That could be my son. This thought has been stabbing at me for the past two days since they identified Charlie Kirk’s killer. And, if I’m being honest, it’s been niggling at me for the last three years with every senseless shooting perpetrated by a lone, white, young male.
My son would never hurt another purposely. He is a gentle person who would never be violent by choice. He tends to leave a room to avoid conflict. Some of that is because he has Asperger's. But just in general he means well towards others and doesn't like to argue. But, he has bought into this bullshit completely for almost nine years. And he is paranoid that the world is out to get him because he is "trans" (Boy I hate that term so much). He owns a gun now for self protection. So what I fear is him overreacting to a perceived threat or someone saying something that gets him upset. I fear a bad situation he handles poorly. Or a misunderstanding. The world has told him he is horrible for being a white, intelligent, young man from a happy, intact family. He chose his escape route: taking on a female persona in order to be liked by his peers. He found out how to feel good about himself. I fear he will protect that new persona with vigor.
Our culture is unwell. But, if we could end "GAC" it would go a long way towards allowing the young and foolish to grow into adults someday. Exiting physical reality is not an option. That's the message.
"THE DAWS CONJECTURE
Daws tweets “to sever the bond between parents and their children” in order “to create little revolutionaries,” “the left is using a two-pronged approach.” The prongs are Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Queer Theory (QT). As Daws describes:
Once CRT is done tearing down [white or white adjacent] kids and leaving them with a negative self-identity, Queer Theory (QT) is introduced and offers them a wide assortment of positive self-identities to choose from. Instead of living with the shame and guilt of being a member of the oppressive dominant culture, these students can be celebrated for coming out as gender nonbinary or pansexual. In an instant, these kids can trade their negative self-identity and all the accompanying guilt and shame of being an ‘oppressor’ for a positive self-identity as a much-venerated ‘oppressed’ minority."
My beautiful middle-class white son has gone through the same struggle: believing that there's something wrong with him personally because he has privilege.
As a lifelong feminist and women's rights activist, I've worked with him over the years to counteract what he reads online and to teach him that he does not personally create his privilege. If that were possible, we'd all personally create privilege for ourselves, and no one would ever be oppressed.
No. His privilege is a thing--not a human being--which exists outside him. Yes, it benefits him unfairly, compared to those with less privilege (like his mother, who is explaining this to him), but it is created and maintained by other people who are not him--many of them women.
His privilege is not who he is. And he is not his privilege.
He is whatever he makes of himself. And what he makes of himself is a good, loving person who wants to be fair to everyone and do what's right.
It helps very much to remind him that, with his privilege, he is exactly like his white male father, who loves him deeply and whom he deeply loves. They are the two people I love best in the world. If everyone else vanished, I would choose two men to continue to exist alongside me.
Because their privilege is not who they are.
What they are is two good, loving people who want to be fair to everyone and do what's right.
After all, their privilege can help everyone. In any society, privilege is power. So, because white men have more power in our world, their words carry greater weight. They can be a greater force for good than those of us with less privilege! They just have to stand up and be counted.
This is a powerful and empowering thing to do. And it can give a young white man a real sense of meaningful purpose--which is what everyone needs.
In feminist terms, the goal of privilege is to use your privilege to end privilege itself.
You have a sound mind and deep understanding of the truth. Your essay is so spot-on! You have explained what is precisely going on, and we desperately need to have "that conversation" sooner rather than later. I hope we can recover from this, so much damage has been done. Our young girls are afraid to become a woman and growing breasts, afraid of menstruating, afraid of having sexual intercourse and conceiving a child in their womb. The internet has targeted their minds and twisted the truth, so they are rejecting who they are and who they are supposed to become. It is a woman who gives life, but these lost girls are choosing death instead. And our young boys are feeling the pressure that they could harm a woman, the internet has been telling them these lies for years. The internet has been showing disturbing porn to these innocent boys and now those images cloud their judgement. Many of these trans-boys want to become a lesbian. As crazy as it sounds, it almost makes sense. Any of our trans-confused kids could have been Kirk's shooter, any of these boys or girls who have been pushed into the rabbit hole could have been Kirk's shooter. The shootings at the church in Minneapolis is just another example. Our children are broken, wounded, confused and at a loss. Desperate means take desperate measures. God help us. How do we help this lost generation? How do we salvage what has been destroyed? I cannot imagine what is going to happen next, but it terrifies me.
