Women's lived experiences are very different to men's, and this is one reason why men, no matter how much they try and understand, won't fully. Just as women won't fully understand what men's lived experiences are like.
It boggles my mind that after decades of being told to not walk alone at night, lock your doors, don't get into an elevator alone with a strange man, be careful of stairways, watch your drink, carry your keys in your hand, don't go into the park at night...
@cleanupbritain@LGANews@LGAcomms My "favourite" is when councils mow the verges before litter picking them, resulting in shredded plastic waste scattered everywhere that is so much more difficult to clean up 🙄😠
The Tale of Two Contagions
In 2019, German psychiatrists observed a sudden surge of adolescent girls presenting to clinics with abrupt-onset Tourette-like tics. This immediately raised alarm bells. Tourette’s typically affects boys and begins in early childhood.
This was an entirely new patient population.
Researchers quickly identified the index case: Jan Zimmermann, a young Tourette sufferer, whose YouTube channel had recently exploded in popularity. The girls displayed the exact same symptoms as Jan: the same outbursts and catchphrases.
The phenomenon soon migrated to TikTok, where it spread like wildfire.
Researchers coined a new term for what they were observing: mass social media–induced illness — a modern iteration of the long-recognized phenomenon of mass sociogenic illness.
Yet, in 2014, when paediatric gender clinics across the Western world began to fill with adolescent girls — another entirely new patient population — “gender-affirming” clinicians didn’t even bother to look for the trigger.
And it wouldn’t have taken much effort to find. All it required was a glance at the cultural messaging of the time.
Because 2014 was the year Time magazine put Laverne Cox on its cover with the headline: The Transgender Tipping Point: America’s Next Civil Rights Frontier.
And with that, the modern trans rights movement launched.
Trans-identified celebrities were everywhere, trans characters appeared in children’s books and television shows, trans influencers proliferated with astonishing speed online, and schools began teaching gender identity ideology as if it were scientific fact.
And in a perfect-storm scenario, smartphones and social media exploded in popularity, creating the ideal super-spreading environment for this seductive idea to go viral.
The message adolescents received was simple: If you hate your body, that could mean you’re trans.
And right on cue, legions of confused adolescents who hated their developing bodies began showing up at gender clinics believing themselves to be trans.
Just like the TikTok tics. A mass social media–induced illness.
Except on this occasion, instead of scrambling to contain the epidemic, doctors picked up their syringes and scalpels and set about permanently medicalising the innocent youth caught up in this powerful cultural storm.
And activists marched in the streets demanding that these young people be allowed to sacrifice their health, fertility, and body parts — while swiftly demonising anyone who dared point out the obvious parallels to social contagions of the past.
@HeidiPe31344312 True, but we all started with no work experience once upon a time. Best bet though, especially these days, is to try and do volunteering or shadowing to get experience for the CV. Otherwise how are people supposed to get work experience if employers demand it. Catch 22.
@SarahDixon18@Gaynotqueer1 It was all perfectly normal to me back in the late '80s coz I was into goth/indie bands 😀 It was fun, arty, and my "tribe". As @DrAzHakeem theorises, trans is simply another version of goth, it's just that they don't have the music scene to follow.
@TrentePercente@jan_murray I wonder if OP has misinterpreted the 3 strikes and you're out message. At my surgery they try and contact patients up to 3 times and if unsuccessful they close that particular enquiry. That's not being struck off. If the patient still needs help they can request again no probs.
@TrentePercente@jan_murray I wonder if OP has misinterpreted the 3 strikes and you're out message. At my surgery they try and contact patients up to 3 times and if unsuccessful they close that particular enquiry. That's not being struck off. If the patient still needs help they can request again no probs.
@MarkJLittlewood@The_Socko@leo_leo_X Of course you don't have to accept the white coffee when you asked for black, but there's no need for "prickly" (whatever that means). All it needs is a neutral "I asked for black coffee but this has got milk in it. Can you give me another one please".
@GlennBa83915632@clairebubblepop Maybe because he claims, or his supporters claim, he's "a man of the people" when he's not. He was also apparently a chronic non-attender when he was an MEP, so a lazy sod too.
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@Darcieboo2016 Nigel IS part of "the establishment" though! He was privately educated at Dulwich College, a prestigious fee-paying school in London, and was a commodities trader and was involved in the financial sector before becoming an MP.
@Kalimeralynn They would but they "don't have a spare room", "rent so I'm not allowed a lodger", "work from home and need privacy", etc etc. Otherwise they, especially the women, would absolutely let a couple of these fit young men with unknown histories stay in their homes 😉
@stueymaco Stonewall used to include transvestites under the "trans" umbrella so he can blame them. It was only about 18 months ago that they removed them, probably due to all the pervy shit they post online.
@godblesstoto@KirstieMAllsopp He's too uncanny valley for me. He's so weird he sets off my fight or flight response, I'm so uncomfortable watching him. The voice! Fucking hell fire! 😬����
@Pattyca20764590 Precisely! It's scary how many people online make massive claims about other people based just on short video clips. We don't even know if the scooter is hers! All we know is that she was able to move like that, on that occasion, for 25 seconds!
@Russell12311059 You know her medical history do you? Nope. All you know is what you saw in 25 seconds. You don't even know the mobility scooter is hers! I hope you're not a detective or ever on a jury 😬
@Joshifyed1 You know nothing about her medical history or why there's a mobility scooter in the room. All we know is that she can move like that for 25 seconds, not what else she can and can't do. She may well only need the scooter for longer journeys.
@Caligirlkim5 All we know is that she was able to move like that for 25 seconds. We know nothing about her medical record. She may well need the mobility scooter for getting to and around the shops etc. as that takes a little longer than 25 seconds 🙄