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very very good point. and anecdotally, i think it's indeed the case for gender dysphoria... btw, not long ago there was a sociologist from columbia, working on
by kome 4y ago
very very good point. and anecdotally, i think it's indeed the case for gender dysphoria...
btw, not long ago there was a sociologist from columbia, working on the autism epidemics, pointing out how autism is "contagious" among parents https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0003122411399389 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0003122411399389 - so it's not for the first time that we point out at the sociogenesis of mental illness
- mschuster91 4y agoHell no it's not. Gender non-conforming people have been a staple throughout human history, with examples dating back to at least the 2nd century AD [1], and not just in Europe but in South Asia as well [2]. The thing is, many societies didn't care for a long time, and only in the 20th century repression really took off with the rise of ultra-fundamentalist religions. Now we're seeing the backlash against that and people obviously are way more free to be who they are once again - so neither a surprise nor an epidemic. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(South_Asia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(South_Asia)
- kome 4y agoi know it has been a staple throughout human history, and i'm not contesting that. i just posit that the proportion of it, nowadays, might be inflated by social media and mimetic behaviors. edit, a very enlightening comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33879136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33879136