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BumblingBea's avatar

I don't have the data to back it up (aka, feel free to ignore this comment), but I'm suspicious that there might be a more general trend here.

For a large class of societal problems, the general approach has been funnel energy into building awareness, channeling that awareness into action, and using that action to build yet more awareness.

It seems plausible to me, that an unintended side effect of this activism funnel could be that awareness of an issue is inversely proportional to how bad the issue remains.

As a trans person in a non-american country, where HRT is easy to access and societal stigma is low, I've found it notable how trans activism seems to be at it's peak now. Just when it's least needed.

I suspect that might be the case with lots of movements.

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Jimmy Nicholls's avatar

“U, G, L, Y, you ain't got no alibi,” regularly breaks out in my head unprompted because of that film.

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