Said Dr. Erica Anderson, "a clinical psychologist who specializes in helping children with gender identity issues and who is transgender herself," quoted in "Why do so many Hollywood celebs have trans or non-binary kids?" (NY Post).
These entertainment people are "freethinkers," according to Anderson, who also says, contradictorily, that "the prevailing politics are extremely progressive," so "they don’t feel safe to question an asserted identity by one of their children."
So what is it? Do they feel compelled to go along with whatever the child says — politically compelled — or are they — because of their inherent creativity — celebrating and encouraging unusual expression?
I'm seeing a mysterious merger of freedom and compulsion.
IN THE COMMENTS: Bob Boyd: "I think she means outside-the-box thinkers. Out-of-the-box usually means you don't have to do anything yourself, no assembly required."
That's closely observed and correct. This is the case of a dying metaphor. What is this box we're talking about when we say "outside of the box"? Grok tells me the expression originated with the 9 dots puzzle:
You're an outside-the-box thinker if you realize you can connect the 9 dots with 4 lines if you go beyond what is only an imaginary box. Apply that metaphor to thinking about how to parent a child who doesn't fit the gender stereotypes associated with its physical form. That's what an outside-the-box thinkers would do. Now, compare the out-of-the-box thinker. This would be someone who has pre-determined ideas built in and really doesn't think at all.
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My freedom requires your compulsion.
Why do so many Hollywood celebs have trans or non-binary kids?" (NY Post).
Because they tend to be evil narcissists with too much money and they need attention so they mutilate their children to get attention.
i doubt that there have EVER been such unimaginative, group thinking, orthodox people as our "entertainment" industry.
By orthodox i mean: they believe what they're told to believe
but, of course; they Are Told to believe that they are creatives, they’re freethinkers, they’re out-of-the-box thinkers... so, there's that
Everyone involved in turning a child into a eunuch should be publicly executed.
The people that supported it, promoted it, parents that did it to their children. Everyone.
This is worse than raping the child. At least the child has a chance to grow up and overcome rape.
Facts not in evidence, specially the current crew
Let's not overlook her implying that trans is a choice.
…for the lefties a trans kid is the new symbol of social affluence. A totem of elite status.
I’m seeing a combination of extreme narcissism and mental illness.
…it differentiates and distinguished your family from the lower class families with just a gay kid…
There arent enough straight jackets
Most Hollywood types have shit-fer-brains, that hardly makes them freethinkers. Certainly they are not people you want to use as good examples.
Simulants of a creative farce. If there are any trans, they are homos. An undercurrent of homophobia is a liberal liability.
“Many in the entertainment industry are creatives, they’re freethinkers, they’re out-of-the-box thinkers..."
Meaning they’re out of our normal-sane box, but strictly confined to the Hollywood-crazy box, to which they must conform in thought, word, and deed. Failure to do so is punished by not being able to work or eat lunch.
Virtually all of these Hollywood-celeb-with-a-trans-child types are people who stand in the spot the director tells them to stand and read the lines that the scriptwriter chose for them, not sure how "creative" they are.
Next question: how many of those kids are being put through irreversible medical procedures? Two celebrity qualities not mentioned are superficiality and dilettantism.
Freethinkers who think exactly the way the mob incentivizes them to, the members of which are also freethinkers. I’m curious about the people at the perimeter of the mob — do they know they are at the perimeter? Are they sufficiently freethinking to see the thoughts on both sides of the boundary?
Psycho-atric practices (PP). Pun intended.
"..."they don’t feel safe to question an asserted identity by one of their children."..."
They're Free Thinkers who can't think freely, because it isn't 'safe'. But: What is the threat to their safety?? In words that aren't being misused as code?
I don’t quite care what these celebrities do with their children. My issue is their push (compulsion) that society do the same with their children or pay for their “freethinking”. If you want a sex change, then like other cosmetic surgeries, pay for it yourself.
