Indoctrination / DoublethinkSo do you want us out or keep us?! Make up your mind!

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[–]soundsituationI myself was once a gay 21 insightful - 9 fun21 insightful - 8 fun22 insightful - 9 fun -  (3 children)

What’s the maximum possible IQ of a person who wears a shirt that reads “gender is over” while holding a banner that reads “lesbians against T*RFs”?

[–]Femaleisnthateful 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I was wondering about that. I see a lot of young people who've spent their whole lives immersed in gender ideology stating that they're 'sick of gender' while not actually disavowing gender ideology itself. I don't think they know how. They just think they're adopting some gender-transcendent identity.

[–]soundsituationI myself was once a gay 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have to wonder how this generation was raised to view gender. I'm an older Millennial and my Boomer parents are by no means liberal or progressive, but they encouraged me to do and wear what I liked without regard for gendered expectations, and most of my friends and classmates seem to have had the same experience. That's just how it was in the 80s and 90s (in the US, anyway).

The parents of today's teens are Gen Xers, who would have been raised primarily by people of The Silent Generation, whom I don't know much about. I've spent a fair amount of this past year doing a deep dive into the history of queer theory in an attempt to figure out how we've ended up where we are, but your comment makes me wonder if we should also be considering a generational angle: whether Gen X brought their kids up with stricter gender roles, and if so, why.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes I'm the same. The parenting theme of the 80s and 90s was the abolition of gender roles, particularly for girls. I feel like this mentality evolved (or devolved) into the trend of 'theybies'; progressive parents trying to escape socially imposed gender stereotypes by denying or hiding their child's sex altogether. I think there's a pretty straight line from that to modern gender ideology, which ironically has come full circle be reimposing sexist stereotypes under the guise of progressivism.