It occurs to me that corporate interests created a world in which everyone was told we had to chase an unattainable ideal, for the purposes of selling us creams and pills and surgeries required to pursue that ideal. The more we bought, the more products we were told we just HAD to buy till we were being peddled insane things like butt c…
It occurs to me that corporate interests created a world in which everyone was told we had to chase an unattainable ideal, for the purposes of selling us creams and pills and surgeries required to pursue that ideal. The more we bought, the more products we were told we just HAD to buy till we were being peddled insane things like butt crack whitening creams, Vajazzling, people injecting their lips and other parts of their anatomy to bizarre proportions, etc. At the same time, the media/Hollywood + social media created a world in which people were obsessively rewarded with adulation for their appearance - far more so than a highly successful person of mediocre beauty. The rest of us are all but openly told we are wastes of space if we aren't gorgeous.
What if you're a person who never COULD attain that ideal, as the gender you were born with? You've come into a world in which people are rewarded for their physical form alone, and you can never Wouldn't it make sense, even if only on a subconscious level, in that scenario to "jump ship" to reach the physical form of the opposite gender, to receive that adulation? It sure seems to be at least part of this puzzle.
Well said! You read my mind! It’s a battle for our youth who are being allowed to make permanent decisions at an age that they can’t even keep a checkbook balanced! Or their minds!! Are you kidding me!! The only words I have left are prayers…
It occurs to me that corporate interests created a world in which everyone was told we had to chase an unattainable ideal, for the purposes of selling us creams and pills and surgeries required to pursue that ideal. The more we bought, the more products we were told we just HAD to buy till we were being peddled insane things like butt crack whitening creams, Vajazzling, people injecting their lips and other parts of their anatomy to bizarre proportions, etc. At the same time, the media/Hollywood + social media created a world in which people were obsessively rewarded with adulation for their appearance - far more so than a highly successful person of mediocre beauty. The rest of us are all but openly told we are wastes of space if we aren't gorgeous.
What if you're a person who never COULD attain that ideal, as the gender you were born with? You've come into a world in which people are rewarded for their physical form alone, and you can never Wouldn't it make sense, even if only on a subconscious level, in that scenario to "jump ship" to reach the physical form of the opposite gender, to receive that adulation? It sure seems to be at least part of this puzzle.
Well said! You read my mind! It’s a battle for our youth who are being allowed to make permanent decisions at an age that they can’t even keep a checkbook balanced! Or their minds!! Are you kidding me!! The only words I have left are prayers…