Affirmative gender care is interesting because of the scope of the debacle.
It was not just a couple kooks or a bad institution. Instead it was driven by elite consensus, Harvard on down.
There is also near total lack of clinical evidence to inform care.
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The transgression is of such magnitude (‘too big to fail’) that it will be impossible to hold institutions fully accountable.
No one is going to shut down Harvard Medical School, for example. And all the prohibitions that should have prevented this are already in place.
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It almost feels like the long term solution must be political - that there needs to be a political project to put these institutions under surveillance to protect the public.
Without threats and penalties it doesn’t seem like they are capable of competent self governance.
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It’s a basic adult understanding that acting on certain liberatory impulses can drastically limit possibility in your life.
I remember reading a memoir of a mole person who felt exhilarating freedom when he finally peeled away from working class life to abuse drugs full time.
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A precocious 27-year-old Joan Didion articulated this awareness in the 1961 essay, ‘On Self Respect.’
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Didion describes the costs of bad faith avoidance of accountability.
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Every society has an interest in valorizing committed heterosexual relationships that produce children and provide the healthiest setting for their development.
Esoteric enthusiasms and identities should by definition be recreational and marginal.
I think it’s fine that gay…
…marriage, insofar that it approximates bourgeois norms, be recognized as such, legally and socially.
But everything else should be at the margins and confined to subcultures.
It is good to celebrate people having and raising children.
It is deranged to celebrate…
…sexual activities, identities, and enthusiasms.
Children rely on adults to help make sense of the world, and we should make clear to them that certain behavior serves as the basis for a family while other behavior is nothing more than a weird hobby.
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For whatever reason (the internet, mental illness, over socialization), some people feel uncomfortable negotiating private social interactions without an administrative third party to appeal to that provides surveillance and serves as authority.
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Weird, right???
But the fact is that if you can transmogrify your personality into membership in a *protected class* institutional power and law will be brought to bear on ensuring that you are received socially in the way that you want.
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…max your income and catch up financially to your peers in other industries.
For some women this will come at the expense of less time for other important life experiences: deferred or missed friendships, dating, marriage, children, etc.
To some degree the derangements in…
…bureaucracy and administration are a result of not having the succor that a rich social and family life provides.
*Safety* or *sensitivity* or *belonging* are not things that a bureaucratic apparatus like HR or DEI can really provide no matter how much therapy culture jargon…
The probability that an Assistant Professor of Genocide Studies and Genocide Prevention is a complete lunatic and enthusiastic about all sorts of identitarian derangements is approximately 100%
The probability in 2023 that any given faculty member of a Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies excitedly endorses re-racialization and class guilt assignation is also approximately... 100%.
Nothing is clearer than that these people are all lunatics and want nothing more than to instantiate the social conditions that would require their *expertise.*
Midwit students start doing Maoist performance art on elite university campuses.
‘It’s just on campus.’
Spreads from academia to tech, gov’t bureaucracies, Hollywood, nat sec, NGOs, and corporate America.
‘It’s just an elite preoccupation.’
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Spreads to hiring. Fireman are ideologically interrogated. Medical students admitted on race despite large achievement gaps. News media stops reporting and tried to hide ideologically inconvenient facts. Wokeness becomes ubiquitous in everyday cultural programming.
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Major League Baseball hires performance artists to insult Christians. Beer companies hire ideological scolds and gender performers for their advertisements. 1/4 of children endorse an esoteric gender or sexual identity. Concern spreads broadly in the culture.
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