I believe it has to do with the extremely sexualized culture we're living in thanks to instant porn. I teach high school, and kids have seen EVERYTHING online, and a lot of them are saturating their brains in it daily. They grew up listening to WAP like kids listened to Britney Spears when I was 18. They're striving for the Instathot look with fake lashes, giant fake nails, heavy makeup, etc. Someone I know posted a picture of their daughter's EIGHTH GRADE graduation photo last summer, and it was creepy. She was in full makeup and giving an oddly seductive over-the-shoulder look to the camera. Someone probably coached her to pose like that because there's no such thing as posing naturally and just being a cute girl anymore. We live in a culture of porn.
Girls who just want to be tomboyish, nerdy, or plain don't know how to fit in to a culture that is pushing this extremely artificial and slutty version of femininity. They grasp the only option that will grant them acceptance: transgenderism. Being a regular or plain girl isn't cool and will get you picked on, but being trans or "NB" will make everyone shower you with praise and sympathy for not fitting in.
I remember seeing pictures of my mom and her friends from the 1970s and they were wearing miniskirts and skimpy clothes. But they looked like normal, natural, fun-loving, cute girls. They didn't look like cheap AI hookers with bad fillers, which is what so many young women are aspiring to look like now. In other words, they aspire to look like drag queens. Hell, the top makeup tutorial YouTubers are MEN.
I believe it has to do with the extremely sexualized culture we're living in thanks to instant porn. I teach high school, and kids have seen EVERYTHING online, and a lot of them are saturating their brains in it daily. They grew up listening to WAP like kids listened to Britney Spears when I was 18. They're striving for the Instathot look with fake lashes, giant fake nails, heavy makeup, etc. Someone I know posted a picture of their daughter's EIGHTH GRADE graduation photo last summer, and it was creepy. She was in full makeup and giving an oddly seductive over-the-shoulder look to the camera. Someone probably coached her to pose like that because there's no such thing as posing naturally and just being a cute girl anymore. We live in a culture of porn.
Girls who just want to be tomboyish, nerdy, or plain don't know how to fit in to a culture that is pushing this extremely artificial and slutty version of femininity. They grasp the only option that will grant them acceptance: transgenderism. Being a regular or plain girl isn't cool and will get you picked on, but being trans or "NB" will make everyone shower you with praise and sympathy for not fitting in.
I remember seeing pictures of my mom and her friends from the 1970s and they were wearing miniskirts and skimpy clothes. But they looked like normal, natural, fun-loving, cute girls. They didn't look like cheap AI hookers with bad fillers, which is what so many young women are aspiring to look like now. In other words, they aspire to look like drag queens. Hell, the top makeup tutorial YouTubers are MEN.
Everything is topsy-turvy in this world.
We used to just call it "emo" or "goth." Then the internet happened.