If I came off as too dismissive of middle-aged women's capacity to affect change, that's my bad and not what I meant at all. Middle-aged women are
great at actually doing the shit that needs to be done. They're the fucking backbone of pretty much any social movement because they consistently show up and put in that boring behind-the-scenes work that nobody else wants to do but that is absolutely essential. But it's thankless work, is my point. No matter what middle-aged women do, there is an air of uncoolness about them, as there is around many of the wonks that actually keep the world running. They're not flashy, they're not charismatic, not even when they are, fundamentally, right.
To keep it thread-relevant, despite him being a degenerate, one of Hontra's points absolutely hit the mark and has stayed with me ever since the first time I heard it. In his video
The Aesthetic, his character "Justine" says:
Politics is a show. Look around you, try to understand what's happening to this world. The president of the United States is a reality TV star. The 21st century is an aesthetic century. In history, there are ages of reason and there are ages of spectacle, and it's important to know which one you're in. Our America, our internet, is not ancient Athens. It's Rome. And your problem is that you think you're in a forum when you're really in the circus.
This is a completely based take, and a large part of Contra's success. We're in an age where optics > substance and where meme wars actually matter. To dismiss optics is the worst move you can make. Optics is how trannies won the culture war. It's why Gen Z is as brainwashed on this issue as it is. Having to resort to
making it illegal in order to keep young girls from mutilating their breasts and taking T is indicative of trannies winning. Forcibly cutting off the supply is not nearly as effective as cutting off the demand. And the only way to stop the demand is to win the culture war so that girls no longer fixate on trooning out as a solution to their problems. And that means caring about optics.