How the hell did we get here?

[dropthevipers]

Just that really. My guess would be that the overwhelming majority of people would just laugh at the idea that Trans men become women (literally) by the magic of saying so. Yeah, right. It's as if a reborn cult around the flat earth idea suddenly gained widespread acceptance by people who otherwise appear intelligent and rational. Why wasn't this utter cobblers laughed out of town from the get go?

@ChopinBoard

You might enjoy this, too op

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Yes, I second that, it is a great book, very, very funny and you will recognise so many events that have happened in the last few years...

Oh bugger!

This book - The End of the World is Flat by Simon Edge - At all good bookshops

It does seem that this is a one off in a democracy. How many other "social justice" movements have been able to so quickly capture all the major institutions, politicians, the law (they even give secret training to judges fgs)? They have wreaked havoc in schools, dabbling with children's mental health with the toxic "you could be born in the wrong body", forcing girls to share toilets, changing rooms etc with boys and have unbelievably been able to undermine fundamental safeguarding principles by falsely telling schools they can transition children in secret from their parents. Add to that persuading society that women no longer exist as a sex class and that sex based language and reality is somehow now wrong..... And there's so much more.

It seems that the term banned on here is probably the most appropriate one which is clear. Perhaps it is time for MN to have another look at it ...

@IamAporcupine

OP, I've been thinking of starting this same thread for a while. I don't understand it either. It seems like a bad dream.

Do you (general you) think getting to where we are now was the intention from the beginning? Or it just got crazier with time?

I dont think the TRA's intended for the current situation at all-they thought they could sneak this under the radar without anyone noticing until it was too late (and they came damn close to doing just that). But in any contest between ideology and reality, reality always wins (eventually-bullshit cannot stand). I expect the Koolaid gang to double down from here on in-otherwise known as throwing the toys out of the pram

This article tells part of the story. The author shows how a company selling a product uses standard marketing techniques to draw customers in:

savageminds.substack.com/p/the-marketing-funnel-of-gender-ideology?s=r