Peterson rejoins culture war with a forthcoming Daily Telegraph article on trans activism and its destruction of credible, meaningful professional analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWyzvo9SNY
Zach - this is a great contribution. I would suggest dropping a hint or two about where you are going with the essay a little sooner: for about 1/3 of the read-through I was assuming your support for Bill C-4 and was oppositional to the piece. But then the actual direction of the piece emerged and I think it is a fantastic exposée of the power of the decadent phase of LGBT activism, a phase which has seen activist ideology flatten and subordinate once noble institutions which -at some point- had a greater purpose other than gender identity affirmation. This has become a war to determine what science gets to say, the fact this is now the frontline means of course that scientific integrity (which is truth!) has already lost its way.
Your essay stands as a great reference for anti-woke commentators and has collected and linked many useful studies. The overriding contention I have with the LGBT activism of the last decades is the model of institutional subversion it has pursued. Psychological institutes are just exhibit A. The institution which is currently ground zero for this culture war is the elementary school system. To me, this makes something crystal clear: there is only one "normal" - normal is something that most people are, and which few people are not, and the LGBT quest for normalcy therefore isn't about winning at acceptance, its about tipping normal from one way to another. LGBT activism is no longer about winning normalcy if it ever was, its about taking normalcy for themselves - when they move into the schools, when the drag queens visit the schools, it is now obviously about controverting heteronormativity. To understand these subversive measures I think we would have to delve into Queer Theory, which would be an expansion to the issues you bring up above, and get into the ideas of Judith Butler and Michel Foucault who are the original architects of Queer Theory. Perhaps radical queer theory style social constructionism will overtake childhood trauma as the number one driver of LBGT identification in our life times. Perhaps it already has! Bill Maher recently joked (not funny) that the rate LBGT identifying persons has doubled every generation for the last 4 generations - and if it continues at that rate, all of America will be LGBT by 2054:
By the way, this article on the BBC on why it might be that so many more women are identifying as gender fluid then men may go along with your linked article which finds women are more variable in what they are aroused by. Studies are finding that only 65% of college age women report only being attracted to men - unlike adult men, adult women seem to be "queering" rapidly:
While the article is useful for its statistical data, its analysis is pure leftist social constructionism, pure ideological subversion: women are queering because now they are "free" thanks to feminism, and the solution to men not queering (the article makes the value judgement that they OUGHT to be queering for their own good!) is “we need to start liberating men from compulsory heterosexuality [and] traditional masculinity." In fact, maybe we shouldn't even take their numbers without other confirmation.
successfully deconstructs not just LGBwhatever myth making, but a supposedly 'science' driven 'caring' profession that has not only been hijacked by activists, but vulnerable to such colonization & takeover because it's fundamental diagnostic manual was written in effect by a 'synod of psychologians' in the first place.
What is more, I came to that conclusion long before I read James Davies's work on the origins of DSM3.
Incidentally, you may be also interested in my essay on PTSD, which I wrote in response to the questions & doubts of a an old legal friend who was at the time running a PTSD case.
Peterson rejoins culture war with a forthcoming Daily Telegraph article on trans activism and its destruction of credible, meaningful professional analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWyzvo9SNY
Zach - this is a great contribution. I would suggest dropping a hint or two about where you are going with the essay a little sooner: for about 1/3 of the read-through I was assuming your support for Bill C-4 and was oppositional to the piece. But then the actual direction of the piece emerged and I think it is a fantastic exposée of the power of the decadent phase of LGBT activism, a phase which has seen activist ideology flatten and subordinate once noble institutions which -at some point- had a greater purpose other than gender identity affirmation. This has become a war to determine what science gets to say, the fact this is now the frontline means of course that scientific integrity (which is truth!) has already lost its way.
Your essay stands as a great reference for anti-woke commentators and has collected and linked many useful studies. The overriding contention I have with the LGBT activism of the last decades is the model of institutional subversion it has pursued. Psychological institutes are just exhibit A. The institution which is currently ground zero for this culture war is the elementary school system. To me, this makes something crystal clear: there is only one "normal" - normal is something that most people are, and which few people are not, and the LGBT quest for normalcy therefore isn't about winning at acceptance, its about tipping normal from one way to another. LGBT activism is no longer about winning normalcy if it ever was, its about taking normalcy for themselves - when they move into the schools, when the drag queens visit the schools, it is now obviously about controverting heteronormativity. To understand these subversive measures I think we would have to delve into Queer Theory, which would be an expansion to the issues you bring up above, and get into the ideas of Judith Butler and Michel Foucault who are the original architects of Queer Theory. Perhaps radical queer theory style social constructionism will overtake childhood trauma as the number one driver of LBGT identification in our life times. Perhaps it already has! Bill Maher recently joked (not funny) that the rate LBGT identifying persons has doubled every generation for the last 4 generations - and if it continues at that rate, all of America will be LGBT by 2054:
See https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMBzfUj5zsg
By the way, this article on the BBC on why it might be that so many more women are identifying as gender fluid then men may go along with your linked article which finds women are more variable in what they are aroused by. Studies are finding that only 65% of college age women report only being attracted to men - unlike adult men, adult women seem to be "queering" rapidly:
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210610-why-more-women-identify-as-sexually-fluid-than-men
While the article is useful for its statistical data, its analysis is pure leftist social constructionism, pure ideological subversion: women are queering because now they are "free" thanks to feminism, and the solution to men not queering (the article makes the value judgement that they OUGHT to be queering for their own good!) is “we need to start liberating men from compulsory heterosexuality [and] traditional masculinity." In fact, maybe we shouldn't even take their numbers without other confirmation.
This is a very good essay that systematically &
successfully deconstructs not just LGBwhatever myth making, but a supposedly 'science' driven 'caring' profession that has not only been hijacked by activists, but vulnerable to such colonization & takeover because it's fundamental diagnostic manual was written in effect by a 'synod of psychologians' in the first place.
What is more, I came to that conclusion long before I read James Davies's work on the origins of DSM3.
Incidentally, you may be also interested in my essay on PTSD, which I wrote in response to the questions & doubts of a an old legal friend who was at the time running a PTSD case.
https://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/2224711-The-Psychological-Trauma-Pandemic