A young woman asks: “I don't know if those factors are classed as gender dysphoria or if they're a 'normal' part of womanhood?” and lays out her hatred of her periods, which can drag on for up to two months, and her “love-hate” relationship with her large breasts.
Ruminations promoted by a $5billion body dissociation industry are installed in the default mode network of the brains of captured females. She refers to herself as "she": the body-out-there, the objectified thing of the male gaze, internalised and re-projected as alienation from the group, to which belonging turns instantly to revulsion... when it agrees with her.
Naom Chomsky wrote about the Manufacturing of Consent. There's no slick PR job needed here -- the mental and physical assaults of transactivist dogma are enough to destroy mental and physical health, and any sense of community, by suggestion alone. All it needs is a smartphone.
These ruminations are possibly the worst I've read so far, as testimony to the destructiveness of this cult. No wonder the suicide rate rises among those who get entangled in its deadly suggestions of denial of everything you see, everything you hear, everything you feel, everything you know.
"Imagine yourself in old age: who do you see? An old woman or an old man?"
Yet almost all of them will get the problems of *female* "old age" - pelvic floor prolapse with all the the issues of pain, sexual dysfunction, and incontinence that come with it - in their youngest years. They will deal with *female* problems, not male. And then they will live with the disregard and stigma around these female problems of aging and get to see firsthand how little concern there is for female issues like this within the medical world. They can keep trying to convince themselves and each other that they aren't trying to run away from themselves, the challenges of womanhood, or the universal challenges of being human, but it's always there, and the medical and mental health fields are failing these young women by continuing to profit off the lies that they can escape all this.
I am middle-aged and can barely imagine myself in old age. No teenager can construct an image in her /his head of an old person and say yep, that's future me. Our minds don't work that way. Old age is so abstract to a teen, like their future 401k and arthritis. So I can see how not being able to "connect" with yourself in 50 + years , a young girl may connect with an abstract grandpa in her head. It's such a ridiculous thought exercise but so many of them take it seriously.
Yes. This is absolutely like anorexia. They hate themselves and want to obliterate who they are. There’s also a strong element of wanting protection from criticism.
Hmm . . . are we split the first time/s someone*else* treats us like an object? My personal (very normal , very minor) teenaged body discomfort definitely hinged on early childhood moments of older males talking to/about me in a sexualized way that was startling and uncomfortable.
"The so-called ‘real-life test’ was always a joke but it’s fallen such a long way, resulting in confused young people who can’t understand why their trans identities—which fit so comfortably online where informational control is total—chafe in real life."
This, so much this. The restricted and censored world online world, where only pro "trans" speech is allowed, really sets these girls up for failure. It must be a shock to live most of your life online (where you are constantly affirmed by machine ghosts) or in your head (which is normal for teens, to be fair) and then get smacked in the face by uncensored reality when you do leave the nest. Puberty is a nightmare for many of us, and the idea you can opt out to that greener grass over there is a powerful dream to pursue.
So much to think about in this excellent article. Another idea that really struck me is that if boys want to "transition" to girls it can't be that bad to be a girl. At what point in our female lives do we start hating our femaleness and pandering to males? It's external, it's forced on us, and maybe it's always been that way, but damn.
Yes - I agree a big part of this is the bubbles where people live on the internet - the censorship of alternative views allows for cult programming.
I think you need to be wary with regards to femaleness being entirely extrinsic. Norms of femininity and objectification through porn and other things are external but there is also a natural biological component that arises from evolution and sexual selection. Women will also engage in behaviours like learning how to attract men through their own agency.
Every once in a while on X I will engage with what seems to be one of these kids/young adults - first it is usually within a debate - then it becomes more of a human exchange. They are clinging to their Trans Identity or Dream like a life-raft but they are also battling doubts and fears - they admit to self-loathing or lack of self acceptance. What is so tragic is that these people just need people to accept and celebrate them as they are.
What is horrifying about the whole Trans cult is this reification of the idea of people being inherently broken and flawed (born in the wrong bodies) - so similar to the religious belief of original sin. This active physical and social deconstruction of self to serve some impossible Ideal self- is truly horrifying. It is great for capitalism but rips away at the fabric of mental health.
("I’ve never been able to shake the very first heretical thought I ever had about trans: this is just like anorexia—except that we cheer it on. Anorexia and gender dysphoria lurk in the same breach that opens up when puberty hits. Girls plunge into it.") - Absolutely spot on the money observation.
As a retired clinical social worker this has been my take too. The difference being (as you allude to) - that if the anorexic girl commits suicide we don't engage in gaslighting and pretend that its because we "didn't affirm" her delusion that she was obese - when she was in fact starving herself to death. And any rational adult knows that "affirming" that delusion would be to engage in "harmful" - not in "helping" behavior.
This obsessive rumination on self seems so incredibly unhealthy. I know it's a teenage tendency, but before smartphones and social media , it could never have been so consuming for so many girls.
