you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]JulienMayfair 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

In a way, my post today and yours parallel each other. I'm coming to the conclusion that gender identity has become a way for people who are legitimately mentally unwell to demand attention from the world for their internal distress, while, at the same time, avoiding naming it because it's too painful and overwhelming to try to name and confront it directly. Thus, attempting to control others' behavior becomes for them a way of managing their internal distress -- which it is for narcissists. That is why narcissists do what they do. Their self-image is fragile and must be protected at all costs -- in order to avoid dealing with their own fractured internal reality.

You might say that gender identity is becoming a kind of expressionistic theater movement, and we are the unwilling audience.