I'm full-on middle Gen X, born in 1961, the same year as Douglas Coupland, who wrote "Generation X" about his own generation. (The term Generation X was coined by Billy Idol, born in 1956, for his own generation--all of us growing up under the shadow of the Cold War, as opposed to the Boomers growing up in post-WWII prosperity.)
I'm full-on middle Gen X, born in 1961, the same year as Douglas Coupland, who wrote "Generation X" about his own generation. (The term Generation X was coined by Billy Idol, born in 1956, for his own generation--all of us growing up under the shadow of the Cold War, as opposed to the Boomers growing up in post-WWII prosperity.)
I was a flower child of the 1960s. My parents were older than Boomers, so they didn't quite fit in, but those were our people. All those young college students looking earnestly to children for the wisdom of the ages--it was great.
Young women my age grew up under the influence of women's lib. We were NEVER going back to the shit our mothers and grandmothers took off of men. Women's lib had changed everything!
Then suddenly I was "old" at 30 in the early 1990s, and younger women were parading around talking about the most regressive effeminate tropes as "feminism" and looking down their noses at me when I said, "For fuck's sake, that's not feminism. That's misogyny."
Misogyny has always been alive and well on the left. We feminists had our brief, shining moment. And not coincidentally, that's when Janice Raymond wrote "The Transsexual Empire--The Making of the She-Male."
Women's libbers understood.
But the Reagan-Bush Sr era brought back misogyny, just as they brought back war-mongering. And it's all snowballed into violent young men today violently harassing and attacking older women who have the nerve to speak up about women's rights right out in public.
I blame the misogyny that's always been hidden on the left. But I blame even more the misogyny that's always been blatant on the right.
Transsexualism is, after all, a conservative men's mental illness:
Ah yes, I've seen that article - I have it on my hard drive. I save stuff that's important so I don't spend a lot of time trying to Google it later or realize now it's behind a paywall. I don't know that I'd call it a 'conservative' problem based on this one article although it's clear that conservative men can be particularly fetish-y -- witness all the gay sex-loving Christian Republican conservative politicians who regularly get busted doing guys (But in the immortal words of South Park's Mr. Garrison from far off in the mountains: "But I'm not GAAAAAAAAAAY!"
Transsexualism is also learned, and I strongly suspect porn has a lot to do with this - transgender porn remains one of the most popular porn searches on porn sites everywhere, and I remember the 'shemale' porn you could get on computer BBS's right before the world went Internet. A lot of these middle-aged sudden onset transbabes got it from porn, and esp 'sissy porn'.
Porn is non-partisan and it encourages misogyny regardless of how truly progressive one might be when it starts. It encourages the belief that women exist to satisfy male desire how they want it and when they want it, to be taken by force if necessary (rape porn is also quite popular, esp since a lot of it features genuine rape).
This current iteration of 'feminism' is clearly designed, like much of human society always has been, by men, for men, to serve men, and fuzzy-headed liberal women are going along with it. We really are all baby feminists; 150-160 years of feminism is just a blink of an eye, really, and I see the traditional weak spots in women's psychology and upbringing going unchallenged for much of today's feminists. The ones who support all this trans crap are the ones most easily gaslit and manipulated; and that's directly rooted in the female's evolved ability, and also nurtured ability, to be 'nice' and 'accommodating' which we've had to be to survive historical misogyny, but now it's putting us in danger again.
I'm full-on middle Gen X, born in 1961, the same year as Douglas Coupland, who wrote "Generation X" about his own generation. (The term Generation X was coined by Billy Idol, born in 1956, for his own generation--all of us growing up under the shadow of the Cold War, as opposed to the Boomers growing up in post-WWII prosperity.)
I was a flower child of the 1960s. My parents were older than Boomers, so they didn't quite fit in, but those were our people. All those young college students looking earnestly to children for the wisdom of the ages--it was great.
Young women my age grew up under the influence of women's lib. We were NEVER going back to the shit our mothers and grandmothers took off of men. Women's lib had changed everything!
Then suddenly I was "old" at 30 in the early 1990s, and younger women were parading around talking about the most regressive effeminate tropes as "feminism" and looking down their noses at me when I said, "For fuck's sake, that's not feminism. That's misogyny."
Misogyny has always been alive and well on the left. We feminists had our brief, shining moment. And not coincidentally, that's when Janice Raymond wrote "The Transsexual Empire--The Making of the She-Male."
Women's libbers understood.
But the Reagan-Bush Sr era brought back misogyny, just as they brought back war-mongering. And it's all snowballed into violent young men today violently harassing and attacking older women who have the nerve to speak up about women's rights right out in public.
I blame the misogyny that's always been hidden on the left. But I blame even more the misogyny that's always been blatant on the right.
Transsexualism is, after all, a conservative men's mental illness:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BkIQTu7BV2nifZ3sbSFpS7spWb9od3YU/view
Ah yes, I've seen that article - I have it on my hard drive. I save stuff that's important so I don't spend a lot of time trying to Google it later or realize now it's behind a paywall. I don't know that I'd call it a 'conservative' problem based on this one article although it's clear that conservative men can be particularly fetish-y -- witness all the gay sex-loving Christian Republican conservative politicians who regularly get busted doing guys (But in the immortal words of South Park's Mr. Garrison from far off in the mountains: "But I'm not GAAAAAAAAAAY!"
Transsexualism is also learned, and I strongly suspect porn has a lot to do with this - transgender porn remains one of the most popular porn searches on porn sites everywhere, and I remember the 'shemale' porn you could get on computer BBS's right before the world went Internet. A lot of these middle-aged sudden onset transbabes got it from porn, and esp 'sissy porn'.
Porn is non-partisan and it encourages misogyny regardless of how truly progressive one might be when it starts. It encourages the belief that women exist to satisfy male desire how they want it and when they want it, to be taken by force if necessary (rape porn is also quite popular, esp since a lot of it features genuine rape).
This current iteration of 'feminism' is clearly designed, like much of human society always has been, by men, for men, to serve men, and fuzzy-headed liberal women are going along with it. We really are all baby feminists; 150-160 years of feminism is just a blink of an eye, really, and I see the traditional weak spots in women's psychology and upbringing going unchallenged for much of today's feminists. The ones who support all this trans crap are the ones most easily gaslit and manipulated; and that's directly rooted in the female's evolved ability, and also nurtured ability, to be 'nice' and 'accommodating' which we've had to be to survive historical misogyny, but now it's putting us in danger again.