but isn't the difference in one case free gender expression, whereas the other is (e.g. for trans male to female): I think I'm a woman and to show this I'm going to specifically dress in the 'stereotypically womanliest' way possible?
or, more generally, people shouldn't be using gender as the reason to dress and act the way they want to. else they're affirming that a certain gender means a certain form of acting.
obviously this is an exaggeration. but since we're playing the game.
well if the feminist movement is all about deconstructing gender and removing fixed ideas of gender, then surely the trans movement is reversing this by reinforcing stereotypes in how people dress etc. /s
right, except sometimes it's easier to impose conditions on certain countries than others. for example the US was able to get the previous Indian administration to sign a treaty ceding partial control of their arsenal to them, on threat of sanctions (if I recall correctly). as much as the US might want to do something like that with China, it wouldn't be anywhere near as easy to pull off.
this is just an example, I'm not attaching moral value to what occurred/occurs
while the last point is perhaps the main determinant theory behind why many older people are not being owing more right wing, I'm a little confused by your first two points.
especially the fact that people have greater access to knowledge and are forced to think more critically. if anything, with the advent of the internet, echo chambers have never been easier, preventing critical thinking. this leads to a growing of extreme positions which further reinforces such views due to tribalistic fallacies in our thinking and the need for these tribal identities to distinguish themselves.
isn't this supposed to be mitigated by the fact that the tritium eventually blends into the larger ocean such that the concentration remains in harmless levels at the end anyway?
no one wants lower wages, but wage increases lead to businesses increasing their prices.
supply shocks aside, there is a negative correlation between inflation and unemployment for a host of complex reasons. so there's ultimately a trade-off to pick.
unfortunately, the issue is that given businesses also function from the idea that there is such a trade-off, supposing we announce we want to lower unemployment, they raise their prices in anticipation.
but isn't the difference in one case free gender expression, whereas the other is (e.g. for trans male to female): I think I'm a woman and to show this I'm going to specifically dress in the 'stereotypically womanliest' way possible?
or, more generally, people shouldn't be using gender as the reason to dress and act the way they want to. else they're affirming that a certain gender means a certain form of acting.
obviously this is an exaggeration. but since we're playing the game.