If you search online for the phrase “harms of social media on girls,” you will be able to spend the day investigating many sources, reading articles, and watching videos about how social media is harmful to the mental health of girls.
"Help us bring our kids back to family values and parent-led leadership." Yes, this would make a huge difference in helping all children. Banning phones in schools, churches, restaurants, etc. would be a good start. How many parents are on their phones while their children are in the same room, or at the dinner table, in the car, etc. Change must start at home and respect must follow. If the schools do not follow suit there will be no change. When I was in grade school and Junior High there were "slam books" that got passed around and it did hurt to see a derogatory remark written about yourself. But these slam books were not published or mass-produced and eventually were discarded. Today, there is easy access to social media, and bullying still hurts just as bad as when I was younger. Without parental monitoring our children are susceptible to everything on-line and once our children's innocent minds are influenced there is no erasing. Transgender ideology flooded the internet without any consequences, and it seeped into our homes even though our windows and doors were locked. We did everything we could to protect our children while they were under our roofs, but we did not know how easily evil could just waltz right inside. The impact and harm that this evil cult has done and is still trying to do to innocent children makes me so angry. There will be much regret one day and a generation scarred for life.
So many shots in the right direction and yet still so far off the mark.
I believe that as a society, we’ve crossed the line, of when honest reflection and accountability once, in some distant past, ruled the day, while scapegoating and aversion to honesty became the socially acceptable and preferred method of interaction with each other and with our collective society, for the sake of preserving the integrity of feelings, at present.
Let’s just think for a moment… political correctness was implemented for what purpose other than to mask honest feedback? Every single layer of Human Resources in any place of employment nowadays is grouped into a “team,” so no single person can be faulted for underperforming (and if a single person IS identified as such, how long does it take to terminate them nowadays?) Look, social media and media at large is only providing products that sell, just like any other business, there is clearly an appetite for such topics that in a past society would lead to bankruptcy. Social media is broken because society is broken. It really is that simple. Why is it broken? Because we were trying to be “nice” at the expense of being honest. Because getting to the root cause was too brutal of a task. Because live and let live made everything, and we all see for ourselves today that I do mean EVERYTHING is acceptable. But that’s what happens when natural law is subverted. It was a slippery slope we all should have seen but chose not to.
Let me show you something…
I entered the following into Google’s Gemini:
“What are the statistics for percentage of transgender children in heterosexual households versus those in homosexual households?”
Here was the response:
“Reliable data on the exact percentages of transgender children in different household types isn't readily available. Here's why:
* **Gender identity is a spectrum:** It's not simply heterosexual vs. homosexual households. There are many family structures and sexual orientations.
* **Data collection challenges:** Gathering information on transgender youth, especially regarding their family life, can be difficult due to sensitivity and privacy concerns.
* **Evolving identities:** Many transgender people don't identify as their birth sex until later in life, making childhood data collection even more complex.
However, some research suggests a link between same-sex parents and children who identify as LGBTQ+. Studies show children of same-sex couples might feel more comfortable exploring gender identity due to a more accepting environment.
(Don’t believe me? Try it yourself. We’ll compare our results.)
Did you catch that last part, starting with “However […]?”
Now let me ask you, what does “healthy” mean, exactly, when referring to “healthy gay” -man, -woman, -adult?
At what point is the line drawn between healthy and unhealthy with respect to sexual orientation?
Look at what “scope creep” actually means and amounts to:
“The key case is:
2020 - Bostock v. Clayton County: The Supreme Court ruled that discrimination based on sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination, and therefore prohibited under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This applies to workplaces with 15 or more employees.
This decision didn't create a new law, but rather interpreted an existing one (Title VII) to encompass sexual orientation. It's considered a major step forward in legal protections for LGBTQ+ individuals.”
From voluntarily, and rightfully so, protecting people from discrimination based on natural law, being a woman or a man, to where are we now? Whom are we protecting, now? We can no longer protect our very own children.
So, tell me, is it the fault of social media?
And let’s not forget, PITT was not created in foresight of the issues being discussed, here. It was created in response to these issues.
Here’s my quick take on what we did by reinterpreting a virtuous law:
Broken man finds “true friendship” in another man
Broken man claims it’s “true love” what he finds in the other man
Broken man starts acting like not-a-man (he calls it “wo”-man)
Broken man then starts dressing like “wo”-man
Broken “wo”-man then wants ”marriage”
Broken “wo”-man says he feels like what he believes a woman feels like, on the inside, but looks broken, on the outside
Broken “wo”-man surgically transforms into what he believes a woman should look like on the outside
Broken “married” “wo”-man who claims to feel and look like what he believes should be a woman then wants children…
Broken are his children
Broken children break other children, because all they’ve ever known, was broken.