Nailed it. Been saying this for years but always get a blank stare. You can’t vilify a whole demographic and offer them no value unless they denounce their inclusion and have it end well. So much for “DEI”! And if it were any other group than straight white male, society would never stand for it. Add Christian to the mix and you get even more vitriol. I was really saddened when the Boy Scouts fell apart because the positive identity that group offered was dismantled. (Meanwhile the girls scouts are taken over by radical lesbians.) The insidious lie that you can change the pain inside by changing the surface of the outside has got to be confronted.
I know there is some ambiguity about Tyler Robinson’s identity, so please correct me if I got this wrong. But my understanding is that Tyler is in a gay relationship, i.e., two men, one of whom,Tyler’s boyfriend, “identifies” as a woman. Trans ideology force-teamed gays into seeing themselves as another flavor of “queer,” but in fact, gay and trans are distinct categories. Tyler, a man in a relationship with another man, is gay.
The tragedy is that, historically, the children likeliest to identify as trans are kids who will grow up to be gay if we just leave them alone…or, at least, that used to be the case (gender dysphoria in kids who grow up to be gay once they go through puberty was, and remains, a common experience for future gays of both sexes).
But the social pressures you describe that cause boys to hate themselves and disown their maleness and their race have become insidious and toxic, to say the least.
This important, powerful article needs a wide audience. I hope you can publish it widely.
I think you have that right, Beeswax. Tyler Robinson is in a relationship with another man who is in the "furry" subculture of "trans" and is in the process of "transition to a woman" (as if that were possible). And, you are correct about the historical case.
Now, there are feminine, straight girls who think they would be better off as "gay men". As far as I am aware no gay man informs them that this isn't a great idea and that they are not "cute" boys. Maybe it makes gay men feel they are more "mainstream"?
This article reminds me of the old PITT article about Social Identity Threat and Social Identity Exit:
"Why is this happening to my family?
A viral tweet suggests a new theory of race-based social identity threat and identity exit"
LM - regarding girls who want to pass as gay men, Gary Lucia discussed the topic earlier this year in his article about a BBC show ostensibly designed for gay male dating but included a woman claiming a male identity:
That could just as easily be your daughter. Adolescent girls are prone to ROGD as they go through puberty and hate the changes they see in their own bodies. Menstrual cycles are among the most difficult to cope with, and boys have no idea what that's like. Girls also may feel limited by gender stereotypes, and given the message that you really can change your sex, they see a trans identity as an escape from all things female. In general, it seems that escape is the primary motive for this kind of radical change.
This is an amazing post that needs to be seen by not just parents of trans identified kids, but all parents.
I share your sentiments from top to bottom, OP. I have a (non trans identified) son who looks like Robinson, born in the same year, is an achiever like Robinson was, comes from a functioning, intact, loving family. He is an avid gamer who spends most of his free time either at the gym or on games (thank God for the gym). It has haunted me since the day Kirk was assassinated that it could have been my son - and it still could be, someday, if we're not careful.
I'm willing to take the controversial position that young men are now perhaps the most oppressed group in the West. And we cannot let that happen.
Trump is supposed to be "looking into" the connection between shootings and trans. This is the piece he needs to read. It's not trans, it's what's at the root of trans.
Thank you so much for putting my thoughts into words.
Yes, I agree. I have told parents of kids radicalized by the WOKE ideology that they would very well fit in our parent support group. Many of us parents with trans kids understand this because we also have ally siblings. At times, they are more radicalized than the gender confused child.
