Superb nuance on this topic. Miller's distinction between stable sexual orientation rates and exploding identity labels cuts through the usual culture war noise. The sapiosexual example is particualrly useful because it shows how universal mate preferences get rebranded as niche identities. I worked with a university survey team a few years back and we saw this exact pattern where the queer category functioned more like an opt-in subcultural marker than behavior descriptor. The data tells a much less dramatic story than either side wants to admit.
Also, indoctrination since kindergarten doesn't help.... I work in a school and there are rainbows everywhere and A LOT of the library books are now about this.... especially the books on display.... it's actually sickening..... and FOMO... that is a real thing, too.....
Conditioning. My wife was a public school teacher who left it in the early 2000's b/c she saw the change being pushed from higher ups; to change from teaching to teaching + indoctrination. She homeschooled our kids and now that the oldest is in college she's like a genius compared to her public school educated peers. My kids know very little about activism and promoting the "message" which is fine with me and misses.
Its a fad plain and simple. We can debate why its a fad but that's what it boils down to and every generation has gone thru fads often unique to that generation and sometimes shared by the adjoining generation. What's unique here is this fad requires one to disbelieve in reality and chose their own make believe universe. The other key difference is that this Fad is getting public and private sector support and funding and that should be the biggest of Red Flags. In the 80's GenX'ers went thru several fads like stone washed jeans and Rap music (which was still new to the music scene) along with the Hip-Hop culture that accompanied it. You had many white teens acting as if they were black. The only external support for these came from those private sector entities that directly benefitted from the fad such as the music industry and Jeans manufacturers. There was no public or legislative support for these at any level but there is for the gender ideology and that is the Red Flag we all show be aware of.
One of my pet peeves is the increasing tendency of missusing the simple pronouns of "I", "me", and "myself". Isn't it interesting that during this period, there has been an increase in the "catagories" of discriptions people draw from to self-identify?
Certain core subjects had to be scaled back to allow for more time for indoctrination and conditioning. It's not just grammar/spelling they're bad at but math as well.
Superb nuance on this topic. Miller's distinction between stable sexual orientation rates and exploding identity labels cuts through the usual culture war noise. The sapiosexual example is particualrly useful because it shows how universal mate preferences get rebranded as niche identities. I worked with a university survey team a few years back and we saw this exact pattern where the queer category functioned more like an opt-in subcultural marker than behavior descriptor. The data tells a much less dramatic story than either side wants to admit.
Also, indoctrination since kindergarten doesn't help.... I work in a school and there are rainbows everywhere and A LOT of the library books are now about this.... especially the books on display.... it's actually sickening..... and FOMO... that is a real thing, too.....
Conditioning. My wife was a public school teacher who left it in the early 2000's b/c she saw the change being pushed from higher ups; to change from teaching to teaching + indoctrination. She homeschooled our kids and now that the oldest is in college she's like a genius compared to her public school educated peers. My kids know very little about activism and promoting the "message" which is fine with me and misses.
Its a fad plain and simple. We can debate why its a fad but that's what it boils down to and every generation has gone thru fads often unique to that generation and sometimes shared by the adjoining generation. What's unique here is this fad requires one to disbelieve in reality and chose their own make believe universe. The other key difference is that this Fad is getting public and private sector support and funding and that should be the biggest of Red Flags. In the 80's GenX'ers went thru several fads like stone washed jeans and Rap music (which was still new to the music scene) along with the Hip-Hop culture that accompanied it. You had many white teens acting as if they were black. The only external support for these came from those private sector entities that directly benefitted from the fad such as the music industry and Jeans manufacturers. There was no public or legislative support for these at any level but there is for the gender ideology and that is the Red Flag we all show be aware of.
One of my pet peeves is the increasing tendency of missusing the simple pronouns of "I", "me", and "myself". Isn't it interesting that during this period, there has been an increase in the "catagories" of discriptions people draw from to self-identify?
Certain core subjects had to be scaled back to allow for more time for indoctrination and conditioning. It's not just grammar/spelling they're bad at but math as well.