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[–]Anna_Nym 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is the type of thing that I find so problematic about contemporary gender ideology. As an adult, I can roll my eyes at it. But when sex education materials incorporates these concepts, prepubescent and pubescent children are being told by authority figures that there is some kind of woman/girl feeling or man/boy feeling that they're supposed to have in order to be a certain sex.

That's horrible! They're at the exact age when it is normal to feel disconnected from their bodies, scared of their expected adult sexual identity, and have a lot of identity issues. Instead of being given the tools to navigate a bog standard phase of life, this type of ideology is confusing and destabilizing them.

And there's no research or science behind any of this. It's just shit that developed in Tumblr echo chambers. But somehow norms shifted over the past decade such that it's become dangerous in many social circles to say that the emperor has no clothes. Even though none of this makes any sense or has any grounding in material reality. It also is appropriative of the gay rights struggle.