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1. Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Sunday, 18-Dec-2022 03:13:09 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite

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   • Cousin_Martha_Corey
   @Cousin_Isobel Anyone who supports trannyshit is so blindly obedient to authority they could piss on you and make you believe it was raining. The real trick is figuring out how to unite and rally the people who are not so blindly obedient.
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   • Cousin_Martha_Corey (cousin_isobel@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 18-Dec-2022 03:13:11 JST Cousin_Martha_Corey

     I think the biggest thing I learned in 2022 was that people who believe in “trans” do so overwhelmingly because they believe in the authority of government and “expert” institutions to determine (or even create) truth.

     It’s not primarily misogynists vs. non-misogynists. Misogyny is a big part of our culture – perhaps all human culture – and sometimes, women who have been pushed too far do “peak” because they care about themselves, their children, and other women, but the main breakdown isn’t between misogynists and non-misogynists.

     I had hoped that many people (especially women) would peak when the Democrats went all-out on the gender extravaganza in 2021, and yet, largely, the opposite has happened. The government-led gender extravaganza has made them like “trans” more. That is because, to them, the elite progressive machine of government and elite progressive institutions are the ultimate authorities.

     Until the institutions these people are following change their minds (which doesn’t seem likely to happen soon), the vast majority of those who are on the “trans train,” will stay on it.

     Remember when we hoped Rachel Maddow might peak? We really hoped that, right here on Spinster. We hoped it because she is a lesbian and because she is a leftist, both of which we associated with caring about women’s rights. Ah, the innocent days of the early pandemic.

     The flip side is that those who are not part of this expert/government-authority worshipping, “latest thing” supporting, “progressive” group, reject trans ideology effortlessly. Non-believers are a much more diverse group than believers. They range from religious conservatives to those who were atheists before atheism was cool. Almost invariably, anyone who doesn’t mold himself or herself to the latest institutionally-dictated beliefs thinks the idea that men can just somehow “be” women by receiving hormone treatments (or by thinking thoughts) is ridiculous.

     This means that the idea won’t spread much further, at least within the existing adult population. Non-“progressives” are immune. However, mainstream “progressives” would have to change the very process by which they determine truth in order to reject the well-known mantras about “trans.”