internet ally stuff, but I am for sure an ally. I am straight, but I have no problems with people being gay or trans. However, I do have a problem with trans sports competition due to the unfair advantage.

Technically speaking that makes you not an ally, but an enemy. Those types (the ones that insist on being part of the LGBT, not regular people trying to live their lives) want you to go full lockstep.

That is one thing that sucks. Being gay automatically drafts you into the 'community' whether you want to to or not and you get blamed for their crazier views even when you personally don't agree with them. Kinda like 'yo, I don't want violence and all that crazy ****, I just don't want people hating me or trying to hurt me cause I want to suck another man's ****'.

I've known quite a few gay people in my life, and actually several gay women. Not one of them dyed their hair purple or pink or some such BS. Not one. Probably because they were "people first" and didn't identify purely as their crotch-preference.

I've read some wild sh** on this site, but thinking only militant lesbian feminists dye their hair takes the friggin cake.

:lol::lol::lol:

Well.. if anything it's clearly become an archetype of that foremost....

The way you call them "gay homosexuals" is kinda funny. :lol:

I agree with you for the most part. I'm also straight and have no problems with LGBT folk, whatsoever. Same-sex marriage has been legal in my country since... 2009? 2010?

I don't support BLM because I don't like the more extreme elements of that group and them defending the end of the nuclear family and such is absurd. And aren't some of the founders/leaders filthy rich at this point?

And that's why internet rhetoric has become much more toxic in the last 13 years or so. People having this black and white mentality... no pun intended.

Not that there's anything wrong with that!


What's wrong with people dying their hair purple? Why does it seem to bother you so much?

Bother him? That's a very uncharacteristically default leftist thing of you to say. "Why does it matter to YOU that they added a bunch of gay characters and race-swapped some people in this movie/comic/game? How does it effect YOU?!" and so on. Right? But it's never really that, it's just the noticing.

Like the "culture war" stuff. Historically if you ever just point out that, "Eh, in the last 5 years of this decades old franchise, why is there suddenly all this gay stuff, trans messaging and race-swapping going on?" You say that or make an article about it and automatically it's, "THE RIGHT IS STARTING A CULTURE WAAR!" when we're just pointing out the obvious. Meanwhile YOU started the culture war, where there wasn't one before. You just hoped we wouldn't notice and are irritated that we did.

As for purple hair on woke angry white women and woke "angry" feminine men, it's a little bit like ADD in that there's several symptoms for it and not any one symptom of it alone is necessarily damning. Except with ADD, there is like 8 or 9 symptoms and with the woke hacktivists if you have purple hair then you probably only need like one more, lol. I don't know, like, "Live in California or Germany" or "Watches CNN" or "Unironically likes Modern Dr Who" or something. Call it a "concerning marker," or a telltale sign, generally speaking. It's certainly not the 80s where it was a punk thing.

Though, separately, there's also the obese women thing that may not even mean they're woke hacktivists (though they are certainly welcomed into that camp with open arms, ready to Free Palestine and get mad at ICE with all the other drones). There seems to be this thing for the past 15 years or so where obese women kind of go, "I'm fat and unattractive! I gotta do something about it!" But rather than develop any kind of workout regimen or even basic exercise or fitness they turn to, "Oh. Right. I'll just dye my hair pink/blue/purple. That'll do it."

The action of someone dying their hair any color doesn't bother me at all actually.

However, it has been an archetype tightly correlated with problem-behavior and problem-perception, and so it's in that spirit that I use it for current reference. For example, if the culture that surrounds the people who exhibit those behaviors was that they wore "yellow pinky rings", then I'd be saying the "pinky-ring crowd" instead of the "purple hair crowd".

And so, whether you want to acknowledge it or not, I clearly don't really care about their "purple hair" for the sake of "purple hair". I would have thought this was obvious.

I think the very nature of your question though, is a testimony to the nature of "the people of the Technodrome", and is also oddly out-of-character for someone of your insight.

LOL @ the "cybercubed the homophobe" tag making a comeback :lol: That's a timewarp to 2014 or so.

Anyway...

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB (Post 2030710) Bother him? That's a very uncharacteristically default leftist thing of you to say

Okay, first of all, I'm surprised by the bold. What kind of image do you have of me, exactly? You thought I swung more to the right than the left or something? Not offended or anything like that. I'm just surprised. And I literally just asked him what his problem was with people dying their hair purple. Nothing else.

Perhaps it is a symptom of all those things you mention, but I genuinely don't know. I'm 35 years old at this point. I no longer interact with people aged 18-22. I notice that more people around that age nowadays do dye their hair in those kind of colours, especially girls. No idea what they believe in. I haven't asked. There was always that girl or two back when I was younger that dyed her hair blue or orange, but there was no political statement behind it.

I won't automatically assume that a young person who dyes their hair in an unnatural colour is making a political statement, however. Youngsters have been doing that for a couple of generations by now, at least.

Wait, what's going on here? First Andrew, now you. Again, not offended or anything, but it seems like you two have a certain image of me that I might be unawarely projecting.

The rest of your post clarifies what you meant. And my question was 100% genuine, by the way.

When I was in high school, all the Asian girls would dye their hair either purple, green or blue. And usually just one bang in front of their face, or their ponytail or something. It seemed to always be popular with Asian girls in particular.

