Chateau Lloyd

I generally avoid the news, but while looking for an update on a local power outage, I saw an article asserting that according to a "trans advocacy group," people who are addressed with the wrong pronouns are 50% more likely to kill themselves than people who aren't.  The message was explicit: pronouns can kill, so you better do what we say.

This dovetails with my earlier post about how modern society has completely abandoned any and all forms of rationality.  One cannot rationally argue that the best treatment for mental illness is for the entire world to adopt the delusion.

I have never been mistake for a woman, but two of my daughters went through tomboy phases and had to be corrected.  It was a little awkward, but also not unexpected.   Eventually, they got tired of it, grew their hair out and dressed in a more feminine manner.

I have had my name screwed up all over the place because apparently L-L-O-Y-D is beyond the comprehension of most people.  It is annoying, but not to the point of taking my own life.  (Seriously, Lloyd Bridges, Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Lloyd George, Lloyds of London, even the worst SecDef ever, Lloyd Austin - it's not exactly unique.)

Hitherto, the goal of mental health services was to make people more resilient, better able to survive and thrive.  Now the goal is to "meet them where they are," feed the weakness, validate delusions and ignore obvious co-morbidities.

The answer to this riddle is that the left is all about power, and one of their sources of power is sympathy.  They have made huge gains by taking on the attitude of fragility, weaponizing Christian compassion.  I've talked about this before, but the current messaging is the epitome of the approach.

"Say the words or fragile people will die!  SAY THEM!"  That's straight-up bullying, what psychologists used to call "emotional blackmail."  Indeed, one of the interesting elements of the last few years is watching actual, serious therapists and doctors dance around these issues, striving to protect their careers while doing their jobs.  I've noticed that they are become less covert in their opposition, which is encouraging.

Perhaps more encouraging is the increasingly strident rejection of moral perversion.  It's now clear that "tolerance" was just a waypoint on the way to "dominance," and people have figured it out.  The muting of "Pride Month" and the casual disparagement of rainbow murals and such demonstrate that change is underway.