Post No. 3,381 - The evil of social conditioning and obsessions [Content warning - traditional gender roles, stereotypes, s_x, SA, bigotry]

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(A calm pond in the foreground has moving reflections of stars and, on its further side, the rocky rise bounding it and the distant rugged mountains under a starry sky with a few streaking meteorites) 

I’ve been reflecting on the transphobia and other bigotries I have endured, and one of the major causative problems of those is social conditioning.  

In many Western nations, what people are taught often includes this rubbish: 

• sex is everything;  

• cismen are supposed to protect women;  

• if cismen are denied the opportunity to protect women - e.g., if a cis or trans woman is self reliant, capable, and independent - their value as a potential sexual partner (i.e., whole self identity and reason for existence) is, in their minds, threatened; 

• cismale identity is fragile, and threatened by (afraid of) the very existence of LGBTQIASB+ people; 

• as the only reason a cismale can conceive of for them to go in to a female toilet seems to be to have a perv or to commit sexual assault, they assume transwomen - who their delicate little snowflake minds are too incompetent to recognise as female - are there for the reasons they would be - and the cismales are jealous; 

• meanwhile, ciswomen are taught the delicate, hyper-dependent princess rubbish; 

• patriarchy teaches them to sacrifice their agency for roles to glorify and worship fragile snowflake cismen;  

• the delicate, hyper-dependent, snowflake ciswomen see any/all cis or trans woman who are self reliant, capable, and independent as a threat (i.e., they are afraid of) to their hyper-dependent ("protected") status and thus their value as a potential sexual partner (i.e., whole self identity and reason for existence). 

Of course, that has been written to take the problematic versions of social conditioning to an extreme - but not an absurdist extreme, as far too many people actually have been brainwashed by social conditioning into existing (it is not living) this way (but I note that many have NOT). 

I wrote recently about the spiritual changes signified by the Sex Discrimination Act (1984) in Australia, and I am more convinced than ever that, just as some businesses can be bastions of progressivism, others are dungeons of obdurate (often religiously motivated) holding to outmoded and harmful (to ALL) spiritual/moral rot, mould, and decay of the type I have outlined in the dot points above. 

The sooner those people decide to be mature adults and let go of the harmful brainwashing aka social conditioning (which is not easy - I have used the word brainwashing to specifically highlight that), the better for them, the people they love, all humanity, and all sentient life everywhere. 

The same applies to ALL snowflakes who cannot handle difference.  

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider: 

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

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Post No. 2,817 - The damage done by “bad” worldviews

A person’s “worldview” is how they conceive reality to be - especially their conceptualisation of what is right and wrong, and how people should behave. 

For more on that, see the links below. 

A worldview that I would describe as bad (for instance, one that considers specific minority groups or people assigned to groups on the basis of unchangeable characteristics they were born with) is often the basis of the initiation and/or continuation of bigotry / bias / discrimination - especially the systemic forms of those abuses.

An example from my former day job are the senior water authority personnel who insisted that engineers should be the people to make basic operational decisions instead of operators. 

The problems with that worldview include: 

• the observations of operators - especially at times plants were not attended by others, and during operational upsets - were CRUCIAL pieces of information, which often could not possibly be covered by instrumentation; 

• this is disparaging of operators skills and professionalism - and, in my experience, the overwhelming majority were excellent (there were bad ones, but those I could count on the finger of one hand after nearly half a century);

• it assumes engineers have a detailed familiarity with ALL treatment plants in ALL situations, whereas each plant is a unique combination of generic plant process, specific pant design, and specific operational circumstances - including historic; 

• it has a classist bias that places a faith in tertiary qualifications that dangerously underplays the value of experience. 
  

The net effect of that bad worldview was a workplace that was limiting, disempowering, and demotivating of workers, and one that cost rate payers money as it forced use of engineers to make decisions that were within the capabilities of operators - especially if someone spent a little time and effort to train them properly. 

That unnecessary expenditure was particularly ironic given that many of those senior personnel prided themselves on their (self perceived) cost efficiency. 

Fortunately, over the last quarter century of my career, many water authorities had woken up to this, and operators were being given due credit and proper respect, and empowered to do the tasks they could and properly should. 

 

Related to that is another bad worldview, which is that engineers want to do everything in their field / save money (even if that involves wasting money by trials of unproven/unrealistic notions - which I found particularly egregious when the money was public money * ) / be enamoured of technological - rather than being focused on environment and social considerations first. Then again, I and others who were focused on environment and the community we were supposed to be serving were in the minority for much of my career. Again, this started to improve in the last decade or so. 

 

I will give one more example of a bad worldview, which I came across in a YouTube video: a father, a soldier, who thought he could disrespect the privacy of his son whenever he wanted. As the now adult son pointed out in the video, that was psychological abuse. In the context of this post, it reflected the emotionally crippled worldview that pseudo-father had as a result of the combination of whatever psychological flaws he had plus the perversions imposed by the training implemented by a militaristic worldview. 

Now, in all these instances, the people with those bad worldviews are victims. And that is entirely secondary to the fact that the very real harm they are doing MUST be contained so no other victims are created by their perverted mentality. 

Including, above all else, those who are causing emotional damage rather than physical - and those who do not understand the importance of that are themselves probably exercising a bad worldview. 

I am aware that I have been confrontational in this post. My experience is that such (and another example of this is pointing out to bigots that what they may consider a “harmless eccentricity” is actually killing people) is necessary to jolt those with the bad worldviews into the sort of fundamental doubt needed in order to change something as fundamental as one’s worldview.

One final point: some worldviews are GOOD, and result in lots of good work being done in this world.

Some links on worldview: 

• https://www.encyclopedia.com/philosophy-and-religion/philosophy/philosophy-terms-and-concepts/worldview-philosophy   
  

• https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Worldview   
  

• https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-a-worldview   

• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worldview  

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Worldview&oldid=1221891102   

Some other links to consider: 

• https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2014/04/activism.html   
  

• https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2023/09/aspects-of-character-content-warning.html   
  

• https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2015/06/emotions.html  
  

• https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2023/05/ethics.html  
  

• https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-evil-that-is-known-as-fascism.html   
  
• https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2023/06/patriarchy.html   
  
• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/08/post-no-2535-trauma-content-warning.html  

 * First and foremost, something a university graduate designs/builds/operates should reasonably be expected to actually operate under normal (“reasonably foreseeable”) circumstances ... and yet I had some whine, when their experimental design didn’t work, that they should be given credit for trying to save money - when they had actually increased the rates that ratepayers would be slugged with! The out-of-touch-cluelessness and arrogance of those people was appalling. But those problem were not confined to engineers. Examples of what I consider unethical decisions by water authorities include awarding contracts to companies on the basis of building something and conducting trials into how well a brand new and not-proven-at-scale process could be made to work despite the bid document requirements around proven performance being complied with by other bidders, or to companies that didn’t actually have a workforce (the amathiac argument was that they could hire people who would have worked for other companies on that job! ... despite the reality that very few people are able to chuck in a job and go chasing a specific project) when the bid documents had specifically requested details of the workforce. I haven’t included this in the main text as it is more professional incompetence, not only bad worldviews.

PS - subsequent to publishing this post, some additional information I came across led me to publish the following, which is about a worldview that is, in my opinion, genocidal: 

• “The contempt of transphobes towards the human species   [Content Warning: discussion of life-threatening hatred and bigotry]”    https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-contempt-of-transphobes-towards.html     

 

 

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

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