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Social media+coomers.What caused the massive shift in what progressive people preach? I recall the argument pre 2011 being “guys can have long hair, wear makeup, and put on dresses. It doesn’t mean they are men” to the post 2011 “if you are a man and you like pink you must be trans and just not know it yet?” Or that anyone that doesn’t rigidly adhere to sex stereotypes must be the cool and trendy ‘third gender’ of non-binary.
People were making a lot of progress with breaking down sex-based roles and promoting self-expression. Now, people are preaching the opposite. How did we get here?
I am still awestruck by the whole “non-binary/they them” mystical idiocy. I cannot even fathom how untethered that concept is from biological reality and it is incredible that the MSM is lending that nonsense any credence.
I think you would be really hardpressed to find a "lesbian" trans women in any of the genderbending scenes in previous decades. The trans women who were there were all attracted to men, so they were gender variant dudes. Same thing for the few trans men that existed (they were always much rarer until recently), they were almost all lesbians. But modern discourse, especially powered by shit like twitter and tumblr, flattens nuance and reduces everything down to buzzwords. So you have these men, who are in some ways the literal opposite of flamboyant gay men, who fetishize elements of female socialization as literally embodying women, and they become the dominant voice in the community. Kinky straight people in general actually have fucked up a lot of this. There are people who go into "queer" spaces arguing that liking having your ball stepped on by a woman makes you not a straight man. If you're into sissy porn then you must be genderqueer! The gay community did a bad job of turning these people out, because being judged on sex was such a big part of gay oppression. Lines should have been drawn. As much as gay politics are partially about sex, they are (as corny as it sounds) really about love. But there's a lot of people who define themselves as "radical queers" now who don't have partners or have opposite sex partners, and their queerness is as made up as a trans person's transness is. They aren't interested in living a normal life, they want the label as a way of proving how cool they are.
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