Identity politics has won over these ideals. Instead of gender becoming less and less relevant, it came to define the person's identity, and in the process beg

Identity politics has won over these ideals. Instead of gender becoming less and less relevant, it came to define the person's identity, and in the process begot more and more genders in a quest to categorise everyone. As victimhood and groupthink are the pillars of current politics, instead of trying to obtain more and more freedom and detach from stereotypes, people try to belong more strongly to the categories in which they can protect themselves from interacting with the other and confronting criticism. Maybe this is a natural and temporary defence mechanism, employed very widely today as the transition from a world of unquestionable hierarchies based on classes and categories to a more fluid global society has just started, and due to this infancy of such a world where the old comfort zones and innate prejudices are (slowly) being erased, people feel fragile alone, given also self-realisation in a non-traditional way may still require fighting conservatism and the fear of the different, as no society is evolving homogenously.