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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The funniest part about it is all of these girls who think they are railing against the “patriarchy” are trying to join it by identifying his male! They don’t even realize the absurdity of their own statements.[/quote]

I think there is an element of "if you can't beat them, join them." By middle school, girls are smart enough to see the vast amount of misogyny in the world, and how their male classmates have a better life ahead of them just by virtue of being born with penises.  I don't think they are trying to rail against the patriarchy. They are just looking at their options and in many cases being rational. [/quote]

In your statement you said something that stood out even if I disagree with the overall premise of misogyny. The woke kids are responding to what they see around them, and they are seeing a tremendous amount of cultural power in being part of an identified "oppressed" group. For some reason for the last few years and especially the last two years, we've seen an extraordinary amount of attention given to all the various oppressed identities, and in the realm of sexuality this extends to transgenders and non-binary and gender fluid concepts. We've gotten to the point where there's even pecking orders among the oppressed labels and and more cultural power is given to people who can claim multiple labels, and whether a white transgender is higher up the oppressed pole than a black woman and so on.

The advantage of the vagueness and even dubiousness of gender identities allows it to be coopted by affluent white kids so they can start identifying themselves as part of the oppressed groups. They're responding to what they see as the forces with power they see so strongly around them, in the media and in cultural spheres. It's the polar opposite of the 1950s, a time when the cultural power was firmly rooted in the beau ideal of being blond wasps, whose authority were never challenged or judged or mocked in popular or political culture, to do so was a vulgar transgression, just like today it's seen terrible to challenge or question the whole range of oppressed labels. The kids are seeing who has the real power, which I suspect they define as people who cannot be questioned or challenged.

It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out. Biology has a nasty habit of forcing the truth on you one way or another.

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Really well said. Thank you for sharing this. [/quote]

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