Transgender surgery (or at least all the steps leading up to it) is not statistically invisible in my particular bubble/demographic: mid/high socioeconomic parents of teens and college students). I know offhand 6 families struggling with this, and sadly they are not outliers.
Otherwise this article was interesting, in espousing a lack of shame in a multicultural society. I know we both read Rob Henderson, and I think he has made a very good case/successfully threaded the needle in saying that people should share the social norms and judgements that lead to successfully raising children.
Very interesting take on the compounding diversity of American people. It’s not all about migrations… I often think along similar lines when I see the Amish in the PA-to-Midwest corridor, Hasidic Jews in NYC, Hutterites in Montana. The two-party coalitions are splintering, but there have always been groups of people way outside the “normal” lifestyle frames of Americans.
I’ve also lived in Philly, NYC, and Montana and it’s astounding how many lifestyles have multiplied. What drugs you do, what outdoor activities you do, what your relationship to your sex and sexuality are, where you’re from and what language your parents speak, how “native” you are to a place (like Montana) even can sharply define your “clique” and who you hang out with. The migrations of coastal (already uniquely fragmented) elites inland to places like Montana makes this more dizzying.
It’s interesting bringing caste and evangelicalism into the lifestyle argument! I am curious to revisit Isabel Wilkerson’s caste with this in mind. American “identity” crisis maybe is where we’re at not just at a macro level but individually, among the generations… I often feel like the “generation” arguments (X vs. Millennial vs. Z vs. alpha) is the wrong way to talk about this “something” having to do with some kind of change happening; maybe the confusion about “lifestyles” multiplying, and the divisions it creates in the desires to connect across these choices, is a better way to think about it.
Transgender surgery (or at least all the steps leading up to it) is not statistically invisible in my particular bubble/demographic: mid/high socioeconomic parents of teens and college students). I know offhand 6 families struggling with this, and sadly they are not outliers.
Otherwise this article was interesting, in espousing a lack of shame in a multicultural society. I know we both read Rob Henderson, and I think he has made a very good case/successfully threaded the needle in saying that people should share the social norms and judgements that lead to successfully raising children.
one would hope we could agree on this...
Very interesting take on the compounding diversity of American people. It’s not all about migrations… I often think along similar lines when I see the Amish in the PA-to-Midwest corridor, Hasidic Jews in NYC, Hutterites in Montana. The two-party coalitions are splintering, but there have always been groups of people way outside the “normal” lifestyle frames of Americans.
I’ve also lived in Philly, NYC, and Montana and it’s astounding how many lifestyles have multiplied. What drugs you do, what outdoor activities you do, what your relationship to your sex and sexuality are, where you’re from and what language your parents speak, how “native” you are to a place (like Montana) even can sharply define your “clique” and who you hang out with. The migrations of coastal (already uniquely fragmented) elites inland to places like Montana makes this more dizzying.
It’s interesting bringing caste and evangelicalism into the lifestyle argument! I am curious to revisit Isabel Wilkerson’s caste with this in mind. American “identity” crisis maybe is where we’re at not just at a macro level but individually, among the generations… I often feel like the “generation” arguments (X vs. Millennial vs. Z vs. alpha) is the wrong way to talk about this “something” having to do with some kind of change happening; maybe the confusion about “lifestyles” multiplying, and the divisions it creates in the desires to connect across these choices, is a better way to think about it.
thanks for your comments here. Great stuff.
Fascinating piece—aligns tangentially with what I wrote about yesterday.