I think I’ve said enough, for now. (I’ll invite you to explore with me the term “ROGD” in a future post, because while it is assigned to our children, I think it’s actually aimed at us, the parents)
There's an essay on here that offers many profound insights into how girls are impacted by social media and the culture at large. It's hosted on a substack that may be a little extreme for PITT readers, politically speaking, but it's well worth a read:
Well said and I agree with every word. I thank God that neither the internet nor social media was around when my kids were young ( they're all over 48 ). However ,I have great grandchildren to worry about and I hope their parents are as clued up about the modern trends as I am at age 77. Every one of these ideologies is wreaking havoc throughout Western Societies ,and that's by design and more people need to wake up to the threat we face if civilisation is to survive. Great article 👍👏x
Thank you for writing this. I am reading Haidt's book and thinking the same things regarding the gender identity ideology connection. Schools are another big pusher of gender ideology. FMI, please, see articles on my substack such as The Anti-Science Disaster of Gender Ideology in Our Schools: https://caroldansereau.substack.com/p/the-anti-science-disaster-of-gender
And this swill....from Newsweek! It's reported that 30% of GenZ "identify" as an alphabet identity. The #'s come out of San Francisco and trans activists. Read the article and shake your head and then read the comments. Most people see this for the fad that it is, but the "true believers" are right there with the usual talking points (the rise in left handedness!) SMH
The stats are shockingly high. I cannot believe how many young adults I know who ‘identify’ as one of the alphabet. It has got to be one of the most peculiar trends I would never have thought happened
There is a lot of focus on the girls but boys are out there baring their breasts and big tummies on social media as well. They have gained a lot of weight being on female hormones and heaven forbid they cut of their penis’s. It’s a sad world and my child is part of it.
Mine too😔It breaks me to think about it. It’s also infuriating for him to condescend that he can hop on the coattails of women who have endured so much to be taken seriously in this world.
Thankfully he doesn’t do the wet T-shirt contests and overtly sexual displays of what they think being a female is like. That’s just disgusting & shows how little they know about being a woman. They are delusional and narcissistic. It makes me ill to see so many in positions to make a positive influence on these peoples’ futures deliberately affirm this mental illness for likes, temporary “fame”, & above all profit.
My son has me blocked. He hasn’t shown his breasts off but I see his trans friends on X ( I made a fake account) showing themselves off and they look disgusting. More goth than anything. My son dresses all in black. Doesn’t look feminine at all. Just has breasts. I wish he would snap out of this. He was such a kind, loving, intelligent human being.
I miss the handsome, strong, young man my son was before this cult got ahold of his insecurities and played them like a well orchestrated symphony. Besides boobs, way too long hair, & the middle school like obsession with pink/trans accessories, you’d think he was just another 24yo guy with a weight issue (due to all the meds of course). Hate that we’re all going through this. My anger is placed squarely on the shoulders of those who fed lies to our children & perpetrated the profiteering of every aspect from books to surgeries to laws being changed to back them up.
Excellent. You are SO RIGHT about social media. And to answer your question, YES, the world has gone MAD. I hated my body as an early adolescent. HATED it. If I'd had social media back in 1989, I shudder to think what I would have fallen into. You are 100% spot-on. Social media exposure and COVID isolation were the catalysts for the trans madness in our home.
Excellent article. Yours and others on this channel have helped me figure what to emphasize when I talk to my local school district. The feedback here helps me cope with the blank stares I get from the district. Also: I recommend www.newdiscourses.com/tag/nd-bullets/, which helps explain the roots of this phenomenon.
I concur that SM is bad for girls, but it's equally bad for boys. NCOSE is one org that is fighting sexual exploitation on the internet. (Although they may be negatively influenced by the alphabet as they changed the KOSA to suggestions made by them. It's not transparent to me what was changed. https://endsexualexploitation.org/articles/bigtechbs-how-tech-lies-about-child-safety-and-the-needs-of-lgbtq-youth/). I suspect there are other orgs forming now to increase child/YA safety on the internet. We need to start supporting these orgs. Younger Millennials and older Gen Z are the carnies in the coal mine in regards to the effect that SM/internet has had on their mental health.
So true. The pornography that is being produced and is one click away is scrambling boys' brains. I'm glad to see there is more and more being done to spread the word, but the truth is that this early and frequent exposure to pornography (not the run-of-the-mill Playboy magazine variety of generations past) is doing untold harm, mostly to boys. The societal implications of this are alarming.
