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[–]QueenBread 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I mean. It's pretty clear it's a social contagion.

The seeds of it were put slowly over time, starting with the refusal of gender roles that increased over time in the last decades. Except that refusal was good, at first. Very good. It meant we had evolved past the need of strict gender roles, which should have been a relief to everyone. And yet now it turned into the mysoginist propaganda and regression we're seeing.

If I weren't so creeped out by the mass hysteria, and if I weren't worried about women's safety and rights being eroded, I could almost find this an interesting phenomenon to ponder.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They only supported the destruction of gender roles/steroetypes/expectations until they could begin using those items against everyone. By removing those harmful constructs, people started to be themselves and not let their gender determine what they do. Now, however, TRAs are turning that around and saying that gender expectations are in place again, except working in the reverse direction: what you do determines your gender now.

It's like when you need to pull out some furniture to change some wires behind it, just to push it back exactly where it was with a few changes behind the scenes.