Hashtag currently trending on Twitter #transwomenareconmen

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Could also be that they are really susceptible to social contagion as self-harm and eating disorders are both examples of social contagions. Self-harm wasn’t a thing until the awareness campaigns started in teen magazines, similarly eating disorders absolutely rocketed when the media started “raising awareness”, researchers have actually tracked the spread of bulimia and using a toothbrush to provoke vomiting through articles in magazines.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There is some evidence that large groups of teenage girls are highly susceptible to mass hysteria/social contagion. The things you listed, there was a town not too long ago where most of the teen girls all "got" Tourettes. Mass hysteria around boy bands going back to The Beetles (not that I'm calling them a boy band). And even events like the Salem witch trials, were at least partially fuelled by what could have been this type of group hysteria in the teen girls who supposedly saw the witches.