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[–]ClassroomPast6178 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I don’t think they’ve suddenly gone nuts, I think this has bloomed over the past decade with the rise of social media and the increasing importance that the lazy media has placed on what some twat said on twitter or instagram.

I can’t imagine any of this happening if the media hadn’t become so lazy and reliant on twitter hot-takes. And twitter et al wouldn’t have the status that they have now without the media treating it as a man on the street instead of the lunatic in the corner that it really is.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Transgenderism would have never caught hold in previous decades, and by suddenly I'm referring to the point at which is took hold and gained traction. Why now? I think things really got crazy starting in 2016.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Looking back, the building blocks of this have been being placed for a while. The pseudo-feminist 'theybe' trend laid some of the groundwork for the obsession with gender. The adoption of social media allowed bad ideas to spread rapidly and conditioned people for groupthink. Caitlin Jenner appears to have been a tipping point wherein everyone got the message that trans was cool (even though Jenner is hated by the trans mob now).

[–]ClassroomPast6178 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There were definitely a lot of building blocks.

You cannot deny that the tabula rasa/blank slate nonsense of the social constructionists didn’t have a massive role in developing gender identity theory and feminists were massively involved in pushing that stuff, because it removed all the pesky biological sex differences - meaning all inequalities were down to patriarchy - which complicated their arguments about women and men. But in heavily pushing that shit they opened the door for the devil of troonery and invited him into the stall with his ladypenis. Are they to blame for it all, absolutely not, but I still have feminist friends who adamantly refuse to admit there are biological differences between men and women (except for the baby making equipment).

There will no doubt be future PhD theses written on the causal elements of troonery, and someone will synthesise all the disparate social sciences and humanities pieces that lead us down this road. Hopefully they also compile a list of all the people who bear responsibility for the industrial abuse of children that it is bringing about.