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Great interview this weekend with Joanna Williams! Bringing clarity to the hows and whys of the pervasive woke mentality and helping puncture the feeling of inevitability of it all. A little pushback is all that is required to expose the fraud of this cultish ideology, and we need it now! Lives, societies and history are being ruined by this anti-working-people authoritarianism dressed up as enlightenment, designed to set the clock back 100 years.

In gratitude always, from the sandy, mostly sane shores of Florida.

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those who have found a reason for being defending a movement that destroys its own can shout and bully as much as they want, but can never win. it rears its ugly head with force and weasel words, it's thoroughly confusing, but it's a naked emperor. to imply 'it won' is disingenuous.

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The only reasonable response to this lunacy is ridicule and a steadfast refusal to comply with their "reality". To just go along in order to get along is an admission of defeat and utmost cowardice. In the words of the inimitable Kathy Shaidle - may she rest in peace - "Come and get me, you fairies".

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I agree, we have to call it out and stop complying out of politeness. Academics and senior managers in corporations are adding these pointless pronouns in their email signatures and social media profiles. Libraries and other public spaces are falling over themselves to adopt Pride Month and 'educate' the public on the inherent 153 gender identities (or whatever nonsense it is today) and try to shame us into using them. Try to fill in a government form and there's a checkbox for 'other' as a gender. Enough. You're either male or female or else see a doctor about your problem but stop trying to make it everyone else's problem.

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studies have revealed the specific role of mothers of trans-children. it can be that a mother’s behavior is often highly volatile, perhaps due to a life crisis (marital disruption), or from a deeper psychological problem in the mother herself, e.g., borderline personality disorder, narcissism, or a hysterical personality type - https://www.crisismagazine.com/2020/the-traumatic-foundation-of-gender-dysphoria

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Don't blame mums for everything. The other possibility looming large is social contagion due to exposure to internet chat rooms etc.

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good point, but no, never blaming mums. however the influence of (patterns of-) dysfunctional family-life is something that really needs to be looked at more seriously, by empathic and non-judgemental, trustworthy specialists. those mums deserve to be taken seriously. TQ for your article, it turns out to be quite thought-provoking :-))

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We are in real trouble. Not just because they are succeeding in changing the language but because the educated people in power let them.

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