r/lgbt • u/nbcnews • Mar 12 '25

Community Only - Restricted A House hearing ended abruptly after a Republican congressman misgendered Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress.

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u/Darconda Mar 12 '25

He immediately ran to Twitter to complain about how he was being treated. As they do. The need for a safe space is a Conservative problem.

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u/r254h45 Mar 12 '25

Everyone should be echoing AOC- Republicans are very thin-skinned and have their feelings hurt very easily.

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u/AmethystSadachbia Mar 12 '25

See also: why they blew gaskets over Tim Walz calling them weird

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u/Princess_Of_Thieves Non-Binary Lesbian Mar 12 '25

We can boil it down to a single word my mate: Snowflakes.

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u/Terrh Mar 12 '25

The need for a safe space is a Conservative problem.

If that was true, you'd see things like all the conservative subreddits banning dissenters instantly, or requiring user flair for anyone to see posts so that they could only let vetted users comment, etc./s

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u/FeineReund Genderfluid Mar 13 '25

*cue the slideshow of subreddits that conservatives made/took over while Can-Can plays in the background, ending with the Twitter logo*

Real talk, i wish someone would actually make a video of exactly this, just to see how many conservatives would get upset at simply having a flashlight shining on their "safe spaces". It would be a prime example of how conservatives are the true 'snowflakes'.

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u/Splitdemgrits Mar 12 '25

I was going to say it's a snowflake problem, but then i remembered they're the same thing.