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Carlana Johnson's avatar

"They would like the laurel of victimhood without the actuality of being victimized."

Yes. This phenomenon exists with sexual identity as well. I've said before that the rise of identifications like "gray ace demisexual" (aka having a normal sex drive) is because kids today want to be Queer but they don't want to be queer.

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Of course, it doesn't take a cynic to suspect everything written here about multiple personality disorder also applies to the explosion of people identifying as being transgendered. The fear of calling bullshit on trends spread by social contagion for fear of "handing ammunition to social conservatives is not going to end well culturally, or politically, yet here we are.

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