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.
I hate to be a downer, but it seems like it's only accelerating. It used to take years to get to "I never imagined it would get this insane," now it's months or even weeks. I don't think it's sustainable, mind you, and sanity will prevail, so this isn't a total black pill. But, yeah, despite how insane things are...we haven't seen anything yet. The spiral is getting faster and tighter. The cognitive dissonance and general insanity is getting much higher, and the cult is getting more bold and bizarre.
I've said it a few times, but we've reached "Sex itself isn't real" points. Same goes for race. They used to deny reality, but kind of skirt around what they were doing with cute cutouts and excuses. Now they're just making shit up and saying we have to believe it. They've thrown subtlety to the wind. "Male" and "female" are "social constructs" now. They'd already put their foot in the door with their "assigned at birth" poison, but now they're wedging the door open. It's insane but, as I said, ultimately unsustainable.
I also used to think all this woke stuff was just silly college students and they would grow up once they got out of college. Another area I was wrong. My biggest error in judgement was after the 08 presidential election. I was talking to my mom the morning after and while we both supported McCain, we agreed that the one silver lining would be that black people would stop whining. Yes, I can hear everyone laughing already.
To be clear, when I say this isn't sustainable, I'm not saying it will cleanly or magically go away, just that I think people are souring on it a bit, and the tide is turning. It will get worse before it gets better, but I do believe it will get better.
Yeah, I chuckled a bit. This is one of the reasons - aside from it just being stupid - that I'm against things like reparations and amnesty; there's no end point. It would be one thing if it was one and done. "We paid you off for that whole slavery thing, racism is over. The slate is clean." That would be one thing. But that's not how it plays out. Same goes for amnesty; it would be one thing to give everyone that meets certain criteria amnesty...and close the fucking border. But we can't do that either. So these things that get proposed as "solutions" simply aren't. We already did amnesty!
Various groups have been coached and fully embraced victimhood mentality and status. Until they fix their beliefs, women/blacks/immigrants/etc. will not ever be happy, no matter what is given to them, what concessions made. And it should go without saying, but #NotAll of course. Probably especially "immigrant" as that is an incredibly broad group with a less cohesive identity, plenty of which are the "hard working immigrant" trope. But without a change in mindset, it doesn't matter how many millions of dollar you gave to each "marginalized" person; they'd still whine about racism or sexism or whatever, because it's all they know how to do.
Slavery was paid for by the folks that died to end it. It was paid a long time ago, you are 100% correct that they will never stop