The other day I went to the wedding of the son of a good friend of mine and one of the bridesmaids (I think it was the bride's cousin) was a manly looking woman with short purple hair that honestly made me wonder if she wrote for the Mary Sue, Star Wars, or worked for a video game company or Marvel/DC.
The actual ceremony was no more than 25 minutes and I couldn't help wondering why she couldn't just wear a dress (of course she dressed like a dude and stuck out like a sore thumb amongst the other bridesmaids) for that little bit of time. I said a prayer for her because she is young and maybe one day she will realize that she looks silly trying to act like a man.
I remember when I still worked in HR the first time I came across the phrase "gender non conforming" or "doesn't conform to traditional gender roles". This was like 07 so I didn't think anything of it, but I never would've imagined it would get as insane as it has.
The attention she got for standing out like that is the reason she started. In a world where all of these NPCs have no way to be individuals via thought and opinion, only identity is left to them to be unique. (even though it's not. it's superficial)
So, as long as you hold dear the One True Opinion and block out all other viewpoints, the only way to pretend to be an individual is nonsense like this. It's how to maintain cognitive dissonance / willful ignorance.
I was fine with the "we just want to be left alone" mentality. Now I see articles justifying the over representation of lgbt
It was always a wedge to open the door to enforced degeneracy. If a society doesn't enforce taboos and obligations it doesn't exist, and something else WILL replace it.