Observation: the trans activist agenda is succeeding not only because everyone is still wired to enforce gender roles and sexism, but because heteronormative society, who largely controls liberal culture, has had it drilled into them for decades that we have to Accept People As They Are And Celebrate Diversity, and the social punishment for NOT doing this has (rightfully so) become so ostracizing and marginalizing that, for added insurance, the implicit mantra has evolved into Accept Everything Without Question. Performing generic acceptance behavior has become much less risky than questioning or disagreeing.
I see this as an unfortunate and dangerous side effect of the gay rights movement’s success. Most of liberal society has a laissez-faire mindset, which means they aren’t invested enough to question, yet still desperately want to avoid being labeled a bigot or conservative, because to put it simply, conservatives aren’t cool. So they’ve become mindless yes-men for individualistic choice liberalism, regardless of whether it’s a hit or miss: you’re gay? GREAT we accept you as you are! That’s what we do now! Questioning that got us labeled homophobic and that’s not a cool word, that’s a word for out-of-touch grandpas and rednecks. You wanna sell your body on the street? YES whatever you choose! All choices are empowering! Wanna cover your entire body to honor a patriarchal deity because a pedophile prophet said so? DO IT! Hashtag cultural diversity! You’re a woman because you say so? Yes! Go you, what bravery!
I honestly think many if not most liberals are a bunch of fucking phonies. I don’t think most of them are truly, deep down, non-racist, or pro-women’s lib, or 100% supportive of gays, or care about poor people. I think much of modern liberalism is an act of denial and avoidance, a “thoughts and prayers” approach to social issues, a way to sound like you give a shit without doing anything, a blanket label that people adopt to look like “the nice guy.”
(And if a guy has to insist that he’s “nice”… well, you know.)
I’m not implying they’re all ill-willed. I’m just implying that… most people don’t think very deeply or critically about much of anything, and that’s the root of most sociopolitical problems.
But back to my point, I think things like homophobia got people in enough trouble that now everyone’s afraid to say no to ANYTHING. No questioning allowed. No critical analysis. Yes to all, include everything, exclude nothing, blur every line, turn a blind eye, it’s all good.
It’s all good.
