It’s depressing that this has gained so much traction. It really is like an alternative reality has been created.
In Terry Pratchett’s book, Mort, the eponymous hero creates a similar bubble of unreality when he experiences a crush at first sight and saves a new queen that should have died.
For a while, the two separate realities co-exist. Inside the bubble, she is alive, but outside in the real world, she is dead. The real world functions as you would expect with a period of mourning which everyone understands and follows effortlessly. Inside the bubble, there is endless confusion as the courtiers and public try to prepare for a coronation, though they keep feeling as if something is horribly wrong and reverting to feeling as if they should be mourning, not celebrating.
This Reddit bubble feels the same. They’re repeating their “reality” over and over to remind and convince themselves it’s real. Hopefully, as in Mort, the unreality bubble will continue to shrink and more and more people will revert to reality.
Of course, in the Discworld universe, reality can be changed, but I don’t think the, “gender ID is immutable and sex can be changed (while simultaneously it doesn’t really exist)” bubble can be endlessly maintained. A complete return to the dark ages and magical thinking without any scientific grounding is technically unlikely right now. It is alarming how many scientists have swallowed this nonsense without any evidence whatsoever, but that too must surely pass as the challenges to the trans world order continue to mount.
Personally, I want Goody Weatherwax or Nanny Ogg to come and sort out the men driving this.
Ah well. I hope it passes soon as it’s almost unbearable to see how many truly gullible and bad people there are in positions of power and influence. Onwards and upwards.