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[–]jacques1102 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm part of a discord community for this T.V show i got back into a year ago with around 80k members.It has a sizable teenager fanbase on here and i've yet to see one that wasn't obsessed with gender.It's literally gotten to the point where you can't say with a straight face that this isn't a social contagion.Otherwise why is it only gender special teens that are obsessed with this show, especially when the show in question hasn't really been that kind to them?

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

These kids want to belong.

They see queer groups as a kind of a social tribe, akin to the goths and emos of the 90s and 00s.

For most of them, being a gender special will be nothing more than a phase which they'll eventually move on from.

The problem here are the extreme cases: in the same way many people who jumped in the "drugs are cool" bandwagon of the 80s ended up frying their brains and ruining their lives beyond repair, there will be the ones who will do the same in regards to the "gender craze" of today.

Let's just hope there won't be many who decide to walk this path.