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This is something that's never going to happen, largely because of Kayfabe politics. I don't think we're going to see activists on this give up a single inch. And I mean...I do think objectively there's room to give given up, right? I think it's OK to say that it's bad if there's no assessment done and that shouldn't happen. I think that's giving up an inch. And that's in line with what Singal's argument is for what should happen, is high-quality individualized care.
It's possible maybe this could become a new windmill for me to tilt at, and maybe I'm wrong, but I feel it strongly. I don't think they can give up a single inch. Because an inch isn't an inch. It's actually a mile.
I do think there's an underlying question that's being ignored here. Can exposure to Progressive/Academic models of sex, gender and power or at least, the popularized crude forms, result in Gender Dysphoria or something approaching such? Not universally, of course. But are there people susceptible to this in a way, where exposure to these things might result in significant mental and emotional trauma?
Because I'll be blunt. If we're talking about a recommendation for support or therapy, largely speaking I do think this is the road it's going down more often than not. And if that's the case, if this is something that we should be aware of....then maybe the good guys are not always the good guys. Maybe there needs to be some level of care, or safeguards or whatever put in place. Maybe the world is more complicated than babyfaces and heels, of good guys and bad guys, of white and black.
My contention is that this is where a majority of contemporary homosexuality comes from, never mind gender dysphoria.
It's not that leftist memes swept away bigotry and now everyone's out of the closet and able to be their authentic selves without fear of ostracism / lynching; no, buddy, you just got memed, tricked, into reneging against your genetic imperatives by a slick "mere exposure" advertising campaign.
I wholeheartedly disagree - in fact, I think that the existence of the closet and a reason for gay people to stay in it actually increases the prevalence of gay people in society. Homosexuality is partially heritable, and when gay people have to perform heterosexuality they will often end up having more children, thus reducing or negating the penalty to reproductive fitness imposed by homosexuality. It's another one of those paradoxical outcomes where increasing suppression of homosexuality actually creates more homosexuality in the population.
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Do you have any actual evidence for that belief?
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My understanding is that estimates of the rate of full blown homosexuality have remained roughly stable since as far back as the Kinsey report. It's true that bisexual identification has gone up in younger generations, but I suspect this is largely a matter of signaling and doesn't necessarily translate to a proportionally increased rate of homosexual intimacy.
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