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Sarah's avatar

I have a master’s degree in Education, which - as you once correctly and hilariously said - is like having a degree in bologna. But I did study theories of human moral development that seem pertinent here.

If children mature normally, they pass through 4 (or 6, depending on whether you’re into Piaget or Kohlberg) of stages of moral development. If something disrupts this process, or the right things don’t happen to move it along, some people get stuck. They fail to develop the autonomous, evaluative moral structure of an adult

A person who gets morally...well, cryogenically frozen in early or middle childhood is not only selfish and demanding, he or she believes in the absolute sanctity of rules set by an authority figure. This kind of person - and they are everywhere now - retains a child’s obsession with “fairness” and the self-righteous, sadistic thrill of “I’m telling!”

Easy pickings for a socio-political cult that rewards its members for...well, never growing up. For all of this.

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Shelley Murphy's avatar

It is my opinion that the influence of these women -- I hesitate to call them liberal -- has contributed to the decline of our society more than any other single cause in the last thirty years. I am halfway done with a piece no one will ever read on this very topic. The suppression of masculinity has encouraged dominance of the feminine style, which at scale is more neurotic and covert. This is not the Good everyone thinks it is. Feminine isn't better. Masculine isn't a Bad. The parents bringing children to lewd drag shows? Ninety percent mothers. I would bet a month's pay that ninety percent of parents who brag about having "trans" kids are mothers. People who watch The View. Where are the dads? If they're around they are treated like idiots, accused of "mansplaining" or worse if they dare disagree. We have handed cluster B the wheel. It's outrageous.

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