You’re a special kid. You aren’t like regular girls and boys. You have a special identity that only creative, smart, and empathetic kids have. You are mature, more mature than your parents and teachers. I’ll be there for you. All the sparkle family will be there for you.
We love you. We see the real you. If you want to send us photos of your body, we’ll help you pick clothes to look sexy as your true self, but don’t tell anyone because they wouldn’t understand. The world is evil to special kids like you.
The vibrancy of Pride Flags, once symbols of unity and celebration within the gay and lesbian communities, have evolved into an internet rabbit hole serving as propaganda for groomers. The proliferation of flags representing an ever-expanding array of gender and sexual identities might seem inclusive, but the consequences of this micro-categorization extend beyond mere ‘representation.’
In the quest for inclusivity, the spectrum of pride flags has fractured into a multitude of micro identities, each with its specific flag, colors, and symbolism. While this may provide a sense of recognition and visibility for individuals who identify with these micro identities, it also reinforces an atomized understanding of identity that doesn't translate well into broad social context in real life.
Danger lies in the potential detachment from reality that these micro identities foster. In a world where human interactions demand a level of good faith and shared understanding, the intricate web of micro identities lead to self-imposed isolation. The emphasis on unique identifiers, represented by distinct flags, creates an echo chamber where individuals retreat into their micro identity, hindering meaningful connections with those outside their ultra-specific category.
Manipulating Children’s’ Intuition
Children are being exposed to queer pop art as early as kindergarten in many public schools, asked to pick their pride flags, identities, and pronouns like they’re reciting their favorite colors and shapes. The infamous ‘Genderbread Person’ graphic has been used in K-12 classrooms to teach children about the sex and sexual spectrum before the students even have sexually-developed bodies to experience mature sexuality or relate to others.
The graphic confuses the mind-body relationship and asserts that the identity inside one’s brain is different from the rest of our body–obviously a claim based in mysticism, not biology. People are not souls inside bodies, they are their bodies. Believing that there is a separate entity trapped within a physical body, but which can be liberated through special knowledge of one’s true identity is queer gnosticism. In this belief structure, the body is devalued and viewed as wrong in comparison with the gender soul inside, validating the lie of a ‘mismatch between body and gender identity’ which is claimed to cause ‘gender dysphoria.’
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