But quite a dog's breakfast, a perfect storm of fantasy, delusion, political opportunism, religion, "conspiracies", and magic -- with precious little in the way of any science and facts for leavening. Though there is some -- arguably, a trail of breadcrumbs out of the swamp:
But it seems you're new to Substack so you might have some interest in UK philosopher Kathleen Stock's generally illuminating take on the phenomenon:
KS: "What I do find interesting, though, is how things went so badly wrong: the causes, not the reasons. I’ve had a lot of time to think about this. One big question for this newsletter will be: how did mainstream feminism come to embrace what I’m calling the stupid story [transgenderism?], so that many feminists ended up cancelling themselves out of politically effective existence? Effectively, the stupid story functions, for mainstream feminism, as a reductio ad absurdum: it reduces most of contemporary feminism to risible absurdity, necessitating urgent reflection on the tenability of prior commitments to explain how the absurdity ever got such a firm grip."
Aha! The Gender Unicorn. I knew it was a conspiracy.
🙂 Hadn't made that connection but a good one. Somewhat apropos of which:
https://www.thedistancemag.com/p/the-drug-smuggling-trans-activist
But quite a dog's breakfast, a perfect storm of fantasy, delusion, political opportunism, religion, "conspiracies", and magic -- with precious little in the way of any science and facts for leavening. Though there is some -- arguably, a trail of breadcrumbs out of the swamp:
https://humanuseofhumanbeings.substack.com/i/64264079/rationalized-gender
But it seems you're new to Substack so you might have some interest in UK philosopher Kathleen Stock's generally illuminating take on the phenomenon:
KS: "What I do find interesting, though, is how things went so badly wrong: the causes, not the reasons. I’ve had a lot of time to think about this. One big question for this newsletter will be: how did mainstream feminism come to embrace what I’m calling the stupid story [transgenderism?], so that many feminists ended up cancelling themselves out of politically effective existence? Effectively, the stupid story functions, for mainstream feminism, as a reductio ad absurdum: it reduces most of contemporary feminism to risible absurdity, necessitating urgent reflection on the tenability of prior commitments to explain how the absurdity ever got such a firm grip."
https://kathleenstock.substack.com/i/49437420/goodbye-to-the-stupid-story
Amen to that lady.