Transgender Awareness week

Dickens

Rosie51

Dickens

Matthew 6:1 Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

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Fairly obvious I'd have thought......displaying your 'goodness' or 'philanthropy' for all to see and therefore earn you earthly praise won't be earning brownie points on a heavenly scale.

Some people can't so much as think a good thought without wanting a round of applause, others toil for hours in total obscurity.

Oh I understood the passage.

I simply pondered why it was aimed at my comment.

Sorry, it's late I wasn't looking beyond the obvious. I expect, but it's too late to look back I'm off to my bed, that it's referring to an earlier post than yours. It was a postscript after all.

It wasn’t aimed at your comment Dickens . It referred to the conversation earlier about virtue signalling.

Doodledog

It wasn’t aimed at your comment Dickens . It referred to the conversation earlier about virtue signalling.

Ah, thanks.

I was a bit puzzled.

... and I don't have much virtue to signal anyway

Good Morning on Trans Awareness Day. Here's a candle for all those struggling with their gender identity in the world 🕯
May they find peace and happiness.

It isn’t ‘Trans Awareness Day’ Glorianny
It’s Transgender Remembrance Day, an annual day to remember those who have lost their lives due to acts of anti-transgender violence.

FannyCornforth

It isn’t ‘Trans Awareness Day’ Glorianny
It’s Transgender Remembrance Day, an annual day to remember those who have lost their lives due to acts of anti-transgender violence.

Apologies just using the thread's title mistakenly.
But I'll light another candle for Transgender Remembrance Day and all those who have lost their lives🕯

Here is another little flame that can't be snuffed out 🕯

Thinking of trans people and their families today

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Sad day today

The pub shooting, I take it?

I have a GD who identifies as a GS. I do not feel an awareness week is needed. They are still our loved grandchild.

Leonard Cohen's Anthem
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8-BT6y_wYg
"Ring the bells that still can ring"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63693310.amp

if I say, "I'll light a candle for you" its saying, you are in my thoughts in a specially poignant way. Like an acknowledgment of something particularly important.

In fact on another internet chat room I was on (its defunct now) there was a regular "Light a Candle" thread and it was for people who had lost someone dear or for example had suffered badly in some way..

I dont see this as virtue signalling personally. It used to have real symbolic significance as it felt like a sharing and acknowledgment and people said they appreciated it greatly.

if I say, "I'll light a candle for you" its saying, you are in my thoughts in a specially poignant way. Like an acknowledgment of something particularly important.
That is very different though. That is a supportive gesture between the two people concerned, not an announcement to the world at large that someone is planning to light a candle to people they don't know, which is dangerously close to appropriating other people's loss and grief to make them look good.

Re Virtue Signalling
It’s the need to tell others that you’re doing it that makes it VS , not the act itself. Matt6:1
So
There’s a candle lighting service for XXXX cause at xxxx or on xxxx is not VS.

The need to announce that you’re lighting a candle, or you’ve lit a candle or however you let others know that you’ve lit or you will be lighting a candle is VS.

It does not matter who, I who do not, light a candle for.
Similarly it does not matter who, or what. I lick a hippo for

VioletSky

Here is another little flame that can't be snuffed out 🕯

Thinking of trans people and their families today

Me too VS.

Gagajo 💗

VS VS