• some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    It has come back very hard - because it’s on the way out. It’s a last-ditch effort. The last gasp and death-rattle of the old ways. These dreadful people are lashing out like cornered animals because they know they’re facing extinction.

    I sincerely believe that if we unrelentingly hold ground right now, a post-gender society is right around the corner.

    • SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 days ago

      Yeah I do think we’re in a interesting period right now in the US, we’re past the “reflexively suppressed because it’s unheard of” part of things and into the “a small but extremely vocal minority of hateful people are attacking us precisely because we’re more visible and accepted” part.

      Obviously things can and probably will get bad before they get better, but pretty much everything that has recieved this kind of moral panic backlash has only gotten more mainstream as a result. (See: rock music, D&D, kink, socialism, witchcraft, tattoos, etc.)