I am so glad to be 73 and married. I have no idea how I would relate to women in today's world, where any normal thing (kissing a date, attempting a seduction) can lead to job loss, social shunning, even arrest). I cannot imagine what a young man's views are. How do you work with women? What if you are attracted to a young woman, and she doesn't spurn you - in the old days, persistence was needed. Today, that's called stalking.
In today's world, there seems to be a lot of lonely young men, lonely young women, and a gulf between them that is wide and filled with crocodiles.
And add to that Covid isolation and a plethora of inescapable porn - hard and sissy- and we have unknowingly created this perfect storm. Yet. It never would never have gone this far had the medical community not been so quick to affirm as the only justifiable cure. If we lived in a normal world, even w all the issues, we could have worked together to help each of them instead of being shunned. WE KNOW our sons. Our daughters. based upon our years of experience w them. Instead. Now. My child represents almost everything I hate in the world. I can’t believe we are here. and yes. It could be my kid. Sadly now I would not be surprised.
"Yet. It never would never have gone this far had the medical community not been so quick to affirm as the only justifiable cure"
I 100% agree with this. There are so many things that lead the kids to where they are, but if the quacks did not affirm and medicalize them I truly believe that 99% of the kids would grow beyond "trans" before they are 30 without feeling "locked in" and being damaged.
"Gender Affirming Care" needs to be completely shutdown in the United States - for all ages.
I agree. My 23yo son is not trans, and still lives in our house. He is on the gaming networks a significant part of the day. Thankfully, we have fairly good communication with him and I think it also helps that he became an Eagle scout. So had some strong male leaders throughout his adolescent years. He does look through a lens of being angry at successful business owners. I think we are slowly working through that. He does work right now so that helps as well. I think though it could have gone very differently and am thankful that it didn't.
23. What are your plans for getting him to finally use his wings as an adult? Our daughter was 26, and was using "We should do this" - in other words, still in the family space as a 26 YO. I finally told her "either take classes to become a nurse or leave". After 3 days, she agreed to leave. We did not give her a time limit.
Many times since, she has told us how important it was to get that boot up the backside.
I think so many see the devastating truth in your article. The big question is how do we help them? HOW?!?!? So many point fingers at us but no one is coming up with ways to help. I tried to get him to volunteer. He was open to it and went to a community kitchen. They put him at a table by himself because everyone else had their “groups” (church, YMSL, green cord)! I was so angry. He tried and again rejected! He is such a beautiful soul but just can’t see it. I want to read this article with my son. I want him to cry his pain out! I want him to heal! But if I try to present him with any “why” or “what do you think of this” it is met with so much anger and denial! I just want an open dialogue. I am so broken over this. All the hate… it’s just so sad. Sorry I clearly really need to vent. This article’s so validating for us parents. Thank you
My son went through this same situation at 16. When he was more open to trying these new things, the people who “said they would help” ended up making him feel more isolated with their lack of follow through or ignoring him altogether when he was there to assist, learn, & make positive connections with peers.
I went to my youth pastor for help as my husband had tragically passed in an accident the summer before his junior year in HS. My son was so lost. The pastor’s response was “of course. Tell him to call me and we can meet up.” WHAT?! You’re the adult. You’re the “guidance counselor”. YOU need to reach out. He never followed through. No one ever followed through. My son needed meaningful connection. Instead he got isolation. Therapy was good until he turned 18 then he didn’t want to go. He made his connections in Discord, Streaming, online gaming, anime, & all the usual suspects. At 21, his online “friends”, introduced him to cross-sx meds until he could get a Dr to prescribe them.
Not one person (other than me) asked my son why or what has led him to this choice. When will the root causes of this ideology in isolation be addressed?!
We can no longer afford to let these questions go unanswered!
