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[–]haveanicedaytoo💗💜💙 48 insightful - 4 fun48 insightful - 3 fun49 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

It will but it will take a while. Gen Z's children will definitely be like "WTF were you guys doing???" 20 years from now, and they will probably be one of the most conservative generations in recent history.

In the 1920's there was flappers and illegal alcohol, and being LGB was something the really cool people did, and they were all just wild rebels who partied and had sex all the time. And then the crash happened, and the 30's people calmed the fuck down again. 30's-early 60's was a calm and conservative time (I mean... for white people anyway.)

In the 60's hippies and drugs and 'free love' was how we remember them, the 70's were called "the me generation" because children who grew up in that era grew up to be selfish fucks who just do cocaine and fuck (yes, I'm generalizing, hope this doesn't hurt anyone's fee-fees. Of course entire generations can't be summed up completely with just one sentence, I'm just trying to paint a picture with extremely broad strokes.) And the kids who had to endure the parents of the 60's and 70's ended up becoming conservative and uptight in the 80's.

This shit goes in waves, but this is the first time the internet is involved, and the internet has created one massive fuck of an echo-chamber so that's why I say this one is going to last longer and be more brutal.

I can give you a first hand account of another internet fad that took off in the mid/late 90's just as the internet was becoming accessible to normies for the first time, and that's Pro-Ana/Pro-Mia (eating disorders.) Anorexia was already a hot topic for teen girls before the internet because the media kept wanking about it by making sexy little movies about skinny teenage white girls. Every time a new movie would air, a whole new flood of teenage girls would want to try out the ana diet. And when the internet arrived, it became our perfect echo chamber where we could share tips and compete with each other and see who could get the thinnest without dying. Those that died (or faked their deaths) became like our saints. And if you search online, you will still find pro-ed sites out there, there are even some subs left here on Reddit. But the 2000 decade was really the pro-ana decade. Everyone had an eating disorder, and if they didn't have an ED, they had depression, or bipolar, or aspergers. Everyone was all about self-diagnosing.

People are still self-diagnosing and attention seeking and I don't think that will ever change but I do feel like, at least for the teenage girls, becoming "gay boy" FTM has replaced eating disorders as the big trend. For the "lesbian" men, we know this is a completely different beast fueled by porn addiction and chronic cum-brainitis. So... With the teenage girls, I see most of them cycling out of it and detransing in the next 5-7 years, but with the grown men, I don't have enough information/experience to make any sort of guess. My gut it telling me when porn destroys someone's brain to such a degree that they are putting on dresses and threatening strangers with violence, this is serious mental trauma that may never go away.

Sorry I'm babbling and incoherent. I couldn't sleep last night. Feel free to add to or correct anything.

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    [–]haveanicedaytoo💗💜💙 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Yeah, it definitely can be. In the pro-ana communities, there were girls who had a history of sexual trauma/abuse, who wanted to starve themselves into basically genderless beings, no boobs, no butt, no curves. They wanted to eliminate the female aspects of themselves through starvation. They didn't want to transition to anything because that wasn't a thing back then, but the parallels to today's FTM's is so obvious. So many FTM's have also experienced sexual trauma/abuse and want to remove their femininity.

    (And sexual trauma/abuse doesn't have to be rape, it can be a lot of things. It can be just the way society expects/demands women become sexually available fucktoys for men. If you keep getting the message that all your worth depends on whether men find you fuckable, even something like that can be enough to triggers stuff like this, especially if you're an L with 0 interest in men.)

    [–]lmaonope333 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    so true. I one read an article by an FtM and it said that she tried to starve herself during puberty to prevent developing and then she got top surgery