Thanks for the picture of a girl with a tube for her urinary business! I never thought I'd say that. I'm starting a new book, with contributions from other trans widows and family members. Feel free to contact me at uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com (contact form) to add some aspect of your story. The title is Trans Widows Chronicles: Leaving & Healing. I expect to publish in 2024. I will never understand. I was married to it, my niece, now "non-binary" is married to a huge bloke who says he's female, and my hometown, Madison Wisconsin, has gone full bore trans. Just keep on Denton!
Check out the Movie Experimenter. It's about the Milgrim experiments, showing how the majority (I believe it was 65%) of people are willing to inflict (what they think is) severe pain on a stranger simply because an "authority figure" in a lab coat tells them to. It also mentions the Ashe experiments, where people chose an obviously wrong answer simply because other people around them chose that answer. It speaks to some of the psychological characteristics that allow the Gender Cult to not only exist, but to thrive. The Milgrim experiments were conducted by Milgrim, a social psychologist, in the 1960's as a response to Nazism. The results have been replicated by others (Milgrim died in '84) in later experiments up through the 2000s. I only wish I knew how to combat this.
I always wondered what the names of those experiments were, thank you. I've seen them both, very powerful testament to what people will do when they think others are watching. There's also one on Youtube I've seen whereby (don't know its name but it's probably easily searchable) the viewer of the footage they're about to see, is asked to count how many throws of a ball they can count, as a beach ball is tossed around between a group off 6/7 people. A minute later, you give your answer - which in the end is irrelevant, because you completely failed to spot that someone in a gorilla outfit shimmied their way through the entire group, without you noticing! Kind of reminds me of the law of unintended consequences, or taking your eye off the ball. Or in this case, making sure you won't spot the interloper.
Yes, I’ve seen that too, on a show on Netflix about how our brains work. We focus on certain things, and may miss important things. There’s also the fact that eyewitnesses are notoriously terrible and miss or forget all the important facts because our minds are so malleable. We think we know much more than we actually know and, in my mind, this requires us to constantly reconsider and re-think our conclusions and thoughts - but few people ever take the time to do this.
Thanks for the picture of a girl with a tube for her urinary business! I never thought I'd say that. I'm starting a new book, with contributions from other trans widows and family members. Feel free to contact me at uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com (contact form) to add some aspect of your story. The title is Trans Widows Chronicles: Leaving & Healing. I expect to publish in 2024. I will never understand. I was married to it, my niece, now "non-binary" is married to a huge bloke who says he's female, and my hometown, Madison Wisconsin, has gone full bore trans. Just keep on Denton!
Thanks for that Ute, I'm so heartened to hear that you're doing what you're doing. I'm going to go up a gear soon (watch this space!)
Will do!
Check out the Movie Experimenter. It's about the Milgrim experiments, showing how the majority (I believe it was 65%) of people are willing to inflict (what they think is) severe pain on a stranger simply because an "authority figure" in a lab coat tells them to. It also mentions the Ashe experiments, where people chose an obviously wrong answer simply because other people around them chose that answer. It speaks to some of the psychological characteristics that allow the Gender Cult to not only exist, but to thrive. The Milgrim experiments were conducted by Milgrim, a social psychologist, in the 1960's as a response to Nazism. The results have been replicated by others (Milgrim died in '84) in later experiments up through the 2000s. I only wish I knew how to combat this.
I always wondered what the names of those experiments were, thank you. I've seen them both, very powerful testament to what people will do when they think others are watching. There's also one on Youtube I've seen whereby (don't know its name but it's probably easily searchable) the viewer of the footage they're about to see, is asked to count how many throws of a ball they can count, as a beach ball is tossed around between a group off 6/7 people. A minute later, you give your answer - which in the end is irrelevant, because you completely failed to spot that someone in a gorilla outfit shimmied their way through the entire group, without you noticing! Kind of reminds me of the law of unintended consequences, or taking your eye off the ball. Or in this case, making sure you won't spot the interloper.
Yes, I’ve seen that too, on a show on Netflix about how our brains work. We focus on certain things, and may miss important things. There’s also the fact that eyewitnesses are notoriously terrible and miss or forget all the important facts because our minds are so malleable. We think we know much more than we actually know and, in my mind, this requires us to constantly reconsider and re-think our conclusions and thoughts - but few people ever take the time to do this.