This is spot on. Thanks for sharing it and contributing to the much-needed conversation. I am haunted by how, when I was a University professor, I could not convince one of my white male students that he had nothing to apologize for in coming from a comfortable home and family in Hawaii. He’d proudly revealed to me his newly-found status as a man who had “white privilege,”and he was celebrating how he was finally in touch with it. I’m a black woman, so I thought he might listen to me and let himself off the hook. But nope. He held fast. He insisted his life as a white man had been “unfairly good,” and he was glad to finally be in touch with his privilege. I don’t know which of my colleagues or other teachers had brainwashed him, but I’ve never forgotten that conversation. Universities (and high schools) are cesspools, ruining these kids with such evil brainwashing.
Thank you for trying. My son was indoctrinated in college in the early 2000s - I had no idea what was being thrown at him. Now I know and I've taken a lot of time to explain it to my beautiful and very girly step-daughter who just started college this year. I warned her of what she would hear and see, especially from the professors, so that when she does encounter that messaging she'll remember my warnings and recognize it before she's brainwashed. She's already warned me that she has Sociology next semester and that it will likely be filled with DEI and white-privilege lectures. I think educating them beforehand is key to turning this around.
Wow. A powerful testimony from you. That the message coming from a black woman couldn't penetrate that student's brain shows how deep the shame is that we have created. Thank you for sharing this story.
I suspect like so many 'lone assassins' there is likely a multi layered narrative that may never be known to serve an orchestrated agenda. That being said, your points are well taken
Tearing people down, building division and hatred rather than recognizing both the differences and the shared values of the sexes serves to build industry. It is normal to be insecure in youth. Attending college and being able to 'opt-out' of sexed reality should not be a thing. Social engineering to harvest victims for the gender industry is now mainstream. I pray your son wakes to his reality.
My son would never hurt another purposely. He is a gentle person who would never be violent by choice. He tends to leave a room to avoid conflict. Some of that is because he has Asperger's. But just in general he means well towards others and doesn't like to argue. But, he has bought into this bullshit completely for almost nine years. And he is paranoid that the world is out to get him because he is "trans" (Boy I hate that term so much). He owns a gun now for self protection. So what I fear is him overreacting to a perceived threat or someone saying something that gets him upset. I fear a bad situation he handles poorly. Or a misunderstanding. The world has told him he is horrible for being a white, intelligent, young man from a happy, intact family. He chose his escape route: taking on a female persona in order to be liked by his peers. He found out how to feel good about himself. I fear he will protect that new persona with vigor.
Our culture is unwell. But, if we could end "GAC" it would go a long way towards allowing the young and foolish to grow into adults someday. Exiting physical reality is not an option. That's the message.
"THE DAWS CONJECTURE
Daws tweets “to sever the bond between parents and their children” in order “to create little revolutionaries,” “the left is using a two-pronged approach.” The prongs are Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Queer Theory (QT). As Daws describes:
Once CRT is done tearing down [white or white adjacent] kids and leaving them with a negative self-identity, Queer Theory (QT) is introduced and offers them a wide assortment of positive self-identities to choose from. Instead of living with the shame and guilt of being a member of the oppressive dominant culture, these students can be celebrated for coming out as gender nonbinary or pansexual. In an instant, these kids can trade their negative self-identity and all the accompanying guilt and shame of being an ‘oppressor’ for a positive self-identity as a much-venerated ‘oppressed’ minority."
https://www.pittparents.com/p/why-is-this-happening-to-my-family?utm_source=publication-search
My beautiful middle-class white son has gone through the same struggle: believing that there's something wrong with him personally because he has privilege.
As a lifelong feminist and women's rights activist, I've worked with him over the years to counteract what he reads online and to teach him that he does not personally create his privilege. If that were possible, we'd all personally create privilege for ourselves, and no one would ever be oppressed.
No. His privilege is a thing--not a human being--which exists outside him. Yes, it benefits him unfairly, compared to those with less privilege (like his mother, who is explaining this to him), but it is created and maintained by other people who are not him--many of them women.
His privilege is not who he is. And he is not his privilege.
He is whatever he makes of himself. And what he makes of himself is a good, loving person who wants to be fair to everyone and do what's right.
