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[–]al-Amira 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I think your comparison to cultural subcultures like goth is completely off, not only is the comparison off - your analysis of what goths are feels quite off as well. You'd be better off comparing them to neo-nazis or some other political faction. That aside, no I don't think it will die off - cause unlike neo-nazis (and definitely unlike goths) these people have actually managed to get people fired from their jobs, they've managed to change the discourse in LGBT organisations, they even made governments consider people being allowed to change legal gender by nothing more than just signing a piece of paper. Corporations are gobbling it up like it was crack cocaine, their supporters too, just look at how it went from Black Lives Matter to Black Trans Lives Matter and no, that's not just something spewed forth by reddit TRAs, it's regurgitated by people who probably don't even know what TRA ideology actually is, sure the change isn't official but still a lot of people still add trans lives to it. Other things they've changed includes, but is not limited to words such as latinx instead of latino or latina and has been around since 2004 at least. University courses are also being affected by it, granted so far only in the social sciences. So... no, I don't think it will die out any time soon (eventually it will, unless it's been so firmly rooted that it's still there but just in a diminished form), there might be less people transitioning but I think the 3000 different genders will still be part of the discourse. I hope it will, but I very much doubt it... so please gender-confused people, prove me wrong.

[–]zeusdx1118 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

University courses are also being affected by it, granted so far only in the social sciences.

I am in college and I testify to the fact that I have had professors lecture us about "gender" in class, which is completely irrelevant in terms of the subjects we were there to study.

[–]al-Amira 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ouch, that sucks. Maybe if more feel the same way, you should complain - particularly if you're in the U.S as you're literally paying to attend courses. If I attend something like computer science, biology or anything really and time is taken away from those courses by discussing... say, Durkheim's theory about anomie, I'd find that worthy of complaint cause I'm not there to learn or discuss those things.

[–]zeusdx1118 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I want to every time it happens, yet I don't trust the college administration. The only time they do anything about anything is when they know students will riot and vandalize stuff because of something. Which is why left-talk is so popular in college now I think, because the left has a lawless crowd of troublemakers.