In June of 1374, people across Europe broke out into spontaneous dance. What some scholars believe was actually a medical condition, most believe was a mass psychogenic illness — an illness of the mind. The people began to dance and the dancing spread. Some danced for days. Some danced until they died. Some had heart attacks or broke bones.
Then the dancing stopped.
In Kinshasa, Tanzania, in 1962, schoolgirls began laughing hysterically. They could not stop. Called the Tanganyika laughter epidemic, more than 1,000 people were affected. All of them laughed uncontrollably.
In Le Roy Junior-Senior High School in New York in 2011, students suffered a wave of Tourette syndrome. Researchers never found a chemical or biological explanation. It was a mass psychogenic illness.
Now, with the advent of mass media and social media, much of the Western world is suffering a psychogenic illness that particularly affects the elite.
A week ago, Lia Thomas won an NCAA swimming event, beating out a female Olympic silver medalist. Thomas is the collegiate male who became a collegiate female via gender transition.
Thomas competed rather unsuccessfully as a male athlete (by Ivy League standards) before deciding to become a very successful female athlete. The NCAA requires transitioning students to use hormone suppressants for a year. But a boy who goes through puberty and reaches adulthood as a male is going to maintain muscular and skeletal development that surpasses most women even if, once in adulthood, he uses hormone suppressants.
The website boysvswomen.com compares male high school athletes against female Olympians. The results speak for themselves. In track, high school boys consistently beat Olympic-level women. In swimming, the boys still overwhelmingly best the women.
But Western elite demand we treat men as women if they insist. The elite have even dropped the “trans” prefix. Lia Thomas is not the winner of a transwomen’s race but a women’s race, though Thomas remains biologically different. NBC News has run multiple pieces in the last week that Thomas is good for women’s sports and that he is akin to Jackie Robinson. ESPN has gone so far as to focus on prepubescent boys whose parents support their transitioning and how they would be harmed if not allowed to participate as girls.
ESPN’s biased coverage is notable because in addition to championing Thomas and other transgender athletes at the expense of girls, it also allowed its on-air teams to hold a moment of silence protesting the Parental Rights in Education law in Florida, which opponents call the “Don’t Say Gay” law. The law merely says schools have to wait until fourth grade to introduce concepts about sex and gender to kids. But ESPN anchors think kindergarten is an appropriate time to learn about sex. I use the word “notable” regarding ESPN because during the Hong Kong protests for freedom, ESPN would not cover those protesters or the related NBA story because it was all deemed “political.”
This is all absurd. It is hard for me to believe that feminism has become so degraded that now men can best women as women, but this is the world the elite demand we live in.
If I were to mention this too much on social media, my accounts could be terminated. If I were to state on Twitter that Lia Thomas is a man, Twitter would suspend my account for “misgendering,” which is an Orwellian way of saying I’m telling the truth.
Lia Thomas is well and truly going through something. They deserve our empathy. But giving empathy cannot mean giving up the truth. The truth is that men cannot become women and women cannot become men. Nor should we disembowel the English language for a group of people who make up less than 1% of the population.
The Western elite have traded reason for emotion. Claiming to be wise, they have become fools. They are dancing St. Vitus’ dance, but instead of them dying while dancing, they just want the truth to fall over dead or to silence you for disagreeing with them.
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We will get the leftist liberals when Civil War 2 breaks out. Take down names and addresses of the media people and all democrats – there will be a “Day Of The Rope” and we shall have our revenge.
I do not agree with transgenders. God created male and female. Read your Bible fools. God will punish the wicked. But too any don’t give a 🐀 rats ass about God and the Bible
They care about themselves. Wake up fools before it’s too late.
For the peddlers, like Joe Biden, this is a form of deliberate madness, and psychosis may be the wrong word to use for them. Unlike dancers who could not control themselves, panderers to this collective psychosis, like Biden, are fully capable of knowing what they are doing.
Gender dysphoria is a serious matter, and some of the extreme cases not only deserve our sympathy but might be legitimately allowed to compete as women if their male hormones have been naturally suppressed all their lives. But this is a far cry from someone who is “trans” for no other purpose or deeper reason than to bask in the glory of trophy after trophy (and scholarships? professional status?).
Simple, quit ESPN and Twitter. It’s called free enterprise, support the enterprise that meets your standards. I quit ESPN years ago, never got on Twitter. You won’t be missing anything……
Democrats senile Biden and cackles Harris are thus TransMorons!
Ah at last an answer for all the batsheet crazy going on in the world!
Via mass media, Indoc in schools & Big Tech equal mass psychosis in West
There is sanity in this article. Men and women are different and no amount of social engineering will ever change that. Please, everyone wake up an apply a little common sense to the transgender issue. Maybe we shouldn’t allow the use of locker rooms and rest rooms for anyone (there have been rapes) or allow male atheletes to compete in female sports (destroying the sport). WAKE UP!
Give me a name of just one dimocrat with one, just one, iota of a brain cell.
Welcome to March 28, 1984.
No wonder why there are more and more depressed parents who in turn affect their children : depression is an illness and these mass psychosis are ” ills of society” which were depicted by Goya the spanish painter of years ago …..Virtue says Truth is true freedom : so mixed up by fame of trophy and ” gender issues” only lead to more illness : depression …mental illness….harming society order and success . Benjamin Franklin stated ” Without Virtue , it is impossible to have a successful society ” ….we are going thru the worst time with this President and Vice president.