Here, I largely refer to the tranny situation, and the LBTQ++++---- movement more broadly, but it applies to other things as well, as I will go into.
Look, trannies exist. Gender dysphoria is a real thing, even if I... Think that reclassifying it as "not a mental illness" was a definite mistake. Anyway, that's all fine, though I do find the explosion of... "Trans teens", particularly of the FTM variety, particularly in the last... 5 years or so, to be rather disturbing.
What I really despise, though, is how the media focuses on the inner lives, and niche opinions, of a tiny, tiny subset of the population. Trannies make up a tiny portion of the Alphabet Soup, nonbinary even less. And the alphabet soup itself has been chronically overestimated as a proportion of the population, due almost entirely to media saturation...
Most people are straight. The VAST majority of those who are not, are a) under 30, and b) bi. And again, a very significant proportion of that is, in no small part, due to social contagion, "experimentation", and, once again, media saturation. Hell, even most "famous people"/celebs are also straight, but looking at the fucking media, you would never guess, because, hmm, who gets the most attention again?
This is what frustrates me, then. These people are the loudest. They scream, and yell, and whine for attention, offline, but mostly online, and the fucking media gives it to them in spades. Looking at the TV now, even looking at ADS, even in fucking Australia of all places, you would think that some 20% of the population, at least, were some form of queer, and an even larger proportion were in some sort of "mixed race" relationship, because that is a large part, now, of what we see spat back at us.
This isn't representative. At all. Hell, the proportions I discussed above MIGHT apply in, say, the Anglosphere (US, mostly), and other bits of Western Europe, but in a larger part of the world, they're probably barely a fifth of that, even including those in the closet...
This is just so... Tiresome. I'm tired of hearing about the need for further "gay rights" in the West. I'm tired of the need for "all gender bathrooms" and "decolonising queer vaginas". I'm so fucking over it. But that is so much of what the media, even the supposed "news" media/serious journalism, down here, talks about, that it is just... Very hard to get away from, at this point. And then, of course, you have fucking Reddit, and Fuckbook, and worst of all Twitter shivers ...
Anyway, those are just my thoughts. A lot of you seemed to appreciate my previous writings, so, as demoralised as I am by it all, I thought I might write this out, somewhere where, unlike Reddit, I wouldn't immediately get banned for doing so. Would honestly appreciate your thoughts on the sitch. Cheers.
But yeah, anyway, back to your point, I guess, maybe... It just seems (to me) like society doesn't "hate" single women as much as it does single, unmarried men... Anymore. Sure, it certainly used to be reversed, but nowadays... I dunno. Like, as a man, if you're not... Putting yourself out there, you're seen as either a failure, or like there is something seriously wrong with you, or you're in the closet in some way... At least in my experience. :-/ By other men, mostly, and also the women who I once considered my close friends, so that's... "Fun".
But I suppose that is like the pressure that exists on women to, if not get married, then at least have children. So you're right.
I guess it just seems to me like, if women DO want it, they can just put themselves out there, and get it, which... I know is an absurd generalisation...
It's also hypocritical of me, of course, because I know that if I actually put myself out there, was more "cool", or "mainstream", had even an ounce of decent confidence, was less... picky, and wasn't utterly wracked by self-doubt, I could probably find someone, too. Which I guess is how some of those women you mention probably feel, too... I'm just not sure how this applies to the general male population, because there's a lot of men out there less fortunate than me, in that way... And women, too, of course.
Anyway, this is not a therapy session, and I'm sorry for going into that much personal detail, lol. But yeah, in short, I do agree with you, and thanks for raising those points. I'm not TheImpossible1, ha (or many of the others here), so I do completely see your point, and sorry if it seemed like I hadn't adequately addressed that! My perspective was perhaps lacking a bit. :-)