But why can’t everyone who identifies as something other than a girl just make their own movement or shut up. Pathetic.
It has to be for a reason beyond the lack of a straightforward name for the campaign.
I acknowledge the difficulty of forming a pithy way to describe:
NBs who present as female but don't acknowledge themselves as women are conflicted about the possibility of sustaining an assault that is so far media-reported as largely targeted at women.
NBs who were OFAB and are male presenting but still understand that they are at a notional risk of sustaining…
NBs who adopt a neutrois but still suspect that there is a notional risk of sustaining…
I'm so sorry these young women were oppressed into issuing these grovelling apologies. It's very Cialdini - social psychologists in years to come will have so much research on this if we're not all living in some authoritarian social, political, and academic system.
"An amazing example is the prison-camp program in Korean War where the Chinese used commitment and consistency pressures to gain compliance from prisoners. Although the American servicemen had been trained to give minimal details (name, rank and number), they gave away much more. How? The Chinese first asked prisoners to “make statements so mildly anti-American or pro-Communist as to seem inconsequential” such as “The United States is not perfect.” Then, once they’d complied with these minor requests, they were gradually pushed to make bigger and bigger declarations. Once they’d agreed that the US was not perfect, they would be pushed to expand on ways in which this was the case – not wanting to be inconsistent, they complied. Then, to remain consistent, they would agree to read their statements aloud in a discussion group, then maybe record it as an anti-American radio broadcast. Finding themselves a “collaborator”, without any physical coercion, the men changed their self-image and performed even more extensive acts of collaboration. The majority of prisoners collaborated at some time. Nobody wanted to appear inconsistent.
The critical act here, apparently, was that they wrote it down. They couldn’t deny the previous step, and pushed themselves into further acts of collaboration to prove their consistency (probably to themselves more than anyone else)."
scrumandkanban.co.uk/commitment-and-consistency/
My heart is aching for these young women.