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Authoritarian amplification of social anxiety and hate about personal identity and forms of self-expression is both disturbing and nothing particularly new within the context of history. Gendered and generally patriarchal limitations, interpretations, and attributions related to gender expression (aka fashion) have evolved uninterrupted, sometimes within the span of a single decade (think the 1960s).
Fashion is, and always has been, a sociopolitical, chronological snapshot of what societies allow, prefer, celebrate, reject, persecute, and seek to control in majority and minority populations.
Click below for videos on the multiple histories of hair.
Patriarchal systems that enforce binary-only standards of human diversity require social stereotyping to quickly and easily discriminate between Group A (the one with more privilege) and Group B (the one with less privilege). These stereotypes also serve authoritarianism on virtually every level.
Maintaining patriarchal binary structures requires lying about reality.
Authoritarian amplification of social anxiety and hate about personal identity and forms of self-expression is both disturbing and nothing particularly new within the context of history. Gendered and generally patriarchal limitations, interpretations, and attributions related to gender expression (aka fashion) have evolved uninterrupted, sometimes within the span of a single decade (think the 1960s).
Fashion is, and always has been, a sociopolitical, chronological snapshot of what societies allow, prefer, celebrate, reject, persecute, and seek to control in majority and minority populations.
Patriarchal systems that enforce binary-only standards of human diversity require social stereotyping to quickly and easily discriminate between Group A (the one with more privilege) and Group B (the one with less privilege). These stereotypes also serve authoritarianism on virtually every level.
Maintaining sex and gender binary structures requires lying about reality.
I mean, right? No one in search of or in need of objective answers to their questions, wants to be lied to.
For authoritarian and ideological extremist leaders, lying (aka “disinfo”) becomes a useful tool because ‘true believers’ actively/passively absorb manufactured ‘wedge issues’ that confirm their preexisting implicit, or explicit bias.
To learn more about how public opinion shifts, check out the Overton Window.
Content related to Mythological Extremism and Political Disinformation addresses themes that include transmisia (anti-trans hate), religious mythologies and extremism, MAGA Fascism, authoritarianism, racism, misogyny, and discussions of genocide and suicide. Please practice self-care when accessing these pages.