March 29, 2023
Source: Bigstock Mass shootings represent masculinity at its most hazardous.
Hence, we shouldn’t get brought away attempting to discern essential societal trends in the sample size of a single woman-bites-dog mass shooting in Nashville, in which a struggling young woman soared her old Christian grade school.
Additionally, I’m composing prior to the Nashville shooter’s manifesto or the name of the other school she had actually prepared to attack is made public. All I understand at present is that the authorities chief stated that she had “some resentment for needing to go to that school.”
“Who understood twelve years ago that one day 2011 would appear like a halcyon period of joy?”
Still … this was at least the third school or workplace public shooting of the previous half years to feature a real-life female who declared to be male, as the Nashville shooter did intermittently. Another F-to-M shot up a Colorado school in 2019 since the kids teased her desire to be a guy, and a third eliminated 4 coworkers in Maryland in 2018.
(In case you are wondering, I can’t find any reporting on whether any of these shooters were shooting up with testosterone.)
The only thing amusing about this terrible incident is that The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press all strenuously avoided using any pronouns, manly or womanly, when referring to mass shooter Audrey/Aiden Hale. No one can accuse the Gray Woman of misgendering a mass killer!
In recent years, the liberal media have warned us consistently about the hazard of “stochastic terrorism.” The idea is that if Tucker Carlson invites Christopher Rufo on his program to grumble about the unusual trend for “drag queen story hours” for children, then somewhere at some time somebody will murder a transgender person in a hate criminal activity.
After all, we all know there’s a genocidal epidemic of murders of black transgender “ladies,” no doubt devoted by white Carlson fans with their frightening rifles.
Well, really, whenever anybody (such as Rod Dreher in 2019) looks up the report behind the popular list of killed transgenders kept by the LGBT lobby Person Rights Project, they typically can’t discover any hate-crime murders, a minimum of not in the fifty states. (Puerto Rico, however, may have a problem with this. Transgender people were about eighty times more likely to be killed in P.R. than in the U.S. in 2021.)
A Twitter user called Ttroopsx looked up the 38 U.S. cases reported by HRC for 2021.
There’s no information on the race of the criminal in fifteen cases:
— There are no suspects yet in ten cases
— Another 2 were killed by cops
— One killed in prison
— One by a juvenile of unstated race
— And one by another trans of unstated race
However:
— Twenty wrongdoers were reported to be black
— 3 perps were Hispanic
— And zero perps are known to be white
Among the 38 transgenders eliminated in 2021 in the fifty states,
— Eight of the victims were white
— 4 Hispanic
— And 26 black
In the 23 cases in 2021 in which we understand both the race of the transgender victim and the race of the perp, there were:
— 5 black-on-white killings
— One Hispanic-on-white
— No white-on-anybody
— Two Hispanic-on-Hispanic
— And 15 black-on-black killings
Simply put, transgender murders are a lot like the remainder of the murders in America: a lot of black-on-black violence, normally for knuckleheaded factors, typically including prostitution and/or drugs.
In contrast, this latest school shooting seems like a traditional case of stochastic terrorism.
Well, we will see.
One reason for this microtrend of mass shooters who are ladies pretending to be people is because of the social contagion of the Establishment-endorsed transgender mania over the previous years.
There is always a lot of unhappiness and mental illness floating around, however what a culture theorizes that the cause is continuously changes. For example, a century ago the most stylish people understood, as Freud expensively described to them, that their discontent was because of the damage done them by their toilet training.
Now every adolescent woman has actually heard that her bad moods might be due to her having actually been “assigned” the incorrect gender at birth.
Which concept is stupider? Toilet training or gender task?
Talk amongst yourselves.
However it’s not constantly the case that the more things alter, the more they stay the very same. Young women in America are significantly less pleased today than they remained in the, evident, Good Old Days of 2011 prior to the transgender mania.
In a huge federal study of high school students, in 2021, 57 percent of women report “relentless sensations of sadness or despondence during the past year” compared to 36 percent in 2011. Similarly, 24 percent of high school ladies declared in 2021 to have made a suicide plan in the previous year versus 15 percent in 2011.
Who understood twelve years ago that at some point 2011 would appear like a halcyon period of happiness?
Multiple public intellectuals have actually taken a crack at describing why American ladies are in such bad shape psychologically recently.
Covid lockdowns certainly didn’t assist, but the current negative trend was currently plainly noticeable in this study by 2019.
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt is composing a book on the collapse of teen psychological health. He has actually largely happened to Jean Twenge’s view that the development of the mobile phone and social networks were a catastrophe for teen women.
That appears highly plausible.
My guess is that the damaging effects of social networks operating on smartphones (so you can never escape them) in turn added to the Great Awokening around 2012– 13, which only made women unhappier.
I developed a hypothesis about the specific mechanism behind this interaction. But I don’t know anything about teenage women anymore (if I ever did). So, when a girl journalist asked me if I prepared to write up the idea I ‘d tweeted, I told her that she would do a much better task writing that post than I would.
We’ll see what she discovers.
Matthew Yglesias notes how anxiety is just recently worse among teenage ladies who see themselves as Democrats and progressives. He points out that when he suffered from depression, he found help through cognitive behavior modification. CBT seems to work the very best of the many talking cures. It’s a hardheaded technique that states: If your patterns of thinking are bad for you, then discover better patterns.
To Yglesias, much of the existing woke frame of mind seem like the outright opposite of CBT: 2020s progressivism trains you to consume in self-defeating ways about your oppression and victimhood. Our current culture encourages individuals to dwell endlessly on their schooldays slights, as the Nashville shooter seems to have actually done.
I ‘d add that the increase in female power and prestige has actually coincided with the decline of female joy. An easy explanation is that, on the whole, ladies don’t like it when the men in their lives act defeated and withdrawn.