Prime Time 99 is a national treasure.Here’s a video of Alex Stein punking a school board meeting on this exact issue. So funny but truly sad at the same time.
Big pharma has figured out that with enough leaning, with enough influence, they can get a large populace of people to do what they want them to do.I really don't think it's much different than how adhd has blown out of proportion. Sure, there are children with legit issues but not at such a high percentage. Ironic how it became an epidemic once teachers weren't allowed to pop distracted kids with a ruler anymore.
I know I got my fair share of redirections.
Look kid, you have twig & berries therefore you're a boy/male. If you want to dress like and date like a girl go for it, but realize you can't fillet your sausage and magically become a girl.
Be who you want to be but don't force your fantasy world on others.
ADHD is the first mental problem that's more common as economic and social status rise. Because it brings a competitive advantage: unlimited time on exams. I had a niece who was diagnosed in the 80s.Went to Columbia, majored in classics for kids who couldn't read Greek or Latin. Oh well, she has a trust fund.I really don't think it's much different than how adhd has blown out of proportion. Sure, there are children with legit issues but not at such a high percentage. Ironic how it became an epidemic once teachers weren't allowed to pop distracted kids with a ruler anymore.
I know I got my fair share of redirections.
Look kid, you have twig & berries therefore you're a boy/male. If you want to dress like and date like a girl go for it, but realize you can't fillet your sausage and magically become a girl.
Be who you want to be but don't force your fantasy world on others.
you're a bad parent. you allowed that to happen. you failed.I’m not telling them to be anything. I’m a straight parent of a transgender non-binary kid. They go by different pronouns and are gay and that happened without anyone telling them anything. That is their identity.
Over 10% of the worlds population identify as gay. That is more than just a trend, and that is not people pressuring people to be a certain way. And it’s been this way for a lot of human history. There is nothing wrong with loving someone of the same sex and if you think there is that is a you problem. If you believe that it is a sin, that is again your belief and you are welcome to them but please don’t press your beliefs on me. Exposing children to the truth that it is ok to be who they want to be is not grooming, it is healthy. Ask Mr. Rogers.
The Texan Devil speaks....you're a bad parent. you allowed that to happen. you failed.
Straight to the point, nailed it.you're a bad parent. you allowed that to happen. you failed.
Gotta love our old school rockers keeping it real. Here’s a clip with Kid Rock and Ted Nugent expressing the same sentiments.
I’m sure you recognize that most of my comments were in jest. I get it. Honestly I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. I play along and try to treat everyone with due respect and love. Until it’s time to not..Let me "mansplain" it to you.
Our society has developed a social mindset that "all people are special"-- even if they aren't.
If you look around and realize you aren't truly "special"---- examples-- run really fast, are super smart, incredibly handsome or beautiful, can throw a football 75 yards, can sing like Adele or play and instrument like Slash, then people start trying to find OTHER ways to be special. Some write books or poetry. Some become Navy SEALs. Some start companies or invent things. You see where I'm going?
Then some appeal to a niche in society. Like "the island of misfit toys" so to speak. They do this on social media.
See, the misfit toys used to be called "outsider" or "odd duck" or just "different"-- and they thought they were alone in the world. Then social media came around and linked all the misfit tiys together-- forming their own club. This is why stupid fvcking games like cornhole and pickleball got popular..... (it's OK to like stupid games).
Somewhere in there, we began giving status points to people. The SUPER achievers were given status. Then the marginalized groups were given status.
So if you weren't SUPER talented or apecial in some way, or you couldn't claim membership into a marginalized group- then you weren't given status. There was no board meeting that decided who would be granted this status-- it was just sort of decided by the influencers in our social system.
Marginalized groups like minorities were given status. Then a pecking order was established. A "ladder of hierarchy" so to speak. At the top of that ladder were certain races and religions. At the bottom of the ladder were white, christian males.
Then "marginalized" groups that defined who they were by their sexual orientation piped up and were given status on this ladder. Often times there's intersection confusion as to whom gets to occupy what rung on this ladder at any particular time.
Example-- a white male cop shoots a black assailant. The white cop is immediately questioned, called a racist, and must prove his shoot was beyond any reproach.
VS--
A white hetero woman being beaten by a black trans. Well, we must first ask "what did that white woman do to deserve being beaten?"
Intersectional problems occur on this ladder that rarely make the headlines-
Example- Jewish trans woman shoots black gay male activist. <----- who wins the battle of intersectional victim hood here? The media doesn't know-- so they don't report on it.
Example- White kid buys gun to prove how easy it is, then shoots up a bank. His writings and motive for doing so hits headlines within a few days of the incident.
A trans woman shoots up a private religious school, writes a manifesto, and the FBI refuses to release it, calling is a "roadmap to total destruction".
Now you see how the ladder of social hierarchy works.
Kids know they will get special attention, more attention, and social status as a "victim" if they identify with anything other than their XX or XY chromosome at birth.
Does this help you a little bit Bud?