Feminist movement --> women are equal to men --> women can do anything men do/possess any associated trait --> effort to disprove any positive trait is associated with being male --> all that then remains as acceptable descriptors for males is...
"Toxic masculinity". 💡
My mind had never connected those dots so cleanly until last night.
I got there because I was thinking about "confidence" and "assertiveness" as traits of masculinity. My mind literally pictured a feminist snapping w/ "are you saying women arent confident or assertive?!?" and...
all of a sudden it hit me, "Theyve literally made it so no positive trait is allowed to be associated as male/masculine". If you do position that, then you're a misogynist. But then the end-result of this perverse analysis is that only negative factors are left as acacceptable.
This is the same engine we see elsewhere. This is the heart of critical theory. It also illustrates once again the inevitable end-result of this type of analysis: a labeling of one camp as "the other" and then a building of resentment and animosity towards them.
But this type of thinking is asinine! It's counterproductive ultimately and ruinous for a social fabric. Back to gender here...
No, there ARE some traits which males typically register higher on. I'd submit assertiveness is one. That doesnt mean women can't be assertive, but...
that retort does not therefore disprove such factor as being more of a male/masculine factor.
We need to reject this toxic mechanism. We need to reclaim these factors and stop cowering in fear of being labeled a bigot. We can't allow this zero-sum analysis any longer.
Interestingly, if you let your mind drift, this is the same mechanism that in large part drove us to our current state of madness over gender amorphisim. By disproving that any trait is "male" it has pushed us down a path of removing these biological classifications all together.
It's time we turn this ship around! I'm ready to reclaim gender categorization and associated traits.
It's time to reclaim reality. And I don't give a damn if some feelings get hurt along the way. Prioritizing feelings over reality is how we got here.
I just clicked a YouTube link and the ad before the video was Stacey Abrams. She said "As we speak, Republicans are trying to enact widespread voter suppression laws and bring us to Jim Crow 2.0".
I'm not ok with this type of verbiage anymore. And you shouldn't be either.
"Nothing less" than Jim Crow 2.0.
Stop and think about what Jim Crow means; what that time period looked like. Picture the images.
Now flip back to current times.
Fuck this type of rhetoric and fuck those who spew it! 🖕
The byproduct of "anti-racist" ideology is "I hate white people".
What's worse... the heinous sentiment itself, the fact almost 500 people liked it, or that this person has almost 30,000 followers?
How long do we plan to keep pretending?
BTW, if you arent aware of who that first lovely lady above is, she rose to be Student Body President of a major US university, Virginia Commonwealth (VCU). President of over 22,000 students at that campus. Yep.
There truly are so many parallels between anorexia and gender dysphoria; especially re underlying causes. Yet consider the difference in clinical response to...
"I'm unhappy with my body b/c I'm fat (when I'm skinny)"
"I'm unhappy with my body b/c I'm a male (when I'm female)"
Imagine if the path of treatment for anorexia was to embrace it and alter the individual's world so they live as an obese person. That immediately strays into the realm of the bizarre, right?
Then it should give you great pause to push children down a path towards transition.
Now, obviously, my thoughts here rest on two critical pillars...
1) I do not subscribe to gender theory. I believe all forms of gender dysphoria are a mental health condition
Can you fairly describe being obsessed with intersectionality/oppression hierarchies and both crafting your identity as well as deriving benefit/self-worth from imposed victimhood as a form of Munchausen Syndrome?
Watch that clip below. How is it different exactly?
Replace the need to present as sick (and the response/benefit it yields, eventually consuming the person) with the need to present as victimized (and similar response/benefit in our current climate, eventually becoming the person's full identity).
Seems almost dead on.
My starting point here was the tweet below. I unquestionably believe we have Munchausen by proxy manifesting re gender. Mainly with parents (HBO Transhood scene is like a sculpture of it), but I was seeing it through the lens of educators as well.