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Prelude: The Nashville school shooting is definitely peak toxoplasma, a day later: people cheering everyone who entered that school with a gun, both the shooter and the police. Aidan/Audrey’s acts are a near-perfect scissor statement.
The statement on the shooting by the Trans Resistance Network is particularly toxically tribal. It hearkens back to the days of trying to sympathize with the Columbine shooters, where the narrative is shaped solely by early reporting and people were asking “What made them do it?”
Tangent: drag shows. But the use of the word “genocide” in the TRN’s statement made me stop and ponder: the modern term “genocide” includes not only the actual killing of group X, but also the halting of cultural practices as a lead-in to the eventual rounding up and killing.
Here’s an odd little dynamic: halting drag activities in children's spaces is trans genocide for both sides, but in different ways!
For pro-trans activists, halting them is halting a ritual cultural activity, and hints at a wider cultural desire for eventual trans elimination through murders of the outed and the suicides of the closeted. It also removes an avenue for trans youths to discover their true gender and thus leaves them in a spiral of depression heading toward suicide.
For social-contagion theorists, halting the drag activities in children’s spaces is useful for preventing cis children from being memetically contaminated, and thus memetically sterilizing the trans community. Reasoning: since full transition includes sterilization (thus committing traditional genocide upon themselves rather effectively), trans people don’t breed genetically, but memetically.
Drag =/= transgender. Not even close.
If this was true, then you’d have legions of trans people aligning themselves with everybody else who is pointing out that drag shows for children is completely inappropriate.
But of course you don’t see that. Again with the revealed preference (I hate that I use this term twice, but IIWII). Trans people see drag performers and see themselves, which is why they can’t oppose them.
And further on this, my priors are very much that trans people- or gay people, or very socially progressive people in general- just don’t think of the children that often. ‘Inappropriate for children’ doesn’t occur for them as a concept space because they’re not used to thinking of children as distinct from adults, so ‘you can’t have gay porn in school libraries’ comes off to them as a gay propaganda ban.
Yes this is a failure mode and they should in fact listen to people who are not them. But it’s minorities of these people and in some cases very small minorities who are parents and their social circles aren’t exactly full of parents either.
No, that's just how they treat the girls. (And they're correct, biologically speaking, to consider 13 "adult" for all practical purposes like every one of their ancestors save the last 3-4 generations did.)
The boys, of course, have to settle for the Untitled treatment unless they're willing to pretend they're women (as in, repudiating their sexual challenge to them- gayness is sufficient, so is becoming a eunuch). They can go back to their video games; keeping them sedated in the basement is a mercy for the harm they'd otherwise inflict on the women and the environment. After all, they're incapable of distinguishing sexual cosplay- the need to know that I could have any one of them that I wanted- from genuine interest (as in, fuck no, lmao).
When an ideology reifies "woman good, man bad", how could any of this be otherwise? Even the "rebellious teen" phase consists specifically of girls becoming what their mothers hate more than anything else in the world.
Of course, traditionalists are exactly the same, with the same reasons, just with the genders swapped (contrast sexual maturity with disposability, resisting any attempt by women to be anything more than a sex object, and inherent inability to accept a lesser men making a pass).
Note that it's not quite as black and white as that might make it sound- there are varying degrees of this in all societies and subsocieties- but starting from this standpoint and what economics of the time permit is, I find, shockingly accurate about what any given social environment will look like.
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