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Dating for Monogamy and Marriage

In the video the girl says "if you are dating a Chinese girl, and it is going well, soon she will be thinking about marriage".

Personally, my entire adult life I approached dating and relationships with that exact attitude. I was either thinking of marriage, monogamy and having kids within the first few dates, or I was already absolutely decided on never being seriously interested in that girl.

It is unfortunate this more wholesome approach to relationships has migrated away from the US to other cultures such as Chinese. It is unfortunate progressive identity has purged and shamed wholesome and healthy relationship goals.

Rockers then Hippies then Punkers ...decades of this patten... then FRAGILE-WORDS-ARE-VIOLENCE

 Reference: 

Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest - JON HAIDT MAR 9, 2023

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This blog entry is a my own tangental take on the referenced article "Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest" by Jon Haidt. First and foremost the article is worth far more of a read than my blog entry. The article is full of validated history and data presented by an academic. If I give it a summary my summary pales in comparison to reading it. It is a missing manual that explains where this sudden emergence and spike of non-binary, trans identity, and more especially the proud clinging to fragile as an identity, and words and ideas or violence. Please do yourself a favor and read Haidt's writing.

The gist of my blog post is not a problem or even any form of alarm with trans existing. It is to point out the rise of fragility and intolerance - intolerance of words/speech and the labeling of speech as violence.

"Phelps-Roper interviewed several experts who all pointed to Tumblr as the main petri dish in which nascent ideas of identity, fragility, language, harm, and victimhood evolved and intermixed"

Tumblr happened to be the gathering place for these ideas to be nurtured into the social front page news force they are today. While the article does dwell on generalized potential pathos of mobile phones in the hands of tweens and teens, the explosion of trans identity, fragility, words are violence happened primarily in one app the kids just happened to popularize.

I want to emphasize that a social media platform is just a Web 2.0 and 3.0 glorified version of older WWW website forums. These forums had topic headings and sometimes hundreds of comment threads. I created dozens of these forums using PHP-BB software on several sites.

Here is my extension of the article's content. Throughout the post war we've had each generation of youth define themselves with a new overall style. Rockers, hippies, punk rockers, disco, etc. In the case of rockers-hippies-punk it is obvious each subsequent was designed to outdo, undo or shock the previous gen style.

In the genesis of each style the kids hang out somewhere, frequent and consume some kind of media. In these places style and ideas are escalated. ( e.g. You aren't a real hippy, me and my brother smoke pot everyday and have taken acid a few times. Your favorite band isn't really punk, my favorite band is X, they are real punk.)

The trans-fragile-words-are-violence gen simply are a continuum of this same pattern of gen differentiation. They had a hang out space in which they developed their own generation's identity, along the way escalating each other....just like every gen at least since the 50's.

I am saying there is nothing special here. Previously the kids established their hangout space in some small town pool hall, or live venue, or especially famous record store (e.g. Fallout Records in Seattle) or whatever might be the local place for the trafficking of these ideas.

The hangout space in this case just happened to be an internet forum. I'm not interested in or threatened by existence of screens and wi-fi. In the 50's the threat was the rise of record stores which were places selling a very different kind of music from what the nation listened to in the form of live big band and orchestral stuff mostly recorded in New York, the kids were buying records of southern poor bad boys and playing guitars of all things. I'm not going to be that old man outraged or threatened by whatever new media the kids have decided to use to burn down the old ways and differentiate themselves from their parents.

What is special is how public schools and college faculty responded when this new gen aged and entered college. The petri dish for this new style/culture wasn't out in the open at newly emerging record stores, or live venues that might have gotten human interest story in the national news ( look at these hippies, they smoke pot and some read about Zen ). No, this gen developed totally out of view of anyone not on the platform itself.

The schools were unprepared for this wave of new culture. It was strange, very well organized, and intransigent. Colleges caved to this new pressure. In the case of public schools, initially they may have pushed back on the bathroom issue, but were spotlighted and shamed on a national level with NPR.

What we as a society were blindsided by, and unprepared for, was the perfectly blended mix of a new thing: proud fragility and intransigent, blatent intolerance for words and ideas.

Proud fragility and intransigent, blatent intolerance for words and ideas.

My blog post is basically over. Below is the conclusion of the referenced article, and the Great Untruth's bullet list is worth putting on everyone's living room wall.

In conclusion, I believe that Greg Lukianoff was exactly right in the diagnosis he shared with me in 2014. Many young people had suddenly—around 2013—embraced three great untruths:

1. They came to believe that they were fragile and would be harmed by books, speakers, and words, which they learned were forms of violence (Great Untruth #1).



2. They came to believe that their emotions—especially their anxieties—were reliable guides to reality (Great Untruth #2).



3. They came to see society as comprised of victims and oppressors—good people and bad people (Great Untruth #3).

Liberals embraced these beliefs more than conservatives. Young liberal women adopted them more than any other group due to their heavier use of social media and their participation in online communities that developed new disempowering ideas. These cognitive distortions then caused them to become more anxious and depressed than other groups. Just as Greg had feared, many universities and progressive institutions embraced these three untruths and implemented programs that performed reverse CBT on young people, in violation of their duty to care for them and educate them.