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[–]proc0 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'm sympathetic towards people with mental struggles, but this is absolutely a social and even MENTAL contagion. Yes, I think this is literally a kind of mind virus, that may even CAUSE people to feel dysphoria (and therefore become trans). I'm not pulling this out of my ass, there is a lot evidence from historical social contagions to hypnotism and how the brain is VERY susceptible to suggestion and subliminal messaging. Kids are obviously more susceptible to this, and as any other virus would do, this mental virus will seek to replicate and will look for the path of least resistance.

And BTW, what is wrong with people in general that they glaze over this issue like fucking zombies? There is no such thing as "wrong" body... but there clearly is such a thing as wrong mind or wrong thoughts that don't reflect reality. We get the body we get, but our minds are malleable and incredibly unreliable on so many levels.

[–]JulienMayfair 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

See the witchcraft crazes of the 16th Century in Europe. People were able to believe nonsense to the extent that they tortured other people and burned them alive. In the modern world, we like to think we've gotten beyond that, but I'm not so sure. Gender is also a magical belief system wherein people are led to believe that individuals possess some sort of mystical gender essence.

[–]proc0 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Right, although I would say it's a reverse witchhunt. It would be like everyone siding with witches, and hunting down those that don't believe in magic.

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

Same thing, it's just psychopaths hunting down the nonbelievers. The only difference is the religion the hunters follow.