OK, redundant from my comment on the main part of the episode, but oh my goodness, Maia, you are so absolutely brilliant. Everything you said here is so illuminating. And I 100% echo what you say about this very podcast and how important it has been to so many in understanding this mass psychogenic illness, medical scandal, or whatever various true things we can call it.
Maia’s insights are so important and we need to incorporate them into our quest to understand this phenomenon among the kids and the scandal being perpetrated by the professionals and society!! So eye opening in this segment. I can see Stella’s mind exploding with intrigue. 😂. I am so impressed, Maia.
Isn't that bit about the Tel Aviv mall fascinating? That micro-geography of gender identity would be comletely invisible to me if I had not talked to Maia. She is a wellspring of insight.
The epicenter of youth culture is a mall in Tel Aviv, a very unique place on the map. Within it there are many places for many different affinity groups -- a social geography. All that talk about "navigating the world" infers a geography. You have located the place for us, we would never have found it without you.
Is that referring to how this ideology thrives where English is spoken or can be translated and then spread and taught only in areas where young people can easily congregate and connect? Separate from in the US where this is spread online. Additionally? this can only thrive in first world or western world areas for many reason, ease or difficulty of daily life and survival being one.
I am blown away. Utterly Blown away. Please Maia write that article. I need my Jewish friends to read it. Please Stella can you take this post out of the paywall?? I need to share it with my Jewish and Israeli friends. The analysis here is so profound. So needed for the Jewish community. Kol Hakavod Maia.
The article will hopefully be posted here soon (if it hasn’t already been linked). It’s a 20 page paper written last year when I had desisted but not detransitioned/stopped living as a man.
It should be an easy & comprehensive read. I’ll probably add something soon to it, because I’ve learned a lot about the kabbalistic perspective on these matters since
Thank you. That was very thoughtful. I am also exploring the religious side of this. I think that traditional religious frameworks can be very helpful in grounding us, particularly children. Tried and tested religious frameworks tend to be less dangerous than new cults or ideological movements, which have a tendency to burn themselves out when they destroy lives, although in some case only after causing huge harm. To me the main test for whether a belief system is dangerous is whether those who adhere to it understand that they have a faith, and that others may reasonably not share this faith, because faith is something you cannot gain by rational argument - it is something you are raised with, or sometimes choose, or sometimes a gift (as with born-again Christians). The danger comes when people take faith beliefs and demand that others agree or be branded as infidels or heretics (for saying that sex is real, for example). Most religions have become dangerous at one time or another, particularly when religion gets mixed up with political power. That is why the gender ideologues are so dangerous - because they have power over others. And they do not recognise that their beliefs are held as a matter of faith.
Please find the article added in the notes above!
OK, redundant from my comment on the main part of the episode, but oh my goodness, Maia, you are so absolutely brilliant. Everything you said here is so illuminating. And I 100% echo what you say about this very podcast and how important it has been to so many in understanding this mass psychogenic illness, medical scandal, or whatever various true things we can call it.
Thank you so much for your comment!
Maia’s insights are so important and we need to incorporate them into our quest to understand this phenomenon among the kids and the scandal being perpetrated by the professionals and society!! So eye opening in this segment. I can see Stella’s mind exploding with intrigue. 😂. I am so impressed, Maia.
Isn't that bit about the Tel Aviv mall fascinating? That micro-geography of gender identity would be comletely invisible to me if I had not talked to Maia. She is a wellspring of insight.
The micro-geography of gender identity? What do you mean by that?
The epicenter of youth culture is a mall in Tel Aviv, a very unique place on the map. Within it there are many places for many different affinity groups -- a social geography. All that talk about "navigating the world" infers a geography. You have located the place for us, we would never have found it without you.
Oh that’s fascinating!
Is that referring to how this ideology thrives where English is spoken or can be translated and then spread and taught only in areas where young people can easily congregate and connect? Separate from in the US where this is spread online. Additionally? this can only thrive in first world or western world areas for many reason, ease or difficulty of daily life and survival being one.
I am blown away. Utterly Blown away. Please Maia write that article. I need my Jewish friends to read it. Please Stella can you take this post out of the paywall?? I need to share it with my Jewish and Israeli friends. The analysis here is so profound. So needed for the Jewish community. Kol Hakavod Maia.
The article will hopefully be posted here soon (if it hasn’t already been linked). It’s a 20 page paper written last year when I had desisted but not detransitioned/stopped living as a man.
It should be an easy & comprehensive read. I’ll probably add something soon to it, because I’ve learned a lot about the kabbalistic perspective on these matters since
I’ll have a lot to consider after reading this comment
Thank you. That was very thoughtful. I am also exploring the religious side of this. I think that traditional religious frameworks can be very helpful in grounding us, particularly children. Tried and tested religious frameworks tend to be less dangerous than new cults or ideological movements, which have a tendency to burn themselves out when they destroy lives, although in some case only after causing huge harm. To me the main test for whether a belief system is dangerous is whether those who adhere to it understand that they have a faith, and that others may reasonably not share this faith, because faith is something you cannot gain by rational argument - it is something you are raised with, or sometimes choose, or sometimes a gift (as with born-again Christians). The danger comes when people take faith beliefs and demand that others agree or be branded as infidels or heretics (for saying that sex is real, for example). Most religions have become dangerous at one time or another, particularly when religion gets mixed up with political power. That is why the gender ideologues are so dangerous - because they have power over others. And they do not recognise that their beliefs are held as a matter of faith.