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[–][deleted] 46 insightful - 3 fun46 insightful - 2 fun47 insightful - 3 fun -  (52 children)

I watched this interview a few days ago.

The gist is that the daughter became indoctrinated around 14 years old by Tumblr/Deviantart - before this time she was very feminine, never presented as masculine. When she was about 17 or 18 she decided to go on testosterone. The mother did a bunch of research and saw that the likelihood of women having heart attacks on testosterone is extremely high, and since they have heart disease running through the family, the likelihood of her having a fatal heart attack before 30 is very high. The daughter said dying before 30 would be worth it to have a beard and a deeper voice. The daughter considers herself a gay man, even though her boyfriend considers himself a straight man.

There wasn't anything hateful in the video. Just a very sad mom who obviously loves her child a lot.

edit: it's still on Spotify

[–][deleted] 30 insightful - 3 fun30 insightful - 2 fun31 insightful - 3 fun -  (22 children)

I've moved out to an area that doesn't get cell service (nearest service around 45 mins away) - and there aren't any crazy people. The "always connected" brain cancer normies are absorbing from echo chamber social media sites is destroying their ability to discern sane from insane, and real from fantasy.

If we want to make the world somewhat sane again - we need to get rid of smart phones. Worst invention to date. It makes me feel daft that I didn't realize how harmful these things were until I was in an area that didn't have them - and saw firsthand how (eliminating them) affects folks.

[–]ISaidWhatISaid 24 insightful - 2 fun24 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

We know exactly how harmful smartphones are (and don't think adults are harmed by them, just less so than kids) but everyone from schools, to employers to governments to credit card companies are forcing you to own one and use one daily. It's not like you can opt out.

The biggest difference between the Millennials and their predecessors was in how they viewed the world; teens today differ from the Millennials not just in their views but in how they spend their time. The experiences they have every day are radically different from those of the generation that came of age just a few years before them.

What happened in 2012 to cause such dramatic shifts in behavior? It was after the Great Recession, which officially lasted from 2007 to 2009 and had a starker effect on Millennials trying to find a place in a sputtering economy. But it was exactly the moment when the proportion of Americans who owned a smartphone surpassed 50 percent.

The more I pored over yearly surveys of teen attitudes and behaviors, and the more I talked with young people like Athena, the clearer it became that theirs is a generation shaped by the smartphone and by the concomitant rise of social media. I call them iGen. Born between 1995 and 2012, members of this generation are growing up with smartphones, have an Instagram account before they start high school, and do not remember a time before the internet. The Millennials grew up with the web as well, but it wasn’t ever-present in their lives, at hand at all times, day and night. iGen’s oldest members were early adolescents when the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, and high-school students when the iPad entered the scene, in 2010. A 2017 survey of more than 5,000 American teens found that three out of four owned an iPhone.

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More comfortable in their bedrooms than in a car or at a party, today’s teens are physically safer than teens have ever been. They’re markedly less likely to get into a car accident and, having less of a taste for alcohol than their predecessors, are less susceptible to drinking’s attendant ills.

Psychologically, however, they are more vulnerable than Millennials were: Rates of teen depression and suicide have skyrocketed since 2011. It’s not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental-health crisis in decades. Much of this deterioration can be traced to their phones.

In the early 1970s, the photographer Bill Yates shot a series of portraits at the Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink in Tampa, Florida. In one, a shirtless teen stands with a large bottle of peppermint schnapps stuck in the waistband of his jeans. In another, a boy who looks no older than 12 poses with a cigarette in his mouth. The rink was a place where kids could get away from their parents and inhabit a world of their own, a world where they could drink, smoke, and make out in the backs of their cars. In stark black-and-white, the adolescent Boomers gaze at Yates’s camera with the self-confidence born of making your own choices—even if, perhaps especially if, your parents wouldn’t think they were the right ones.

Fifteen years later, during my own teenage years as a member of Generation X, smoking had lost some of its romance, but independence was definitely still in. My friends and I plotted to get our driver’s license as soon as we could, making DMV appointments for the day we turned 16 and using our newfound freedom to escape the confines of our suburban neighborhood. Asked by our parents, “When will you be home?,” we replied, “When do I have to be?”

But the allure of independence, so powerful to previous generations, holds less sway over today’s teens, who are less likely to leave the house without their parents. The shift is stunning: 12th-graders in 2015 were going out less often than eighth-graders did as recently as 2009.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/

[–]Cass 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Thank you for posting this, very interesting article.

Sounds like they want to have a say in the world and feel special while at the same time having a very limited world-view and being dependent on their parents.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

It's really a terrible mix. And the super-lefties are the worst of those.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is worth reading in this regard, as it is much overlooked and plays a huge role in the current trend of disappearing mental health: https://saidit.net/s/Consciousness/comments/68z3/the_removal_of_safeguards_against_toxic_thoughts/

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    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    I have a smartphone. I use it to take pictures from time to time, but I have to charge it first. It sits in the powder room, uncharged, just the way I like it. If I feel I REALLY REALLY need it, I can charge it and use it. But mostly I don't. I don't like listening, tracking and totalitarian surveillance devices. Go figure.

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      [–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

      There is a new linux-based smartphone that has HARDWARE SWITCHES for the mic, cam, wi-fi, and basically every function.

      This is my next phone: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/11/pinephone-specs-price-release-date

      [–]Kikeniggertransfaggo 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      Cool phone

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            [–]C3P0 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

            No sympathy for drug users. I hope it's a million ice picks.

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              [–]C3P0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

              Wild assumptions there.

              Also, you might want to get that shift key repaired.

              [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

              That is rough dude. Drugs are FUN

              [–]C3P0 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

              I am sure. Just don't let it affect the lives of others.

              [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

              Yep, my use has never impacted anybody else.