It helps very much to remind him that, with his privilege, he is exactly like his white male father, who loves him deeply and whom he deeply loves. They are the two people I love best in the world. If everyone else vanished, I would choose two men to continue to exist alongside me.
Because their privilege is not who they are.
What they are is two good, loving people who want to be fair to everyone and do what's right.
After all, their privilege can help everyone. In any society, privilege is power. So, because white men have more power in our world, their words carry greater weight. They can be a greater force for good than those of us with less privilege! They just have to stand up and be counted.
This is a powerful and empowering thing to do. And it can give a young white man a real sense of meaningful purpose--which is what everyone needs.
In feminist terms, the goal of privilege is to use your privilege to end privilege itself.
So that's what we do.
You have a sound mind and deep understanding of the truth. Your essay is so spot-on! You have explained what is precisely going on, and we desperately need to have "that conversation" sooner rather than later. I hope we can recover from this, so much damage has been done. Our young girls are afraid to become a woman and growing breasts, afraid of menstruating, afraid of having sexual intercourse and conceiving a child in their womb. The internet has targeted their minds and twisted the truth, so they are rejecting who they are and who they are supposed to become. It is a woman who gives life, but these lost girls are choosing death instead. And our young boys are feeling the pressure that they could harm a woman, the internet has been telling them these lies for years. The internet has been showing disturbing porn to these innocent boys and now those images cloud their judgement. Many of these trans-boys want to become a lesbian. As crazy as it sounds, it almost makes sense. Any of our trans-confused kids could have been Kirk's shooter, any of these boys or girls who have been pushed into the rabbit hole could have been Kirk's shooter. The shootings at the church in Minneapolis is just another example. Our children are broken, wounded, confused and at a loss. Desperate means take desperate measures. God help us. How do we help this lost generation? How do we salvage what has been destroyed? I cannot imagine what is going to happen next, but it terrifies me.
Wonderfully written. My thoughts exactly. Unfortunately I can relate to that feeling - that could be my son
The events of the last days made me have these same thoughts about my daughter.
My daughter, who may be biding her time until she's 18 and can leave her family home and finally transition.
My daughter, who was exposed at a young age to porn, and doesnt want to be degraded like the women she saw. And so she rejects growing into a woman.
Could she be radicalized into hate? Against her parents, her family? Figures leading the charge against "gender affirming care" for children?
I really don't know. And it breaks my heart and makes me sick.
That could be my daughter.
Nailed it. Been saying this for years but always get a blank stare. You can’t vilify a whole demographic and offer them no value unless they denounce their inclusion and have it end well. So much for “DEI”! And if it were any other group than straight white male, society would never stand for it. Add Christian to the mix and you get even more vitriol. I was really saddened when the Boy Scouts fell apart because the positive identity that group offered was dismantled. (Meanwhile the girls scouts are taken over by radical lesbians.) The insidious lie that you can change the pain inside by changing the surface of the outside has got to be confronted.
I know there is some ambiguity about Tyler Robinson’s identity, so please correct me if I got this wrong. But my understanding is that Tyler is in a gay relationship, i.e., two men, one of whom,Tyler’s boyfriend, “identifies” as a woman. Trans ideology force-teamed gays into seeing themselves as another flavor of “queer,” but in fact, gay and trans are distinct categories. Tyler, a man in a relationship with another man, is gay.
The tragedy is that, historically, the children likeliest to identify as trans are kids who will grow up to be gay if we just leave them alone…or, at least, that used to be the case (gender dysphoria in kids who grow up to be gay once they go through puberty was, and remains, a common experience for future gays of both sexes).
But the social pressures you describe that cause boys to hate themselves and disown their maleness and their race have become insidious and toxic, to say the least.
This important, powerful article needs a wide audience. I hope you can publish it widely.
I think you have that right, Beeswax. Tyler Robinson is in a relationship with another man who is in the "furry" subculture of "trans" and is in the process of "transition to a woman" (as if that were possible). And, you are correct about the historical case.