"Help us bring our kids back to family values and parent-led leadership." Yes, this would make a huge difference in helping all children. Banning phones in schools, churches, restaurants, etc. would be a good start. How many parents are on their phones while their children are in the same room, or at the dinner table, in the car, etc. Change must start at home and respect must follow. If the schools do not follow suit there will be no change. When I was in grade school and Junior High there were "slam books" that got passed around and it did hurt to see a derogatory remark written about yourself. But these slam books were not published or mass-produced and eventually were discarded. Today, there is easy access to social media, and bullying still hurts just as bad as when I was younger. Without parental monitoring our children are susceptible to everything on-line and once our children's innocent minds are influenced there is no erasing. Transgender ideology flooded the internet without any consequences, and it seeped into our homes even though our windows and doors were locked. We did everything we could to protect our children while they were under our roofs, but we did not know how easily evil could just waltz right inside. The impact and harm that this evil cult has done and is still trying to do to innocent children makes me so angry. There will be much regret one day and a generation scarred for life.
Is this the social media this post aims to place blame on so fervently?
https://substack.com/@alexilex1/note/c-56643825?r=24scz8&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Thank you for writing this.
We all need to wake up when it comes to screens and our children.
The following is My opinion:
So many shots in the right direction and yet still so far off the mark.
I believe that as a society, we’ve crossed the line, of when honest reflection and accountability once, in some distant past, ruled the day, while scapegoating and aversion to honesty became the socially acceptable and preferred method of interaction with each other and with our collective society, for the sake of preserving the integrity of feelings, at present.
Let’s just think for a moment… political correctness was implemented for what purpose other than to mask honest feedback? Every single layer of Human Resources in any place of employment nowadays is grouped into a “team,” so no single person can be faulted for underperforming (and if a single person IS identified as such, how long does it take to terminate them nowadays?) Look, social media and media at large is only providing products that sell, just like any other business, there is clearly an appetite for such topics that in a past society would lead to bankruptcy. Social media is broken because society is broken. It really is that simple. Why is it broken? Because we were trying to be “nice” at the expense of being honest. Because getting to the root cause was too brutal of a task. Because live and let live made everything, and we all see for ourselves today that I do mean EVERYTHING is acceptable. But that’s what happens when natural law is subverted. It was a slippery slope we all should have seen but chose not to.
Let me show you something…
I entered the following into Google’s Gemini:
“What are the statistics for percentage of transgender children in heterosexual households versus those in homosexual households?”
Here was the response:
“Reliable data on the exact percentages of transgender children in different household types isn't readily available. Here's why:
* **Gender identity is a spectrum:** It's not simply heterosexual vs. homosexual households. There are many family structures and sexual orientations.
* **Data collection challenges:** Gathering information on transgender youth, especially regarding their family life, can be difficult due to sensitivity and privacy concerns.
* **Evolving identities:** Many transgender people don't identify as their birth sex until later in life, making childhood data collection even more complex.
However, some research suggests a link between same-sex parents and children who identify as LGBTQ+. Studies show children of same-sex couples might feel more comfortable exploring gender identity due to a more accepting environment.
Here are some resources for further exploration:
* **Williams Institute - LGBT Parenting in the United States:** [https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/issues/relationships-parenting/](https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/issues/relationships-parenting/) “
(Don’t believe me? Try it yourself. We’ll compare our results.)
Did you catch that last part, starting with “However […]?”
Now let me ask you, what does “healthy” mean, exactly, when referring to “healthy gay” -man, -woman, -adult?
At what point is the line drawn between healthy and unhealthy with respect to sexual orientation?
Look at what “scope creep” actually means and amounts to:
“The key case is:
2020 - Bostock v. Clayton County: The Supreme Court ruled that discrimination based on sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination, and therefore prohibited under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This applies to workplaces with 15 or more employees.
This decision didn't create a new law, but rather interpreted an existing one (Title VII) to encompass sexual orientation. It's considered a major step forward in legal protections for LGBTQ+ individuals.”
From voluntarily, and rightfully so, protecting people from discrimination based on natural law, being a woman or a man, to where are we now? Whom are we protecting, now? We can no longer protect our very own children.
So, tell me, is it the fault of social media?
And let’s not forget, PITT was not created in foresight of the issues being discussed, here. It was created in response to these issues.
Here’s my quick take on what we did by reinterpreting a virtuous law:
Broken man finds “true friendship” in another man
Broken man claims it’s “true love” what he finds in the other man
Broken man starts acting like not-a-man (he calls it “wo”-man)
Broken man then starts dressing like “wo”-man
Broken “wo”-man then wants ”marriage”
Broken “wo”-man says he feels like what he believes a woman feels like, on the inside, but looks broken, on the outside
Broken “wo”-man surgically transforms into what he believes a woman should look like on the outside
Broken “married” “wo”-man who claims to feel and look like what he believes should be a woman then wants children…
Broken are his children
Broken children break other children, because all they’ve ever known, was broken.
