Yeah -- people act like it's the younger generation of kids that are the cause, when it was actually a variety of institutions that instilled it in the kids to begin with.
It didn't all come from TikTok or even Tumblr. Those are just the places where you get to see the results of decades of entryism and indoctrination unfiltered on full display.
I think the main difference is the mass visibility. We didn’t have troons on TikTok trying to glamorize their lifestyle and they were largely not talked about outside of medical and academic circles. However, like you said, this is a beast that has been stalking the shadows of academia for decades, it’s not some sudden onset symptom but one that has become all too apparent in modernity.
Yeah -- people act like it's the younger generation of kids that are the cause, when it was actually a variety of institutions that instilled it in the kids to begin with.
It didn't all come from TikTok or even Tumblr. Those are just the places where you get to see the results of decades of entryism and indoctrination unfiltered on full display.
I think the main difference is the mass visibility. We didn’t have troons on TikTok trying to glamorize their lifestyle and they were largely not talked about outside of medical and academic circles. However, like you said, this is a beast that has been stalking the shadows of academia for decades, it’s not some sudden onset symptom but one that has become all too apparent in modernity.