Now, there are feminine, straight girls who think they would be better off as "gay men". As far as I am aware no gay man informs them that this isn't a great idea and that they are not "cute" boys. Maybe it makes gay men feel they are more "mainstream"?
This article reminds me of the old PITT article about Social Identity Threat and Social Identity Exit:
"Why is this happening to my family?
A viral tweet suggests a new theory of race-based social identity threat and identity exit"
https://www.pittparents.com/p/why-is-this-happening-to-my-family
LM - regarding girls who want to pass as gay men, Gary Lucia discussed the topic earlier this year in his article about a BBC show ostensibly designed for gay male dating but included a woman claiming a male identity:
https://open.substack.com/pub/flashinggreen/p/kisss-keep-it-same-sex-stupid?r=57dgq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Thanks, Beeswax. I'll look.
Very clear explanation.
That could just as easily be your daughter. Adolescent girls are prone to ROGD as they go through puberty and hate the changes they see in their own bodies. Menstrual cycles are among the most difficult to cope with, and boys have no idea what that's like. Girls also may feel limited by gender stereotypes, and given the message that you really can change your sex, they see a trans identity as an escape from all things female. In general, it seems that escape is the primary motive for this kind of radical change.
This is an amazing post that needs to be seen by not just parents of trans identified kids, but all parents.
I share your sentiments from top to bottom, OP. I have a (non trans identified) son who looks like Robinson, born in the same year, is an achiever like Robinson was, comes from a functioning, intact, loving family. He is an avid gamer who spends most of his free time either at the gym or on games (thank God for the gym). It has haunted me since the day Kirk was assassinated that it could have been my son - and it still could be, someday, if we're not careful.
I'm willing to take the controversial position that young men are now perhaps the most oppressed group in the West. And we cannot let that happen.
Trump is supposed to be "looking into" the connection between shootings and trans. This is the piece he needs to read. It's not trans, it's what's at the root of trans.
Thank you so much for putting my thoughts into words.
Yes, I agree. I have told parents of kids radicalized by the WOKE ideology that they would very well fit in our parent support group. Many of us parents with trans kids understand this because we also have ally siblings. At times, they are more radicalized than the gender confused child.
I am so glad to be 73 and married. I have no idea how I would relate to women in today's world, where any normal thing (kissing a date, attempting a seduction) can lead to job loss, social shunning, even arrest). I cannot imagine what a young man's views are. How do you work with women? What if you are attracted to a young woman, and she doesn't spurn you - in the old days, persistence was needed. Today, that's called stalking.
In today's world, there seems to be a lot of lonely young men, lonely young women, and a gulf between them that is wide and filled with crocodiles.
100%.
And add to that Covid isolation and a plethora of inescapable porn - hard and sissy- and we have unknowingly created this perfect storm. Yet. It never would never have gone this far had the medical community not been so quick to affirm as the only justifiable cure. If we lived in a normal world, even w all the issues, we could have worked together to help each of them instead of being shunned. WE KNOW our sons. Our daughters. based upon our years of experience w them. Instead. Now. My child represents almost everything I hate in the world. I can’t believe we are here. and yes. It could be my kid. Sadly now I would not be surprised.
I understand how you feel, Momof5.
"Yet. It never would never have gone this far had the medical community not been so quick to affirm as the only justifiable cure"
I 100% agree with this. There are so many things that lead the kids to where they are, but if the quacks did not affirm and medicalize them I truly believe that 99% of the kids would grow beyond "trans" before they are 30 without feeling "locked in" and being damaged.
"Gender Affirming Care" needs to be completely shutdown in the United States - for all ages.
Amen to that!
I agree. My 23yo son is not trans, and still lives in our house. He is on the gaming networks a significant part of the day. Thankfully, we have fairly good communication with him and I think it also helps that he became an Eagle scout. So had some strong male leaders throughout his adolescent years. He does look through a lens of being angry at successful business owners. I think we are slowly working through that. He does work right now so that helps as well. I think though it could have gone very differently and am thankful that it didn't.