I think I’ve said enough, for now. (I’ll invite you to explore with me the term “ROGD” in a future post, because while it is assigned to our children, I think it’s actually aimed at us, the parents)
There's an essay on here that offers many profound insights into how girls are impacted by social media and the culture at large. It's hosted on a substack that may be a little extreme for PITT readers, politically speaking, but it's well worth a read:
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/a-partial-explanation-of-zoomer-girl
Well said and I agree with every word. I thank God that neither the internet nor social media was around when my kids were young ( they're all over 48 ). However ,I have great grandchildren to worry about and I hope their parents are as clued up about the modern trends as I am at age 77. Every one of these ideologies is wreaking havoc throughout Western Societies ,and that's by design and more people need to wake up to the threat we face if civilisation is to survive. Great article 👍👏x
Thank you for writing this. I am reading Haidt's book and thinking the same things regarding the gender identity ideology connection. Schools are another big pusher of gender ideology. FMI, please, see articles on my substack such as The Anti-Science Disaster of Gender Ideology in Our Schools: https://caroldansereau.substack.com/p/the-anti-science-disaster-of-gender
And this swill....from Newsweek! It's reported that 30% of GenZ "identify" as an alphabet identity. The #'s come out of San Francisco and trans activists. Read the article and shake your head and then read the comments. Most people see this for the fad that it is, but the "true believers" are right there with the usual talking points (the rise in left handedness!) SMH
https://www.newsweek.com/why-are-so-many-more-gen-z-identifying-lgbtq-1900962
The stats are shockingly high. I cannot believe how many young adults I know who ‘identify’ as one of the alphabet. It has got to be one of the most peculiar trends I would never have thought happened
There is a lot of focus on the girls but boys are out there baring their breasts and big tummies on social media as well. They have gained a lot of weight being on female hormones and heaven forbid they cut of their penis’s. It’s a sad world and my child is part of it.
Mine too😔It breaks me to think about it. It’s also infuriating for him to condescend that he can hop on the coattails of women who have endured so much to be taken seriously in this world.
Thankfully he doesn’t do the wet T-shirt contests and overtly sexual displays of what they think being a female is like. That’s just disgusting & shows how little they know about being a woman. They are delusional and narcissistic. It makes me ill to see so many in positions to make a positive influence on these peoples’ futures deliberately affirm this mental illness for likes, temporary “fame”, & above all profit.
My son has me blocked. He hasn’t shown his breasts off but I see his trans friends on X ( I made a fake account) showing themselves off and they look disgusting. More goth than anything. My son dresses all in black. Doesn’t look feminine at all. Just has breasts. I wish he would snap out of this. He was such a kind, loving, intelligent human being.
I miss the handsome, strong, young man my son was before this cult got ahold of his insecurities and played them like a well orchestrated symphony. Besides boobs, way too long hair, & the middle school like obsession with pink/trans accessories, you’d think he was just another 24yo guy with a weight issue (due to all the meds of course). Hate that we’re all going through this. My anger is placed squarely on the shoulders of those who fed lies to our children & perpetrated the profiteering of every aspect from books to surgeries to laws being changed to back them up.
Excellent. You are SO RIGHT about social media. And to answer your question, YES, the world has gone MAD. I hated my body as an early adolescent. HATED it. If I'd had social media back in 1989, I shudder to think what I would have fallen into. You are 100% spot-on. Social media exposure and COVID isolation were the catalysts for the trans madness in our home.
Excellent article. Yours and others on this channel have helped me figure what to emphasize when I talk to my local school district. The feedback here helps me cope with the blank stares I get from the district. Also: I recommend www.newdiscourses.com/tag/nd-bullets/, which helps explain the roots of this phenomenon.
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I concur that SM is bad for girls, but it's equally bad for boys. NCOSE is one org that is fighting sexual exploitation on the internet. (Although they may be negatively influenced by the alphabet as they changed the KOSA to suggestions made by them. It's not transparent to me what was changed. https://endsexualexploitation.org/articles/bigtechbs-how-tech-lies-about-child-safety-and-the-needs-of-lgbtq-youth/). I suspect there are other orgs forming now to increase child/YA safety on the internet. We need to start supporting these orgs. Younger Millennials and older Gen Z are the carnies in the coal mine in regards to the effect that SM/internet has had on their mental health.
So true. The pornography that is being produced and is one click away is scrambling boys' brains. I'm glad to see there is more and more being done to spread the word, but the truth is that this early and frequent exposure to pornography (not the run-of-the-mill Playboy magazine variety of generations past) is doing untold harm, mostly to boys. The societal implications of this are alarming.