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Bettina Arndt's avatar

About time too! While I applaud this action by the Spanish feminists, you have to wonder why it has taken the feminist movement so long to notice the dreadful abuse of young women that is taking place across the Western World, with confused teenage girls being mutilated by surgeons. Well, I suppose they are too busy making life miserable for men than to worry about protecting their own.

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Bernard Lane's avatar

Women’s groups have been campaigning on the issue but mainstream media rarely reports this.

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caissa222's avatar

Helen Joyce and other women have done well in the UK. I was listening to her book today and learned a new term, "crony belief". https://www.nateliason.com/notes/crony-beliefs-kevin-simler explains it well. I am familiar with similar ideas, but this term explains it well. Trans activism beliefs match the description of crony beliefs extremely well.

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Bernard Lane's avatar

That's interesting. I think of cronyism as related to appointments or advancement. I've also heard the expression "luxury beliefs" in the context of woke views -- https://www.robkhenderson.com/p/status-symbols-and-the-struggle-for

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caissa222's avatar

Luxury beliefs is another interesting idea. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-you-hold-beliefs-dont-match-reality-come-find-out-yani-diagne explains the crony beliefs more simply. Re gender clinicians, I speculate reasons for crony gender beliefs may be ordinary desires like money, power, virtue signalling etc. Non-clinician activists may have similiar minus big money. Beliefs are strengthened when there is a perception they are becoming more popular. The good news is that crony beliefs tend to fall away when this perception changes or the believer no longer gets the benefits.

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dd's avatar

Trans activist Erin Reed reports on Canada's marches today....

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans-canadian-march-outnumbered

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Bernard Lane's avatar

Never had any interaction with this person yet I am blocked.

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dd's avatar

So you can't open the link or blocked on twitter? Doesn't surprise me.....that person is not keen on disagreement as there are issues with articulating intelligent replies...accusations are the style. Probably knows exactly who you are and blocked your preemptively.

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Bernard Lane's avatar

Blocked on Twitter. I believe they circulate lists.

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caissa222's avatar

Unfortunately when you post a link I believe it gets a higher Google ranking.

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