What can we do?

Sorry for your loss, OP, I should have thought of that.

I was once where you are now, OP, and similarly incredulous. My take:

• yes, there is a dividing line between late Gen X and millennials (not sure why)

• maybe your dad isn’t quite the misogynist you thought he was, why don’t you talk to him? As we move through life, we sometimes come to understand an issue more fully, helping us to build bridges with those we may have dismissed in the past.

• keep talking, OP

xx

”Why Smart People Do Stupid Things”
Video
www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07r0zdj/why-smart-people-do-stupid-things

“Why smart people do stupid things - and how not to”
The Telegraph

Could greater intelligence, rather than protecting us from error, sometimes make us more stupid? In my new book, The Intelligence Trap, I argue that this is indeed the case. There is no doubt that measures of intelligence – such as IQ tests or SAT scores – correlate with many valuable outcomes in life, including your academic achievement, your income, and your performance in many jobs. But the latest psychological research shows that they do not always contribute to wiser judgement in many areas of life.

Consider a process called “motivated reasoning”. When we feel emotional about an issue, we tend to apply our intelligence in a one-sided, biased way that serves our own beliefs and preconceptions, so that we always get the answer we want to see. That may involve only searching for evidence that backs up your point of view while also using elaborate reasoning to explain away any criticisms or disagreements (even if they are perfectly valid). And the more intelligent you are, the easier that is to build more creative arguments that support your own beliefs.

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There are many factors in whether people, men or women, see the underlying misogyny in the movement. The T activists have very successfully attached themselves to the LGB rights despite identity having little in common with sexuality. Obviously, many people are against homophobia and therefore support gay rights, and if they've not given it much critical thought, will assume trans rights is the logical extension of that. Gay rights was never about compelled speech, cancellation, threats, denial of reality, or lies.

We also see to the slogan, "trans rights are human rights", but the activists get a bit slippery when you want them to explain what rights they feel they don't have. They obviously should have the same rights against discrimination we all do, no debate there. But refusing to acknowledge that women and girls lose out when a man self-identifies into their spaces is not only ignorant but dangerous. The chanting is to trick people into thinking GC feminists are against trans people and their human rights.

How did "you must address me based on what I say I am" become a right, where non-compliance can be punishable by threats of job loss, harrassment, criminal charges, or violence? It's narcissism on steroids.

Gay rights did not disadvantage any other groups of people, they did not demand people to speak untruths or deny reality. Check out Arty Morty on YouTube for a more detailed explanation of the nuances of the two movements.

I don’t know but there are young’uns who “get it” - and then get sacked for speaking out of turn but they are fighting back, eg.

”Advice for Gender Critical Teens and Twenty-somethings”

www.identitycrisis.xyz/get-updates

Check out this post and others on the same thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4144806-Does-Joe-Biden-really-understand-the-controversy-behind-his-executive-order-on-trans-rights-Suzanne-Moore?msgid=103977883