Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Triggernometry" channel.

  1. He sounds very reasonable but there are occasional statements that give me serious pause. His comment about patients who come to him saying "I am certain that I'm x" quote "Most of the time, you're not so defensive - you can have things examined and looked at from different points of view." That's pure weapons-grade bullshit. If you get any cis teenage boy in his office and try to "examine" with them the fact that they are actually female, and see how much "defensiveness" and pushback you get. I'm also concerned about his repeated mention of Rowling as a victim figure, when in fact, she injected herself into the connversation with simplistic and intolerant statements. There's a reason why the argument causes generational division - because older people are resistant to change, come from a less tolerant era, and are generally less well educated. We absolutely DO have the right to say "This is me." Acceptance is each person's individual choice, but if they choose to be douches about it, I in turn have the right not to be happy with their decision. Ultimately, he makes many excellent points about the larger issues but I suspect that his words hide some attitudes that do not serve outsiders well.
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  2.  @tetrahedron1000  Settle down grampa. You're wrong and just because you read 1984 and Brave New World in an era before electricity doesn't make your generation smarter - just more bored. The percentage of students attending university has risen every year for decades, kids have to attend school now until the age of 18 minimum, rather than 14 or 15 when you were still at school. The average qualification for a skilled job is a degree now, but even just 30 years ago, it was only a secondary (high) school education. And don't give me that "way back then in the middle ages we questioned ideas" crap. Youtube is awash with science, education, politics, philospophy, and religion channels. That you think the that people get their information from different sources now somehow constitutes an argument, is the clearest indicator of the failure of YOUR education to turn out rational, intelligent, reasonable human beings. And while we're talking about the tolerance of people in the past, shall we talk about the McCarthy witch hunts, racism, slavery, the salem witch trials, incarcerating Japanese people during WW2, forced lobotomies and castrations of people with minor conditions (such as a desire to masturbate). Which exact 10 seconds in the long appalling history of America shall we look at to prove that people were more tolerant in the past? Or should I look at Britain's long history of racism and colonialism? The Crusades, the inquisition, the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde and the sterilisation of Alan Turing, the fact that women didn't get the vote until 1918, and men not long before that. I could go on all night, but if you don't get it now, you never will.
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