As a related topic to Mattias Desmet's views on mass formation, I would love to hear you speak with someone about the role preference falsification plays in sustaining the gender affirmation movement in the polite liberal circles like the ones I (and so many of us) tend to move in. As an example of how this plays out for me in particular, I don't just keep my views on this to myself in most situations because I'm afraid of getting in trouble (and I have good reason to believe I really would get in trouble), although that's certainly part of it. It's also because doing so would implicate the decisions that people I really care about have made about their own kids, or even themselves, in the sincere good faith on the advice of people they trusted. These are relationships that really matter to me that I am confident I would damage or even destroy if I were honest. So people like me keep quiet because we don't want to seem cruel to people we like while the affirmative people continue to speak up in support, and everyone sits around in the meantime assuming that most people are on board with gender affirmation even if that's not necessarily the case.
The upshot, however, is that movements that are supported by a large amount of preference falsification tend to collapse suddenly an unexpectedly. I think there are many, many more skeptical people out there than most people realize, and that public support for the affirmative model (in the US at least) is a good candidate to be one of these movements in the relatively near future.
Thank you for this overview. I was there and was glad I went. I came home invigorated and informed, and ready to carry on to advocate for the protection of vulnerable kids from being harmed by gender ideology. And I also advocate for the LGB community and women's rights. Thanks again.
For those who haven't seen it, Stella's "Reflections on Lisbon" is a very good related resource to this episode for more context and detail: https://stellaomalley.substack.com/p/reflections-on-lisbon
As a related topic to Mattias Desmet's views on mass formation, I would love to hear you speak with someone about the role preference falsification plays in sustaining the gender affirmation movement in the polite liberal circles like the ones I (and so many of us) tend to move in. As an example of how this plays out for me in particular, I don't just keep my views on this to myself in most situations because I'm afraid of getting in trouble (and I have good reason to believe I really would get in trouble), although that's certainly part of it. It's also because doing so would implicate the decisions that people I really care about have made about their own kids, or even themselves, in the sincere good faith on the advice of people they trusted. These are relationships that really matter to me that I am confident I would damage or even destroy if I were honest. So people like me keep quiet because we don't want to seem cruel to people we like while the affirmative people continue to speak up in support, and everyone sits around in the meantime assuming that most people are on board with gender affirmation even if that's not necessarily the case.
The upshot, however, is that movements that are supported by a large amount of preference falsification tend to collapse suddenly an unexpectedly. I think there are many, many more skeptical people out there than most people realize, and that public support for the affirmative model (in the US at least) is a good candidate to be one of these movements in the relatively near future.
Thank you for this overview. I was there and was glad I went. I came home invigorated and informed, and ready to carry on to advocate for the protection of vulnerable kids from being harmed by gender ideology. And I also advocate for the LGB community and women's rights. Thanks again.
It was a fantastic conference. I can't want to attend the next Genspect.