I have to admit I don't understand the DEI, transgender, and sexual orientation uproar emanating from the Republicans.

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13. I think it's a control thing on

one-hand, and an ego thing on the other. I read about the origins of PTSD, but only from WW1 forward. The way governments treated people was to say it didn't exist, and use feminine words...like hysterical, or sissy...whatever to keep soldiers in line, and maintain the number of troops on any given battlefield. Then they came home, and the shit hit the fan, because that kind of trauma is revealed with distance from the events. The degrading and belittling did not stop which affected the roles men and woman play in society. The degradation of men for feeling, and the need for woman to step up and care for their families, while also being degraded for being too masculine, and how that played on the family dynamic. The enemy is also a constant refrain, enabling war on behalf of whatever industry is in need or something belonging to another geographic location. This country has not had a generation unaffected by war in several generations and the corporate behemoths that have grown out of that same time period have made it so much harder to earn a living wage or just buy and sell what people need to survive. The ego takes hit after hit, and that makes for an effed up society