Gender stereotypes have only become stronger in the past decades as a backlash to women's movements during the 60's.

It makes sense that gender dysphoria is an issue. Gender is about controlling men and objectifying women, especially.

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Gender dysphoria is real, but gender stereotypes are not based in reality. There's also an obvious difference in how men experience it vs women. Time and again, men with dysphoria say they want to be treated as women whereas women with dysphoria don't want to be treated as women.

The more you pay attention to this issue, the more it becomes clear that gender itself is the problem. And gender is a tool to control us. Capitalism creates a problem and sells a solution. Gender is the problem, and dysphoria is the human condition response.

For men, there's a porn element, by their own accounts, that isn't there for women with dysphoria. I really believe that gender dysphoria is connected to female objectification for everyone who experiences it.

Men want to be an objectified "sissy" and women want to be human.

After the 70's in the US, there was an extreme backlash. Makeup companies, for ex, were losing money after the 60's revolution, and they decided on "nude" makeup during the 70's, but in the 80's, makeup companies went wild, and getting men to wear makeup again was part of it.

There seems to have been a fear on the part of companies who really depend on female insecurity for profit to get men involved in "beautification", in order to re-educate women and away us back towards bodily insecurity and beauty consumerism

The trans movement is history repeating. Companies are scared; women are protesting globally, they're scared of us being able to communicate and accept each other.
Genderism is lifestyle marketing to an extreme.
We ought to view it as nothing less than a marketing campaign.

Gender is created by a power system that places men above women.
This paradigm causes men to want to self-objectify "as women", while women want to identify out of it.
Then, they sell a solution to the problem of their own creation.
We can't underestimate the power of advertising

In an age of saturated media, of influencers and motivators and Vloggers, we've never been more susceptible to corporate control. Gender dysphoria is linked to media consumption in the same way any dysmorphic disorder, like anorexia, is connected to media.

It used to be understood that media could change the way we think and view ourselves. Decades of research verified this. The sea change happening now is that we are being told media has nothing to do with how we feel about our bodies. Transgenderism is the forerunner on this.

What's actually frightening about transgenderism is that it presupposes bodily discomfort as a natural and acceptable thing, that hatred for your own physical self didn't come from media, it came from within, and required painful alterations to fix a problem that is only yours.

Gender ideology normalized self-loathing and by extent, silences critical thinking about how media informs our perception of self.

We know that human identity comes from perception. We know media can alter perception.

No one is born hating their body.