It's interesting that Tumblr is the bogeyman of choice among bioconservatives, a place where minors are supposedly psyopped into the gender spectrum and they can leave any time - versus the public education system where they've been psyopped into the gender binary and are forbidden from leaving under the threat of violence!
"How much are you willing to put up to help the kids who fuck themselves in taking puberty blockers because they fall for psy-ops in the Tumblr diaspora? Missing out on a normal childhood is a huge penalty."
- A Colleague In The Neoliberal Agenda
On Tumblr, people are associating and organizing by consent - it's much more likely that it's a mecca for trans people who've been subjected to abuse by prejudiced forces rather than being an incubator for mental illness.
Incubators for mental illness happen when the boundaries are enforced by violence: North Korea, prison, concentration camps, public schools.
To elaborate: what makes a vietcong reeducation camp bad is that the people are unable to leave under threat of violence. If they don't say the memes that the wardens want them to say, then they either have to stay there longer or they're subjected to other indignities.
With Tumblr, someone can argue that people are willing to pretend to be someone to *belong* to a group. I argue that without the threat of violence, that willingness to pretend goes away relatively quickly, and they soon look for another place to belong.
Ten years ago, my elementary school (in southern california!) rigorously enforced the gender binary by letting teachers preach to children and punish kids for stepping outside their perceived gender boundaries.
I imagine that that's where the psyopping actually happens, in truancy-reinforced public schools where there's only one acceptable chain of authority, and children trying to challenge that person's party line are discouraged.
The socialist trans eggs find themselves in socialist online groups. The neoliberal trans eggs find themselves in neoliberal online groups!
