Inextricably entwined with cultural fads
This is a useful mini-essay.
Karen Carpenter’s tragic battle triggered a social contagion of anorexia; Princess Diana’s public struggle with bulimia had the same effect.
The book Sybil kicked off the multiple personality disorder epidemic in the 80s. Running parallel to that was the Satanic Panic, set off by the book Michelle Remembers. As a result, thousands of lives were destroyed.
As cutting started to appear in movies and TV shows, the number of teens self-harming increased, and when TikTok influencers with Tourette’s launched to fame, adolescent girls began experiencing TikTok tics.
Mental illnesses are inextricably entwined with the cultural fads and whims of the era in which they arise. Our celebration of the likes of Jazz Jennings and Ellen Page captures the minds of young people, plants the dangerous idea that the discomfort and anguish of puberty can be miraculously solved with drugs and surgeries, sending many down the same devastating path to destruction.
Children and adolescents no more need trans role models than they do anorexic or bulimic role models. Every time we celebrate a celebrity coming out as trans, we sacrifice countless young people to the horror of this medical atrocity.
Seriously. How many wannabe Ellen Pages are out there? I bet it’s quite a few. Horrible.
Repeat after us, idennity peeps: “SOCIAL CONTAGION”.
Today I filled out the 2023 Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR) sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Since I filled out the SDR in 2021, they have added questions about sexuality and gender identity. Their questions included asking me if those questions were difficult to answer. I explained my difficulty:
Their survey ended with some questions for their research to improve their survey. I replied:
I agree with Mia’s mini-essay about cultural fads appealing to children and adolescents. I’m adding that scientific groups like the NSF and the NIH add to the problem.
Spelling out my link above:
https://www.DeadNameDocumentary.com/
Readers here can click inside that page to watch the trailer. I knew that the director Taylor Reece would do a great job, so I backed her generously. The documentary focuses on three parents. Their stories add to Mia’s mini-essay with valuable perspectives.
Thank you Dave.
The social contagions that get real social traction are those that can piggyback on something legitimate, and roughly similar. Both Multiple Personality Disorder and Recovered Memory Syndrome were presented as new examples of women/children who suffered abuse in the past which is being dismissed today because “it didn’t happen.” The coping strategies (splitting the mind into separate alters or repressing all knowledge) were legitimized because the person making the claim was clearly suffering. That left the sympathetic with the easy conclusion that This Is Totally Familiar. Kid with behavior problems is being beaten at home. Woman says she was raped and isn’t believed.
Been there; done that; not going back. Believe. Multiple Personality is real and recovered memories legitimate. Skeptically examining the unique properties of the particular way these Totally Familiar issues are manifesting just compounds the sin of not believing. Say it’s a social contagion and it’s just like saying kids don’t get beaten and women don’t get raped. We know what you’re like — and it isn’t nice.
I lost count of how many times I’ve seen transgender identities jump on the back of homosexuality. If being trans is a social contagion, then so is being gay. Only bigots think the latter, therefore only bigots think the former.
That’s why the extremist members of the Trans lobby want to pass so-called “conversion therapy bans” that will criminals doctors and psychiatrists who don’t follow the “affirmation only” method for children with gender dysphoria:
https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/4602882/normal_602a39e53a9c8.pdf
“criminalize doctors and psychiatrists who don’t follow the “affirmation only” method.”
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Mostly Cloudy, are there any non-extremist members of the trans lobby left? Too many of them fell into heresy and were excommunicated. The trans ‘movement’ certainly does eat its own.