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Jun 7 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
under discussed impact of the internet and social media is how spending so much time living in a cognitively disconnected state online creates the illusion that ppl who know you in the physical world are not from your “real” world, thus are totally foreign & can’t truly know you
it’s normal for teens to feel like parents just don’t understand man but being terminally online takes it to a whole new level, especially when online is teaching you a radical political ideology from a young age that’s disconnected from reality, but emotionally stimulating
don’t let your kids be terminally online if they’re young enough that you can still interfere with that. make plans for the whole family to reduce internet dependency.
when ur kids are online they’re being influenced by other people. if they spend enough of a % of their time doing this they start to assimilate into an entirely different culture than that of their family. mentally, they become aliens to the family.
family members don’t understand this so they try 2 connect as if this isn’t occurring and it only furthers the divide and perception that family members are fundamentally different, can’t understand, can’t relate, and thus don’t love or take interest in who the kid “really” is
the kid feels like they have to put on a mask around the family bc if they were to “be themselves” as they are online their family would understand maybe 1 out of every 10 words. this feels like a painful loss and the online culture is there to “comfort” them, perpetuating it
more than like beauty standards on instagram or w/e, this kind of family relationship disruption is the core of the zoomer mental health disaster. young ppl NEED to feel loved and seen by family to grow up emotionally healthy. what interests benefit from this state of affairs?
my commentary is based on reflection on my own upbringing. i don’t have a close family relationship myself but for whatever flaws exist in a family, this phenomenon i describe makes whatever family relationship ruptures that exist unnecessarily more traumatic.

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Jun 6
my only major criticism of “what is a woman?”. it could be much more impactful if it was free to watch, & most people who do subscribe to watch it are just going to unsubscribe soon after. very short sighted and disappointing, i hope @MattWalshBlog and @realDailyWire reconsider.
if it was free, more people would watch it, enjoy it, share it, and become aware of other daily wire content. instead you have many people who want to check it out and share it frustrated with what comes off as, honestly, cheap and gimmicky. shame since it’s a wonderful film.
what i liked about the film is that even though matt walsh is clear about his stance as a conservative and opposer of trans ideology, the film itself does a good job of just letting the gender people show how shallow and off putting they are (cont)
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Jun 5
its complicated. yes, the theme of "gay men" is a common one. but it doesnt necessarily mean attraction to actual gay men in the real world, its more an attraction to a fantasy of becoming a gay man.
BUT what a "gay man" is in this case is divorced from the reality of actual gay men. a "gay man" to them isnt a real gay man who acts like a gay man, its this weird feminized imaginary concoction of what they want in a man and what they want to be themselves.
some (like myself in the past and many of my friends) would be attracted to masculine/straight men in the real world but from the perspective of wanting to attract a man like that as a cute feminine boy, not as a girl. lol. its many many layers of delusion.
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Jun 5
pride is when straight girls celebrate their kink for fantasy gay boys
look at the comments lolol. its all girls thirsting over the drawing. literally heterosexual. but its "pride🌈✨" because theyre delusionally expecting to take testosterone and their life becomes a harem of gay anime boys
the smaller black hair one and the pink hair one are supposed to be "trans" (FTM) too. do you see what this is yet? lololololol. its self insert fantasy content that girls are consuming thinking when they transition they'll be one of these cute sexy (to them) gay anime trans boys
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Jun 4
the question i have been trying to answer for 4 years lmao. that could be part of it for some in a way but its not really about that, because the image of gay men is an entirely fantastical one. its more about wanting to become a fantasy than wanting to escape something real.
the escapist aspect is more rooted in a social immaturity that makes mature, realistic social/relationship dynamics and the unfamiliarity of men intimidating. imo its more related to that than to being scared of straight men because theyre sexist or abusive or something
its a way to feel control over the simultaneous intimidation and attraction by hyperfocusing on an imagined image of men and then creating them along lines that feel exciting and interesting, without all the anxieties that come with engaging with a real human male in real life
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Jun 4
happy #PrideMonth to the straight woman who made this and the straight girls for whom it was made!
you can safely assume that any "gay" media today (with the exception of gay porn) is made by and for straight women
the one womens space that will always be safe from men is the #mlm "men loving men" tags on social media
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Jun 2
trans med & medicine generally lacks a concept of thriving & focuses on narrow results outside the context of the whole human being

a trans person's life can be a total wreck, but as long as he doesnt explicitly denounce the transition (yet), cutting his dick off was a "success"
this is one of the problems with the dutch research on which medicalization for child gender distress is based. the kids grew up to have no sexual function & loneliness due to difficulty forming relationships, yet bc they reported contentment w/ cosmetic results, thats "success"
i wish the metric for a "happy trans person" wasnt "do they regret it?" but instead...

do they have relationships? are those relationships loving and free of control/abuse?
do they live a life free of addiction and/or profoundly dysfunctional coping mechanisms?
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