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

              Drugs don't make the addiction. Soldiers leaving Vietnam who had been doing heroin daily for months or years came home to their families, stopped cold turkey and never showed withdrawal symptoms. A large number of them.

              There are some documentaries out there demonstrating how the cause of addiction is psychological and has nothing to do with the substance.

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                [–]asterias 17 insightful - 2 fun17 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

                The daughter considers herself a gay man, even though her boyfriend considers himself a straight man.

                If she wanted to have sex with a man, why should she grow a beard and weaken her health for that? This tranny cult has become really dangerous and youtube is a part of that.

                [–]florasis 14 insightful - 4 fun14 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

                She clearly got some gay fetish or wanting to be more special than a simple hetero girl.

                [–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

                a lot of women ship characters that are straight to be two gay guys, like a lot want iron man and cap america to be gay together. Someone should do a peer reviewed study on why they want this.

                [–]jet199 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

                Yeah, it's not like men ever obsess over lesbians or anything weird like that.

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

                good point

                I don't get that either I mean I get it's two hot girls and 2 is better than one but I don't get the wanting them to be in a relationship part

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

                Can these tranny pseudomales even have an erection ever? Orgasm, I think not?

                [–]jet199 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

                They put an air pump in one of their fake ball bags. In not even kidding.

                [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

                Ugh. This is beyond revolting.

                All this because they choose to believe demented thoughts in their minds instead of looking at the REALITY of which sex they are. It really is that simple.

                But that's in great part because of the disappearance of traditional safeguards against toxic thoughts. More on that here: https://saidit.net/s/Consciousness/comments/68z3/the_removal_of_safeguards_against_toxic_thoughts/o8j1?context=3

                [–]Canbot 11 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 5 fun -  (17 children)

                It seems at this point you have to become Amish to protect your kids.

                [–]florasis 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

                I pity parents. Being parents is hard, and with internet influence is even harder.

                [–]crazyangryfemale 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (14 children)

                Amish men have children, rape their female children, let their male children rape their female children, rape other female children, & no female child-adolescent-or-adult is allowed to speak about it within the community

                https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a30284631/amish-sexual-abuse-incest-me-too/

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

                Wow, you really swallowed that propaganda hook line and sinker.

                I don't know how to break it to you but the media is corrupt as fuck. Especially far leftist media like cosmopolitan. They hate white people, and the Amish have lots of kids. This is nothing more than a political hit piece.

                In one article the Cosmopolitan defends and tries to normalize pedophilia, and in the next they use it to attack white people. Don't be a sheep.

                Rape and incest are terrible, and I believe it could be happening in Amish communities. I don't believe that it is an epidemic, and I can't imagine ever being dumb enough to trust the Cosmopolitan to reveal the truth about anything.

                [–]JamalGinsberg 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

                Sounds like a hit piece done by the degenerates that run those shitty magazines.

                [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

                Are you Jewish by any chance?

                [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

                Teen Vogue and Cosmopolitan arre two magazines owned by Conde Nast and Hearst:

                https://scadconnector.com/2018/10/24/teen-vogue-and-cosmopolitan-tap-new-editor-in-chiefs/\

                They are both under new editorial management ;Teen Vogue is selling Marx to teen girls, full bore:

                https://www.teenvogue.com/story/who-is-karl-marx

                https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/teen-vogue-hails-communism-and-its-founder-karl-marx-ignores-millions-of-dead/

                https://www.foxnews.com/media/teen-vogue-slammed-for-tweeting-praise-about-karl-marx

                and Cosmopolitan is so deviant, Walmart pulled it from its checkout lines for cover stories like "How to Ring A Guy's Penis With A Donut", as reported by Vogue itself:

                https://www.vogue.com/article/walmart-cosmopolitan-metoo

                The fact is these magazines are political propoganda rags pushing Communism and attacking any form of traditional "patriarchy" , with the Amish- whose total numbers are barely a rounding error in our population- being an easy target.

                Once a media outlet gets taken over by the extreme left, you can't trust anything they say because lying to achieve their ends is a part and parcel of the left's arsenal. Like the NYTimes, they are riding on the fumes of whatever previous jounalistic integrity their former employees earned for them. That only works for a small window of time. Then the lights go out.

                [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

                You should mention that if a media apparatus is taken over by the far right, then the exact same things ensues, just with different topics and hit points.

                [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

                You say this but the "far right" media outlets I get information from don't seem to be doing this. This is coming from a life-long progressive (me). I can't think of a single thing pre-2004 I disagreed with progressives about except gun control and late term abortion. Now the left is literally, I mean literally insane. I went from an 1st term Obama voter to a Trump voter.

                So the terrible trhings you think the right is putting out there, I am not seeing those.

                Honestly, rationality and a respect for reason itself is all on the right now. So I moved there.

                [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

                You probably support the evils of industrialism if you think the right isn't corrupt.

                [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

                As opposed to working yourself to death by age 45 in subsistence farming or dying in childbirth or being prey to whatever disease mother nature rolls up for your consumption?

                Yeah. I do.

                [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

                There can be a technologically advanced society without industrialism. Industrialism simply has to precede the latter-society. We shouldn't stay here, we should morph the best of the Old World with the best of the New World, instead, y'all throw the baby out with the bath water. Industrialism is causing the sixth largest mass-extinction event this planet has ever seen. Tell me how dying at 45 is worse than seeing countrysides torn up, species of plants and animals disappearing (not due to natural causes, but due to industrialism)

                [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

                So no computer? Because w/o industrialization you don't have computers.

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

                Obviously none of us here are one, but ... they do make some oddly prescient points about technological dangers....

                [–]Tarrock 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

                This is why you ban kids from social media and block the sites from your router.

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

                That spotify link is broken. Did it get nuked too?