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Bravo, or is that Brava? So much in here I agree with, my only sadness is that people that should read it won't.

Freud was accused of overgeneralising childhood sexuality as an explanation for all psychological ailments due to him personally being obsessed with this. So I think there is definitely something to the selection bias in academic feminists.

Agree also with what I would call undermining of biological sex by feminism broadly, which has allowed a disembodied view of people to perpetuate, with everything socially constructed.

As I commented on another post, this disembodied epistemology, aided by the internet, has created a strange cultural milieu, where young people are being told that Jo, who they suspect is a boy, and in fact is a boy, is 'really' a girl-- not a trans girl. Also that you can literally change your sex - all along we were imprecise with this expression (which Steersman has highlighted before), and now we are being beaten with the cudgel...

I would argue in addition to your points that the current gender ideology view of trans is in fact existentially unsound from the perspective of adolescent psychology. Mixed in with social media subcultures and negligent education, we have created an environment where struggling teenagers are encouraged to think of themselves as trans, without being aware of basic facts (ie that you can not, in fact, change your sex)

But, although you have pointed to the contributing factors, and some solutions, how do we influence the middle-aged handmaidens that unthinkingly and stubbornly perpetuate this, most of them women?

I find that many are tied into the 'dark mother's complex, obsessed with being 'kind'...

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"This brand of feminism wreaks of internalized misogyny."

Indeed. Though I think you mean "reeks" ... 😉🙂

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reek

Though one might suggest that some "malodourous" aspects to feminism have, rather unfortunately, "wreaked" much of it.

Though quite impressed with your uses of DALL E-3. Been thinking of trying to learn how to use it myself -- any pointers to get me started?

But I've periodically argued that the efforts of the woke to shoehorn the foot of social justice into the glass slipper of biology have just crippled the former and shattered the latter, so to speak -- seems an ideal subject for DALL E-3. I've certainly had a few Likes and a "threat" to steal the idea in response ... might even pay good money to see it in living colour ... 😉🙂

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