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Pick one 1. people are purely hard wired to a particular gender. 2. gender is a purely social construct 3. Birth sex/genetics/epigenetics strongly influence
by 60secs 4y ago
Pick one
1. people are purely hard wired to a particular gender.
2. gender is a purely social construct
3. Birth sex/genetics/epigenetics strongly influence behavior.
However desires and opinions are strongly swayed by mimetic influences such that people change frequently, especially if they are young
- Normille 4y ago4: Pre-pubescence and pubescence really fucks with your horomones and your mind and leaves you searching for a reason why you feel 'different' to [how you assume] everyone else around you feels. Not saying truly transgender people don't exist but the huge explosion in numbers since it became socially acceptable means that either there's "something in the water" which is increasing the number of transgender people around, or a lot of vulnerable young people approaching and going through puberty and feeling confused and different are convincing themselves they're transgender [because it's all over the news], where back in my day they'd be fretting that they might be gay. I think the danger is in the fact that, for someone at that vulnerable age, convincing yourself you're transgender can lead to you undergoing life-changing, physical alteration to your body, where convincing yourself you must be gay might have lead to a few embarrassing memories, in later life.
- taolegal 4y agoThere's something in the water, metaphorically or otherwise, because if you go to, for example, brooklyn everyone looks the same. The idea that they are expressing some genuine, unique essence is a complete farce. They conform to the same predictable style. It's actually laughable that this entire identity predicated on individuality is a medicalized uniform. They practically universally have strict, intolerant and conformist opinions too.
- eesmith 4y agoMalvina Reynolds would suggest this has been the case for a long time, so why pick on Brooklyn? Quoting her from "Little Boxes", 1962: And the people in the houses All went to the university Where they were put in boxes And they came out all the same And there's doctors and lawyers And business executives And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same And they all play on the golf course And drink their martinis dry And they all have pretty children And the children go to school And the children go to summer camp And then to the university Where they are put in boxes And they come out all the same And the boys go into business And marry and raise a family In boxes made of ticky tacky And they all look just the same
- midoridensha 4y agoI really wonder how much transgenderism in young people comes from them feeling like they don't conform to some stereotype of masculinity or femininity pushed by popular culture and the media, and so they decide they must be transgender. For instance, decades ago, girls who weren't very "girly" were called "tomboys"; would those same girls, raised today, think they're "transgender"? Or, how much of this phenomenon is caused by people insisting on pigeonholing themselves and others?
- eesmith 4y agoHow can #1 be a choose-able option if there are genderfluid people? Unless you allow an indefinite (and large?) number of genders, to include at least each of the option at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binary_gender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binary_gender as a hard-wired gender? Which leads to the question: How many genders are in your 3-option model?