Ruminations promoted by a $5billion body dissociation industry are installed in the default mode network of the brains of captured females. She refers to herself as "she": the body-out-there, the objectified thing of the male gaze, internalised and re-projected as alienation from the group, to which belonging turns instantly to revulsion... when it agrees with her.
Naom Chomsky wrote about the Manufacturing of Consent. There's no slick PR job needed here -- the mental and physical assaults of transactivist dogma are enough to destroy mental and physical health, and any sense of community, by suggestion alone. All it needs is a smartphone.
These ruminations are possibly the worst I've read so far, as testimony to the destructiveness of this cult. No wonder the suicide rate rises among those who get entangled in its deadly suggestions of denial of everything you see, everything you hear, everything you feel, everything you know.
"Imagine yourself in old age: who do you see? An old woman or an old man?"
Yet almost all of them will get the problems of *female* "old age" - pelvic floor prolapse with all the the issues of pain, sexual dysfunction, and incontinence that come with it - in their youngest years. They will deal with *female* problems, not male. And then they will live with the disregard and stigma around these female problems of aging and get to see firsthand how little concern there is for female issues like this within the medical world. They can keep trying to convince themselves and each other that they aren't trying to run away from themselves, the challenges of womanhood, or the universal challenges of being human, but it's always there, and the medical and mental health fields are failing these young women by continuing to profit off the lies that they can escape all this.
https://archive.ph/2024.05.27-132049/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/26/trans-problems-urinary-bowel-incontinent-young-detransition/
I am middle-aged and can barely imagine myself in old age. No teenager can construct an image in her /his head of an old person and say yep, that's future me. Our minds don't work that way. Old age is so abstract to a teen, like their future 401k and arthritis. So I can see how not being able to "connect" with yourself in 50 + years , a young girl may connect with an abstract grandpa in her head. It's such a ridiculous thought exercise but so many of them take it seriously.
Yes. This is absolutely like anorexia. They hate themselves and want to obliterate who they are. There’s also a strong element of wanting protection from criticism.
Hmm . . . are we split the first time/s someone*else* treats us like an object? My personal (very normal , very minor) teenaged body discomfort definitely hinged on early childhood moments of older males talking to/about me in a sexualized way that was startling and uncomfortable.
That's my hunch and my own experience... comments from older men (and some older women) made me realize I wasn't invisible anymore.
Very thought provoking around the self and subject/object split.
"The so-called ‘real-life test’ was always a joke but it’s fallen such a long way, resulting in confused young people who can’t understand why their trans identities—which fit so comfortably online where informational control is total—chafe in real life."
This, so much this. The restricted and censored world online world, where only pro "trans" speech is allowed, really sets these girls up for failure. It must be a shock to live most of your life online (where you are constantly affirmed by machine ghosts) or in your head (which is normal for teens, to be fair) and then get smacked in the face by uncensored reality when you do leave the nest. Puberty is a nightmare for many of us, and the idea you can opt out to that greener grass over there is a powerful dream to pursue.
So much to think about in this excellent article. Another idea that really struck me is that if boys want to "transition" to girls it can't be that bad to be a girl. At what point in our female lives do we start hating our femaleness and pandering to males? It's external, it's forced on us, and maybe it's always been that way, but damn.
Yes - I agree a big part of this is the bubbles where people live on the internet - the censorship of alternative views allows for cult programming.
I think you need to be wary with regards to femaleness being entirely extrinsic. Norms of femininity and objectification through porn and other things are external but there is also a natural biological component that arises from evolution and sexual selection. Women will also engage in behaviours like learning how to attract men through their own agency.
Every once in a while on X I will engage with what seems to be one of these kids/young adults - first it is usually within a debate - then it becomes more of a human exchange. They are clinging to their Trans Identity or Dream like a life-raft but they are also battling doubts and fears - they admit to self-loathing or lack of self acceptance. What is so tragic is that these people just need people to accept and celebrate them as they are.
What is horrifying about the whole Trans cult is this reification of the idea of people being inherently broken and flawed (born in the wrong bodies) - so similar to the religious belief of original sin. This active physical and social deconstruction of self to serve some impossible Ideal self- is truly horrifying. It is great for capitalism but rips away at the fabric of mental health.
("I’ve never been able to shake the very first heretical thought I ever had about trans: this is just like anorexia—except that we cheer it on. Anorexia and gender dysphoria lurk in the same breach that opens up when puberty hits. Girls plunge into it.") - Absolutely spot on the money observation.
As a retired clinical social worker this has been my take too. The difference being (as you allude to) - that if the anorexic girl commits suicide we don't engage in gaslighting and pretend that its because we "didn't affirm" her delusion that she was obese - when she was in fact starving herself to death. And any rational adult knows that "affirming" that delusion would be to engage in "harmful" - not in "helping" behavior.
Misogyny is such a global problem for women, but also such an intimate, private, personal problem.
Sorry, but you've got to eat meat to regulate your periods. The veganism agenda is part of this cult.
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This obsessive rumination on self seems so incredibly unhealthy. I know it's a teenage tendency, but before smartphones and social media , it could never have been so consuming for so many girls.