Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
10hr ago
Well, someone is telling them that being "very liberal" requires shitting on stuff from a very specific list that someone put together.
Skulldrinker
14hr ago
Yeah, this. "Girls Need Role Models" thing has been beaten on the cliche drum for decades, and in the Girlboss era of screenwriting you'd have to be living under a rock to not notice it.
In my personal life, I've even noticed a reflexive poisoned-well disdain among women for anything empathetic towards men that feels downright-coordinated; Blade Runner 2047 is Misogynistic, Frankenstein is Incel. Basically anything with Ryan Gosling in it makes them uncomfortable, and I don't know what the vector for all this groupthink is. I just know that I can't get through a casual conversation about film with a woman without them shitting on something that spoke to me. Or praising something for being "so queer" when they themselves are obstensibly straight.
Skulldrinker
2d ago
Once bitten, twice shy; is there a way to engineer scenarios where they get bullied or otherwise mistreated by diverse and inclusive wokescolds?
Skulldrinker
3d ago
Im soured on technothrillers in general and michael chritchton in particular, and Jurassic Park as a film is way more influential and significant, and way more of a human achievement, than a sour old man pontificating via a self-indulgent sockpuppet. I think the 10th-grade part is key for your enjoyment, it's a mind-blower when you're 16. Ian Malcolm as an adult reads a lot stronger as IAmVerySmart. I guess back then shitting on sports as a concept was far more stunning and brave.
Skulldrinker
3d ago
Not to the point that, without explaining it, I was objecting to the science presented as nonsense. But I do have a degree in zoology, so I may be a bad sample.
Skulldrinker
3d ago
Weird kids can get really emotionally dependent on teachers and other school staff; one guidance councilor obsessed with egg-cracking can do a lot of damage. And I've seen the cloying lovey-doveyness that gets lavished on adult trans people secondhand; the extreme protective emotional reactions when a wokie thinks they spotted a transphobe. I've seen straight girls dating men in dresses because they were told not dating a trans person is transphobic. I know a few weird girls who dabbled in lesbianism or FtM, then left it later and suddenly lost all their friends for being a betrayer.
I'm quite convinced that a lot (discalaimer: not all) of those spectrum-y people, especially the FtMs, female asexuals, and non-attention-whore they/thems, are just kinda trusting and gullible and were groomed into the identity by the LGBTQXY recruitment drive, independent of any molestation.
Even the from-an-early age trans stuff makes me slightly doubtful, just because I once knew someone dumb who thought her 18-month-old might be trans because he didn't like wearing pants.
The problem is the way any expression of gender non-conformity gets lovebombed, when it should be neither encouraged nor discouraged.
Skulldrinker
4d ago
Recently saw Hail Mary and enjoyed it a bunch. Sped through the book and came to the conclusion that, just like The Martian, the film is a far better film than the book is a book (joining the likes of Jurassic Park and The Godfather, also arguably Silence of the Lambs); the author's writing style is very positive and optimistic but also very IAmVerySmart and I Fucking Love Science and generally gave me Reddit vibes.
So, because I apparently love checking in on the progress of cancer like I'm some kind of internet oncologist, I go to Reddit and poke around. The stuff at the top is mainly resentment that the author is "conservative" and a misogynist and did an interview with noted elite misogynist The Critical Drinker. And some grumbling that the author/viewpoint character used "He" pronouns for the hermaphroditic alien and assumed they's mate was female by calling thim "Adrian." (Because Rock Alien=Rocky, so Rock Alien's mate = Adrian). Such oppressive heteronormativity is proof that the author is a bad person. Also something something mediocre white man.
So yeah, reddit gonna reddit. It gave me a chuckle when years ago I would be disappointed and annoyed.
Just to make sure I follow, is the TL;DR of this that it's illegal to not maximally encourage trans/queerness in therapy, even when neutrality is what the client is asking for?
Or is this sort of therapy really just laundered gay conversion treatment?
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