Ultimately, this whole trans thing is coming apart rather dramatically. There are thankfully many people in society that refuse to go along with this elaborate game of make-believe.
Ultimately, this whole trans thing is coming apart rather dramatically. There are thankfully many people in society that refuse to go along with this elaborate game of make-believe.
I am hated by all because i believe there are only two genders
... and a wig, makeup, and a dress DO NOT make a woman.
...but to your point, Polly, it is a complicated and confusing road you travel if you look for fairness in dealing with social media companies.
My FACEBOOK account was suspended by those in San Fransisco because i used the naval term in helping a woman write a magazine article and told her..." this will help you put lead on target", meaning to be more accurate in what she was talking about.
My account got suspended because they think I am now a serial killer. Poor snowflakes. Of course, she was writing a damning article about a pharmaceutical company. They are the real power in this country and control everything.
Their site, their completely arbitrary rules. Don't expect fairness or logic from them. There is the right way, the wrong way, and the Twitter way.
Rationalist (08-06-2019)
Rationalist (08-06-2019)
History:
The previous feminst wave claimed gender was a social construct without meaning.
Transgenders claimed the same as justification.
The last feminst wave declared that was not fair!!
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Rationalist (08-06-2019)
There's a saying that goes "Unless you were on the football team or a cheerleader, you hated high school". I think there's a lot of truth to that saying. High school was the worst part of my life in many ways. It's part of why I decided to go into teaching; I can't help sympathizing with what it's like to be that age.
High school itself hasn't changed that much since I was a student. What has changed mainly are external factors that make the experience all the more miserable for today's teens. One of these factors is the way people parent. At this point, it's Generation X that is parenting today's teens. That was a generation of latch key kids who grew up in what was literally one of the most dangerous periods in American history. They know good and well what the consequences of absentee parenting can be and are resultantly determined to be hands-on parents who make sure that their kids are safe, successful, and occupied at all times. The result is a phenomenon known as "helicopter parenting" wherein today's parents over-schedule their kids to the point that they have no legitimate leisure time; no time to do many things you and I would consider normal for teens like dating or getting a driver's license.
Another thing that's changed is the factor of social media. All students have mobile phones with cameras now and they're all connected to social media on those devices. This has ensured that any bullying one may experience at school no longer ends when the bullied student goes home, but persists with them all the day long. It also introduces them to perceived ways out, like the possibility of essentially starting life over with a whole new identity that's nothing like their current one.
What it all means is that today's high school students often experience qualitatively more stress and anxiety and less fun writ large than was common when I was a high school student back at the turn of the century. So when a convenient way out appears on offer, often the most distressed students will be inclined to give it a try. It doesn't work. Managing their new identity absorbs all their time and energy quite often and thereby creates a whole new set of stresses to deal with. But anyway, that's what I see happening here. And I think that the most distressed people tend to belong to certain demographic groups, such as girls who have experienced physical abuse at home and are navigating the discovery that they're not heterosexual. And maybe older, heterosexual men who haven't had much success with women and may also have been physically abused in the past.
In other words, transgenderism is a masochist social contagion, in my opinion.
Last edited by IMPress Polly; 08-06-2019 at 07:35 AM.
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