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for the kids's avatar

Thank you for this sad but completely on target description!

Frank Lee's avatar

Gender Ideology derived from the Franklin School fake scholarship toxic mind virus of Critical Theory, is one of the radical postmodernist feminist tools to foment social and political conflict and to destroy foundational social and family structures so that they, the radical postmodernist feminists, can attempt to gain more power after sifting through the ashes of what they have burned down.

Thankfully it appears that people are growing aware and are burning the postmodernist feminists down instead.

TrackerNeil's avatar

A great essay, thanks. This in particular caught my eye:

<<The questioning of authority in Western societies gained significant momentum during the 1960s countercultural movements. Sparked by opposition to the Vietnam War, the civil rights struggle, and second-wave feminism, young people began to challenge the legitimacy of political, institutional, and familial authority.>>

The irony here is that one SHOULD approach authority--political, familial, religious, social--with healthy skepticism; in fact, it's necessary. It's when that skepticism veers into the unhealthy that problems arise. Unfortunately, the world is full of public figures, boasting millions of followers, who are eager to tell you how everything you ever believed is wrong. Candace Owens thinks vaccines are dangerous, and that Brigitte Macron is a man, and that Charlie Kirk was killed by a secret assassin who fled through tunnels under the stage...she's just one kooky example, but you could find others, I am sure.

It's a real challenge to get people to question authority without completely casting aside the *concept* of authority. Kind of like dieting; you are trying to cut down on food, but it's not like you can give it up entirely. I wish I knew how to get people to ask sensible questions while still being...well, sensible.

Indio's avatar

Thank you that you care. Please never ever quit, you are so needed.

With love and gratitude, Indio.

Ute Heggen's avatar

Even before the work on masculinity/femininity, the mind/body connection, broken and damaged in a patient with gender dysphoria, must be rebuilt. This is neither male nor female, although the physical movement work can develop into separate strands. For males, I recommend the exercise system by the Tapp brothers, called Primal Fitness. It worked very well for a teen boy who asked me advice for his hand-specific dysphoria. That, with cessation of porn consumption, appeared to clear it up faster than anticipated. I am not a therapist, but people seek out my advice because of my work collecting data on the experiences of the ex-wives, we trans widows. We've seen a great deal of the flawed "work" our husbands are lured into, such as the fake and disingenuous idea of "true life test." When you are demanding pronouns and opposite sex language, this is hardly the "life lived by the opposite sex." For females, I developed a movement based sequence with breathing and recognition of female joint flexibility. Because the sex rejection diagnosis is based on perceptions of one's physical presence, the over-focus on talk therapy, typical of all mental health treatment, is often counterproductive. Psychiatrists have literally told me that patients (in the US anyway) do not follow up with physical work, thus pills are the answer. Here's a taste of my program for females:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnlaASFJkh0&list=PLOFlPPQm71Ii-l-xoAlBZc5Iy9xZyfbUY&index=10

Daniel Blatt's avatar

Going through old e-mail this past week, I know now upon reading this one through why I saved it.

Back in March, I started reading it and it brought me back to my own adolescence, so had to mark it as read and then write about it a notebook.

It made me wonder -- and not for the first time -- what would have happened to me had I (or a boy like me) faced today the trauma I did in Ninth Grade when my then-best friend started dating a new girl and spending less time with me.

Only beginning to become aware of my attraction to others of my sex, I felt rejected. And wondered what was wrong with me.

No wonder these words so hit home:

<<I’ve wanted to say: “I think you felt deeply ashamed of feeling like an outsider as a kid growing up–friendless, out of sync with all your peers, someone rejected by almost everyone as weird or strange. When trans came along, you found a way to ‘explain’ all your pain, with a built-in answer for how to escape it.”>>

If trans had come along when I was young, what would a social worker have said to me? Or maybe trans would have held some appeal to me given that I envied the group of smart studious girls in my class?

And then I think of boys today, the outsiders who are out of sync with their peers. The message boys are getting about masculinity.... I read this through today and my heart goes out to the boys today who felt as I did back then.... and hoping they can find therapists like you.

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Joseph Burgo, Ph.D.'s avatar

I'm in complete agreement, especially about how so-called expert consensus has been exploited to manipulate us. I also think that the justifiable reaction against this sort of manipulation has gone too far, so that we reject the possibility of legitimate authority that has earned our trust.