I don't think any of them were trying to make a statement, it's just all Asians have dark black hair and they liked dying their hair other colors.

Girls/women of all countries dye their hair. So that doesn't seem weird to me, let alone something exclusive to Asian girls.

But dying one bang blue, green or purple? Basically not natural hair colors, or anime hair. And they don't dye their entire hair, just like one bang that comes in front of their face, or sometimes just shades in their ponytail.

I was equally surprised by your reply to IMJ given your usual chill, inquisitive, sometimes introspective posts. But maybe I misunderstood. I am very used to the almost automatic, "But why does it bother YOU?!" and so on. Giving you the benefit of the doubt you probably meant it in earnest and not in that way.

It is different in the US. At least in 2026. While I have seen even the kids of conservative parents posting pictures with 10-13 year olds with pink hair and the like... once we're talking about 16-20-somethings doing that... I'd say it is making a very specific statement except it is not. More of a broad statement of: "I am AGAINST the norm!" and/or "I am FOR the CURRENT THING(s)!" Or whatever is suitably rebellious to some cloud-like but imaginary evil in front of them.

CyberCubed is not wrong here, though mostly it is a Japanese girl thing. Japan has a culture of anime and manga and all of that and with that in mind, also yes, at the end of the day they all naturally have black straight hair. They will want to stand out, or be the "cool girl." And not be boring. I totally get it, even if I think it is unnecessary. Of course going pink or blue or whatever their favorite anime character has is going to be a thing, and it is completely devoid of what is going on in The West with -- largely -- our freakshows.

I'd almost want to give an exception to the people getting old I'm familiar with whose hair goes white and they start coloring it with purple and pink for "fun" (but you can always kind of still tell there's white in there)... except I can't even personally name one of these people that isn't doing the daily "LOOK WHAT TRUMP/ELON/MAGA JUST DID/SAID TODAY!!! WE'RE FACING FACISM EVERYDAY!!" (but can't explain how we are if asked in any logical manner) posting on their social media.

Man, owning the Libs is so uncool now.

I'm on Team Rainbow Hair. Resist Trump!

Huh? No you shouldn't be offended. LOL! I'm authentically telling you have historically been someone here whom I generally consider articulate and insightful whether I agree with all of your positions or not.

And so, "someone of your insight".....

:) That's all, bud.

Curious if you ever tried it.....
Me and three of my buddies dyed our hair once decades ago in a "young drunk-idea clown show". It was supposed to be "blonde" but we had no idea what we were doing and when it was over I spent about 2 months being called "Tony the Tiger" because it turned out more orange than blonde. It was pretty epic.

I've never dyed my hair. But even adult Asian women still dye one bang of hair or their ponytail that red, blue, green or purple color. It's pretty common even in adults over 30.

I'm not even sure it's just a Japanese girl thing, there's Korean and Chinese girls who do the same thing. Granted all Asians look alike to me so I can't tell the difference, I guess you have to be an Asian native to "detect" what other Asian country you're from. To me, they all have them same squinty eyes so I can't really distinguish Chinese and Japanese people at first glance. To quote Chris Tucker from Rush Hour 1, "All y'all look alike!"

Maybe you're right. There's not a lot of the kind of Asians you're talking about in my country, so I don't get to see enough of them to assess that. There's about 20-25 thousand Chinese immigrants here in Portugal, but that's about it. Indians and Bengalis are the most common immigrants from Asian countries here.

I feel like I'm seeing more and more Asians these days. But now most modern Asians are born in the U.S., it was their grandparents (and sometimes parents) that weren't. But now we've reached the point where more Asians are born in the U.S. and Europe than their home countries. Besides maybe China since its huge.

It's kind of funny, you can't even call Asians, Indians or hispanics "immigrants" anymore because now all the modern generation of 20-30 year olds were born in the U.S.

The reason why you don't see a lot of Chinese, Korean and Japanese immigrants in Europe is because their countries are not poor. Even China has been getting wealthier in the last several decades. You'll find Chinese all over the world, but not in very large numbers compared to Indians.

Czechia and Poland have a sizable Vietname community since it's still a somewhat poor country.

India, Nepal and Bangladesh, though? Those countries have tons of poverty still. No wonder people leave them.

Don't they still live in little huts there and eat food with their hands and roll around in the dirt and mud there? If I lived in a third world country I'd get the hell out of there too. They even have those small monkeys roam the streets in packs. It's so disgusting and dirty there, I'm surprised they even discovered electricity.

I lived in the Third World for the first 11 years of my life, albeit in an upper middle class family. I was pretty used to seeing slums and garbage everywhere in the streets.

Although corruption plays a huge role, it's not that Third World people are savages because of where they come from. There is no "Brown gene" that makes you litter everywhere.

Rather, it's often an overpopulation and density issue. India for example is famously is known for its uncleanliness compared to countries like the United States, but that is in part inevitable when your country has 3 times the American population and is probably 5 times smaller in total land area iirc.

I always preferred women who dyed their hair, but that could be due the fact that I am a punk rocker who always had dyed hair myself. I had a mohawk for most of my adult life. I love a girl that spits in the face of conformity.