And note the cost of “freethinking” seems to be analogous to Colbert costing CBS $40 million a year in losses as “free speech”.
I think she means outside-the-box thinkers. Out-of-the-box usually means you don't have to do anything yourself, no assembly required.
"Thus did they nurse their folly, as the good wife of Tam O’Shanter did her wrath, 'to keep it warm.' ”
"My freedom requires your compulsion."
Affirm our freethinking identities or we'll kill your kids.
“I’m a free thinker. I know that because everyone I know thinks the same thing and they are all free thinkers.”
Use the npc gif
Just recently we discussed David Cross, who had appeared on Bill Maher’s podcast and revealed his child had “2 or 3 friends who are transgender.” The flabbergasting part was that one trans kid was 3. Three-years-old and Cross was befuddled by Maher mocking him.
I mean discussed HERE the Cross incident.
Creatives are all about 'subverting expectations' in the last decade or so. What subverts expectations more than being the parent of a boy who's 'really' a 'girl'? Or a girl who's 'really' a 'boy'? So very creative that it demands celebration.
"I'm seeing a mysterious merger of freedom and compulsion."
Yes, you are free to be compelled.
But it requires a lot of thoughts, observation, and wisdom to know what exactly one should desire to be free from. It is a fool's errand to want freedom from everything, all the time. You can declare yourself free from current social norms, or even from genetics, but bind yourself to the need and effects of medications and altering surgery. So, pick your "oppressor" carefully.
Here's $10. Go back in the box.
Simulation is a creative emulation of a homosexual transition following viability in the modern family.
And I'm seeing a quiet admission that the expansion in the number of young people with fluid gender has to do with decisions - "free thinking" - rather than something inherent. Meaning there is no reason to go along with changing our language to accommodate it.
People in Hollywood are "creative" and "Think outside the box". Mmm... Really? So, i guess that's why so many of them are political dissidents, and have so many different political opinions. 3 hollywood Execs, 4 political parties supported!
Oh wait, its the exact opposite. They all follow the same party line and have the same cultural attitudes on almost everything. So their love of Trans has more to do with their leftistism/liberalism. And of course, if you don't like "Religion" and consider yourself "anti-Christian" you'll probably think its "cool" that your kid is Gay or Trans.
Schrodinger's box. Johns Hopkins concluded several decades earlier that the cat was a social construct of handmade tales obscuring homosexual transitions and temporary puberty angst.
Cosmetic surgery is a way of life in Hollywood. If the aging process is fixable with surgery, what's the big deal with sex?
People in the "Industry" present themselves as "free thinkers". But they aren't they just support liberal/leftism.
Painters, Novelists, etc. are sometimes "Free thinkers" because the artist is off by himself doing art.
"Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anybody! You've got to think for yourselves! You're all individuals!"
"Yes! We're all individuals!"
- Life of Brian
Since transgenderism is mostly a new phenomenon. Does that mean people are suddenly more creative than before, when apparently almost nobody must have been creative before 2010? If that's what you see with modern culture, I don't think you can see outside the box. The current level of creativity in the entertainment field is as low as I've ever seen. Everything is sampled, copied, derived, and a formulaic, manufactured rehashing of ideas of the past, largely produced by computer programs, and surprisingly, those computers don't have much transgederism with their kids.
If you only had one 9 Dots Puzzle on a piece of paper and you couldn't get another one, you should probably try to work it with a pencil that has an eraser, not with a Sharpie and a pair of scissors.
they don’t feel safe to question an asserted identity by one of their children
Yeah. Their children are "asserting" an "identity." Sure.
I also find it bemusing - ok, I find it troubling (but not at all surprising) that so many of the adults encouraging kids to "assert" a trans "identity" are trans themselves. In the most charitable reading, it seems to me that these adults are not at all convinced that they made the right call for themselves and believe that if only they can "prove" that lots of trans kids exist, they can feel better, more validated.