23. What are your plans for getting him to finally use his wings as an adult? Our daughter was 26, and was using "We should do this" - in other words, still in the family space as a 26 YO. I finally told her "either take classes to become a nurse or leave". After 3 days, she agreed to leave. We did not give her a time limit.
Many times since, she has told us how important it was to get that boot up the backside.
I think so many see the devastating truth in your article. The big question is how do we help them? HOW?!?!? So many point fingers at us but no one is coming up with ways to help. I tried to get him to volunteer. He was open to it and went to a community kitchen. They put him at a table by himself because everyone else had their “groups” (church, YMSL, green cord)! I was so angry. He tried and again rejected! He is such a beautiful soul but just can’t see it. I want to read this article with my son. I want him to cry his pain out! I want him to heal! But if I try to present him with any “why” or “what do you think of this” it is met with so much anger and denial! I just want an open dialogue. I am so broken over this. All the hate… it’s just so sad. Sorry I clearly really need to vent. This article’s so validating for us parents. Thank you
My son went through this same situation at 16. When he was more open to trying these new things, the people who “said they would help” ended up making him feel more isolated with their lack of follow through or ignoring him altogether when he was there to assist, learn, & make positive connections with peers.
I went to my youth pastor for help as my husband had tragically passed in an accident the summer before his junior year in HS. My son was so lost. The pastor’s response was “of course. Tell him to call me and we can meet up.” WHAT?! You’re the adult. You’re the “guidance counselor”. YOU need to reach out. He never followed through. No one ever followed through. My son needed meaningful connection. Instead he got isolation. Therapy was good until he turned 18 then he didn’t want to go. He made his connections in Discord, Streaming, online gaming, anime, & all the usual suspects. At 21, his online “friends”, introduced him to cross-sx meds until he could get a Dr to prescribe them.
Not one person (other than me) asked my son why or what has led him to this choice. When will the root causes of this ideology in isolation be addressed?!
We can no longer afford to let these questions go unanswered!
I hear you. Glad you did.
This is spot on. Thanks for sharing it and contributing to the much-needed conversation. I am haunted by how, when I was a University professor, I could not convince one of my white male students that he had nothing to apologize for in coming from a comfortable home and family in Hawaii. He’d proudly revealed to me his newly-found status as a man who had “white privilege,”and he was celebrating how he was finally in touch with it. I’m a black woman, so I thought he might listen to me and let himself off the hook. But nope. He held fast. He insisted his life as a white man had been “unfairly good,” and he was glad to finally be in touch with his privilege. I don’t know which of my colleagues or other teachers had brainwashed him, but I’ve never forgotten that conversation. Universities (and high schools) are cesspools, ruining these kids with such evil brainwashing.
Thank you for trying. My son was indoctrinated in college in the early 2000s - I had no idea what was being thrown at him. Now I know and I've taken a lot of time to explain it to my beautiful and very girly step-daughter who just started college this year. I warned her of what she would hear and see, especially from the professors, so that when she does encounter that messaging she'll remember my warnings and recognize it before she's brainwashed. She's already warned me that she has Sociology next semester and that it will likely be filled with DEI and white-privilege lectures. I think educating them beforehand is key to turning this around.
I agree. Forewarned is forearmed.
Thanks! It’s been a couple of years since I retired, and I’m still processing how damaging the environment was in my University.
Wow. A powerful testimony from you. That the message coming from a black woman couldn't penetrate that student's brain shows how deep the shame is that we have created. Thank you for sharing this story.
I suspect like so many 'lone assassins' there is likely a multi layered narrative that may never be known to serve an orchestrated agenda. That being said, your points are well taken
Tearing people down, building division and hatred rather than recognizing both the differences and the shared values of the sexes serves to build industry. It is normal to be insecure in youth. Attending college and being able to 'opt-out' of sexed reality should not be a thing. Social engineering to harvest victims for the gender industry is now mainstream. I pray your son wakes to his reality.