In a less charitable reading, well, we know that trans-identifying people have a really hard time finding others with whom to have romantic relationships, and often end up with other trans-identifying people (or fetishists). Why not just, you know, make some?
Bob Boyd is on a roll today.
I find the notion of a bunch of people who think alike and agree with a huge political, financial and cultural establishment and who routinely excoriate dissenters as evil being "free thinkers" laughable.
There is nothing inherently "free thinking" about acting that makes actors "creatives". It is a skill set that can be developed via practice, just like anything else.
If lil' Johnny came home and told his parents he now identified as MAGA, they would find the parental courage to question that, so it's clearly not creativity or openness. It's conformity. Even if they were alright with it, they would still tell Johnny to keep it to himself.
Theres nothing more conformist than a bunch of Hollywood establishment "free thinkers".
Well he might require electro shock at least counseling
Most "outside of the box" thinkers strictly adhere to the circle that surrounds the box.
Is it really creativity in a job where everything you do and say is written down for you and comes from someone else, and then how you do what's in that script is further coached and directed by others. It's almost the opposite of creative. Even how you look is done by others. Now, a comedian or a street performer, that's all you, unless you are on late night with 20 writers.
I definitely think acting is a real skill and can be very special in how it's done, but it's not big creative like other arts can be. Acting is to art as coloring books are to abstract painting.
Maybe we need another word than "creative". What is more creative an abstract painting or a wonderfully accurate portrait or landscape. One has no rules, and the other must follow rules to succeed at it's intent. I prefer and enjoy the accurately portrayed more than the abstract, but the abstract is more "creative", as in creating something from nothing.
You're an outside-the-box thinker if you realize you can connect the 9 dots with 4 lines if you go beyond what is only an imaginary box.
4 is not a particularly smart answer.
You can do 3 if you make your lines really long.
If you want to get all crazy one really long line on earth centered earth fixed coordinate frame will also connect the dots.
You have to force the tester to use points instead of dots and you have to enforce a 2 plane coordinate grid to make the right answer 4.
If you pick up the piece of paper with the dots on it and roll it into a cylinder then offset the edges of the paper and turn it into a spiral one line is not hard.
Chalk/white boards disallow this technique.
Showbiz types are the exact opposite of "free-thinkers". They are the most insecure herd-followers on the planet. They are the flatterers and toadies of the Imperial court admiring the Emperor's beautiful new suit of clothes.
Everyone involved in turning a child into a eunuch should be publicly executed.
I'm in agreement with Achilles. Speedy death for all involved.
The mutilation and sterilization of mentally ill kids is the most diabolical evil that the Establishment elite has lawfully perpetrated on innocent children since the Holocaust.
I am always amazed at how the artistic/creative class (of which I am a member) are supposedly 'free-thinking' and open-minded and yet who close down into such reactionary cult-ish like people when it comes to political matters. The true creatives are open to many possibilities (think Rick Rubin who doesn't seem to care what anyone's politics are when he discusses things with them) and believe that art and expression can come from anywhere.
Transgenderism started in Hollywood with the feeling, "Mom is so glamorous I can't compete or measure up to her, so I'd be better off as a boy," and its variants: "Dad is such an icon of rugged masculinity that I feel like a girl beside him," "Mom is so beautiful and glamorous; I'd like to be a woman too," and "Dad is so handsome and heroic and competent in all his movies; I want to be manly like him." Somehow, in a land where everything is over the top, the wires get crossed. Lots of money available for operations and a tolerant, gay-friendly environment encouraged the spread of transsexualism -- as did moms looking for something "special" and "different" in their children.
In Hollywood and elsewhere, "creative" just means you aren't a technician or a money person. It has little to do with actual originality or inventiveness. Hollywood has no new ideas now. Hollywood is scared of real originality and creativeness. Maybe we all are. It's not so much that true creativity is provocative or shocking. It's more that we are so overloaded with things to think about that its easier to just assume that everything new happened in the past.
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